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It would be a very short game, unless they added more original content instead of using the worlds as filler (Edit: Or use Final Fantasy stuff as filler)

I got the feeling that her dad saying she was going to do it and then taking it back on twitter was a NDA thing - I don't think they would want to unveil the song so soon, especially not from an un-official source. The "oh wait, pretend I never said anything" feeling from it was...suspicious.

Japanese 1.5 HD, KHI: Kairi says something how she'll remember their promise (???) around 1:50 of the ending English, same: Nothing! Gonna hazard a guess that it had to do with the J version re-doing the voice-acting for HD purposes, while the English didn't.

I'm hope you play as Kairi as she's training in the beginning, new players learn basic attack/magic/dodge/block, and when her plot point ends we get the title screen like in KHII. Sora starts off with the basics (Like BBS) + what level you got Kairi up to, and the story says lower level and no -ra/-raga/specialty stuff because his stint with the darkness weakened him. And/or maybe we get another choice between the sword, shield, and staff since he was supposed to start over in DDD, and that effects what non-basic abilities you get? Then wouldn't he be starting off at the end of KHII? Plus Riku retained his skills enough to be named Master.

When I saw the "You'd kinda be in the way" bit about her going with Sora to save Riku in KH, I could only think "Sora, you're a jerk" :-I 1) She had battle experience. He said it himself, she was inside him 2) As a Princess of Heart, she has the powers to push back Darkness, which would be pretty useful. She one-shotted those shadows when she hugged shadow-Sora (The effects for it looked like Faith/Holy in CoM, Minnie's use of it in KHII/3D, and re:Coded). 3) Even though when it first came out, Sora was THE Keyblade Wielder, there could have been some thing where she summoned her keyblade if he hadn't been a jerk I was waiting for her to fight since that line. "This time, I'll fight" showing up in Another Side, Another Story made me so hopeful, and KHII was like a bite of celery in regards to satiating my need (This first KHII secret ending was a fangasm when I thought Aqua was Kairi orz). With KHI experience, temporal bubble for training in her own body, and PoH powers, it won't exactly be a butt-pull.

Change their AI settings. I forget exactly what the options were, but it was something like regular offensive magic/powerful offensive magic/defensive magic used on self/defensive used on player/items with a choice of very often, sometimes, or not often for each, along with their attack style. I facerolled Proud with Donald at high for defensive on Sora, Medium for him and Goofy, and low on everything else. KH1 had a similar system, only Donald would constantly be healing AND shielding Sora with Aero/ra/ga and it was so easy. Days you could get the Org members to only cast the elemental spells by turning off all their AI settings. Xion would spam firaga and be the opposite of useless. One of the things I'm hoping for for KHIII is more customization for the AI.

Are you talking about animated vs. pre-rendered expressions? I would assume they're used so much in BBS (And 3D) to save memory since its a handheld. Separately animating all the bones for one use takes up more memory than static, pre-made expressions used multiple times. Most of the time they only use the stock expressions and stuff for scenes that aren't vital to express complex expressions in the story (3D seemed to have more animating, iirc), non-closeups, and quick flashes to the face where it doesn't look out of place. Also: I also vote that Saix has a more terrifying fish-face than Ventus. Especially when it ruins the mood

Marluxia is just biding his time before his reappearance, like the super subtle mofo he is.

So, I kept on muttering to myself that re:coded DID have something to contribute to the plot: Digital Sora's Heartless was the Big Bad. And there is no such thing as a one-off Baddie in KH. I don't want to look like a crazy person anymore, so less muttering, more talking. In KHII, entering anti-form was something that could only be controlled if the player knew how system worked. Story-wise, that meant that Sora has no control over it. I would say that is an indicator that Sora doesn't know how to control his own darkness like Riku. In KHI, Sora's darkness becomes a separate entity (Thanks Riku). Ven's darkness was able to take on the more solid and seperated form of Vanitas. Those two also stand out in that Aqua and Terra's final battles were with versions of Xehanort, but not Ven. So, there's the precedent for *dun dun dun* Sora's Darkness/Heartless/Anti-form being the next Villain. Sora's a normal boy, which is something Nomura likes to reiterate (Kairi and Riku are weirdos). And normal humans have not-so-nice parts of themselves. He also has yet to go through the non-literal 'facing oneself' part of...just about any Hero story. Thoughts?

