Re: Nomura Wants Online for Kingdom Hearts III, When More FFVIIR News Will Be Coming

Just remember to take all of this with a grain of salt for now! Apparently it came from Dengeki, and if true then we should get some expanded information on these bullet points so if something seems grim, e.g. FFVIIR, then wait until we get the full info before being completely upset!

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Online Mode for KH3? Here's my idea, what if you could make your own keyblade wielder, similar to making your own Character in FF XV Comrades, and do special missions with your friends and random people. maybe a 4-8 person party.
Edit: What if a Final Fantasy character (Maybe Barret since he led Avalanche in FF VII) was maybe a leader of a group of Keyblade Wielders, and your OC Wielder, and others were part of it, and you would be assigned Missions that you could tackle with friends or alone. You would have to go to certain Disney Worlds and eliminate a certain amount of Heartless.

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I would love a multiplayer for KH3, but at this point either Nomura has been playing dumb and is keeping multiplayer under tight wraps or no multiplayer has been developed and he’s refering to leaderboards, time trials etc... not holding my breath though

Re: Nomura Wants Online for Kingdom Hearts III, When More FFVIIR News Will Be Coming

Mirage Arena multiplayer! I want it!

Re: Nomura Wants Online for Kingdom Hearts III, When More FFVIIR News Will Be Coming

Taking this with a grain of salt, with how much of a complete KH3 is looking to be, it looks like Nomura may constantly update with some time due to features he wants in the game, so it's a reverse FFXV: a complete game getting updated, hahahaha. Well worth the $59.99 and taxes!

Also, this should pretty much outright confirm that this game is never coming to the Nintendo Switch. KH3 reachin the limits of the physical media storage should be hint enough.

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I’m hoping they base it around Kingdom Hearts 3’s datascape. It would allow everything to stay in universe as any kind of online/multiplayer stuff could be described as data simulations. They could then do pretty much anything with the feature. It would also tie Coded into the game a bit more.

Re: Nomura Wants Online for Kingdom Hearts III, When More FFVIIR News Will Be Coming

This makes sense. But please, Nomura, don't try to make the online canon...

Re: Nomura Wants Online for Kingdom Hearts III, When More FFVIIR News Will Be Coming

Yeah, as long as KH3's story is long and great or decent, and is fun and nice to play, I'll be fine, especially since KH3 is said to be getting big, Nomura is concerned of disk space. All in all, as long as the story is longer than FFXV's story, which I also liked but had flaws in it, which had 27 hours, I hope KH3 is longer than that, like 40 to 50 hours or somewhere close or near that.

Re: Nomura Wants Online for Kingdom Hearts III, When More FFVIIR News Will Be Coming

Goldpanner translated one of the blogger's comments and now it's a worry of mine:

"Does he mean they're going to turn stuff they couldn't fit on the disc into online content? It's a little scary that the release date is already only half a year away and he's still 'currently considering' things lol"

Re: Nomura Wants Online for Kingdom Hearts III, When More FFVIIR News Will Be Coming

I think that them speculate what they might do with online

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Still hoping for a PC Port, Can you imagine how good the game would run on a high end PC, also some details could be improved. Maybe they could fit it onto a Nintendo Switch Cartridge if they did some miracles, or it could be Download only (Which would Suck, but I believe that's what there doing for the Resident Evil 7 Port.

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So there’s another one here that mentions Big Hero 6 being shown in the next trailer. The demo difficulty was between beginner and standard. They’re going to adjust the camera based on feedback from the demo. That’s just what I could make sense of from the machine translation.

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Re: Nomura Wants Online for Kingdom Hearts III, When More FFVIIR News Will Be Coming

I'd love cooperative scenarios... I think co op in the main game is an unreasonable request with today's console limitations, but simpler missions with fixed areas and enemies would be fun.

Dibs on Donald.

Re: Nomura Wants Online for Kingdom Hearts III, When More FFVIIR News Will Be Coming

Yes. We are translating it right now, please have patience :)

But it seems like what Nomura was actually talking about might be having some content cut from the game and available via download on day 1.

Okay, translations are done. Big thanks to Goldpanner!!

Re: Nomura expands on Frozen in Kingdom Hearts 3, Einh�nder staff working on Gummi Ship, and more

They're realizing that there's a chance they will run out of disc space, so he'd like you to set up your net connection and wait for the currently-being-planned online components

please nomura dont do it that that way most everybody can't afford online stuff

in this game there are no skippable worlds, since most people visit all of them

i hope we could go back to destiny isnald even i some area are unplayable

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I may be wrong, but I think the intention is that the online features (separate from the main game) won’t fit on the disc, so they’re releasing it separately post-launch as DLC. To me, that isn’t the end of the world as the main game should still be it’s own complete product like any other KH game without online features.

