KHInsider's E3 2014 Coverage!
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- Published on June 12, 2014 @ 01:54 am
- Written by Joey
After a weekend full of surprises, the Electronic Entertainment Expo will finally be upon us this Monday with a day full of press conferences by the largest game companies in the industry. Cecily (Sign) & Arielle (Master Spockanort) will be reporting news and impressions live from E3 2014 again this year, and our wonderful staff including Geir (Gexus), Joey (Chaser), Katie (Taochan), Sophearum (Zephyr), and Josh (Narukami) will be manning the battle stations at our headquarters.
With Co-Director Tai Yasue attending E3 2014 as special guests, this year will be chock full of new and exciting information about the Kingdom Hearts series!
To stay up-to-date on all of the latest Kingdom Hearts -HD 2.5 ReMIX- & Kingdom Hearts 3 news coming out of E3 2014, follow Kingdom Hearts Insider on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Google+!
- June 5, 2014 (Pre E3)
- June 6, 2014 (Pre E3)
- June 7, 2014 (Pre E3)
- June 10, 2014 (E3 Day 1)
- 12:38pm - Cecily (Sign) has uploaded photos of the HD 2.5 ReMIX demo to our image gallery
- 12:50pm - Photos of various Square Enix merch have been uploaded to our image gallery
- 2:30pm - Interview of Ichiro Hazama, Director of Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Series, begins
- 3:08pm - Offscreen gameplay of Cecily playing the demo of Birth by Sleep -Final Mix- has been added to our video gallery
- 3:30pm - Interview of Tai Yasue, Co-Director of HD 2.5 ReMIX, begins
- 3:36pm - Tai Yasue confirms that multiplayer will not be present in HD 2.5 ReMIX, particularly in Birth by Sleep -Final Mix-
- 3:36pm - Theater Mode will be present in HD 2.5 ReMIX and Re:coded will have unseen story elements
- 3:36pm - Developing the 2.5 was not difficult
- 3:36pm - Tai Yasue states his favorite world is Castle of Dreams
- 3:36pm - Vincent Valentine was originally going to be in Birth by Sleep
- 3:36pm - Over 70 people are working on 2.5 ReMIX
- 3:36pm - Tai Yasue says he would love a Frozen world since his daughter loves the movie
- 3:36pm - Tai Yasue was given a life-sized Keyblade as a gift
- 5:21pm - The texture for KINGDOM HEARTS HD 2.5 ReMIX has been increased 4 times
- 5:21pm - Re:Coded is nearly 3 hours and was originally supposed to be 2 hours
- 5:23pm - The development team for 1.5 & 2.5 didn't take any breaks
- 5:25pm - KINGDOM HEARTS HD 2.5 ReMIX Collector's Package contains a Blu-Ray disk containing over 80 tracks
- June 11, 2014 (E3 Day 2)
- 11:30am - Yoko Shimomura appears on Square Enix Presents!
- 11:50am - Yoko Shimomura performs the memória! version of Dearly Beloved
- 2:00pm - All Eyes on on KINGDOM HEARTS HD 2.5 ReMIX begins!
- 2:25pm - Square Enix confirm that over 2 hours of Re:Coded's cinematics are brand new, with about an hour with original footage.
- June 12, 2014 (E3 Day 3)
- 2:40pm - Tai Yasue confirms via IGN that they might consider a new-gen version of the HD collections, but nothing's been decided yet.
- 2:42pm - Nothing's been decided yet either on special editions for overseas release of 2.5 ReMIX.
- 2:43pm - Finally some Re:Coded cinematics will be new and feature a backstory into older KH games.
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IMO, KH 2.5's presence is one of the few things that is worth watching out for this E3 sadly.
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IMO, KH 2.5's presence is one of the few things that is worth watching out for this E3 sadly.
And what about the other games and series besides 2.5, don't they matter?
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And what about the other games and series besides 2.5, don't they matter?
"IMO". They do, but somehow this year's e3 is anti-climactic. Too many remasters even for my tastes and too many first party studios will be completely absent. XV, KH3 and TLG (probably) are gonna be no-shows... I have very low expectations for this year tbh.
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"IMO". They do, but somehow this year's e3 is anti-climactic. Too many remasters even for my tastes and too many first party studios will be completely absent. XV, KH3 and TLG (probably) are gonna be no-shows... I have very low expectations for this year tbh.
No offense, but if that's all you care about is TLG, XV, or KHIII and not look for new IPs or games you never played before, then it's your fault. At least people like me can get the remasters, I have no PS2 anymore or a PSP, so I need those remasters, plus there are many games series I never got into or collected.
