Wow, Thirteen bosses for the limit cut episode is quite a lot. I'm hoping at least one or two of those are Disney bosses

(Should make note that Nomura was rambling in the first answer and was avoiding settling on an answer. Also “rebirth” was the phrase I went cuz it is more in line with the verbiage of the series but it can also mean “reconstruct” or “reclaim” the heart)

nomura please answer your emails lol

So we getting to use riku/aqua/roxas for only this one data fight? that's pretty lame, if understand it correctly

There needs to be more new Keyblades.

Huh I wonder if them explicitly saying 13 bosses is them telling us that we'll be getting single data battles against all the Org Members again and one enemy to set up the next game.

Nomura's words give me hope for Foretellers battles. but even if we don't get them, 13+ bosses are pretty cool.

Is this the whole interview or just part of it? I read from a leak that Nomura mentioned playable characters after finishing the main story. I'm hoping we get to play as other characters too(Not just the 3 most popular ones).

This DLC is sounding more and more exciting to me! The fact that we're getting a little bit off free DLC along with the paid DLC really brightens my day and shows me that the team really cares about the fans. That paid DLC sounds like it will be really worth it too. As I've said before, I know not everyone agrees with this, but I thought what we got with Kingdom Hearts III was already more than a complete package. I know some people wanted more, but I personally felt that we got more than enough content with the base game itself. That makes it even more exciting for me that we're getting even more content! I'm excited for what's to come!

Wow, that's a lot of bosses. I was not expecting that many. Also, did he say free stuff? Free is good. I like free.

Such amazing news that Oathkeeper DLC is a free DLC! Anyway, I'm very excited for the Re:Mind DLC with all this amount of content! Personally I don't mind if it releases only in 2020.

So Oathkeeper is the only new Keyblade or will there be more in the paid DLC? It'd be very weird to have Oathkeeper available but not Oblivion.

I think Aqua/Riku/Roxas fights in Keyblade Graveyard fights are just changes they decided to do, just like Sora vs Roxas only became playable in KH2 Final Mix, and it's not associated to Sora using the power of waking again or any theories like that.

As for the the additional scenario, I'm guessing we may get Young Xehanort playable and know more about his role and Org XIII.
The secret episode so far is a mystery. It could be Riku going look for Sora and end up disappearing too.

I'll be sad if we don't get an extended Secret Movie.

I am hoping the extra bosses allow us to pick our party members. That will be a nice addition.

13 bosses will be nice, unless it’s just the True Organization again. Even getting to fight them as other characters will be weak if that’s all that Nomura is talking about.

I am glad they’re keeping the Secret Episode a secret though. I hope they don’t give away much between now and release.

I'm...skeptical about the 13 bosses as well. It was neat to fight all 13 of them in 2...but I...really don't know about 3. I wouldn't really be intersted in fighting the 13 again even if it's solo. But....it's what most people want since they all wanted data fights...

I'm still optimistic for at least one Disney secret boss. I just keep thinking back to how Julius showed up unexpectedly in DDD.

What would really surprise me is if a secret boss was a FF character

I suppose they're not OHKO bosses like the Mysterious Figure from BBS, or else I would hate the franchise forever. Because I remember the UNBELIEVABLE effort and luck it took for me to defeat the Mysterious Figure (OMG I swear to god that i'll never fight him anymore!), some data Organization members and a few Gummi superbosses would be fine for me.

I hope it's not just the Organization, although having them as separate bosses with a better moveset was one of the requests from fans so it would be fair (and definitely better than nothing).
I also hope it might be the Foretellers somehow, I always thought they'd be rad as bosses but I feel like it might rush things over, considering they seem to be part of whatever comes next.

At the end of it all I just hope we're looking more at 13 Vanitas/Anti Aqua and less at 13 Air Titans.

I really..really hope there’s at least one disney Boss. Please, I just really wanna fight some more. I mean okay they were restricted, I can accept with Buzz (Randall though was no excuse to me still, sorry guys) but come on, just one boss. I’d be so happy if there was one .

I heard that they'll be extra battlegates with stronger versions of the bosses Sora and Co. already fought in all worlds in the game, just like what happened in Dream Drop Distance, same attack pattern, same behaviour, but stronger and with more HP. This is gonna be interesting...:sneaky: Also they'll be the data version of the Org. XIII you fought in the Skein of Severance. :LOL: ¡NOMURA DON'T FAIL US NOW!

Data anti aqua, the normal one is way too easy
please and thanks

Yeah, frankly I can see why one would want to fight her with Sora and KH III mechanics, but I wouldn't be thrilled with a recycled secret boss so soon.

Unless instead of a Data they just make a bonus episode that rewrites that part of the story and makes Anti Aqua matter and have real consequences

Honestly, they should give us a boss rush mode or some kind of “secret portal” mode so we can rechallenge all of the bosses in the game.

I really hope the new bosses are NEW, though. I would love the Foretellers, and some FF bosses.

Will the DLC give us 100 save files? I miss being able to have 20+ save points to be able to revisit fun segments and refight cool bosses. This along with other things really prevented me from wanting to play KH3 after my first playthrough.