Aqua froma certain incident, which one


A. falling into the Realm of Darkness and giving up her keyblade and armor

B. something happen between sealing door to darkness and Blank Points

C. the fight with Young Master Xehanort

or D. post Blank Points

Yup it's as we predicted BH6 is going to have gameplay footage in the next trailer likely at TGS and will be revealed alongside a new world. One of the final 3 remaining Disney Worlds not including 100 as I don't think that world will get a exclusive trailer as it's mini games.

Handing off the Gummi Ship to an external director is likely for the best. There's a lot of potential here, especially if you love Star Fox 64 like me.

I'm excited for finally getting a solid look at BH6. I'm curious how Nomura intergrated gameplay and NPCS in a huge futuristic city.

i dont they will have to spetpember to show it though ik now it not far off but i do think we getting something sooner then expeted

Considering that it says there are no skippable worlds, 100 Acre Wood might not be solely minigames anymore.

Also, I’m mostly happy that nothing can be skipped. It means that each world can have more bearing on the course of the plot rather than feeling inconsequential. When they say world order is fixed, I wonder if they mean they’ve determined the world order or if they are saying it is a mostly linear order rather than having options?

I just don't see 100 Acre Wood all of a sudden being a actual world that's not placed in a book. It's always been that way, the heartless don't roam around it's just something you do. Also I didn't realize you could skip 100 Acre Wood, I always did them as the pages were revealed and in KH2 finding the pages was a lot easier then in KH1.

It could still take place in the book; it just wouldn’t be a side thing. I don’t think any Heartless would appear as there are restrictions on violence in Winnie the Pooh. But it could be more about exploration, solving puzzles, and stuff like that. Rather than having the pop ups to enter rooms, it would just be an open world.

But there’s also the possibility that it is the same as always and Nomura just isn’t counting it as a world.

"The order in which you visit worlds is mostly fixed."

This is something I've wanted for quite a while.

KH games have made themselves slightly more interesting to replay when you can pick from 2 or 3 worlds, depending on your preference for challenge, but these 'world rings' have a huge caveat that isn't worth it.

When Kingdom Hearts presents you with multiple worlds to choose at one time, you can bet your bottom dollar that absolutely nothing important is going to happen in them. The sequence of events just can't be complicated if you can go in any order. This is why Sora acts surprised TWO DIFFERENT TIMES to see Xemnas in DDD.

With a more fixed order of worlds, we can have the status quo change from level to level. This results in less filler, hopefully.

Oh man, that always annoyed me with the Xemnas thing. And yes, this explains why so much of KH2's Disney content felt like filler, because they couldn't put any major story beats into worlds when you're allowed the freedom to choose where to go.

Re: Nomura expands on Frozen in Kingdom Hearts 3, Einh�nder staff working on Gummi Ship, and more

[LIST] [*]It follows the chronology of the movie, with the plot of Sora & friends progressing behind the scenes of the story of Anna and Elsa [/LIST]

Seeing this, I worry. It feels like there's two storylines: the movie, and Soar, Donal, and Gooby stopping Larxene, who will never actually try to influence the situation and will just observe Elsa from the shadows, and that Frozen will just be clips from the movie and won't have any real integration with the main plot.

[LIST] [*]He thinks he will be able to show footage of the Big Hero Six world next time [/LIST]

Sweet! Please let there be a scene with Fred instantly realizing SDG are from another world and totally fanboying over it.

[LIST] [*]Aqua is from after a certain incident [/LIST]

Which one? Or is he implying something new? The vagueness is vague.

[LIST] [*]He thinks if you play both Union Cross and KH3 you will understand the deal with Marluxia [/LIST]

With how little UX has given us about Lauriam, I prefer to think otherwise. XD

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Yeah let's hope they learned from the past to integrate the characters better into the story :/ I mean it did work out in KH1...

Thank God, I don't need him dropping plot points 6 months in advance xD

What I wonder: UX is supposed to continue after KH3 releases. So do we have to stick around after to find out about him or what...? It's not like we can genuinely expect a lot seeing how the last update was 9 months ago in JP... Not even gonna talk about global here.

Good thing none of the Disney worlds so far are filler from what we have seen. They are all contributing to the plot one way or another. No second visits also helps.

The reason there's no second visits I think Nomura said is cause the worlds are so big.