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No offense, but if that's all you care about is TLG, XV, or KHIII and not look for new IPs or games you never played before, then it's your fault. At least people like me can get the remasters, I have no PS2 anymore or a PSP, so I need those remasters, plus there are many games series I never got into or collected.
I am not against remasters, quite the opposite in fact. It's just that word has it that there will be a huge amount of remasters and only a small number - if any - of new IPs.
And these are not the only games I care about, they are the ones that I am mostly interested at the moment.
So yeah, it sounds a bit redundant to have an influx of remasters in a yearly convention dedicated to the creme de la creme of video games. "We've seen these, anything new?". And not every remaster has the history, pedigree and necessity of KH.
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I expect a bunch of new announcements for PS4 and Xbone.
Most of them might be sequels but still, I really look forward to all the surprises.
I don't look forward to any announced game (that I can think of now) except Project Beast though
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Well, for me I'm looking forward to the possible (but highly teased) Zelda U announcement, as well as news on Monolith's X. Any new IPs are always good, and any IP revivals will be interesting to see. (Like that new Crash Bandicoot rumor)
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Remember to come chat in the KHInsider chatroom while we wait and when E3 is on!
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A huge thanks to the staff for doing this for us! Good luck! :3
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A huge thanks to the ladies at E3. Must be a considerable task.
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A huge thanks to the ladies at E3. Must be a considerable task.
Only the ladies? ;)
...Your post count :O
*holds out cross*
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This is really off topic, and I apologize greatly for that, but when is the Nintendo conference? Has that happened yet? I mainly ask in the vain hope that we might get a TWEWY 2 announcement there...
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This is really off topic, and I apologize greatly for that, but when is the Nintendo conference? Has that happened yet? I mainly ask in the vain hope that we might get a TWEWY 2 announcement there...
Tomorrow! no worries, it hasn't happened
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Tomorrow! no worries, it hasn't happened
9AM PDT/12PM EST to be exact!
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Thanks for the reply, Tinny and Lea! I really appreciate it:)
(And as a side note, I've realized that I don't always thank people on this site for helping me. Partly because I'm really intimidated by this site for some reason, and am always worried I'm going to say something wrong, so sometimes I don't even look back into the threads that I've posted something in--or if I do, I might not post a reply... I have no idea why I do this. I guess I just don't have a lot of confidence? I mean, you guys are all super cool and helpful so I don't know what my problem is. So, yeah. If anyone here has ever helped me and I've never said thank you to before, I'm doing so now: THANK YOU, all. I truly appreciate what everyone on this site does for me and the fellow fans, and I'll try to be better about not being weird and more forthcoming with you all in the future.) :)
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What's that last image from ?
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Destiny. I dunno why Arielle took it xD
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we've been standing next to that display for almost 2 hours
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It's just biding it's time before it comes for you~~
[video=youtube;zMayL01TQWY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMayL01TQWY[/video]
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Because I put them in the wrong thread.
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Santa Soraaaaa!!!! ;A;
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I always liked the KH2FM title screen, mostly for Roxas and Sora eating Sea Salt Ice Cream
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[SPOILER=because! 2]
[/SPOILER]SO EXCITED!!!! :biggrin:
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HD BBS looks SO GOOD. I'm so excited! :D
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Sign goes hands-on with KH2.5!
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So I guess we won't see the new cover until this year's Tokyo Game Show, what a shame.
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So I guess we won't see the new cover until this year's Tokyo Game Show, what a shame.
Square Enix Presents hasn't done their interview with Co-Director Tai Yasue or "All Eyes on KINGDOM HEARTS HD 2.5 REMIX".
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[video=youtube;5Ye75wvgpBU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ye75wvgpBU&[/video]
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the inverted camera makes gameplay so annoying
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[video=youtube;5Ye75wvgpBU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ye75wvgpBU&[/video]
Man that takes me back, still not that hard, that boss.
He says remembering he might do a Zero Exp run.
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They are asking questions from that survey in E3.
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No multiplayer for Mirage Arena! Noooooooooo!
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Sorry guys, no multiplayer for the Mirage Arena.
And new content for the Re Coded movie
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Really excited to hear about this new scenario that's going to be in Re:Coded. I'm all ready speculating on it! Could it be 3D, perhaps? Or BbSV2 scenes being incorporated?
It's also really great to hear about the remastered tracks and the now sound effects in BbS. Woot!
So is there going to be an interview with Tai Yasue in Japanese now? I think I heard that part right... And if so, will anyone be translating it?
Also... where is their official video so I can comment on it to try and win that shirt?;)
All around, this was a nice interview, and I'm deeply pleased with all we learned from it:D Tai Yasue's such a great guy^_^
Edit: I'm also enjoying these demo pictures a lot more than I probably should be. That disc and start screen, though!
