il keeping my expections low it would make sense though for something small here like a gummi ship trailer

It does make me wonder if the next Events (e.g. Tokyo Game Show, Paris Game Week, Playstation Experience and Jump Festa) will continue to have the same 2 demos (Rock Titan Fight in Olympus and Toy Box) in every event. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with Square Enix choosing these worlds to be the default demos in each event as they are the worlds that are the most completed ever since they debuted at the #KH3Premiere event back in May and also it will allow people internationally (especially those coming from Japan) to have a first look on what the gameplay for KH3 is going to be like before it comes out which is fine, but I feel that they are beating a "dead horse" with these demos and frankly they feel repetitive. IMO I would've preferred if they showcase different playable worlds as demos such as either Frozen, Tangled, Monster's Inc. and/or the Big Hero 6 world, particularly the former three, the first two cause they seem to be 85-90% completed by now and the third cause it's one of the most completed worlds already and one of the earlier worlds you visit in the game like Toy Box and Olympus.

In terms of trailers or new information, I'm not getting my hopes up, maybe a trailer similar to the one at the Dandelion event back in April, but I'm expecting new KH3 info and trailer(s) at their first and ONLY Tokyo Game Show in September, next month.

Honestly I'm fine with the demos being limited to just Toy Box and Olympus. Those are two of the first Disney worlds we visit so it makes sense.

As for new content, lol. I learned my lesson at Comic con.

These are the only demos that will be taken around to trade shows. It costs a lot to prepare multiple demos, and it is time that should be spent on focusing on actually getting the game done.

It may be a dead horse, but its a dead horse that you need to accept because it is all we are getting. Besides, it's exciting being able to go to one of these and actually play Kingdom Hearts III. It doesn't matter that the demo is three battles and then a Giga fight or the Rock Titan boss, it's all about getting people to try it out and see what Square Enix have come up with.

People shared the same sentiments after the Cinderella world was taken to practically every convention under the sun back in 2016. But still, a lot of the rest of 0.2 was kept in the dark and they didn't need to cut out multiple demos for people to try. It was a delightful treat because of that.

so with tgs, paris games week and jump festa as the only plances to expect for new news how will cover everthiing they still have lot stuff need to go voer besides worlds annocments

Personally, I only want to see snippets of other worlds. I feel like so much has already been discovered in Toy Box and I’d rather save the rest of that for when I play the full game. With that in mind, I would like if future trailers showed very little of the worlds we’ve already seen aside from cutscenes. Maybe a bit more of Pirates or Arendelle.

However, seeing as I’ll absorb anything they show, I wouldn’t be entirely opposed if they released direct feed gameplay footage of Corona and/or Monster’s Inc. It would let people see more of what these worlds are like without the hassle of another full demo. (And no cutscene leaks this time since they could pre-edit them out..)

Well outside of leaks there is still Famitsu. I remember worlds for DDD revealed in those magazines.

i wouldnt count on magiazines to reveal world anymore it seems the marketing is diffenrt then what it used to be

I don’t think we’ll get any Famitsu world reveals this time around. Original ones maybe, depending how many there will be. But the handhelds and even the previous main titles most likely didn’t have the marketing budget that Kingdom Hearts 3 does which is why marketing through magazines was more beneficial for them. With only 2-3 Disney worlds left to reveal and this being the age of viral marketing, I think all Disney worlds will be revealed through a trailer that can be quickly spread around the internet.

There will surely still be some magazine exclusive stuff covering mini games and other smaller content.

I'm just waiting for them to update the demo like they did with 0.2's demo. Any changes are interesting to me.

They could still have this month (depending on if Famitsu, Dengeki or Jump magazine plan to reveal ANYTHING related to KH3) be dedicated to Olympus and Kingdom of Corona, which while yes they were seen in previous articles mostly as Images or snippets we have yet to see what the Character renders for Rapunzel, Flynn Rider and the Hercules characters look like in promotional material.
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Then around Mid-late September/Early October we will have articles dedicated to the Official reveal of the Big Hero 6 world and another new world announced (original or a new revealed Disney world along with its characters) from [/SIZE]the Tokyo Game Show event.

If they want to start showing off the rest of the worlds for the game before release, it's likely they should start doing them like now instead of waiting at the End of September/Early October just like how HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue was handeled. So the possible worlds that will be in the next magazine scans from Famitsu, Dengeki PlayStation, are:

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[*]Mid-late August/Early September 2018 -

Kingdom of Corona

(Tangled) and

Olympus

(Hercules) (showing most of the new Character renders for the Hercules and Tangled characters along with new scenes and information regarding these worlds that weren't shown in past trailers and articles). Maybe

Twilight Town

(unless they want to save it for the September or October Magazine articles)

[*]Mid-late September/Early October 2018 -

San Fransokyo

(Big Hero 6),

100 Acre Wood

(Winnie the Pooh) and/or another new World (Original or Disney, I'd pick the former)
[*]October 2018 - Twilight Town (unless revealed much earlier) and Radiant Garden
[*]November 2018 - Cable Town, and the Classic Kingdom Games
[*]December 2018 - the Final Disney world
[*]Early January 2019 - The Final world where we Battle against Master Xehanort and the 13 Seekers of Darkness, Overview of the worlds in KH3, mini-games and the game itself before launch.
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You're right and I'm sorry about that, like I said nothing wrong with SE showing the same demos, and guess "I need to roll with the Punches".



