After the widespread success of Kingdom Hearts 3D across multiple countries and continents, Square Enix lead designer and manager Testsuya Nomura has announced that the long waited, highly anticipated game Kingdom Hearts 3 will be released some time at the end of 2012. We managed to get a brief e-mail exchange with Nomura regarding the project.
Kotaku: "What can you tell us about the story?"
Nomura: "I can't tell you much, we are still writing most of it and I'm not allowed to say a lot of what is written. I can tell you that it will be the end of the Xehanort saga. We plan for Sora and his allies to search for Xehanort and eventually defeat him in a climatic battle. Sora will also make some unlikely friends from previous enemies."
Kotaku: "Recent Kingdom Heart's games have featured completely new enemies, will KH3 have any new foes?"
Nomura:"We plan on bringing all of the enemies from previous Kingdom Hearts game's together in KH3 as well as introduce new ones. These newcomers will be called "Trans-verse" or something along those lines. They will essentially be creatures that come from other universes and will be shrouded in mystery. We hope to use them as a catalyst for the next saga of KH games"
Kotaku: "There is a lot of talk about what console KH3 will be for. What can you say about this?"
Nomura: We hope to release the game for the Playstation 3, however with the Wii U to be released soon and rumors of a new Playstation we may delay the launch date so it is compatible with the latest console.
I'm trying to find out more about this and will comment when/if I have some proof.
From Kotaku:
After the widespread success of Kingdom Hearts 3D across multiple countries and continents, Square Enix lead designer and manager Testsuya Nomura has announced that the long waited, highly anticipated game Kingdom Hearts 3 will be released some time at the end of 2012. We managed to get a brief e-mail exchange with Nomura regarding the project.
Kotaku: "What can you tell us about the story?"
Nomura: "I can't tell you much, we are still writing most of it and I'm not allowed to say a lot of what is written. I can tell you that it will be the end of the Xehanort saga. We plan for Sora and his allies to search for Xehanort and eventually defeat him in a climatic battle. Sora will also make some unlikely friends from previous enemies."
Kotaku: "Recent Kingdom Heart's games have featured completely new enemies, will KH3 have any new foes?"
Nomura:"We plan on bringing all of the enemies from previous Kingdom Hearts game's together in KH3 as well as introduce new ones. These newcomers will be called "Trans-verse" or something along those lines. They will essentially be creatures that come from other universes and will be shrouded in mystery. We hope to use them as a catalyst for the next saga of KH games"
Kotaku: "There is a lot of talk about what console KH3 will be for. What can you say about this?"
Nomura: We hope to release the game for the Playstation 3, however with the Wii U to be released soon and rumors of a new Playstation we may delay the launch date so it is compatible with the latest console.
I'm trying to find out more about this and will comment when/if I have some proof.