Day 1: Square Enix Members interview with Tetsuya Nomura

Today at 2PM PST, Square Enix Members held an exclusive interview on Kingdom Hearts III and Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX with Testuya Nomura on their livestream from the E3 show floor, which you can watch below! Enjoy! We have also written a full transcript of the interview, and you can read this transcript here.

Day 1: Photos

Arturo Molina from KH13 has uploaded photos concerning the Kingdom Hearts series from E3 2013. They show the HD 1.5 ReMIX demo including it's controls. You can view them below, in our gallery.

 

http://www.youtube.com/embed/7oxBGng_Xmw?wmode=transparent&rel=0&cc_load_policy=1&start=4451

Day 2: More photos

Square Enix have uploaded photos from E3 2013 to their Facebook page. You can view all the photos concerning the Kingdom Hearts series below, in our gallery.

 

 

Day 2: Even more photos and videos

Arturo Molina from KH13 has uploaded even more photos from E3 2013. These focus on the HD 1.5 ReMIX demos set up, and reveal for the first time some of the English cutscene names from 358/2 Days. You can view them all below, in our gallery. Arturo has also also uploaded two videos showing the 358/2 Days portion of the collection, and these are linked below.

 

 

Thanks! Can't wait to watch it! I forgot it was on till I saw this!

Love that they remastered one of the classic FF songs.

Looks like Nomura has allergies, like me. Not sure whether to feel happy or not.

*Watching now*

Nomura sitting there like a BOSS!

The new FFV trailer they just showed was epic...

nomuras a xehanort fanboy afterall

I have a summary up.  How's it look? Anything missing I didn't catch?

Possibility of Multiplayer.... If it does have, please be story mode co-op, that'd be BEAST

A different shadder for each world that will match the world they are in for the characters? that seems very interesting. So the battle system will be a combination of 2 and all the handheld tittles battle system, ok. Worlds being a surprise already a given. I'm not to keen on the idea of multipule playable characters sure I liked it in Birth by Sleep and Dream Drop Distance but only if they have their own story or something like that idk. Multiplayer as well eeeeehhhhhhh I don't know. I think summons was gonna return thank you to the lady that asked that question like really -___- but them taking a new form well I guess that's kinda cool. Just why didn't she ask anything about Riku or Kairi come on D:

 

Holy crap, I just might have a seizure if they confirm co-op...

Yay! The battle system idea sounds great- I'd love a combination. Perhaps when pressing the attack button, a subscreen pops up that initiates the command deck immediately? Like, when you press X the first command in your command deck is used and it cycles through. And maybe magic could have its own command deck in a similar fashion?

A different shader in each world?

Me likey. Will fix the awkwardness in live action worlds.

LET ME PLAY KAIRI NOMURA

Also I want to see TWEWY in KH3. And with the new shader thing, it could work! 

AND GHIBLI. I WANT GHIBLI. 

I'm guessing Flowmotion is a given.

(As a side note: I loved petting my Dream Eaters in DDD! Could we do that in KH3? Like, maybe we stroke Donald's face, or when new characters are in your party you just...

no nevermind that sounds like sexual harassment ugh)

The most important thing for me is that they somehow tie the story together, make Sora more likable and serious but also actually funny, fix the campy dialogue, and basically make KH3 a great story!
And with the introduction of time travelling in DDD, maybe they could go back in time- that way, they could ignore the story complications and start anew maybe?
As long as they don't erase any characters...
 

Edited June 11, 201312 yr by Noby Raghavan

I'm so excited! But a different shader in each world? what are the shaders?

...multiplayer? o__o ehh...does kingdom hearts really need multiplayer? sure it sounds like a good idea but still...if they do put it in please make it like BBS multiplayer, meaning it has nothing to do with the story.

YAY! Multiplayer I hope Kairi is playable *.* !! Multiplayer KH3 ftw

Today at 2PM PST, Square Enix will be holding an exclusive interview on Kingdom Hearts -1.5 HD ReMIX-with Tetsuya Nomura on their livestream from the E3 show floor, which you can watch below! Enjoy!

 

Update: The Kingdom Hearts segment of the interview with Tetsuya Nomura is over. Thank you to those who watched with us. Although no new information was given on Kingdom Hearts -1.5 HD ReMIX-, we did get some interesting insights into Kingdom Hearts III.

To summarize, Kingdom Hearts III will have a battle system that will be evolved from the Kingdom Hearts II battle system but are also looking into incorporating experimental systems from past side games. Although Nomura couldn't reveal any worlds to appear in the game, he hopes to include worlds that will be a surprise. Also, the cell shader in the game that changes the look of the textures will be different in past games. In past games, they used a shader that gave the game a very Disney look. In Kingdom Hearts III, there will be a different shader for each world that will match the world they are in.

Also, the inclusion of Final Fantasy characters is in consideration as well as having more playable characters, including King Mickey, is also in consideration. Although Square Enix is looking into the capability of having multiplayer in the title, more details will come later.

There will also be a return of summons, but it will take a new form in Kingdom Hearts III than it has had in past games. We can certainly look forward to this game putting an end to Master Xehanort and his Organization, and Nomura hints that we may possibly see the actual Kingdom Hearts.

O_O OMFG THIS IS AMAZING. :DDDDDDDDDDDD

 

MULTIPLAYER AND SUMMONS, AND MAYBE ACTUALLY SEEING KH FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! YAY

Update 2: Arturo Molina from KH13 has uploaded photos concerning the Kingdom Hearts series from E3 2013. They show the HD 1.5 ReMIX demo including it's controls. You can view them below, in our gallery.

 

When I watched this, I got so excited. A random fun fact from his interview is that he always wanted to have Jungle Book in the game (literally he tried for every game) but it always got cut at the end. Also, I hope he keeps KH2 battle style with Command Styles from BBS or Flow Motion from DDD.

Ok here's my guess for the worlds:

Jungle Book

Shibuya (TWEWY) Sora /did/ promise he'd visit

Some Pixar world, my guess is either Toy Story or Monsters Inc

Keyblade Graveyard

and Destiny Islands

A different shade to match the worlds they're in? My god. AWESOME. Considering more playable characters and MULTIPLAYER? I love you Nomura. Most excited I've been about this game yet.

I hope that the combat system also includes Flowmotion and the Shotlock

i hope to god they don't include the block leveling up system from 358 days that would totally ruin it for me. also i can't bellieve that he only used the word considering for if they will add in final fantasy characters, i get that it will be the end of the trilogy and everythings been building up to this but come on how can you not have them? unless they want TWEWY to replace them.....both is better than 1 though. hey maybe we could see some of the protaginists from final fantasy 15. 

 

P.S I'm calling it now with TWEWY, sora is going to get killed at some point in the story and end up in shibuya playing the game.

Edited June 12, 201312 yr by Skyace 65

A special message you get from the art book from the Pre-order...I wonder what it will be maybe something about 2.5 or something about Kingdom Hearts 3 or maybe even nothing that special at all lol either way I can't wait to pre-order this in August lol

Edited June 13, 201312 yr by TheKingdomkid

It says the video is private any help i could get with that would be great thanks

 

This is a good point, I thought the exact same thing about 2.5 the moment they said that. It would also make sense timing wise as the Tokyo game show will start about a week after this releases, giving them a chance to confirm it!!!