I actually wouldn't mind seeing direct-feed gameplay footage of the Tangled and Monster's Inc. worlds and would see more footage of these worlds but that is up to Square Enix themselves and the marketing team. Maybe Gamescom perhaps Tokyo Game Show they will have Direct Feed gameplay of these worlds.


Yup, that's what happened with the Toy Box world demo when Gamespot leaked 23 minutes of gameplay and the leaked images which is why starting at E3 onwards SE trimmed the Toy Box demo to have it end after Sora defeated the Gigas.

Maybe the demos for us fans are getting repetitive, but the demos are for getting new players too.

I think everyone is expecting a LOT. I really don't think they'd reveal the world where the final battle takes place. I can see two more Disney World reveals and each happening at TGS and Jump Festa. Square never really cared for any other events when it came to showing off big things for the game. In the meantime, we still don't have official details about how leveling keyblade will work, we haven't seen in game menus, a detailed layout of abilities etc. Nomura has been slowly revealing things bit by bit during interviews, but as far as detailed summaries of game mechanics and such, we still know next to nothing. I don't think he'd reveal anything spoiler heavy like what world the final battle will take place and whatnot. We still don't know what FF characters will show up. Heck, we still haven't even gotten any of the Classic Kingdom Minigames on KHUX let alone any info on more games for KH3. There's still a lot to tackle in the next couple months. I just think we will get the little things before we get the big things if they even feel like showing them.

Yes that is the leak I was referring to. However, that isn’t why they cut the demo down. That was done because there are many more people at these events than there were at the Premiere Event, so the demo has to be shorter to accommodate higher demand and time constraints.

To those saying that they don't think there'd be world reveals in magazines, Famitsu is one of the biggest news outlets for Japanese gamers that I don't doubt we'd get a lot of new stuff from it. Look how much of Pokemon got revealed with every Famitsu up to their release.

Square Enix: **does literally anything KH3 related**

Me: Oh, cool. Can’t wait for the demo.

Fans: W I L L W E S E E (insert things like the final battle world)

I can see why they’d want that, though-don’t get me wrong.

Very cool. In essence it's just KH3 continuing its world tour. The photo op sounds quite similar to the one at Paris Games Week.

Aside from KH3, I'm curious to know more about Life is Strange 2.

Fans are just

eager. This should be known.

I'd say the last worlds will be revealed at TGS and Jump Festa.

Lol what? they didn't reveal single pokemon for sun and moon, everything was from CoroCoro/Trailers

World reveals in Famitsu were a thing for the handheld games with lower budgets and before online marketing was as effective as it is now. The games being released in Japan months before also played a part as the initial marketing only needed to reach Japanese audiences.

Kingdom Hearts 3 is a modern AAA title with a near global release, therefore its marketing needs to reach more people at the same time. So it doesn’t make sense to release the big news through an exclusive Japanese magazine that global audiences will need to rely on fan translations to understand. It’s much more effective to post trailers on YouTube after an event and let them go viral. I’m sure there will be smaller stuff through Famitsu like exclusive screens, gameplay details, etc. But I highly doubt there will be any Disney world reveals through Famitsu, especially since there are only a couple left to reveal.

Jump festa might have the intro as for worlds tgs will big hero 6 what ever come after that is anybody guess.

I mean nomura said we going to see every world before launch so with tgs having big hero 6 paris game week could have couple world and don't count out the game award show or a new trailer there to reach the general audience.

Kingdom Hearts 2 also had world reveals in magazines. Until the game comes out, we can't really know.

While it's true that KH3 is the biggest game in the series when compared to the other handheld titles that revealed worlds (e.g. BBS, DDD), I doubt they are going to save information just three months before the game comes out just like how HD II.8 Final Chapter Prologue didn't start consistently revealing info through Famitsu, Jump Magazine since September of 2016 after their TGS showing.

They could still have this month be dedicated to Olympus and Kingdom of Corona, even though these worlds were seen in previous articles mostly as Images or snippets. However, we have yet to see what the Character renders for the Tangled and the Hercules characters look like in promotional material and the plot fo these worlds nd frankly, I doubt they would save them at the very end of the year. So who knows it's possible, but could go either way.

Both main titles fall under the criteria I described as well. But I wasn’t online prior to the release of KH2, so I didn’t want to lump them in with Days and onwards. Of course we can’t know until it happens or it doesn’t. But considering how the reveals thus far have been handled and current marketing trends being more direct-to-consumer compared to 6+ years ago, I’d be surprised if they reveal a full Disney world through a magazine. (Not counting 100 Acre Wood in the event it is a minigame world again. Anything like that I could see showing up first in magazines.)

This is just my opinion but at this point in the process, it would almost be a shame to reveal a full Disney world without footage of the incredible animation work they’re doing. It made sense to reveal BH6 through concept art since nothing else was ready, but they shouldn’t have that problem now. Their current trend of releasing a trailer and then following up with magazine interviews seems to be working pretty well. I can see that approach continuing through to Jump Festa.