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I mean it's only the first real day of E3, but I'm quickly losing hope for any mention of the boxart or preorder bonuses or limited/collector's edition stuff.
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[video=youtube;5Ye75wvgpBU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ye75wvgpBU&[/video]
In a world in the year called 2014. Where smartphones can now record 720p or 1080p. Why is this video 360P?
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In a world in the year called 2014. Where smartphones can now record 720p or 1080p. Why is this video 360P?
It's not 360p :)
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In a world in the year called 2014. Where smartphones can now record 720p or 1080p. Why is this video 360P?
I would imagine because HD videos take a long time to upload and the staff are very busy and trying to get this content to us quickly.
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[*]No online multiplayer for Birth by Sleep but bosses will be more enjoyable for Single Player.
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[*]New rules and bonuses for solo mode
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[*]There's a totally new story added to Re:coded
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[*]They didn't change too much for 2.5, focusing mostly on touching up the graphics and the sound.
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[*]Question: "What was the biggest challenge when making this remix?"
Answer: "we didn't have a lot of difficulty with it"
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[*]"We wanted to do more to grade up the quality of the graphics."
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[*]The most important part in making 2.5 ReMIX was focusing on making it a PS3 experience.
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[*]The most enjoyable part of creating 2.5 was the "programs was really funny"
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[*]"Which Disney world was the most fun to make?"
"Castle of Dreams from Cinderella."
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[*]About Birth by Sleep "We really didn't want to make any mistakes"
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[*]"Are there any game mechanics you wanted to add in but couldn't?"
"We did a lot of experiments with the shotlocks"
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[*]"We changed the controls of Birth by Sleep to the PS3 version"
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[*]"Were there any FF or Disney worlds you wanted to add?"
"In Birth by Sleep I wanted Vincent from Final Fantasy VII"
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[*]"Were there any challenges with bringing Zack in?"
"When we brought him to Kingdom Hearts he was a lot more cuter"
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[*]"what was your favourite world?"
"Timeless River"
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[*]"I also liked Lilo and Stitch"
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[*]Over 70 people were involved in the development of KH HD 2.5.
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[*]Kingdom Hearts 2.5 and Kingdom Hearts 3 are being developed simultaneously.
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[*]They're doing the finishing touches on the cutscenes, trophies, and debugging.
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[*]Kingdom Hearts 2.5 WON'T feature any new additions different from the Final Mix.
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[*]90 songs were re-recorded for Kingdom Hearts 2
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[*]Birth by Sleep had a lot of environmental sound e.g. gurgling sound from fountains.
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[*]Re:coded can be watched at once, or select certain scenes.
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[*]"What Disney movie do you wish was added to the previous games?"
"Frozen"
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[*]Tai Yasue would like to exceed expectations for Kingdom Hearts games and make something special.
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By the way, did any of the staff here make anything for S-E this year, like the mini paopu fruits or Dream Eaters from years past? If so, I'd love to see some pictures of you guys' amazing art. If you don't mind, that is:)
Edit: Do you guys think the new challenges will work similarly to how the System Sector ones did in Re:Coded? Do you think we'll have to do them, or can we choose not to?
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Just Wondering is anyone translating the interview with Tai Yassue?
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Just Wondering is anyone translating the interview with Tai Yassue?
If it's made available for viewing, we can type up a transcript.
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If it's made available for viewing, we can type up a transcript.
Okay thanks! I think it should be because the show from last year is viewable.
