Square Enix have updated their official website for Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, and this update reveals details about the 10th Anniversary Box. To see for yourself, please click the link and visit the "SPEC" section. However, if you want the details in English, read on to see what we know about the box. You can also see its official logo on the right.

- Officially called the "Kingdom Hearts 10th Anniversary 3D+Days+Re:coded Box"

- Releases on March 29, 2012

- Available for ￥15,000 (approximately US$193.88)

Contents of the box

- Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (Nintendo 3DS)

- Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (Nintendo DS)

- Kingdom Hearts Re:coded (Nintendo DS)

- 12 piece card set showing the visual history of the series

- Protective cover (original design) for Nintendo 3DS

Square Enix have updated the page detailing each edition of the game, and have also added the 10th Anniversary 3D+Days+Re:coded Box to their e-STORE. The website update also revealed that the special edition Kingdom Hearts 3D-themed Nintendo 3DS will be available for ￥21,090 (approximately US$272.59).

Thanks to aibo_ac7 for the tip.

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Led by Peter Pan, Ventus, Terra, and Aqua get caught up in an adventure to steal the pirates treasures. But Peter Pan's good friend Tinker Bell is captured by Captain Hook.

I saw other world descriptions on the other papers but most were too small to read. 

The scattered pages assemble and return to a book. IT IS A BOOK OF PROPHECIES!!! The pages describe the story of the characters' journeys!!! In Union χ[Cross], Ephemer describes the Book of Prophecies as a sort of pop-up book and guess what? The book in the DDD opening opens as a pop-up of Destiny Islands!!! Also, it makes complete sense that there are pictures; from the glimpses seen of the Book in Kingdom Hearts χ Back Cover, there are pictures of a Darkside, the Emblem Heartless symbol, the Kingdom Key, a Shadow, and more which are all from the future! 

I thought this was a cool discovery and just wanted to share it! 

The description of the light novel is as follows:

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"To prepare for a great battle to come, Sora and Riku decide to take the Mark of Mastery exam and become full-fledged Keyblade Masters. But not long after their test begins in the Sleeping Worlds, strange things begin happening..."

 The light novel was announced back in April. The novel will cost $16.00 US/$21.00 CAN (paperback) and $7.99 US/$9.99 CAN (Digital). Pre-orders are being accepted for paperback on AAA Anime, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Indigo, Indiebound,  and RightStuf as well as digitally from Amazon,  BookWalker, ComiXology, iBooks, and Kobo.

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It's been awhile since I was here but decided to post it here anyway to give a excuse to visit this site. Anyway...

This is a showcase of every unused keyblade in Dream Drop Distance. If I'm aware, almost every unused keyblade except for one never had any footage online to view. So I decided to do that along posting the stuff as well onto TCRF. The only real problem is the keyblade I talk at the end of the video, which I'm having trouble to bring up. Otherwise, have fun knowing what keyblades that could have been in the game.

The footage as well is from the 3DS version, which I recorded via Snickerstream via a CFW N3DS.

The cover for Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance The Novel can be seen below.

A description of the novel follows.

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To prepare for a great battle to come, Sora and Riku decide to take the Mark of Mastery exam and become full-fledged Keyblade Masters. But not long after their test begins in the Sleeping Worlds, strange things begin happening...

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The Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance The Novel is now available from various retailers in both paperback and eBook format! The paperback is priced at $16.00 US/$21.00 CAN, while the eBook is retailing at $7.99 US/$9.99 CAN.

Here is the cover:

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A description of the light novel follows:

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To prepare for a great battle to come, Sora and Riku decide to take the Mark of Mastery exam and become full-fledged Keyblade Masters. But not long after their test begins in the Sleeping Worlds, strange things begin happening...

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Kingdom Hearts 3D is one of my favourite Kingdom Hearts games. Like literally tied for first place with Birth by Sleep. No joke. Ever since I first played it it has been one of my two favourite entries in the series. I love the story, I LOVE the combat (particularly the flowmotion) and I love the flexibility of the Dream Eater party system. I always thought that this was a common opinion, that the majority of people loved the game as much as I did. It was only over the past couple of months that I noticed a lot of people citing 3D as one of the series' worst entries, some even calling it garbage. Needless to say, I was quite taken aback when I saw these responses, and it has since begged the question: Why do people hate this entry so much? If you don't like Kingdom Hearts 3D, please tell me why here. I'm interested to hear your thoughts on where this game went wrong. Again, this is not me criticizing or arguing. I just want to be able to see the big picture.

Thanks guys, and may our hearts be our guiding keys.  

So far, Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories, Kingdom Hearts II (Vol 1 and Vol 2), Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, and Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep have released light novels with Kingdom Hearts Re:coded releasing later this year. Kingdom Hearts Union χ[Cross] has a light novel [Kingdom Hearts X: The Story of You and the Keyblade] available for Japan and has yet to have a localization.

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Now, the list, in no particular order, is as such...

Boss attacks being randomized a LOT with this game's RNG. Like, there's no rhyme or reason to their attack patterns. They just do whatever they want whenever they want. Best example with Ansem's second form. He starts off doing some normal energy attacks to try to chip away your health while you try to chip away his. All fine & dandy until he pushes you far away & you need to run back to him (which can happen pretty early in Critical Mode, since the bosses activate their desperation moves faster than normal). Then comes the bullshit. He brings up these 2 energy orbs. What they do depends on his hand & arm movements. If he raises them above them, he's just gonna shoot easily dodgeable energy attacks at you. You can dodge them or deflect them if you're fast enough to react to them. Fine. However, he can also point to you, which then activates 4 lasers shooting at you, which can 2-shot you on Critical Mode because of how much damage the enemies do to you. You CAN dodge these, but the problem is that they lock on to where you're going & not where you are & they always come out half a second later than you expect, & I mean "half". I timed it myself as I played this over & over for 2 hours. Then they can suddenly switch up attacks on a dime & you have 0 time to anticipate or react to something until it's already happened. Which leads me to my next point...

