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Though Nomura said he wants to put KHIII out as fast as he can. I honestly believe he wants to release it by 2015 (even if December) and may be willing to do whatever he can do to accomplish that. From the interviews, it seems they already have a lot of stuff done in the gameplay department. I mean, I doubt what they showed in the trailers is everything they currently have (who ever sdhows everything you have in a trailer), and he said they are preparing interactive terrains, or whatever he called, like a mountain with crumbling rocks, etc.

According to Caity Raindrop up there in the third post, hugs (and many simple gestures) are more meaningful in Japan, so when they hugged it had more meaning than what Western audiences perceived.

Isn't he talking about the Lingering Will? I mean, "sentiment" was the word used to translate "Shinen" before someone found the English name "Will's Cage" in BBS's files. Unlike Flaming Lea, I haven't memorized every word Nomura said. I misremembered and thought he said "I can't say it yet". Also, pay attention to the question and answer; the question made in the interview is basically "were Nobodies created?" and Nomura answered with "That is not yet clear" instead of "No, what happened there is not how Nobodies are created". That seems like he didn't rule out the possibility of a Nobody being created at that moment, and if no Nobody was created, he would have said "No Nobody was created", just like how he said that the Key to Return Hearts something like "maybe not a Keyblade", if I'm remembering this right. I didn't say he doesn't know what he's talking about, I meant that he only knows the normal circumstances that cause a Nobody's creation. I mean, for all we know, he may not even know how Naminé was born or who she even is (although I think he is aware of Naminé's existence, since Mickey would probably have thought Yen Sid about someone able to manipulate Sora's memories). All three scenarios have body transference in common. Let's see: -Eraqus transferred his heart to Terra's body -Xehanort transferred his heart to Terra's body -Kairi transfered her heart to Sora's body -Unlike the other two, Kairi's body couldn't fade from the Realm of Light because her heart has no darkness in it -Eraqus and Xehanort's bodies faded away literally the same way Sora's did Now, let's pay attention at one thing: Naminé was created when Sora transfered Kairi's heart back to her body. Now, what would have happened to the heart if Kairi's body wasn't near? If it was a normal heart it would have turned into a Heartless. And if the body was near, and the heart was a normal one, it would have gone back to the body, and theoretically a Nobody would still been created from the process. One thing you must pay attention is that Sora and Xehanort did literally the same thing. Sure, it was for different purposes, and in Sora's case it wasn't his heart, but at the end of the day, it's still them transfering a heart from inside their bodies to another body. Now, let's look at a quote from the Secret Ansem Reports:

Wait, wait, wait. What the Donald? The "Guardian" is made of darkness, has glowing yellow eyes, has a heart-shaped hole on its chest, and its first chronological appearance happens after Xehanort cast his heart from his body, which, according to the Ansem Reports, is exactly how Heartless are created. Unless the Reports written by people with knowledge of the secrets of universe are just random, meaningless, nonsensical fantasybabble, how is it not a Heartless? If it was anything else, it would have been stated, or at least implied, in any game or interview that it isn't. Heck, they even took the time to state the Magic Mirror became an Unversed. The intention of it being a Heartless is blatantly clear. There's no way SE would have put that thing there and assumed people would think it's not a Heartless, specially when it debuted in a game where, at that in the franchise, there were only Heartless, and since then there has been no attempt, or hint to an attempt, at retconning it to anything else. Okay, I admit not remembering the exact wording. However, the way he said "That is not yet clear" instead of "no Nobody was created", or anything in that sense, seems like "I'm not ruling out the possibility" and appears reminiscent of his "I can't discuss the details now" or "please look forward to finding it out" that he says all the time. Furthermore, what is a Nobody? It is a being born from the body and soul left behind after the heart casts them away. Now pay attention to one thing: When Sora stabbed himself, his body . If you look at the scene where Xehanort released his heart, you can see that , and the same thing happened to . You can see that all three cases include a heart casting a body away and going to another body, and we know Naminé was born in Sora's case. It seems to me, that creating a Nobody doesn't require creating a Heartless, it only requires releasing a heart from a body, and that creation of Heartless only always happened because that's what usually happens, when you don't bring body transference to the table. If I'm not mistaken, the only one who explicitly (or almost) said "every Nobody has a Heartless" was Ansem the Wise in his Secret Reports, however, as wise as he may be, he isn't all-knowing. Ansem the Wise didn't know everything about the Keyblade, and possibly didn't know it was possible for one to willingly transfer their heart to another vessel. Ansem even admitted that Sora, Kairi and Riku blew away every theory posited by him. And Yen Sid, whose explanation for Nobodies said "when someone with a strong heart and will [...] becomes a Heartless", even though he has more knowledge about the secrets of the universe than Ansem, he's not all-knowing, as seen when he said Nobodies can't have emotions. Even if you don't believe in anything of what I'm saying about the possibility of Heartless-less Nobodies, well, let's go back to what happened with Kairi. Kairi didn't have darkness in heart, therefore she couldn't produce a Heartless. Then, her heart went into Sora, and her body still didn't leave the Realm of Light, and, thus, didn't produce a Nobody. Again, her heart left her body, went into another person's body, but her body couldn't leave the Realm of Light because her heart didn't have darkness. Now, what would have happened if she wasn't a Princess of Heart and her heart still went into Sora? The closest we have to the answer is Eraqus, whose heart entered Terra's body literally the same way Kairi's heart entered Sora's body, and yet, his body faded away, literally the same way Sora's did, and also did Xehanort's. Think about it.