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Enjoy the first 13 and a half minutes of transcript because I have a headache xD
| Mat: Hi everybody and welcome back to another Square Enix Presents segment. I’m glad you guys have been watching all day so make sure you subscribe to the channel and continue to watch throughout the other segments later today as well as Wednesday and Thursday. My name is Mat Kishimoto and I’m joined by the lovely Kaori Takasue and we’re here to talk about everything Kingdom Hearts -HD 2.5 ReMIX-. Kaori: Thank you Mat for your kind introduction. For those that have just tuned in we are joined by Mr. Tai Yasue who is the Co-Director of Kingdom Hearts -HD 2.5 ReMIX-. So a few weeks ago when we found out that Mr. Yasue might possibly be joining us at E3 we reached out to the fans and asked you all “What question would you like to ask the developer, if you can, any question about Kingdom Hearts, what would that be?” So in order to make our segment more personable and fun, he’s here today and we reached out to you, the community, and here are some questions. Mat: Mr. Yasue, would you like to say a couple words about kinda your role in the team and kind of what you do. Yasue: First of all I’m really excited to be here, a lot of passionate fans, I get to meet them. That’s not something we get to usually do while in development. What I do is I’m the Co-Director so I actually direct the day by day running of the team - development team - we manage the schedule and I also do a lot of the game design, overall game design, how the game plays, and I write that up and I do - well I communicate with Nomura - see what he wants to do and we sort of do ideas. We exchange ideas to make Kingdom Hearts really special. So I guess that’s my job. Mat: That is awesome! So like Kaori said we just put the poll out on Facebook - 3 days, thousands upon thousands of questions, so our fanbase is super passionate and they’re super excited to talk to you. So lets kinda just jump into the first question. So the most commonly asked thing on all of Facebook was “When is this game coming out?” so we’re so happy we can finally tell you guys that in North America… Kaori: It is December 2nd 2014 this year. Mat: And then in Europe it’s coming out the 5th of December 2014 so you only have to wait a couple more months. Kaori: Yes, I’m so excited that we finally set the release date to engage and get attention of all of our eager fans. And speaking of fans, I wanted to kick off the first question to one of the most polite fans who actually left a message before his question. So Kyle V from Fresno ,America, you said this “Firstly I would like to congratulate the entire staff and active members of part of the Kingdom Hearts saga and say a big thank you for your time and dedication for all of the games you bring to us and amazing unforgettable moments each title brings.” I think we all can say that to the team, right? Thank you. Yasue: Thank you, actually. Mat: Yeah thank you Kyle V. So his question goes into Birth by Sleep Final Mix. So this guy doesn’t even speak Japanese but he imported it from Japan. So “Birth by Sleep Final Mix was probably the greatest thing I was able to import. To be able to play for my PSP. Aside from new optional bosses and a secret episode featuring Aqua, I really enjoyed fighting in the Mirage Arena with my friends against No Heart and The Armour of Master. So PLEASE answer this question—” in all caps I kid you not, “will the multiplayer option in 2.5 be present in Birth by Sleep?” Yasue: The multiplayer we took into consideration our schedule and right now we actually simultaneously making 2.5 and 3. And due to our schedule considerations we sort of wanted to let the player play on single player mode instead of multiplayer. Multiplayer takes a lot of time and we wanted to concentrate more on Kingdom Hearts 3 so we could speed that up. Although we actually changed — we wanted the players to actually play in the Mirage Arena so we actually tweaked it so a lot of the bosses would be enjoyable. We also tweaked the AI’s so they were more quick. And overall we added some new rules for example the challenge bonus which — there’s a challenge for each battle and if you clear them then you get some bonus medals. You could still enjoy it on solo mode. Mat: Cool. Kaori: Alright, okay, so, we have another question for you. This is from James B from Dayton Ohio USA; “will HD 2.5 ReMIX have a theatre mode?” Yasue: Yeah, that’s something we really wanted to do. When we first wanted to create Kingdom Hearts 3 we made decisions to make 1.5 and 2.5 as well, and the reason for doing that was we wanted users — the players — to understand the story and so Re:coded is really an integral part of the story of Kingdom Hearts. So we added a 3 hour cutscene theatre and 2 hours of that is original and totally new so I guess that you get a lot of new content. Kaori: Okay and when you say original and totally new, is it correct to believe that nobody in the whole entire world has seen those 2 hours of cutscenes? Yasue: Yeah that’s right. It’s 2 hours. And also players that actually played — know the Re:coded story — there’s actually totally new story as well. A little bit added story for some of the backstories of other Kingdom Hearts titles in it. That’s sort of secret, but yeah. Sort of a back story, sort of. A secret episode sort of thing. Mat: Okay that is awesome. I did not even know that. Uh so this next question, it comes form Jacob C from Toronto Canada. If you guys didn’t know, Yasue-san, he actually comes from Vancouver Canada. Yasue: Yeah that’s right, I’m from Vancouver Canada. Kaori: Represent! Mat: A fellow Canuck. So “will the game mechanics from Kingdom Hearts 2 and / or Birth by Sleep be different from their original versions in 2.5 ReMIX?” Yasue: Well for Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix and Birth by Sleep Final Mix, we got really positive reviews so we really didn’t want to change too much. We really wanted to concentrate on grading it up to the PS3. We didn’t