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That’s true. Setting a specific order and requiring every world in the game to be played to reach the ending allows the original story to continue advancing throughout the film-based worlds. That really excites me.

On the flipside, every mention of online/DLC content makes me want to rip my hair out. I knew it was coming, but I was hoping they wouldn’t be talking about it already. I thought they’d at least wait until the base game was out, jeez.

If we play UX and KH3 we'll understand the deal with Marly?

Considering how UX is currently paced, I doubt it. It's a wonder that I even remember Lauriam.

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I'm glad the visits to Worlds are in a fixed order, this way, the story could continue on without any World feeling like filler, for example, choosing The Grid before Prankster's Paradise makes Sora's encounters with Xemnas in those Worlds feel like we accidentally pushed a foward and rewind button due to choosing either one before the other. As for what you said about DLC, Nomura said he doesn't know what the potential DLC would be like, and said that it could expand the ways the game plays, but he intends to finish the main game/main story before even doing any DLC, but I understand your concerns.

I'd be so elated to see Big Hero 6 be debuted in the next trailer. However, Nomura's wording (based on the translations) seems to imply that Big Hero 6 can't be shown at Disney's request. And knowing Disney, they probably would want to save their most recent movie for last. However, if Nomura can indeed show off Big Hero 6 next time then I'm down for that.

While I also figured they’d save it for last, he said he thinks they’ll show it in the next trailer. If you don’t mind me asking, where are you getting the idea that he’s implying he can’t show it because of Disney’s request? I don’t see anything like that in the post. He said previously it hasn’t been shown simply because the cutscenes aren’t showable.

Please don't f*** with the camera. FFXV had a horrific pseudo-over the shoulder camera.

Gotta wonder what else they'll show in the next trailer besides BH6.

Well, from what we've seen so far, all of the Disney worlds shown off have been dictated by Disney in some capacity. Tangled and Big Hero 6 had a promotional video by Roy Conli, Toy Story was shown off for D23 2017 because the theme for the Level Up conference was Marvel (Spider-Man PS4), Star Wars (Star Wars Battlefront II) and Pixar (Kingdom Hearts III - Toy Story).

Sure, it's not in the post, but from the way that other worlds have been revealed, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Disney's being specific as to which worlds should be revealed when. I'm fully aware that Big Hero 6 was the last property chosen, but even as the last property chosen, it was Disney themselves that requested Square Enix to announce Big Hero 6 early (to promote the movie).

Ok gotcha. Just making sure I wasn’t missing something. Based on this, he and Disney are probably on the same page that it can be shown next. Maybe they’ll have another big new world reveal that they’re saving for last. There’s also the possibility that it will be the last world shown at TGS and we won’t have any more Disney world reveals after that. They were probably planning for that to be the last venue for that kind of thing prior to the delay, so they might be sticking to that plan and just adding a big montage trailer for Jump Festa.

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Anyone else wants to know why Elsa hasn't been considered a boss or even party member from the team? So other than having Marshmallow showing up, there won't be any party member to aid? That's a bummer.

Sorry Nomura, but Union X is dead for me at this point. Unless you make something widely interesting, I'm not gonna spend my time waiting for another story update with only some small hints. At least you confirmed Lauriam (which everyone already could tell)

Probably for TGS with San Fransokyo.

A new world for sure and probably FF characters.

big hero 6 might be at tgs with the final wold reveal but i odnt thiere going to wait for spertember to show stuff there other stuff they lik to show not just worlds

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They're following the plot of the film, so it makes no sense for either of those things to happen with Elsa.

I don't think Nomura ruled out the possibility of an Elsa boss just yet. In the film Elsa fights some guards and nearly kills them in a fit of rage. You could just swap those guards with SDG and have Elsa temporarily succumb to darkness.

From the trailers it looked more like the story of the film playing out and SDG following along without too much interference to how the plot unfolds. Even Larxene's commentary on Elsa's state of being is done away from Elsa so I doubt we'll see her succumb to darkness and become a boss but fight Larxene and her negativity surrounding Elsa's fate

I figured there'd have to be some kind of Day 1 patch. I was hoping they'd patch in the cut scenes as that would save a lot of space, but then it sounds like the on-disc, unpatched game would have ridiculous loading times.

I don't want them to show off Big Hero 6 next, we already know that it's world and what to expect, I'm sure that it'll look nice but I'd much rather them show off an unannounced Disney World instead, hopefully my heed my plea, lol!

They'relikely gonna do both and FF characters as well.

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Einhander yeah!!!

