Well, Square-Enix Party 2007 has been and gone, yet very little in the way of Kingdom Hearts was shown – the main focus was Final Fantasy’s 20th Anniversary. However, there was one small piece of info that may quench some thirsts…
A small videoclip was shown (but not released outside the show), announcing that the new Kingdom Hearts title will be shown at this year’s Tokyo Game Show (TGS)! The videoclip was an interesting (yet brief) montage of new scenes, showing the soldiers from the secret trailer fighting in PS3-style graphics, a heart-shaped explosion (making the logo), and Sora, Donald and Goofy walking towards the screen.
In addition, you can click ‘Read More’ for some more information in another recent interview with Nomura-san!
Yep, even though we’ve been saying it throughout the Kingdom Hearts media community for more than a month now, Nomura has officially confirmed two of the three knight’s names!
That’s right, Ven has been confirmed as the Roxas-look-alike, and like-wise Aqua the blue-haired girl! Nomura stated nothing about the other knight, (who I have speculated to be a close relation of Xehanort’s, as many of you will know).
As for what these names mean, Ven refers to sky (but is not the full word for it) and Aqua is obviously water. This has lead fans to title the third knight Terra for the time being, because Sora, Kairi and Riku are Japanese words refering to sky, water and land, and Terra refers to land in Latin (which Ven and Aqua are derived from).
For the record, the heading above the picture of Nomura-san reads out something about ‘shinario o’ and then a kanji I can’t make out. In other words, it’s referring to scenario notes, as revealed newly by Nomura.
Check back in the coming weeks for announcements at Square Party ’07!
Yep, the next game released in the KH series will actually be a similar kinda game to Chain of Memories – NO there’s no card system (yet), I mean the game will be a side-story, like Chain of Memories was a lead-up to KH2.
- The Following about the “New Project”
- It is not Kingdom Hearts III, but it is a Anecdote work! (Anecdote means a short story / biography that is interesting or amusing) Because I think Sora has a big role to fill! So let’s draw upon (use) characters other then Sora for the following work now.
- I could do nothing but talk about “Birth of Sleep” also I want to explain what Mickey did in the World of Darkness, and also how he got his keyblade.
- I have a feeling I want to work on developing Roxas the most. It is interesting to draw in one year, the birth of him, and then next the disappearance of him
- I want to make this slightly different from the Kingdom Hearts series, and change the system a little.
- The Multi developing makes me want to put it on something else, without thinking. If we follow this idea, it would be hard to choose if to make it for the “PSP”, “NDS” or the Cellular Phone.
The above is translated by TheWertle, many thanks!
Anyways, what this means is before we see the next MAJOR game (the stuff from the secret FM+ movie), we’ll be seeing another smaller game on either the PSP, DS or mobile phones. Fans have to remember that in Japan mobile phones are a lot more advanced than in the West, so they can easily play 3D games with graphics akin to an almost PSone era.
We’ll get back to you when more surfaces!
EDIT: Also, this just surfaced, thanks to KH-Vids.
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