We don't know that. The "Guardian" is so blatantly meant to be Master Xehanort's Heartless that I would be surprised if no Nobody was created. I mean, creating a Nobody requires having a strong will, and from what we have seen so far, it seems that if you are a Keyblade wielder, then you automatically have a strong will. Under normal conditions, yes. However, when Terra-Xehanort stabbed himself with MX's Keyblade at the end of BBS, he didn't create a Heartless, and even so, Nomura implied a Nobody was created after that. Therefore, not every Nobody has a Heartless, only those born under normal circumstances. And, as far as the plot is concerned, every relevant thing happens under abnormal circumstances.

Honestly, when I started watching the series years ago, I've always imagined Sora and co. going to Middletown in KH3, and Sora and Kim's Limit Attack having something to do with her grapple. I also pictured Ron having a role, but I don't remember exactly what I thought of it due to the party system having a limit of only one guest. I also ran into the party system limitation every time I imagined Sora teaming up with the Incredibles, but now that we have the thing about the seven lights, I think the party system will be modified for KHIII, despite the HUD we see in the trailer indicatin you still can only put two allies at a time in the field.

For some reason I think he's referring to either: 1- Re:coded's new cutscenes 2- KH3's E3 2014 trailer (I'm sure the next trailer will have voiced scenes in it. I mean, just look at how much KH3D stuff was made from its announcement trailer to the TGS 2011 trailer) And mistook it with actual recording for the KHIII game

Strange, because I remember someone who seemed to have legal knowledge and stated they could keep Deep Jungle if they didn't change anything from the original, because... I don't remember exactly what he said, but I think it had something to do with the KH version already being licensed to them. So, according to that guy, they could put Deep Jungle in 1.5 even without Disney having Tarzan's rights because they already had the license for the version that appeared in KH. Like how a studio makes a movie based on a book, they still keep the rights/license to distribute this movie even if they no longer have the rights to make more movies of this book, at least that's what I got. So, are you sure Disney reacquired the rights for Tarzan? Have you seen any news article claiming they did? You don't need to link me to the article, just tell me if you saw it.

Really? When?

They can't use Tarzan, got it memorized? Honestly, unless Xehanort creates a pocket dimension made of memories as an attempt to delay Sora or something like that, I don't see how this could fit in there. Regarding everyone being in your party, I don't know. All I think is that the party system should be somehow reworked specifically for KHIII, but I have no idea on how they rework it. The amount of space used for Sora, Donald, and Goofy's stats in the trailers implies they still intend on only allowing three at a time in the battlefield.

Blame the English translators. "The" (and "a" for that matter) do not exist in Japanese.

I don't know why, but I think Phineas and Ferb or Crash from Crash and Bernstein would work as summons. Sure, their series wouldn't work for worlds (specially Crash and Bernstein), but I think they could work for summons.

I think it would be the perfect place for Sora to learn the Keyblade Glider ability. In fact, I've imagined this since BBS came out: Sora falls, sees a memory of Ventus using the Glider, and then transforms his Keyblade into one.

He also said he is trying to release the game as soon as possible. They are probably going to work their butts to get it released in 2015. Also, he probably already has a lot more clear ideas for KHIII then he did for KHII (he even already gave the main plotline in KH3D), so it should take less time than before to write the script.

Just use their Data versions. Maleficent wants the Data World, and it's obvious it'll play a role in KHIII. I believe she wants to use an army of Data Heartless and will create Data Disney villains to try to defeat Xehanort and take Kingdom Hearts for herself.

Now that I think about it, he just said it was postponed. But with his statement that "there will be no other new game before KHIII other than the Remixes", then BBSV2 as a game has been cancelled. And KH1.5 was released in March. If they wanted to release KH2.5 in March they would have announced the release date already because March is two months away from now. And I don't think the voice recording for the new Re:coded scenes would delay them this much. After the release of KH2FM, Nomura said there were four stories to be told. So far, the only untold one from these four is the King's time in the Realm of Darkness, and it's very clear and obvious that BBSV2 was going to tell that story. When did he say he can't tell it at the moment? I don't remember this. I never said producing a new game. I said producing a new film that tells BBSV2's story. And, like I said, Nomura said they are having less work with the HDfication this time, so there must be something hindering them. I don't know. Something tells me that this story would be better told before KHIII. Well, maybe playable Mickey flashbacks like those past missions in X-Men Legends if they can't tell the story now. But I don't think they would release BBSV2's story after KHIII. KHIII should finish the Xehanort saga, so they can't left an untold story linked to this arc. And given that every KH game has introduced at least one new character, BBSV2 would probably do the same, and it would be weird if this character was absent from KHIII if he/she is linked to the main story.