...and that's probably the closest we'll get to a remake of that game XD Oo...some einhander-inspired gummi bosses would be awesome, as a nod off to that awesome game...

...selene secret model??

oki, I'm getting ahead of myself...

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Yes, it is. They could've at least made Anna/Kristoff party members.

I wonder if the reason might be that Disney is overly protective of Frozen franchise right now because it's the crown jewel of their films from the past decade? I remember Disney was very controlling in how Frozen was used on Once Upon a Time several years ago, too, unlike with other properties that show ever used. Maybe they'll loosen the reins in future KH titles, after the Frozen property is older.

No Elsa boss would be a bit of a missed opportunity. She's got ice powers that have almost no limitations. It'd be a fun fight.

I understand the issue, though. She's a dainty princess, powers or not. Whacking Elsa around with the Keyblade as she cries out in pain is not a look that Disney is interested in.

Hm... I get what you're saying but in the trailer they had her kill a heartless in front of you. I wouldn't mind not having her as a boss, maybe SDG will walk in right after her outburst and they'll see Hans taking her away or maybe they'll come in at the bit after she blasts Anna with ice, either way I just think it's beyond bizarre to have her kill a heartless in the trailer and then not have her as a party member. I mean we have Ariel, I don't see the problem with having Elsa as a party member, seems like a strange choice.

Anyone else feel like BH6 will be the longest World.

One thing I took from this is we'll actually get khux plot soon instead of Disney filler stories, yay! Maybe when Agrabah finishes we'll actually find out stuff about Brian (I refuse to call him Brain) and Lauriam.

Additionally, it would be so awesome if the dlc for kh3 is optional WORLDS. Like, including the worlds they had to cut due to running out of space. That'd be amazing.

Actually, once Agrabah is done we have months of Enchanted Dominion to go through. Then KH3 will be out.

But at least Japan should be getting new plot details in UX soon.

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I think the matter is that Anna and Kristoff are absolutely not combat companions.

Re: Nomura expands on Frozen in Kingdom Hearts 3, Einh�nder staff working on Gummi Ship, and more

Its a last stage world so i could see some big plot events happening in that world.



I mean neither is Mike Wazzoski yet he gets to be a party member. Plus Kristoff is a big guy who could wield pick axes.

Hopefully. If i know what you're talking about.

With the worlds being fixed just makes it all the more interesting what kind of big plot points will be there.

Since it's most likely one of the last worlds we go to, I think so. It'll probably look really good too.

I do hope we get to see Larxene's nobody breed in Arendelle. Though ninja themed nobodies may feel a bit out of place in a Norway setting, lol.

If I'm being completely honest, Ninja themed Nobodies would best be suited for the BH6 world, but I can see why they chose Larxene for Arendelle, due to her cold demeanor,

Re: Nomura expands on Frozen in Kingdom Hearts 3, Einh�nder staff working on Gummi Ship, and more

The Gummi Ship is being developed with the director and staff of Einhänder, Nomura loved that game so he is really looking forward to it being finished.

This is sooooooooooo cool!

In this game there are no skippable worlds, since most people visit all of them.

That makes sense. I feel like every world they create should be mandatory. No more KH2 Atlantica gimmicks please.

He wants to release more info about the New Organization XIII a little at a time as the release date comes closer.

Yes please!!! Drop something juicy, but doesn't ruin any story elements.

Hikaru Utada created the new song for them at a very early stage.

This surprised me.

They started work on the bundle edition PS4Pro quite early, he had them remake it many times until they got his ideal color.

Another surprise. Honestly, the color is fine, but the print is crap. The detail is just too fine that it doesn't look good in my opinion.

The controller(s?) has a glossy finish with a design on the touchpad, this is a never-before-seen type

The gloss is definitely new. It looks prone to lots of fingerprints though lol.

They're realizing that there's a chance they will run out of disc space, so he'd like you to set up your net connection and wait for the currently-being-planned online components.

I wonder if it will be treated like Comrades for FFXV. Dude, what if it covered the keyblade war?!?! How insane would that be?!

Regarding FF7 Remake: he knows some misinformation caused people to worry, but development is actually coming along very well.

They're keeping info on the downlow because they are prioritizing the release of KH3 and other titles from the company.

Makes sense. Good to hear the development stages are going well. I expect to see FFVII: Remake by March at the latest.

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And Ariel and Jack Skellington were? That’s a hollow argument. This is a video game. The characters can perform spells and original attacks. Anna and Kristoff aren’t exactly shrinking damsels like Snow White.