want to anger our fans, obviously, by changing it too much so we really concentrate on the graphics and the sound. We put a lot of man hours into that so that you could get a really premiere experience on the PS3 - on a big TV. So I thought that’s what we did. Kaori: Alright so Mr Tai, the next question combines three fans who were curious about the challenges that you and your team faced on the development side. This question is from Ryan K from USA. “What was the biggest challenge in developing this ReMIX in comparison to last years 1.5 ReMIX?” Yasue: Well for 1.5 we never made a HD ReMIX before, right, so we didn’t know how to make the system for the PS3. For 2.5 we didn’t have a lot difficulty programming the system and the way to make the workflow, so that was pretty easy, that was pretty smooth. What was difficult was we actually wanted to do more to grade up the quality of the graphics and the sound. We totally changed the polygons and the textures for Birth by Sleep, we use a lot more memory for that. Also for Kingdom Hearts 2, the textures have all totally been remade. So it’s a lot prettier, it’s a lot more vivid, and it’s really beautiful to watch. And also for sound I guess. That’s something we did. We put a lot of effort into it as well. Kaori: Alright, and this kind of combines with that question from Ashley from Gravesend England as well as Brittany from Miama Florida; “What was the most important part in making 2.5 ReMIX for you?” Yasue: Well I mentioned this before I think we didn’t really want to change what was good about Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix and Birth by Sleep Final Mix. So we didn’t really change the game balance or the major game system. We tweaked a bit but we really wanted to focus on making it a PS3 experience. We wanted to really exceed our players expectations from that so I think that it’s really gorgeous, drop dead gorgeous to play. So we really wanted to concentrate on that. Mat: That’s cool. And even like some of the colours palates have been swapped. Yasue: That’s right, they’re totally different yeah. For the PS3 the colours that you can use are far richer I think. And you get a really deeper experience with playing that. For Kingdom Hearts 2, I think, it was actually pretty at the beginning, the Playstation 2 version was really good too but I think really realises it’s full potential on the PS3, yeah. Mat: Cool. Can not wait. Okay so we’ve asked you some difficult questions kind of about how the industry works and kinda about the challenges you guys have faced in developing, aside from the difficult stuff, this comes from Damien from Castlebury Connecticut: “What was the most enjoyable part about creating 2.5?” Yasue: Well I guess the team from Kingdom Hearts 2.5, the programers are really funny I think. I like working with them. One of the guys is called Eggplant in Japanese. He has a purple house. He also looks sort of — he’s shaped like an Eggplant. So I think that’s something I really enjoyed talking with them, I like working with them, it’s really fun. I guess thats — yeah that’s fun. Well I guess one of the fun things is actually watching Kingdom Hearts 2.5 on the big screen. We check it right on a big screen with them and I think it’s sort of — it’s very emotional to learn that it has gotten a lot better. Mat: That’s cool. Now kinda transitioning back into Birth by Sleep, this comes from Dean J from Conway, South Carolina: “How did you go about bringing a PSP game and porting it onto a PS3 in full Hi-Def?” Yasue: Okay, well there are several steps I guess. To break it down easily, first what we do is we recompile the program for the PSP and we sort of make it into the PS3 version. And after that recompiling and fixing the code so you can add PS3 data what we do is we make tools for the graphical designers could actually change the data and so we do that. And after that we sort of fix it I guess and everything. Kaori: Well to reach out to those Disney fans out there, Justin B from Clinton Township, New Jersey USA wanted to know “which Disney world was the most fun for you to create, Mr. Yosue”. Yosue: Well I loved Castle of Dreams, actually. It’s from Cinderella. That’s one of the first ones I actually planned our game design right, so it’s really special for so I liked playing as a small mouse sized character in the house. Very three dimensional, very vast. I loved finding the different pieces for the dress — the material for the dress. It was actually very enjoyable for me. Mat: Yeah I liked that level a lot just cause of the verticality and you got the kind of mouse holes. Yasue: And I think that was — I really love environments that are very vertical and so yeah they’re not just flat I guess you go up, up, up. That’s something I really enjoy. Kaori: Alright so more casual fun questions, Brittany from Miami Florida USA asks “what is the most favourite thing that the development team enjoys about being able to bring Kingdom Hearts -HD 2.5 ReMIX- to old and brand new fans and how does it allow for added possibilities?” Yasue: Well what we really enjoyed, well for Birth by Sleep, we all really made the first version right, so it was very close to us and we really didn’t want to make any mistakes so I guess that was really special for us and for me I guess that Kingdom Hearts 2 and Birth by Sleep, I think they’re one of my favourite titles for the Kingdom Hearts series and I think that a lot players also feel the same way so I think that was really enjoyable as well. |
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I really want to es the official cover of 2.5. I'm a huge fan of the cover art of kh games
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I really want to es the official cover of 2.5. I'm a huge fan of the cover art of kh games
You and me both, man. Tomorrow is the "all eyes on 2.5" thing and last year they talked about 1.5's preorder bonuses and such. Granted, those had already been announced prior to E3, but maybe they'll have some reveals tomorrow, like preorder bonuses and the cover art.
