Update: The trailer has finally appeared online!

 

Jump Festa 2012 has finished. As you know, Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance appeared with a new trailer and playable demo. This article will summarize everything we learnt at the event, and continue to be updated when more content surfaces.

 

What To Look Forward To

 

- Nomura has stated that the Kingdom Hearts 3D Jump Festa 2012 trailer will be posted on the game's official website "early in the week". This could mean today or tomorrow!

 

- Famitsu Weekly magazine will include an article on Kingdom Hearts 3D, detailing what we learnt at the event. This releases on December 22, 2011 and may contain a Nomura interview.

 

What We Learnt at the Event

 

- Kingdom Hearts 3D is set for a March 2012 release date in Japan

- Various details about the "Country of the Musketeers" world

- A world based on Tron Legacy will appear in the game (more on this later)

- A set of images explaining some gameplay features of Kingdom Hearts 3D

- Many photos of the game's display at the event & Wonder Meow plushie

- The trailer which appeared at the event was 8 minutes long. We have a complete translated transcription of this trailer, which reveals a lot about the game. Make sure you read this, it is very detailed and interesting!

- Various The World Ends With You characters, including Neku, Joshua, Beat, Shiki and Rhyme, all appear

- Many past original Kingdom Hearts characters will appear in the game. Since this is a pretty big spoiler, we'll let you read the trailer impressions to find out who

- Famitsu.com posted their own impressions of the trailer and demo

- FF-Reunion posted their own impressions of the game's demo

- elwijf2012 also posted their own impressions of the game's demo & trailer

 

We hope you enjoyed Jump Festa 2012, and continue to visit KH13 for the best Kingdom Hearts news and coverage! Keep checking back, as the trailer will be released very soon, and keep discussing Kingdom Hearts 3D on our forum.

 

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Our coverage of Jump Festa 2012 has begun. Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance appeared with a new trailer, playable demo, and new world announcement, This article will remain pinned at the top and contains links to all news from the event. Please discuss any news on our forum.

 

Jump Festa 2012 has concluded. We will continue to update when anything new from the event surfaces.

 

Summary (This contains links to collections of all news so far)

- Kingdom Hearts 3D to be released March 2012

- Kingdom Hearts 3D, Country of the Musketeers details

- Photos of Kingdom Hearts 3D at Jump Festa 2012

- Instructional Kingdom Hearts 3D images

- Impressions of KH3D, Jump Festa 2012 trailer & demo

 

Post event coverage

1:06PM EST: New photos of KH3D at Jump Festa 2012, from Famitsu.com

5:19AM EST: Better translation of Famitsu.com demo & trailer impressions

3:58AM EST: Four new photos from GAME Watch and 4Gamer.net

3:23AM EST: Jump Festa 2012 has concluded. However, stay tuned, as it is likely we'll see the trailer uploaded in the next day or two.

 

Day 2: Live event coverage

11:38PM EST: A new photo, with the trailer in the background

11:20PM EST: Another set of trailer & demo impressions from a Japanese blogger (Tron Legacy details & CGI scene details)

9:38PM EST: Much higher quality scan of Country of the Musketeers

8:15PM EST: Some interesting Tweets from ArikaMiz about the KH3D trailer & demo

1:01PM EST: Updated with FF-Reunion's impressions of the KH3D demo

7:30AM EST: More photos of KH3D at Jump Festa 2012

5:50AM EST: Added trailer impressions from Famitsu.com

5:25AM EST: Added new photos from Famitsu.com

3:38AM EST: Updated trailer impression to include more detail

 

Day 1: Live event coverage

11:21PM EST: A complete translation of the trailer

10:45PM EST: The trailer shows parts of the game's Opening, and Kairi/Naminé appear

10:01PM EST: The marks underneath Axel's eyes are gone

9:35PM EST: We have re-organized our news in a clear way. Please see the summary above, and the updated articles below.