As we know, Birth by Sleep: Volume Two got cancelled. We know it was going to be set in the Realm of Darkness. Now, Nomura said recently that there'll be new scenes that connect Re:coded to Dream Drop Distance. Could there also be new scenes that account for whatever story Nomura was planning for BBSV2? I mean, 2.5 is going to include everything from BBSFM, including the Secret Episode (why would they retcon a secret episode out of existence?), so it'll be a bit weird to have Birth by Sleep -Volume Two- written in the screen, and then nothing happen to it. Perhaps this is the reason the release date hasn't been announced yet, maybe Nomura is writing the scenes of BBSV2 and doesn't know how much time it'll take, and therefore they can't announce a release date until they have an idea of when this is going to be finished, or else, they would be rushing to complete it fast and leave a rushed plot. Honestly, there must be a story for BBSV2 and why Mickey didn't rescue Aqua. Dialogue from Re:coded outright Mickey and Yen Sid know where she is (they state only Terra's whereabouts are unknown). I honestly think there's another person besides Roxas, Naminé, Xion, and TAV who are lost, but the only reason we haven't seen so far is because this person doesn't have any direct connection to Sora (Sora physically met Naminé and Roxas, Xion is inside him, and Ven's heart is inside him, which gives him memories of Terra and Aqua), and that this person was planned to be involved in the plot of BBSV2, and may be connected to the reason the King couldn't save Aqua. Perhaps, if Nomura hasn't scratched the plot he thought completely, then it has a chance of it being included in KH2.5. You can believe my theory or not, but if you remember, by this time last year, KH1.5's release date had already been announced and they had to reconstruct everything from the first game from scratch. KH2.5 doesn't seem to suffer from this problem, from what we know, and Nomura said this time the transition to HD has been going much smoother, and not to mention, that Re:coded is much shorter than Days. Given all this, there must be a reason for them not being able to announce the release date thus far, and the only one I can come up with is new content, which could be BBSV2.

They can't show Deep Jungle, got it memorized?

But, don't those who master the darkness have the power to escape from there? Maleficent escaped from the Realm of Darkness, and Xemnas, Xehanort's Nobody, had the power to freely go there and back through the Corridors of Darkness. In order to trap him in the Realm of Darkness, you would need to somehow remove his power over darkness, and I don't have any idea how one would do that.

Sora eating dinner. Either that, or his training in Traverse Town, or the introduction of a new character.

Nomura also said there's no concept of death in KH, and that the heart only goes to sleep and can always be awakened again. I may have got the wording wrong, but I clearly remember him saying "death doesn't exist, only slumber". What they mean by "death" is the heart going to sleep, so it's not exactly like the real life death.

If I remember correctly, "it" doesn't exist in Japanese.

Nomura said there will be surprises among the seven, and that they aren't neccessarily Keyblade wielders. With that said, I think there are two guardians of light that no one would expect: -Adam (the Beast, for those who don't know): He's the only good Disney character other Mickey's court and Yen Sid who can travel between the worlds. Given that the Organization XIII will be targetting the Princesses, I figured he would have a large role in KHIII since the fight was announced, but now that Nomura said the lights don't need to be Key bearers, I think he might be one. -Vanitas: As said somewhere in this franchise (I think), "the light shines the brightest in the darkness" or something like that. Because of that, I think the seven lights are lacking someone from the darkness, and according to the novels, Vanitas had a very sad life since his creation. He would always react to Ven's feelings. Ven's happiness made him feel happyness, but his heart of darkness turned this happyness into jealousy. Jealousy of Ven's happy life and is friends. I could be forgetting something in the wording, but after that Xehanort told him the only way for him to get rid of his pain would be absorbing Ven and becoming the χ-blade. Therefore, Xehanort is to blame for Vanitas becoming evil. That said, I think Vanitas will betray Xehanort at the last second and become an Eleventh Hour Ranger. Then, you must consider the possibiliy of new characters being introduced in KHIII. I think when Terra-Xehanort stabbed himself at the end of BBS he created either two special Nobodies (as in, like Naminé, it doesn't have a body or soul and has an unstable existence), one that is half Eraqus and half Terra, and one that is half Xehanort and half Terra or Eraqus, the latter was born younger due to Xehanort's desire to be young enough to witness his plans coming to fruition, or just one special Nobody that is one third Terra, one third Eraqus, and one third Xehanort.

Though, when he was making KHII, did he have a clear idea for the plot or the end? We don't know. However, we already know what is going to happen in KHIII, Sora will try o save Roxas, Naminé, Xion, Terra, Ventus, and Aqua, and possibly other characters, and we'll have a battle between seven warriors of light and thirteen seekers of darkness. This should be enough to spped up the writing of the game. Also, Nomura said he's trying to complete the game as soon as possible.

Nomura said he wants to release the game as fast as possible. He probably wants to release it in 2015 to keep the one game per year promise, then after that he'll release Kingdom Hearts III Final Mix in 2016, and after that maybe he'll decide to end the promise.