Ultima Spark

On 6/5/2022 at 2:55 AM, OrpheusJoshua said:

"Hearts of Courage," "The Victorious," and a track unavailable in the official soundtrack were all crafted with a unique motif correlating to Davy Jones since the original song from the film could not be used.

Everyone knew this, of course (similar cases for Tangled and Frozen), but I still wonder why since Disney owns all of these series outright. Did they not feel like getting into a legal tussle with the original composers?

It's Gisnep Wars, instead of the true SW, so it's not like it matters anyway.

Why are these sorts of dishes always in such small portions?!

64 years later is when this game will update (maybe)

Now I can read Isa pining over Lea in English…lol

The pandemic held me off from buying the JP version, looks like waiting was a good choice after all.

Green being associated with evil dates back some centuries.

I wish they'd release the older ones too (especially the KH1 Ultimania, original and revised)

16 hours ago, matteso586 said:

Should we ask her if she liked to see worlds based on Disney shows such as Gravity Falls, Phineas & Ferb, Gargoyles, and SRMTHFG?

Superfluous.

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Shimomura: It was our plan to release KH worldwide, so I felt that if we put the titles in Japanese, we risked losing out on their true meaning if they got translated to English or French, due to how ambiguous Japanese can sometimes be. The language also helps set the mood for the song. For example: Xion's theme, "Musique pour la tristesse de Xion" [which means "song for the sadness of Xion" in French], is a theme that has "sadness" in it, and I felt that the word "tristesse" in French fit way more than the English words of "sad" and "sadness". Yozora's theme means "Yoru no tsubasa" [night wing] in German, but translating it in English as simply "Night Wing" or "Mirror of Night" would look…too simple and not fit his character at all, I feel. Because Yozora is a character with a different perspective of the world, I thought German for his song would fit perfectly. So here's a pro tip I give: When titling your compositions, focus on giving a title that justifies the feeling of your song. And also, don't fear using puns.

Quoting this because I feel it's a) really interesting and b) important for the music aficionados to know.

Also, "Dark Domination" sounds like a porn title >_>

10 hours ago, Movies798 said:

I hope it has a booklet or something to tell us which chess piece is which. I know almost half of them, but there's still some chess piece I don't know which chess piece belongs to.

I think it's for decorative purposes, not an actual functioning chess set.

Finally we can divest ourselves of those awkward fan-names.

I'm still waiting for my pizza Keyblade Square

Japan is also calling it スタークラスター now

Sora has got to win some sort of reward for sheer stubborn recklessness.

Note: people on Tumblr etc. have been speculating for months now that the Verum Rex back-cover text is actually a hint(s) for the next saga.

54 minutes ago, Movies798 said:

Okay I just check the link and I'm very curious to see if Tetsuya Nomura and Square-Enix actually approve of this "An original, canon story in the world of Disney's Kingdom Hearts that can only be found in the pages of this book!"

This sounds more like promotional posturing or whatever you call such a concept than anything else tbh…or something coming from these guys. (Or, god forbid, a V-cast-esque "story" in book form.)

8 hours ago, Green Sparrow said:

I think this is probably because of the "shared rights" of Sora.

Disney outright owns all the original content, they just leave Square do the heavy lifting for the most part (as it should…Disney execs meddling tends to be a hindrance rather than a boon, eg. with Arendelle).

Being reminded that Star Wars is, in fact, a Disney product now never fails to depress me.

On 6/20/2019 at 12:20 PM, Ursalink said:

Finally, even if they are not battles as the others, we have the Mushroom XIII. This adds 13 more to the previous 20, makin a total of 33 new battles.   

Why are you counting the Mushrooms as “bosses”? They already have an equivalent in the Seven Flans.

6 minutes ago, AnotherXehanort13 said:

I-IS THAT YOUNG XEHANORT TALKING TO THE FCKING MoM!?!?!?!

YXs EYES ARENT YELLOW!?!?

I'm getting the feeling that the MoM was the one who initially drove Xehanort to basically go off the deep end…which is, of course, what he wanted to happen in the first place.

Also, that "world tour" joke is so very meta and you know Nomura was itching for a chance to do something like that.

Now I'm wondering if those fights in the trailer are the KH3 equivalent of the Data Org., or if they're actually straight-up changing the main scenario (something that has never been done before in this series). Note that Xigbar and Dark Riku in the playable Riku section have similar max HP to their base game equivalents—I expect more than that from a theoretical post-game superboss fight.

Also, it feels so weird to have Sora as support (base game Saïx jokes not withstanding).

On 5/19/2019 at 11:24 AM, AnotherXehanort13 said:

I think Re:MIND will be a playable Roxas DLC that takes place after the events of KH3, possibly helping Axel track down the girl who Luxubar abducted 

I don't think so...totally-not-Skuld is bait for the next saga.

These aren’t even worth getting with NG+ Keyblade carryover lol

Usually they save mechanical changes for the Final Mixes (or in this case, I assumed the paid DLC)...this is an interesting decision.

A shorter wait than I expected tbh, I expected early 2020 for this.