Dengenki Article on Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix

Krowley · Oct 11, 2012

It would seem a the magazine scan I posted earlier has been translated by Sokuho@Hokanko and posted on Gematsu. Mistaken for a Famitsu article, this interview is translated from Dengenki Playstation. Information revealed includes details on development, Osaka, trophies, controls, and all other past information. If you haven't kept up with the latest news on the 1.5 HD collection or Kingdom Hearts for PC Browsers, this would be a good refresher.

~Untranslated Dengenki scan~

Gematsu said:

Osaka Team and Development
The plan to make Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix existed before the plan for Final Fantasy X HD. There was discussion with the Osaka team regarding, “Can’t we do something utilizing the PlayStation 3?”
One of the reasons Square Enix began development on Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix is because the Kingdom Hearts series covers a number of platforms, and also by the 10th anniversary of the series, it’s hard for new players to enter into the series. It was difficult to make the high-definition version, but thanks to two programmers from the Osaka team, it was realized within a year or so. The programmers in charge of making the high-definition version are a group that includes members from the team who haven’t been involved in the Kingdom Hearts series until now. There are Kingdom Hearts staff on the Tokyo team, too, but the transfer has been intense. You could say that the existing staff of the series has been the basically unchanged lineup of the Osaka team. As long as we have them, the series will be able to continue.

Development on Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix is in it’s final stages.
“I considered remaking Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days as a game,” said Nomura, “but since it would take over a year, I decided to make new works a priority and compile the necessary parts of Days as videos in the theater mode.”

It feels like 70 percent of the original Days game has been changed into video clips. The Disney worlds and such have been supplemented in text. There will be over 100 scenes that total at two to three hours of footage. The voices in the new recordings add considerable volume. You can choose to view the Days content immediately when the game starts.

Trophies, Controls, and Character Models
“There is trophy support,” said Nomura. “I personally don’t really have an inclination for the trophy function, so what sort of contents that unlock them are currently being decided on. Aside from things like clearing a world, they aren’t needed for things like first obtaining a Keyblade, so we are continuing to discuss it.”
The handling of the controls have been modified to be a bit easier compared to the previous method. Kingdom Hearts II was used as a base for implementing the camera functions and the action commands using the triangle button. There aren’t any particularly big elements added. “I want you to think of the HD version and trophy support as the changes,” said Nomura. Also, some of Sora and others’ modeling have been replaced with the latest version.
Other, smaller bits include:

There are no new secret movies.

He didn’t think about a bundle version.

“It’d be unnatural for there to be a 1.5 without a 2.5.”

The work is going into it’s final stages and the development is going well, so the plan is to release it as soon as possible in 2013.

“The official name of the Xehanort saga is the ‘Dark Seeker Saga’. I definitely want to prepare the HD versions before I ascertain the conclusion of this saga.”

Kingdom Hearts for PC Browser
Kingdom Hearts for PC Browser will be a typical browser game. ACT doesn’t have strong content, it has simple game play using cards. There are also multiplayer co-op elements, but it’s basically a single-player game. Development on the title was done somewhere else, and not within the Osaka team. It is a spin off title completely separate from the main thread of the storyline. As a proper browser game, it doesn’t contain major plot devices concerning the story.
“There will be a new character in it, but I can’t say whether it affects the main storyline,”
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libregkd · Oct 11, 2012

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Meilin Lee · Oct 11, 2012

So the interview was actually from Dengenki, not Famitsu. Good interview though. I'm really curious about this new character from the browser game.[DOUBLEPOST=1349933472][/DOUBLEPOST]

libregkd said: ↑

So essentially the same info from the Famitsu interview. lol
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Apparently it was an error. There wasn't even a Nomura interview in Famitsu this week:
http://gematsu.com/2012/10/nomura-details-kingdom-hearts-1-5-hd-remix-in-dengeki

libregkd · Oct 11, 2012

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Krowley · Oct 11, 2012

libregkd said: ↑

So essentially the same info from the Famitsu interview. lol

EDIT: oh, same interview. Was the wrong source last time.
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When I discovered that, I debated whether or not I wanted to edit the previous thread but decided a new one would probably be less confusing.

Plums · Oct 11, 2012

Nomura said:

“There will be a new character in it, but I can’t say whether it affects the main storyline,”
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That's the only thing that's got me a bit "wat" out of everything. Other than that though, I'm glad progress is going pretty smooth. Hoping the international release will be around mid-2013, so I can actually have time to play it and not ignore schoolwork, lol. >_>

Meilin Lee · Oct 11, 2012

Plums said: ↑

That's the only thing that's got me a bit "wat" out of everything.
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If we translate that from Nomura-talk to English, it translates to: "There is an important character in the browser game that will return in KH3"

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