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Oh dang, less than an hour for the All Eyes on Kingdom Hearts event.
My body is ready
Is there gonna be a live stream for this event?
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You and me both, man. Tomorrow is the "all eyes on 2.5" thing and last year they talked about 1.5's preorder bonuses and such. Granted, those had already been announced prior to E3, but maybe they'll have some reveals tomorrow, like preorder bonuses and the cover art.
I was actually going to ask someone, what exactly was talked about in last years eyes on thing for 1.5 apart from what you just mentioned? Gives me hope for that CE reveal alright =).
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I don't know about the rest of you, but I always thought this image was poorly done, without a clear concept and looked very rushed. Aqua especially looks like she's on ecstasy.
https://twitter.com/RPGSite/status/476829045519155200/photo/1
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The "All Eyes on KH 2.5 HD ReMIX" presentation is starting now!
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Fingers crossed for box art and collector's edition
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Very boring so far...
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They dropped the S bomb.
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Are they really going through the entire saga instead of talking about new info they haven't revealed? If you're not a fan of the game you probably won't be watching this so there's no point to this
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Boring. Show me the art, I wanna see the art
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There are live comments on the side and SquarePresents just commented they have no preorder news at this time.
Are you kidding me
EDIT: Now they just commented they have no box art ready at this time. Screw this then
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Are they really going through the entire saga instead of talking about new info they haven't revealed? If you're not a fan of the game you probably won't be watching this so there's no point to this
That's not true, though. This was never for us, it was for the press, who will distill it for people who aren't in-depth fans of the game, and will give them the info they haven't picked up from other sites. Repeat information is par for the course at E3. New releases take up the spotlight but basic info is the body of the convention.
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Ok this so not all about 2.5
10 minutes of gameplay we seen with mundane commentary.
Followed by a timeline talk (KHinsider goes way more in depth with this), rehashed info on the game, and t shits
Really!? T shirts!!!???
Now they are just talking about their booth. Waste of time.
gg Square
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Thanks for wasting my time Square. Guess we'll have to wait till TGS and some other convention for more news. Specifically the box art and if a collector's edition is happening
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I don't know what some expect the box art or the CE to be revealed now, we'll just have to wait.
I enjoyed it.
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Y'all are acting too entitled. The game's not close to its release yet, be happy they're showing us anything.
*coughs, shakes cane*
In MY day, they didn't do any of this public viewing and livestream nonsense. We had closed theatres, and mobile phone leaked trailers
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Well that was... unnecessary. Literally all they did was show the same two trailers we've already seen, recap everything we already know, go into some brief history on the timeline of the series, and then they ended 20 minutes early. No mention of anything new.
Welp, that does it. E3 was a flop on the KH end of things. Time to go back to waiting for months on end without hearing a peep out of Square about anything. Sigh. I'm disappointed. I was really hoping for them to show the boxart and announce a collector's edition or something. I guess it's my own fault for assuming more than was actually confirmed to be there. I just don't want to go back to waiting for a really long time. I was so excited for this E3 because I was expecting major 2.5 news. I mean, we got the release date and that amazing trailer, but they released it before E3 even started, so it made the actual event kinda boring cause there were no surprises or anything.
This is like TGS 2013 all over again. And then D23 ended up being everything we were hoping for during TGS. Maybe it'll happen again, and this year TGS will have everything we wanted during E3.
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The two Tai Yasue interviews (one being in a magazine which has I suppose nothing to do with E3) is all the surprise and new stuff we have gotten out of the last few days. It is a shame and one can only hope they will have some further presence at Gamescom in August.....but that is two months away! =(. Boo hoo.
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The two Tai Yasue interviews (one being in a magazine which has I suppose nothing to do with E3) is all the surprise and new stuff we have gotten out of the last few days. It is a shame and one can only hope they will have some further presence at Gamescom in August.....but that is two months away! =(. Boo hoo.
Well, they're doing something for Comic-Con too, but I've heard talk that will be more of a FFXV thing. And I've also heard that there will be no KH news at Gamescom either, but I have no recollection of where I heard that from, so don't quote me.
At this point, I'm thinking we're going to have to wait until September for TGS for news. 3 more months of waiting, unless Comic-Con ends up being awesome on the news end of things.
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Y'all are acting too entitled. The game's not close to its release yet, be happy they're showing us anything.
*coughs, shakes cane*
In MY day, they didn't do any of this public viewing and livestream nonsense. We had closed theatres, and mobile phone leaked trailers
The game is less than a few months from going gold in Japan so there's no doubt they are far along enough to reveal some new information. Especially the fact that they spent an entire hour (more like less than forty minutes, if that) talking about the game pretty much rehashing everything they've talked about. New shirt and a hoodie, cool I guess, but a waste of our time nonetheless.