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I agree, that Anna and Kristoff aren't "damsels in distress" and have been known to use some form of combat seen in the film, especially the former as Anna

only did the following:

[LIST=1]
[*]Using Kristoff's Lute to hit one of the Wolves
[*]Throwing a snowball at Marshmallow
[*]Punching Hans
[/LIST]
Plus, she seems to be the most feisty and energetic compared to her sister Elsa. However, she doesn't have the abilitie

s (offense, melee) when battling against a group of Heartless or even the most powerful Heartless compared to the likes of Rapunzel and Flynn Rider from the

Kingdom of Corona or Woody and Buzz Lightyear from Toy Box, t

he same thing could be said about Kristoff as well (even though he's got Sven backing him up).

Elsa, while yes she does user her powers for combat and to defend herself against enemies just like when she saved Sora, Donald & Goofy from the Reindeer Heartless in the trailer and when fighting off the Duke of Wesselton's guards from the film, she's afraid on not wanting her powers to overdevelop and harming anyone, because as shown in the film, a lot of her ice powers were based on her emotions. When she's happy, her powers are under control, but when she's upset, scared or under stress her powers will go out of control and will cause harm to others as shown when she was running away from the Party after her powers were shown, and when she inadvertently strikes Anna in her heart

It probably won't be until the next game in the saga where Elsa will officially become a party member and join Sora's party as it was shown in the climax that she's able to fully control her powers and was able to lift the curse to bring back summer after realizing that the warm emotion of love is the key to doing so, also she seems to better control her powers as seen in the shorts.

Again I'm disappointed that Anna, Elsa, and Kristoff aren't party members, but obviously, it has to do with following the plot of the movie.

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I think it's more of the narrative structure of Arendelle as opposed to combat viability. Honestly, I think Sora, Donald and Goofy's adventures are going to run parallel to the Frozen plot. Because of that, they're not going to follow Anna and Kristoff like we initially assumed.

So this makes the Frozen visit is a mixture of original plot mixed with the movie plot. Hopefully we get a Hans battle. He definitely seems to be combat ready at the least.

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I agree it's following the plot of the film, but through the eyes of Elsa which is where the original plot of the world is going to be about. In fact from the Frozen and the Pirates E3 trailers from what we've seen so far it's going to start with the following:

[LIST]
[*]Sora's Party arrive in Arrendelle and fight Heartless in the snow which is exactly the first scene from the Frozen Trailer
[*]Sora sees the Fjord turning to Ice and sees Elsa running away immediately after her powers were revealed.
[*]Sora's party then follow Elsa and meet with her and have a short conversation which is the scene where she saved them from the Reindeer Heartless.
[*]After the conversation, Elsa tells Sora that "Arendelle is safer with me staying up here" and blocks Sora's part off telling them to go away as she doesn't want to harm them as well.
[*]Sora feeling that Elsa is struggling with her balance of Light and Darkness decides to continue to trek her with Donald and Goofy following as well.
[*]They then meet Anna, Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf at the place where Anna meet Olaf in the film:
[/LIST]

That is the scene shown in the E3 Frozen trailer. They mingle for a bit and Anna explains that she is also looking for her Sister to bring back Summer and Sora brings up Elsa and know where she is going then Heartless show up resulting in Anna and the rest fleeing while Sora's party deals with them (unless if this takes place before they meet Anna, who's to say.)[SIZE=2]:[/SIZE]

I'm on the fence where the Larxene scenes are taking place in the Frozen world but I'm assuming it's either:
[LIST]
[*]During Dawn when Elsa builds her Castle
[*]Or the evening before or after Sora's party battle Marshmallow
[/LIST]
But I'd say it's the evening as the red sky indicates this and it matches the point in the film where Elsa is reflecting her fears and the Castle turns sinister:

Then presumably, after they tried to go after her but she creates this Ice Labyrinth which allows you to use the Goofy Curling (Unless if this is used early in the world before this happens)[SIZE=2] which allows them to travel into the different Ice terrains[/SIZE].

As for this scene when Sora's Party are being chased by the Three Ice Dragon heartless:


I think it's either during the Ice Labyrinth maze or during the climax of the world where Elsa unleashes her whiteout from the film, but that's just me.


That's my idea on how the story of the world will be like so far, but I think we may see the next set of trailers and when the game officially comes out to know the order of the scenes that are taking place.


I'm hoping the same thing as well, just as long as Nomura doesn't pull a CLU on Hans just like he almost did it with Davy Jones for the Pirates world up until Nomura's interview where Jones was confirmed as a Boss,