9:18PM EST: Photos of Kingdom Hearts 3D at Jump Festa 2012

9:06PM EST: Kingdom Hearts 3D, Country of the Musketeers details

8:35PM EST: In the trailer, Xemnas is shown aggressively approaching Sora. Axel/Lea is shown near a castle

8:30PM EST: Instructional Kingdom Hearts 3D images

8:10PM EST: Tron Legacy world! Sora appears in a gliding, shooting game

8:01PM EST: Rhyme from TWEWY, and both Xion and Roxas appear in the trailer. Pete and Maleficent also appear.

7:36PM EST: Shiki from TWEWY appears & Terra-Xehanort is wearing an Organization cloak

7:29PM EST: Square Enix will be selling Dream Eater plushies

7:18PM EST: Impressions of Kingdom Hearts 3D, Jump Festa 2012 trailer (Axel, Terra-Xehanort and Vanitas appear!)

7:11PM EST: Kingdom Hearts 3D to be released March 2012

11:24AM EST: Kingdom Hearts 3D, Jump Festa 2012 trailer will be 8 minutes long

10:35AM EST: Kingdom Hearts 3D image showing touch screen functions

 

Some related news articles from before the event

The Three Musketeers world revealed for Kingdom Hearts 3D

Joshua and Beat in Kingdom Hearts 3D, Weekly Shōnen Jump article

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Japanese website launched (Update: Now with translations. There are 7 Keyholes in the Realm of Sleep.) (Update 2: The two coming soon sections are named "System" and "Extra".)

 

News about Jump Festa 2012 before the event

Jump Festa 2012 map revealed

Square Enix updates their Jump Festa 2012 website

Kingdom Hearts 3D at Jump Festa 2012, 220 tickets available

Kingdom Hearts 3D playable at Jump Festa 2012

Jump Festa 2012 date announced

Actually some news I am REALLLY looking foward to is news about the opening! I wonder if Nomura has any insight on that! I also sure hope they are close to being done with the opening,though i doubt they have even started on the opening

i cant wait im sure they are like 90-95% percent done with the game because in september they were 60-70% done im guessing its going to be that maybe a little less but still i cant wait. im sure they will probably say a soild realease date for the japan viersion and hopefully talk about the other ones that will be great i cant wait and i hope the trailer is long like with the long viersion of simple and clean is playing i hope thats not the song for this game because thats been used in like every game but two they need to use passion again i liked that one anyway i cant wait its going to be great

i cant wait im sure they are like 90-95% percent done with the game because in september they were 60-70% done im guessing its going to be that maybe a little less but still i cant wait. im sure they will probably say a soild realease date for the japan viersion and hopefully talk about the other ones that will be great i cant wait and i hope the trailer is long like with the long viersion of simple and clean is playing i hope thats not the song for this game because thats been used in like every game but two they need to use passion again i liked that one anyway i cant wait its going to be great

 

Simple and Clean or Passion... maybe it will be Passion cuz' this is after KH2....

But.. anyways, I'm wishing they use other Ms. Hikari song, like Show Me Love (Not a Dream), that will be perfect for KH 3

 

http://vimeo.com/28718421

 

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/28718421?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/28718421">宇多田ヒカル Utada Hikaru - Show Me Love (Not A Dream) 《Live@NHK》 [720p HD]</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/fir4ever">firbale</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

Simple and Clean or Passion... maybe it will be Passion cuz' this is after KH2....

But.. anyways, I'm wishing they use other Ms. Hikari song, like Show Me Love (Not a Dream), that will be perfect for KH 3

 

http-~~-//vimeo.com/28718421

 

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/28718421?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/28718421">宇多田ヒカル Utada Hikaru - Show Me Love (Not A Dream) 《Live@NHK》 [720p HD]</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/fir4ever">firbale</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

 

Me too.!

i cant wait im sure they are like 90-95% percent done with the game because in september they were 60-70% done im guessing its going to be that maybe a little less but still i cant wait. im sure they will probably say a soild realease date for the japan viersion and hopefully talk about the other ones that will be great i cant wait and i hope the trailer is long like with the long viersion of simple and clean is playing i hope thats not the song for this game because thats been used in like every game but two they need to use passion again i liked that one anyway i cant wait its going to be great

 

Square Enix must almost be done...3D is out in spring time in Japan...so maybe summer for the rest of the world.