You NEEDING to be frame perfect with your dodges, or else you're not getting "I" frames, or are wasting the few you DO have. You are give little to NO "I" frames at all when dodging or jumping. I say jumping as well because, even though I timed my jumps enough to avoid his energy attacks at the start of the round, some of them STILL hit me every so often, even though there SHOULD be invincibility frames for more than a millisecond when I go into a jump, double jump, or dodge roll. When Ansem does that laser attack, you CAN roll out of it. You'll either take all the damage, because it aims where you're going & not where you are like I previously typed, none because you just barely have it not hit you, or half to way too much, but not all, which happens more often than not because of the god awful amount of "I" frames you're given. Then the next part...

Stagger. No boss in this game does that despite the fact that they SHOULD & you stagger TOO MUCH. This is only something I encountered in Re:COM, which I hated there too. You take TOO MUCH hitstun from enemies. Oh, sure, you're given a recovery...that never works ever because something's wrong with the button inputs, so you can't get out of a boss' attacks long enough to get a good shot out, or heal yourself. Which leads me to my next 2 points...

The enemy attacks doing a LOT of damage, & you doing jack all, & you move too slowly. This is especially noticeable on Critical, where your damage output is halved & the enemy damage output is doubled. Who designed THIS part? Because they deserve to be fired. I get taking more damage, but doing less? Who's THAT fun for when it's both at the same time? It's especially egregious when the enemies are damage sponges who have randomized attack patterns & you aren't. The enemies also still move like it's KHII, but you still move like it's KHI, or Sora in Limit Form, which is STILL better than this game's combat. Then there's the next point...

Flowmotion not giving you "I" frames. I thought this was part of the game's design. Turns out, NOPE! You still take damage if an enemy hits you in Flowmotion. Ain't that great? Never mind that you're enveloped in a purple energy moving at a fast speed, never mind that you have a LOT of attack power, never mind that you SHOULD be given some amount of good "I" frames. Flowmotion is USELESS as a means of defense. If an enemy hits you while you're in Flowmotion, your last kind of special attack in case you don't have any others, you're outta luck for a last line of defense. Hope you've got enough time to charge your command abilities.

Next, some serious things with the command decks. While a neat idea, it clearly was NOT intended for this kind of combat system, where the enemies are fast & frantic, while you aren't. It charges rather slowly unless you have the right Dream Eaters & doesn't fit a lot, since you only get a certain number of slots. The systems converging also has an unintended side effect, especially on higher difficulties. The games encourage you to cheese them, especially DDD. With how fast & frantic the bosses are, as well as how hard they can hit, it's almost requiring you to have higher level abilities than would normally in these games. However, this can get you into trouble. With physical combos also being next to useless, you NEED to rely on powerful abilities like these as well. See where I said the game encourages it? But, where BBS was fun to cheese, since you could experiment for a while with the commend melding system, DDD...doesn't. They took the melding system out...for stuff with the Dream Eaters. Stuff that isn't fun, if you catch my drift. I would've been more than glad if they kept in the melding system, but for the ingredients for the Dream Eaters if they were deadset on not letting us meld commands anymore like they seemed not to be. With how BBS was taken & how DDD was as well, I think it could've needed it.

There's also the attributes being tied to Dream Eaters. This makes no sense to me. In BBS, once you unlocked an attribute, that was it. It stayed on you when you got it. in DDD, only more permanent upgrades like Once More & the like stay, but the rest...don't for some reason. Instead, you need to keep certain Dream Eaters in your party...for some reason. I get that they're one of the new things for the game, but this is incredibly stupid, honestly. I don't get why they changed it.

The Dream Eaters are also somehow being even MORE useless than Donald Duck. Now, they're more flexible, since they can use different types of attacks from Donald, but they're somehow less useful. With Donald, I can at least count on him to do something other than chip damage, but the Dream Eaters really aren't that useful outside of maybe some slight chip damage on enemies. Otherwise, it's you putting in all the work.

All of these problems are also in BBS, but that game felt like it was programmed around the limitations of the gameplay for the most part, while DDD doesn't. Oh yeah, the boss arenas are also inconsistently scaled. Some of them are the right size (a decently-big area) for a boss fight, but then some areas can be HUGE with objects that block your attacks if an enemy hides behind them, then there are the areas that clearly weren't designed for boss battles that are too small & clausterphobic.

TL;DR: Disperate combat systems that don't work well together, limiting combat, terrible enemy AI, & just a mess of a system. How any of this passed game testing, I'll never know. All I can say is, I'm glad the Osaka team is hearkening back to KHII to base III off of because this system isn't good whatsoever. If you want flashy combat, do that. If you want randomized enemy attack patterns, do that. Don't just try to mash them together with no balance checking, especially for the higher difficulties.

ANSWER: There are TWO

Tubguin and Catanuki. 

Some of these scenes were shown at nintendo world 2011 and have never been publicly released until now!

check the scenes out here:

Answer: Delusive Beginning