I’m not saying there won’t be any reveals through Famitsu, only that there most likely won’t be any brand new full Disney world reveals through it. Not when there’s most likely only two of those left, not counting 100 Acre Wood. 2.8 didn’t have a whole lot of new content to reveal without spoiling all of 0.2 and Back Cover. KH3 has a lot more content that they can reveal over the September-January period.

What you said is important to my point though. There is plenty of unseen stuff from already announced worlds that Famitsu and other magazines could easily have exclusive reveals for. But the new Disney worlds are the best way to get a strong reaction from the general public, so they should be saved for the big trailers, in my opinion.

In short, my stance is:

New Disney worlds, party members, Organization members, summons, and attraction flows should be revealed through trailers. Magazine features should be used to expand upon previously revealed content and to fill in information gaps that trailers don’t have time to cover. This is what I think would be the most effective for marketing, but Square Enix could think otherwise, of course.

I think magazines will reveal soem of the worlds. It's how it's always been, not everything has to be revealed in a trailer. In fact seeing it in a magazine to me gets me amped to see the world in action in a trailer.

Anyway I think TGS will reveal BH6 and one new Disney World and also Radiant Garden or at least some FF characters revealed.
Jump Festa will definitely be a big event as well. I can see the final Disney World being revealed there.

I think we still have 3 Disney Worlds to go including 100 Acre Wood.

Still think it's Jungle Book and Princess and the Frog.

The golden age of Disney needs some representation in this game.

Kingsoraful you mentioned that Jungle Book was one of Nomura's favorite Disney films after Lion King. Has he ever officially stated that?

I will be there!!!! Damn I'm excited to play. Hope it won't be crowded

Absolutely expect it to be incredibly crowded. At E3, over three days, we had to come back multiple times a day just to see if they were letting people in the line (they would threaten you if you hung around) and then you spent around 2+ hours waiting for a chance to play (less if you chose to play on Xbox). At San Diego Comic Con they brought in a ticket reservation system and hopefully that went well and will be their model for conventions going forward, as having a reserved time spot to play the game is a lot better than wasting your time hoping they'll let you into the line.

So yeah, Kingdom Hearts III is incredibly popular with the longest wait times I've seen at any convention so do plan for it to be crowded and do have back up games to demo in the unfortunate event you are unable to play.

Can we play both demos? Or do they ask to leave when you finish one part?

At E3 they told us that you get 20 minutes to play. You can play Olympus (roughly 10 minutes) and then spend the rest of the time in Toy Box or you can go into Toy Box and have fun there and if you have time you can go play Olympus.

Toy Box has a seven minute cutscene at the start (including a scripted battle) and it’s recommended that you skip the cutscenes so you can ensure you have enough time for both.

Ok thanks! Hope they do the same there :)

For anyone attending, apparently the demo floor will be open access according to this tweet from Square Enix DE: https://twitter.com/squareenixde/status/1028989555918045184?s=21

Soooo I played the demo at Gamescom. They only let me play 1 part of the demo :(

Buuut! The game looks amazing. The only thing that bothered me was te camera. It went crazy.... and it was too easy to reach the second form and stuff like that... waaaaay to easy. I could use that every 10sec. Like it s too much!

Not much of a surprise, but during IGN’s sit down about KH3, the community manager basically confirmed that the Hidden Mickeys will be a minigame/side quest and said there may be prizes for finding them all.

Another little tidbit was that they aren’t planning to reveal the identity of the final boss of Toy Box until release, which makes me hopeful that the UFO from D23 won’t be the final boss. I think that will just be the miniboss when we have to rescue the aliens.

http://m.ign.com/videos/2018/08/23/kingdom-hearts-3-toy-story-level-live-developer-playthrough-gamescom-2018?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Good to know! SQEX typically does a lot of deceiving things with their trailers and this was one of them. Thanks Zip.

Interesting. So Zurg is still a possbility. Either that or we fight a miniature toy version of YX, lol.

Thanks for this. Next time, can you please send a message to all news staff so one of us could know that it exists if we don't find it ourselves?

Sorry, since it was just another playthrough like the ones at E3, I didn’t think it would qualify as newsworthy. I’ll try to discern better next time!

All good! Also I love your avatar xD

Thanks!! It’s such an adorable edit! Now I lowkey hope the likely photo mode will let us take some selfies with different characters! I’m also still crossing my fingers for a Sora cameo in Ralph Breaks the Internet! If it doesn’t happen, I’ll just have to write a fan fiction where Ralph and Vanellope visit KHInsider. :D

pun ri does amazing kh arts and edits also seeing the demo make me jealous a little bit

(source https://twitter.com/pun_rii)

Oh my gosh, thanks for sharing their profile! I couldn’t remember where I saved it from and not sure it was the OG source. But this is also the same person who did the KH characters in FFVIIAC style and I’m obsessed with those too. Now I can follow them!

I think I notice something I haven’t yet every time I watch a playthrough. If these 15 minutes of the game offer that much detail, I can’t wait to see what the full game will offer!