In all honesty and not that I don't want it to be released early but I hope the game won't end up/look like a rushed game. I really think that it requires time to actually do very well on something. I would rather wait on a masterpiece than playing the game with bunch of issues though not that I think that would happen. All I wanted to say is that, hopefully it will live up to my expectations. Anyway, I don't even know when the production started so I can't really tell how much time was invested making the game. I just feel that it is quite rushed. But it is just one of my concerns. KH is like my most favorite game of all time, more than battlefield, skyrim, and other very good games that I own currently. But I like it so much that I don't want it to be like meh.. Anyone thinks the same besides me?

 

I heard 3DS would have DLC capabilities soon? Is this true? I would love that. Sorry for abit off topic, just wondering the possibilities of DLC on kh3d.

In all honesty and not that I don't want it to be released early but I hope the game won't end up/look like a rushed game. I really think that it requires time to actually do very well on something. I would rather wait on a masterpiece than playing the game with bunch of issues though not that I think that would happen. All I wanted to say is that, hopefully it will live up to my expectations. Anyway, I don't even know when the production started so I can't really tell how much time was invested making the game. I just feel that it is quite rushed. But it is just one of my concerns. KH is like my most favorite game of all time, more than battlefield, skyrim, and other very good games that I own currently. But I like it so much that I don't want it to be like meh.. Anyone thinks the same besides me?

 

I heard 3DS would have DLC capabilities soon? Is this true? I would love that. Sorry for abit off topic, just wondering the possibilities of DLC on kh3d.

 

I feel the same way about KH! And I see what you are saying about rushing it. Hopefully that doesn't happen I want an amazing game not another Re:Coded! (for the record I enjoyed Re:Coded I just thought there could have been a lot more content)

If that's possible on the 3DS that would be so legit. They could add new Trophies or whatever and other such things.

this curiosity blows me apart! cant wait! JUST CANT WAIT!

_{8 days to go!}

 

_{Hope no one has noticed that I like to count the days}

 

 

Now only 7 days

Edited December 9, 201113 yr by Lu Xun

ONE MORE WEEK !! thank jebus it's almost here!

I really really hope they have Toy Story, just so I can get my little brother into the franchise.

_{Only 6 now!}

 

_{Less than a week! Yay!}

just wait. its still seven days in this side of world ):<

wwait is it tomorrow. idk different time zones

wwait is it tomorrow. idk different time zones

 

You dare to question DChiuch?

I really hoping for a Toy Story world. Like I'm dying for them to announce it.

7 worlds! I luv you Jump Festa!

SEGEH^%evhgcw4vgvew5bcty*whinesbitchesandmoansaboutXion&Roxasbeinginit*

All this info is the great!!!....I just cannot wait to see this 8 minute trailer that is being discribed

IM GONE FOR 3 HOURS AND THIS HAPPENS! Wow. Nice job KH13.

lol it's still the 16th where I'm at so it looks like you guys are giving info from the future! O_O or are you really...MF?

After finding out all this amazing news, how am I supposed to sleep?!

After finding out all this amazing news, how am I supposed to sleep?!

 

You don't. I already accepted this myself. That's why I slept in today

 

 

You don't. I already accepted this myself. That's why I slept in today

 

Lol. Maybe I can try to fall asleep to the new Dearly Beloved

Lol. Maybe I can try to fall asleep to the new Dearly Beloved

 

You can try?

I'm desperate to have a cat Dream Eater plushie! And I'm utterly excited for Roxas' return. I hope that Isa will return too.