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We finally have some details on the mysterious "10th Anniversary Box" that appeared not long ago on the Square Enix e-Store alongside the release of the KINGDOM HEARTS EDITION 3DS and the base release of Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance software. It has been labeled as the "KINGDOM HEARTS 10th Anniversary 3D + Days + Re:coded BOX". Thanks to aibo-san on Twitter as well as FF-Reunion for screenshotting the KH3D main Japanese site's update, we can now see the ...

Composer Yoko Shimomura decided on Italian lyrics for the chorus of "Destati" as it was a language that could be listened to and not understand immediately like with English or Japanese. Other languages considered were German and Latin.

Although there are only 76 tracks on the KH1 Original Soundtrack, Shimomura actually composed 99. Why 99? Because she didn't want to have more than 100.

All together, Kingdom Heartshas over 15,000 individual sound tracks in the game. Note that sound tracks include things like the sound of footsteps, the clinking of the Keyblade's keychain, and other sound effects.

Today has been a music-filled one, hasn't it!

Thanks to Famitsu, we have even more information on the Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance Original Soundtrack!

Kingdom Hearts series composer, Yoko Shimomura, will be accompanied by Takeharu Ishimoto who composed songs for Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep and is famous for his work on Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, The World Ends With You, and Final Fantasy Type-0. Along with Shimomura and Ishimoto, Tsuyoshi Sekito will also be cont...

Before speaking with the staff, Nomura had chosen over 20 worlds to include in Kingdom Hearts, including original worlds.

To whittle them down, worlds were chosen based on popularity, if there were interesting characters to play as, and if there were interesting places to be in, in that order.

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The soundtrack for the upcoming Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance is scheduled to be released on April 18, 2012 in Japan. This 3-disc soundtrack will be stuffed full with tracks from long time Kingdom Hearts composer Yoko Shimomura as well as tracks from The World Ends with You composer Takeharu Ishimoto!

Come chat and speculate about the soundtrack right here on our forums!

Source: amazon.co.jp

That's right folks! And by jove, there are a doozy of them, this time featuring the new cast and characters reigning from Traverse Town and Symphony of Sorcery, as we've seen in last week's Famitsu. Below you can click to enlarge and view a few select screens from the batch. They've all been added to our Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance gallery, and you can view all of these new screens right here, and much more!

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Originally, in the scene where Sora, Donald and Goofy first meet in Traverse Town, Donald and Goofy were supposed to explain abilities and the like through singing.

When asked about what kind of song he wanted from Hikaru Utada for Kingdom Hearts, Nomura said that the song would play during the ending where Sora and Kairi parted, since the concept of the scene existed even early on in development. He stated that he didn't want to make the ending look sorrowful, but optimistic.

In Kingdom Hearts II's ending where Sora is reading the letter Kairi wrote, the word "starting" is spelled wrong. It is written: "Now I will step forward to realize this wish. And who knows, stating a new journey may not be so hard."