Meanwhile I'll be here waiting for TGS
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The game is less than a few months from going gold in Japan so there's no doubt they are far along enough to reveal some new information. Especially the fact that they spent an entire hour (more like less than forty minutes, if that) talking about the game pretty much rehashing everything they've talked about. New shirt and a hoodie, cool I guess, but a waste of our time nonetheless.
Meanwhile I'll be here waiting for TGS
They didn't promise anyone any box art or CE or anything else was going to show at E3. just 2.5 and that's all.
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They didn't promise anyone any box art or CE or anything else was going to show at E3. just 2.5 and that's all.
I understand that, but judging by all the comments on their Live youtube page, that's what an overwhelming majority of us wanted shown. I guess I can see it more justified since we got I.5 in September of last year, where we knew everything on the game by then at E3 2013. Whereas now we're getting II.5 till December, but at the same time Japan gets it in October, so I feel it's far enough along to justify a box art by now
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I understand that, but judging by all the comments on their Live youtube page, that's what an overwhelming majority of us wanted shown. I guess I can see it more justified since we got I.5 in September of last year, where we knew everything on the game by then at E3 2013. Whereas now we're getting II.5 till December, but at the same time Japan gets it in October, so I feel it's far enough along to justify a box art by now
Yes and majority of the posts were screaming KH2 and XV over and over, I had to hide the comment so the stream wouldn't lag.
You can't always get what you wanted, you are just going have to wait, a few month won't kill you. I took a full year to even get 1.5 last week, I think a few months won't hurt.
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It's just annoying because Square promised big news coming soon back in December 2013 and now it's June 2014 and we just have a release date. Release date is big news but after over 6 months of absolute radio silence, I was expecting more considering that E3 is the biggest gaming convention of the year. Blegh.
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Is there a video of Shimomura playing the memoria version of Dearly Beloved :D?
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It's just annoying because Square promised big news coming soon back in December 2013 and now it's June 2014 and we just have a release date. Release date is big news but after over 6 months of absolute radio silence, I was expecting more considering that E3 is the biggest gaming convention of the year. Blegh.
We've dealt with 9 months of absolute silence on a Kingdom Hearts game. This is nothing, especially because now all we can do is move forward and get news.
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[QUOTE="Nazo, post: 6177699, member: 34765"]It's just annoying because Square promised big news coming soon back in December 2013 and now it's June 2014 and we just have a release date. Release date is big news but after over 6 months of absolute radio silence, I was expecting more considering that E3 is the biggest gaming convention of the year. Blegh.[/QUOTE
We got a release date, that not enough, and not everything is ever going to be shown at E3, who care for six months of silence, you never know what will happen before October because 2.5 comes out first in japan.
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Also, last year KH1.5 was released in Japan in March. That meant we were going to know everything before E3. This time the date is later on. They weren't going to throw everything out there at E3 and have nothing for the next 3 months.
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That All Eyes thing was totally a waste of time, I hope that they know that after all.
*sigh at least I liked the Shimomura's "interview" and "exibition".
I definetly have to learn Japanese for the next years if I want to get more interesting stuff like "Ultimania's special editions"etc.
*sigh
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Our staff briefly met Tai Yasue just now. He said they recieved a lot of feedback about trophies, and there will be a lot more and be easier to obtain.
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ALL ABOARD THE NO NEWS TRAIN! CHOO CHOO!
I'm really not too bothered by it. The reactions are kinda funny anyway.
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ALL ABOARD THE NO NEWS TRAIN! CHOO CHOO!
Excuse u we got plenty of news.
3 hours of Re:coded cutscenes, no multiplayer, trophies are easier to get and there's more of them, the starting lines of Kingdom Hearts III were revealed in the end of the 2.5 E3 trailer, Birth by Sleep's character models have 4 times the textures, over 80 songs from KH2 were re-done, they've added bonus challenges and rules to mirage arena, there's backstory to other kingdom hearts games in Re:coded.
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I'd say all in all, the news was kinda great. I mean, I'm bummed about Mirage Arena, but my hype for Re:coded is even higher than before.
Also, we learned Tai Yasue has viewed this site multiple times. So that in itself is pretty bombing.
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Excuse u we got plenty of news.
I know that. I mean, it's stuff that I care about, but a lot of people don't care because NO KH3!!!!!!
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I'd say all in all, the news was kinda great. I mean, I'm bummed about Mirage Arena, but my hype for Re:coded is even higher than before.
Also, we learned Tai Yasue has viewed this site multiple times. So that in itself is pretty bombing.
