Alex*Sora*89

Thank goodness - nice to see some sympathy, regardless of your lack of this kind of problems! As an Italian fan, let me say I appreciate that. I'm dead serious about it.

Great! Now if anyone can tell him (directly) that I could translate the entire game in a week, we're in business.

Actually, you know what, screw the script. What I meant includes the on-screen text, menus and everything as well. I don't care if it means screwing up my sleep cycle.

Okay, everyone, does anyone know how to contact the Powers-That-Be of Square Enix? I mean, directly? Because I would translate the entire game's script (in the plot-wise meaning, natch) in Italian by myself, for free. Like I wish I could have done for The World Ends With You. If anyone can contact them, tell them what I posted here. Please.

As an Italian KH fan, what can I say...? ... great.

Regardless of gaming stores, I never quite know how to feel about pics of the localized version's various covers. On one hand, it's good news people are working hard on this, and it's always nice to see news about the game. On the other, they're essentially swinging the game's cover in front of our noses while we're waiting. Gosh dang it!

Leonard freak-trucking Nimoy is back?!? Now I can die happy.

iLol'd.

Can't help but imagine delivering lame lines while making a toast. "I propose a toast. To thy light. Or something. Whatever."

Cover art by Shiro Amano? Excuse me. *SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*

Oh, yes. Yes, I would. (I voted for the second option, as I don't own such a DVD). Case in point: Super Smash Bros Brawl. The Italian Official Nintendo Magazine stated the Subspace Emissary was good enough "it could be sold as a standalone game". I'd say that the mere cutscenes would work as a movie. Without dialogue. That's how good Kazushige Nojima's writing was. It's a given, of course: after all, he also was the scenario writer for Final Fantasy VII.

I'm a "spoiler hound", as they call those who don't fear spoilers to the point they actually seek them. I mean, even after finding out that Sora and Riku do this and that at the end of KH3D, the rest of the fun is witnessing the events leading to that point yourself. Heck, even Birth By Sleep was more or less based on this reasoning: the battle between Ventus, Terra, Aqua and Master Xehanort was pretty much the object of the very first teaser trailer for the game!

Sweet! The perfect birthday present, just one day late. I came. As in, "I came here to see the trailer".

Hopefully, the whole "HD collection" thing will mean the games we're gonna get are localized Final Mixes rather than the older versions. Surely, with an "original trilogy HD", Europe won't be screwed with Re:Chain Of Memories this time around. "Sony wants new content to justify a re-release", indeed. Then again, I don't own a PS3, but given I own a PS2 just because of KH1 and KH2 alone...

It would be awesome, especially considering that previous Final Mixes were all on Sony consoles, and not released outside Japan because of their policy, that requests a game to have a certain amount of new content to justify a re-release (I.E., Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3 had roughly eight - if not more - additional playable characters compared to the original Marvel Vs Capcom 3); Nintendo's policy is another story altogether, what with Nintendo themselves re-releasing the "Third Version" of each generation's Pokémon pair of games (Blue for Red and Green, Yellow for Red and Blue, Crystal for Gold and Silver, Emerald for Ruby and Sapphire, Platinum for Diamond and Pearl, this trend only broken with the recent announcement of the first duo of direct sequels, Black Version 2 and White Version 2); add that to the fact that Re:Coded and 358/2 Days were the only games in the post-KH2 trio not to get a FM version (contrary to Birth By Sleep) as they were on Nintendo consoles, although that may have been due to the Nintendo DS not being region-locked, or to the R4 series of flashcarts that made sharing game ROMs very easy, and Nomura simply didn't want to give Western fans this kind of satisfaction. Now, with the 3DS region-locked and the aforementioned Nintendo's policy concerning re-releases, chances for a FM in Western regions may be pretty high compared to previous cases, provided Nomura himself creates a Final Mix in the first place. Hence my "It'd be great, but I wouldn't be able to play it" vote.

Negatively, but in fact that has little to do with the actual 2011 PSN blackout. It has more to do with stuff like http://www.eurogamer...ystation-stores , as if we need another example of why being an European gamer sucks. Oddly enough - barring EarthBound, Drill Dozer and WarioWare Twisted - Nintendo never seems to have such problems. The PSOne Classics are by far the biggest offender. As to how they handled it, well, if I'm allowed to make a comparison... - Early 2011: hackers breach through Sony's security, stealing potentially thousands of bucks worth of data, with friggin' credit card data among the stolen stuff. Userbase gets rewarded with TWO free games. - Later in 2011: the Nintendo 3DS gets a price cut, with the only offense being a potentially perceived feeling of betrayal by day-one users. Said users get rewarded with TWENTY free games. The facts speak for themselves, doing the math is up to you folks.

This is great news... provided the demo's release PREDATES that of the game itself in western countries, as opposed to what happened in Japan. Because given I'm getting the game on day -2 (the game store where I buy games usually gets them one or two days before the official release, just as it happened in Japan), having the demo released afterwards would kind of kill its purpose (although the limited number of "uses" does so anyway). Just sayin'.

Rumble is never vital, but if it's done right it can be a nice addition. Given the games themselves can hardly give the illusion of, say, the rumbling vehicle you're on, let alone the pain of some kind of attack you happen to be on the receiving end of, the rumble function, if employed right, can help a lot with the player's bond with their virtual avatar, further establishing a connection between the two, whether it's something "emotional" or, rather, something more like the "this is what happen when you screw up, dammit" kind of connection.

I'd like to know two things about the Memoirs menu: 1) are there any cutscenes from past games? 2) what does "Free fall action: battle" do? Oh, screw that. Can anybody explain in detail what does the memoirs menu do?

Downloader program, do your thing... eeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... nevermind that. Forget I said anything at all. Seriously though, I'm waiting for someone to upload the whole thing.

My apologies, then. However, these recent events simply indicate that Nintendo of Europe (among others) is just trying to make amends for the treatment of the PAL region in the past years, so I don't really see the need to feel cheated out.

That would be nice, especially considering that by now my hopes to see the game released earlier than August have hit the ground. As long as we don't do what Bulbapedia did in 2010, I can live with that. In case you're wondering, following the release of Pokèmon HeartGold and SoulSilver in North America, Bulbapedia turned itself into "Rocketpedia" for one day, as a homage to the famous "Team Rocket's Radio Takeover" part of the original Gold and Silver (as well as - obviously - the remakes). What did they do when the games were released in Europe? They did the same, but with... "Slowpedia". Because us Europeans got to play the game later. Mocking this or that region because they get to play a given game later than they'd like to is just dickery to me. Yes, as you can tell by my other comments in this newspost, overly wide spreads between release dates is kind of a touchy subject to me. As long as they don't "pull a Brawl" - http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/RuleOfNintendosReleaseDates_5633.JPG - that's enough for me.

So the game will come out here in Europe in August. If we're lucky. Great.

Ahem. As an European gamer, I feel the need to kindly inform you that your statement is kind of... misguided to me, to say the least. Take the usual infamous example, Super Smash Bros Brawl. http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/RuleOfNintendosReleaseDates_5633.JPG It's a fact. Sadly.

Un altro/a fan Italiano/a! Benvenuto/a! Sorry for the gratuitous Italian. I meant... another Italian fan! Welcome! :-D