If that secret boss of the secret episode is poorly designed like the MF from BBS I throw myself out the window!:mad:

That just wouldn't be Data Anti Aqua anymore though, but a different boss.

At that point might as well ask for an arena in which you can fight superboss versions of all the Guardians.

Yeah superboss versions of the 7 GoL sounds infinitely more interesting than re-fighting Org13 again. A better alternative would be fighting the Foretellers,but they might save that for the next saga.

Occam's Razor: what's the best way to reproduce that Lingering Will feel players want so much?
Give them Lingering Will!

I also would be interested in fighting not-KH1 Riku. And employ whoever handles Kairi medals on Ux to give us superboss Kairi as the ultimate challenge.

These ideas at this point seems doubtful really. Try not to overhype yourselves less you be prepared for disappointment like before.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but is there any precedent for game makers actually rewriting/writing over their own story in paid dlc? Cause the concept alone just sounds kinda.... iffy. For as much as I don't like KH3's story, I don't know if I'd feel super comfortable with them doing something like that.

Data fights (or more likely Battle Gates) seem to be the most likely route for them to go in based on what we know and what we've seen thus far (however much that is). There's been a pattern of this game reusing/repurposing assets (including some of what we've seen from the dlc so far), so it'd be in-line with that for them to reuse and improve the organization 13 boss fights in the Keyblade Graveyard. Not all that excited for the idea if it truly does end up being the case, but I'll wait for more information before deciding whether or not I'll pass on it. That said, I haven't the slightest interest in more Anti-Aqua since that subplot is fundamentally flawed beyond merely lacking weight or consequence, and I don't see them realistically managing to fix all the issues surrounding it if the aforementioned "rewrite" does occur.

Fighting superboss versions of the Guardians of light (assuming we're talking about more than just the initial seven) would be pretty awesome, though I'm more interested in playing as them again tbh. Still would be a solid addition though.

Famitsu never does this, but we missed a part of the interview because they shoved it at the bottom of the page and it literally looks like a footnote or one of the random blurbs they always have rather than a question. The article has been updated with the additional question and answer.

Nomura: There's going to be 13 new superbosses, ten hours of cutscenes, Sora's feet, everyone who buys the DLC is coming out with me for blackjack and hookers, and I'll kiss you on the mouth on the way home.


fr though gimmie oathkeeper SOONER :(

Famitsu posted the full interview on their website, with new questions and some tweaks to the ones that were in the printed magazine. Check the OP for the updates!

Nomura: Wry smile. "Demyx is coming"

Oh that sounds ominous. I swear if he actually is you know who.......

Interesting so all these aditional custcense and fights are for after you beat the game. Here i assumed we'd be getting them spliced in with the regular game a la Final Mix. Wonder if this means what we're seeing is part of the secret episode.

Also i'm rather curious as o how we'll get to choose the characters.

In Aqua's playable section I NEED a battle gate that has Final Xehanort in it. It would be sooo therapeutic for a Birth by Sleep representative to finally get revenge even if it's some illusion fight.

It's like Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix all over again.:cool:

Looking forward to the limit cut bosses and secret boss. Hope they'll add some new combo modifiers to base Sora or even just give him some of the ones from Second Form.

I want to make note that we did change a few translations due to the changes in the questions and answers so please read over everything again.

I've been playing Final Fantasy 10 and if I could choose one FF character as a secret boss, I would definitely go with Jecht with this beauty playing on the background.

I was also interested in Noctis before, but now that Yozora is a thing I rather to fight against him.

Thanks for the updated translation. I'm even more excited now. It seems like additional scenario let's you pick any guardian as playable. I want to try playing as Axel for the first time

I wonder if everyone is gonna be playable ? (all guardians)

Demyx is officially going from a "benched" chicken to an important nobody

I just love that there's a lot of new cutscenes. I'm hoping that we get more Kairi, Riku, Namine, Aqua, Roxas, and Xion.

I know most of this has no chance at happening, I'm just having fun coming up with random stuff.

Days had an Anti-Saix battle in Mission Mode, this monster should come back in one of the battle gates Roxas deals with. And if Xion is fought inside a battle gate I want her to have those several monster forms based on Sora's KH1 abilities she had for her final fight in Days. Battle gate Xion could even have new monster forms from mimicking the stuff Sora used in KH2, DDD, and KH3. And how about a trinity effort fight that has RAX all against a battle gate Xemnas. And speaking of Xemnas I want TAV to interact with him and I don't want this to be in the realm of non-canon battle gates, this bizarre meetup would be amazing.

Edit: Ohhh! And how about fighting Sora? He's a powerhouse with a million weird abilities, you could get several unique boss battles out of him just depending on what Keyblades and abilities he'll be using at a time. Riku and the others wouldn't want to hurt him but anything goes in battle gates, let's get nuts.