That I'm worried about he visit the site, but at least that's something.
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I know that. I mean, it's stuff that I care about, but a lot of people don't care because NO KH3!!!!!!
But there waaaaaaaaaaaaas khiii D:
That I'm worried about he visit the site, but at least that's something.
Why are you worried about that?
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It probably wouldn't be so bad to many people if Square had just waited to reveal the trailer at E3 when the show floor opened up. At least then, the teaser would be more sound as E3 KH3 news, and we would feel all the beautiful KH2.5 Remix news as well. Of course, I can't say it would have actually changed anything in people's reactions. Regardless, I'm still hyped.
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We got KHIII in the 2.5 trailer and even that KHIII is to blame for no multiplayer Mirage Arena.
And I don't see how looking here is bad. It's bad when looking at the Facebook page for KH because everybody and their grandmother only comments about the lack of KH3 and FFXV. Personally I feel like checking fan forums like KHI's is a lot more productive on seeing what fans want.
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I know that. I mean, it's stuff that I care about, but a lot of people don't care because NO KH3!!!!!!
Ugh. The people who won't stop going on about kh3 are annoying. Square made sure no one was disappointed ahead of time by saying neither it nor ffxv would be there and people can't accept that. Game's not coming out til 2016 most likely. We won't be getting any substantial news until at least 2015. Don't know why people keep going on about it.
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But there waaaaaaaaaaaaas khiii D:
Why are you worried about that?
Um, just a little paranoid, that's all Chaser.
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Our staff briefly met Tai Yasue just now. He said they recieved a lot of feedback about trophies, and there will be a lot more and be easier to obtain.
I hope that means making the difficulty trophies stackable, otherwise the trophy lists were not "hard" - with one exception of two. I'd really hate it if they simplified it and didn't reward perfectionists. Hopefully it's just the difficulty trophies..
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Y'all are acting too entitled. The game's not close to its release yet, be happy they're showing us anything.
*coughs, shakes cane*
In MY day, they didn't do any of this public viewing and livestream nonsense. We had closed theatres, and mobile phone leaked trailers
AH THE GOOD OL' DAYS (...okay no, actually that was awful .__.)
I'm extremely thankful that they're doing all of these livestreams and simultaneous trailer/video releases, especially since NA/Europe information is coming out before Japanese info. Although there was no new info from the KH2.5 segment, it's great to see how much the localization team cares about these games, too, especially since it seems like they care about these games as much as we do, if not more. And we're getting behind-the-scenes sort of stuff, too, like with the Yoko Shimomura segment! It's pretty awesome~ ;w;
We'll get more information soon enough and, from the sounds of it, it sounds like Square's going to try to get info out as soon as possible, though they can only do so much. All we can do is wait; we'll have the game in December! c:
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The difficulty trophies better stack. I might love KH dearly, but playing through BBSFM 12 times will be ridiculous.
| We'll get more information soon enough and, from the sounds of it, it sounds like Square's going to try to get info out as soon as possible, though they can only do so much. All we can do is wait; we'll have the game in December! c: |
Well we certainly are good at the waiting game :P I just hope we get a substantial amount of 2.5 news soon. I know it has to release in Japan first, but hopefully they don't wait until November to reveal all the stuff for NA.
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I suddenly feel very embarrassed for what Yasue and the team may or may not have seen here.
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I suddenly feel very embarrassed for what Yasue and the team may or may not have seen here.
*looks back at 2006 threads that just consisted of "other people made threads like this u n00b"*
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Our staff briefly met Tai Yasue just now. He said they recieved a lot of feedback about trophies, and there will be a lot more and be easier to obtain.
Ooh I'm loving the sound of that. I did end up completing everything on Critical mode back in the day when I imported it and modded my PS2, but I know for a fact I do not have that in me anymore. If I didn't have the save file for it still intact and everything I wouldn't believe myself that I did everything, it all seems like a distant memory.
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*looks back at 2006 threads that just consisted of "other people made threads like this u n00b"*
don't remind me of the dark ages ;A;
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and he was called Edge Maverick
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and he was called Edge Maverick
Yeah, that was a thing, that was what a year and a half ago?
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Our staff briefly met Tai Yasue just now. He said they recieved a lot of feedback about trophies, and there will be a lot more and be easier to obtain.
Oooh, good stuff! I'm definitely going to try to get as much as I can since I didn't bother with the 1.5 trophies too much.
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Yeah, that was a thing, that was what a year and a half ago?
Just joking. ;)
In all seriousness, it's exciting that they visit! That's why it's important for you guys to share your opinions, positive or negative, in a constructive manner. You never know how -useful- it might be!
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