Seven years ago, his long hair looked super sexy. Now, he looks like a shaggy dog to me, even more so in Days ): A haircut was needed, but going ultra-short with some wannabe rattail in the back was not the answer D:. Shoulder-length with eyebrow-length bangs, like in KHI, only matured up might look good.

http://webtranslation.paralink.com/Japanese-Translation.asp]This place[/url] says "うん 届いてよソラの気持ち" means "Yeah I received Sora feelings". The English version has as "Don't ever forget"[/url]. So...if the first part is correct: "Yeah. I understand, Sora. Don't ever forget." I will be super proud of myself if that's close

re:Coded. As...interesting as the random constant motion and side-scrolling were, no thanks. Although the Coliseum's RPG style and the infected sector-thing challenges were fun. Like Days, it has a crap gameplay but good enough story-line (Unlike Days, the story moves at a decent pace and the game-play had to do with it). Well, the gameplay was good when it wasn't changed out of the blue. <-super mixed feeling about re:Coded It isn't just a rehash of old games, with Maleficent mentioning the digital world as her new goal in 3D and Sora's freaking Heartless being the end-boss. For us, the finale with data-Namine is just a "previously, on Kingdom Hearts...", but for the story, Mickey would never have known there was a chance for them to be saved, wouldn't have sent the letter, etc if it never happened. Seeing as how it isn't in the credits, I'm gonna bet 3D will stay on handheld until after KHIII and then be ported like CoM.

...I didn't forget about 2.5. Really. I got it by accident, but iirc get the 'extra' ending of Destiny Islands in Castle Oblivion of re:Coded to unlock it?

I'm pretty curious if they're going to include the two-ish new scenes from re: coded and the BBS secret ending that involved Riku, since they don't technically fall under the 'new scenes' category in that they're already made. WTF I'm talking about: Riku leaving Destiny Islands: Riku and Kairi in Neverland: http://kh13.com/videos/bbs/fm-cut/290-secret-episode-ending/ at 29 seconds and Yes/no?

Yeesssss, the best thing ever! Sora kisses! Riku kisses hugs! Kairi kisses! Little Bit Of Love by ~YuukiHikari on deviantART

The reason everyone likes shotlocks is also the reason we'll probably never see them again - overpowered. What made BBS great, imo, was to incredible number of options you had to kill things with, so here's a lot of options! - Smarter and more customization for the party AI (3/3 on defensive spells and 1/3 for regular and offensive spells was decent enough for Donald to heal/shield me a lot, but I always want more. Plus them wandering around and standing like turkeys is...undesirable) - An updated drive system like the link system in the 3DS (As in many combinations) hybridized with the D-link (They don't have to be in your party) - we'll have 8 other fighters in this game, plus the world-specific party members, so a pretty decent amount of possibilities. Plus, more cool outfits. Maybe even for a short period of time after the Drive ends, the character you used has an outfit to match and upgraded stats/abilities. - No more unlocking boards like in 3D and the mega-computer part of coded - Not the limited-use abilities of 365. When they make a KH survival-horror game, then we can talk. - Reaction-command/reality shift hybrid! Mash a button(s) and actually do something during the unique-to-enemy thing going on - Command style/kebylade tree-thing from coded hybrid: The command style is determined by what abilities you have equipped (Instead of the keyblade), and will automatically switch you after filling the bar without having to worry about what order you use abilities. Have the path you take be determined either pre-selected in the menu screen, or determined by how offensive/defensive you are (It would be cool to be and to switch between those in the controls menu o:) - Summons that aren't useless/confusing

Sorry, that did come out pretty garbled. In CoM, Repliku was like a broken record with saying "You're afraid of the Darkness!". When young Xehanort said something similar in the final part of City of Bells, I thought Repliku had pulled a Xion and changed his face. But that isn't very relevant, since in Prankster's paradise, Repliku shows up to help Pinnochio and leaves, and then Riku talks about him in metaphors. What's the point of him showing up that once?

I was incredibly excited when he showed up in the first long trailer. When playing, I thought Young Xehanort was him ("I see you're still afraid of the darkness" in Notre Dame), only to get to Monstro to see the full scene in the trailer and TWTNW completely dashing that idea. Why did he just show up and bother off, other than to give Riku a chance to monologue? Could his absence be significant in a similar way to Kairi's?