Thinking about it again, how many of those new cutscenes are gonna tie back to Union X, I wonder. What we've seen of the new "scenario" mainly seems to focus on the characters related to that particular plot development, but I suppose there could still be a few new scenes of the protagonist interacting (even if, by way of the story's structure, there's very limited opportunity for such a thing since so many them only come back in the final hours of the game). I guess it would depend on where the cutscenes are placed, but I don't see them going too hard on things that happen post KH3's main start outside of the Secret Episode. On the subject, I get the sense that if the secret episode truly does have this incredibly difficult boss, they'll want you to have access to the broadest gameplay mechanics available in the game. So I'm guessing that, at least gameplay wise, it'll be focusing on Sora for most (if not all) of that final episode, which would be a bit of a bummer, but understandable.

In a very hypothetical scenario that the Master of Masters turns out to be Demyx, I wonder what got Nomura into reutilizing Demyx in such a grand way. Like, I get that Xigbar turned out to be Luxu, what with him being Master Xehanort's second-in-command, but a Nobody (lol) like Demyx? Why? Is it because of his already laid-back personality?

I hope they balance things between new cutscenes and gameplay content. KH3 already feels like a movie in some parts and it doesn't need to be like that.

Wait so that is MoM talking to YX? I'd assume it was just the interviewer's assumption, but Nomura's lack of refuting it throws the possibility in there. Doesn't really make much sense to me tbh, whereas it makes perfect sense that it's Luxu talking to YX.

I would not like Demyx being MoM at all. Demyx is one of my favorite Organization members and it would annoy me if he was this super genius Keyblade Mastermind this whole time with zero buildup. At least with Xigbar they showed him knowing practically every little secret in Kingdom Hearts even since the beginning. Demyx is a lovable side character who's lazy and just wants to loaf around. And he knows it. Let Demyx be Demyx.

I'm also not very crazy about Luxord, Marluxia, Larxene, and Demyx all being ancient Keyblade wielders. Like really? Why did Organization XIII need Sora, Roxas and replicas when practically every member is turning out to be a Keyblade wielder all along? But that's a different matter. Point is I hope Demyx is not MoM. I love Demyx, and from what I've seen of him MoM is entertaining. I like him more then old man Xehanort already. But seriously just let him be his own character. I actually hope we never seen MoM's face. Sometimes leaving it up in the air is best.

The part of Nomura slimming down the cast for the sake of having a more comfortable narrative I can see happening post-Foretellers Saga. I think that will definitely be a point in time for the series narrative to take a look back, and see which characters can hit the hiatus bench either permanently, or for a short while.

Marluxia's backstory intrigued just because he was able to summon that giant nobody angel thing in COM and that seemed like a lot of power. Not sure I am that enthusiastic that his backstory was like almost everyone else and connected to the Ux stuff.

I really wouldn’t want MoM to be Demyx or any of the existing cast. Why not just...trim down the cast by never having certain characters appear again except as cameos? Like bringing back 90% of the past cast in KH3 was fine but that should have been the end for 90% of them.

And the people they did bring back shouldn’t have had nearly as much importance that they have. It would have been okay to just have Marluxia and Larxene be connected to UX from the Organization. Even Ven’s ties to that era were fine. But once you start throwing Luxord, Demyx, and Xigbar into the mess, it becomes convoluted for no reason.

What other big secret could Demyx have that could top being MoM? Unless of course he is secretly the Master of the Master of Masters:eek:

Outside of flashbacks I'm not worried about Xehanort or Eraqus returning. Given how final their deaths felt I believe Nomura is smart enough not to bring them back and focus on the Foretellers.

I would love to see some Flashbacks of Young Eraqus and Xehanort but I don't see any purpose for them appearing other than explaining Luxu's backstory even further and besides them playing another game of Chess

Judging by the fact that Nomura still has a story to tell about Xehanort, if he doesn't feel satisfied with what he left in the Re:MIND DLC, then there may still be a chance for him to make them return.

Other than that, the fact that Eraqus is a play on the word "Square", leaving them to just chess scenes whenever something important happens in future games could just symbolize some sort of narrative metaphor.

So I’m confused.

Is the additional scenario only available as post game content or will it be added to the base game but still be accessible to people who have beaten the game?

I find the idea of post game data battles in which we fight the same boss as riku instead of Sora to be disappointing but it’s the only way it makes sense as postgame content.

I love it when I get news of new Kingdom Hearts content. Glad to see that Kingdom Hearts III still has a lot of life left through DLC.

What would be amazing is if Nomura added the Colosseum to Olympus. That would be the perfect spot to fight most of the thirteen secret bosses. Bonus if one of them is Hades or the Cyclops

I personally don't see any of that and only bet that they'll be reduced to battle portals. I still have no wantings on fighting the Organization......again. And odds are they won't be mano a mano should data fights come to be.

What if Kingdom Hearts Re:Mind gets released in January 29th 2020? That'd be a year after the original game was released, and it's still technically being released in winter.

That's possible though I personally hope they'll release it before 2020, especially with Nomura stating he doesn't want the release of the DLC and FF7R to be too close

I'm going with December, but to take almost a year to release a DLC pack makes me curious about the amount of content.
I'm expecting a new original world playable either for the additional scenario or for the secret episode.