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Hey everyone, with the Famitsu 38 page special on the Square-Enix event, an interview came as well with Nomura speaking on all 3 games. And from the interview here's things we now officially know.

Birth by Sleep

Plot
- Master Xehanort is not only looking for the Pure minds of the princesses but shows an interest in obtaining the worlds as well.
- The scenes of Aqua, Terra and Ven together were all from the beginning of the game. After this they all seperate. The purpose of the three heroes are all slightly different but the goal of chasing Master Xehanort is the same.
- In this era of Kingdom Hearts the Keyblades are taught to be more about spirit of the person instead of the heart.
- The only reason why Snow white sounds slightly strange is due to them having the most appropriate voice for her role. Considering the movie Snow white was released 50 years ago in Japan.

Gameplay
- Nomura wanted to make strategic changes to the combat system, and believes BBS' gameplay has changed a lot from it's first showing which was pre-arranged commands.
- Thoe shot lock system was also thought up with BBS, however they wern't sure if it was possible at first.
- The meaning of unbirth is the exact opposite of birth in terms that they are the exact opposite of people. The kind of people they are and how they are created will be shown to the public soon.
- Birth by Sleep is more high-speed action then the other games and also will be showing reaction commands. Anyone who plays this for the first time will be surprised.
- There are a lot of boss battles in this game, however they are all to feel unique and fun.
- There was a lot of testing with the music, and now finishing the music has become the battle. *Laughs* (I'm amazed Nomura didn' thave as much laughing as he does in other interviews)


358/2 Days
- Having the voice of the 14th member released to the public at this time was Nomura's own mistake. However the voice should give off hints.
- Roxas doesn't have as much of a positive impact on the heroes as Sora does in the games. An example being Beauty and the Beast scene, the message this area will cause the players to think. "What is love?" Roxas will also begin to learn through the disney characters where his doubt for the Organization begins.
- When Axel talks to Xion at the end of the trailer, what Nomura is really referring to is Axel and Roxas.
- The original thought of the Kingdom Heart series has to do with "Where the mind draws" so Memories is a huge part of the series. This game will heavily focus on Memories because of the Nobodies.

KH Coded
- Events do not happen like in Kingdom Hearts games where it's at the beginning, scenes in the middle and then scenes in the end. The scenes in Coded only happen after completing a certain ammount of missions.
- Coded being the only sequel to Kingdom Hearts 2 it's expected to show content for the next game, however it's really in the context of Chain of Memories and will also be solving up the mysteries of previous Kingdom Hearts games.
- This story is meant to "Heal their pains" and follows along side another secret message.
- As you advance in the game you'll begin to learn who left that message in Jiminy's memo and why the message was left.
- Coded, 358/2 Days and Birth by Sleep in some way or fashion are connected to each other in various ways.
- There are more elements to the cellphone with Kingdom Hearts then they have shown right now.


Source: FF7AC Reunion

Hey eveyrone, a 2ch blog poster has added new scans of the upcoming 3 games however unfortunately the link to those scans died quickly because of the uploader sight. Luckily Videogamerx managed to snag those and host it up on their sight!


358/2 Days Scan
Birth by Sleep
Coded
Final Fantasy: Dissidia

Adding onto that IGN added a short video on their tour of the Square-Enix Party, thanks to that we can see short shots of the Kingdom Hearts games as well! View


Source: Videogamerx

Well, a member of 2ch posted this up recently, it seems as though he/she managed to meet Nomura for a short while to conduct a rather...short interview. Each of them Nomura pretty much turned around unfortunately. Seems as though he's being secretive about many things, but what did he say? Well we're gonna summarize it up in quick points.


1. 14th Member has no relation to Kairi. (Chances of Nomura turning that around? High)
2. The Unbirth is meant to explain heartless and nobodies but wouldn't go into detail.
3. When asked about Aqua's part in the game Nomura said he revealed her last for a good reason.
4. When the 2ch user asked Nomura about Birth of Sleep's gameplay from the demo, Nomura said he wanted a concept similar to Chain of Memories but also wanted to keep the feel of the Main Kingdom Hearts games.
5. When asked about what system would, if there was going to be (which there will be) a Kingdom Hearts Sequel Nomura stated that he wants to enhance the gameplay of the series and depnding on the console that gives that enhancement he has in vision would be the console the game will be puto n.
6. The member accused Nomura lightenly about 358/2 Days being a game directed to Roxas fans and not advancing the series, Nomura only laughed. (...What is this Nomura?)
7. Nomura got asked about Coded being ported to a hand-held and Nomura said there were no current plans for a Hand-held version of Coded. The blog-user believes because it would upset the balance of 1 Game being with Sony and another being with Nintendo and joked to Nomura that he should put it on the X-box.

8. Finally the user asked to Nomura about the sudden adding of multiplayer in the series. Nomura responded by saying he wanted to try something different and unexpected for the series and is happy with the responses he got from the demos so far. (Maybe this means we can get more multiplayer games that are normally Single player RPGS from Nomura at this rate?)

Granted this was an interview conducted by a fan of the series we wouldn't expect Nomura to go into detail about these questions at least not until someone like Famitsu, or Dengeki gets in which is something we're expecting in the future.

Source: 2ch

Hey eveyrone, though not really new due we didn't really report it so here's a few scans that were shown before the Square-Enix event.


Birth by Sleep


358/2 Days



Source; Gamekyo.com

Hey everyone, today I recieved an e-mail from a rather kind person from Japan who after the event took her time to draw all of the new characters these include Aqua's BBS clothing. The new Dissidia villain and Final Fantasy XIII characters all beautifully detailed. Then did some quick sketches of the Unbirth and a Roxas avatar for the mobile phone. Also the person put the image up on 2ch as well. It's really a nice drawing.




Source: 2ch