KH3 Appears in Famitsu + Interview w/ Tetsuya Nomura

Meilin Lee · Jun 20, 2018

The new issue of Weekly Famitsu has released in Japan, and it featured 'Kingdom Hearts III', as well as an interview with the director, Tetsuya Nomura! Check out scans from the magazine below:

In addition to the scans, the main point from Nomura's interview have been summarized. While we wait for a fully translated interview, check out the main points below:

In 'The Caribbean', the box from the second movie (most certainly referring to the Dead Man's Chest) is linked to the black box that Maleficent and the "true" Organization XIII are searching for.

The "Remy's Delicious Restaurant" mini-game can be played in Twilight Town.

Tangled's world has a rhythm-based mini-game

Everything the staff has been suggesting has been mostly implemented.

The Classic Kingdom is a project By Nomura himself (he wanted to create and add as many mini-games as possible). Even if it’s for running around, Nomura thinks that having the game in hand can be fun.

Using Situation Commands, strategies can be planned within a limited time.

It doesn’t matter if you use the Situation commands while you’re unfamiliar with them, just press buttons and try them!

Attractions are activated under certain conditions, in certain places and according to the previous command.

Even if you don’t intend to use the Keyblade's new system, it remains fun as you can perform various techniques. If you’re skilled enough, an efficient strategy can be established.

You can experiment different actions through their transformations. Non-transformable Keyblades perform special moves. The Kingdom Key allows Sora to use techniques he used in the past.

Links have been changed several times, and the shape of Disney characters’ borrowed power is yet to be decided and are named when you settle to use them in combat. Not only are characters from previous opus along with their skills back, but the player can also intervene when linking with them.

The Summon system allows you to call a Meow Wow and all kinds of Dream Eaters. All of them couldn't make it into the game, but with the Link you can make a lot of Dream Eaters appear.

Sora has less decorations to match his more dynamic action and active image.

Nomura affirms that Sora, Riku, and Kairi's outfits match each other slightly, eg. all have plaid.

Vanitas resurrects, and the other Organization members, after turning back into humans, once again turn into nobodies and resurrect in a different way. The ones that collaborated with Sora resurrect the way they are.

The place where Lea and Kairi are training is a new location where you can't go to.

Aqua has surprised everyone more than expected. The King and Riku appear in a scene where they are in trouble. Aside from Aqua, there are a lot of other characters that will have everything explained about them, so writing the scenario was very hard.

A secret movie for Kingdom Hearts III has been made, but is not finalized yet.

It's difficult to give a figure for percentage completion at the time. A major concern for Kingdom Hearts III is its high volume being met by capacity shortage. This is exacerbated by some cutscenes that are being made into movies for load time reduction, but consequently require more capacity than expected.

Lip sync data is also a concern; switching between Japanese and English audio is very tough.

A Final Mix version isn't under consideration since there's also the problem with running out of space. Nomura has plans to release updates as DLC, so even if they do that, it won't be a Final Mix.

About DLC, they haven't decided on details, but Nomura wants it to be something that expands the ways you can play in. They won't be working on that until they are finished with the main game.

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Source: KH13

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