jtshiro

This is how I interpreted the 7 lights, 13 darknesses based off what we know: Lights: 1. Riku 2. Mickey 3. Aqua 4. Kairi 5. Ven 6. Lea The seventh light is probably gonna end up being Sora, but KH3D did put that into question

2.5 will be on PS3, I have no doubt about that. Anything after that is far more murky

N Korea is talking a big game, but everything I've read says they don't have the technological capacity to attack the US mainland.

No issue with new KH games every year, as long as different teams are working on them and getting the proper development time

I'm surprised how much love vanilla KH2 has gotten here (I personally found the game to be a total let down in terms of story, pacing and difficulty). As for my favorite game it has to be Birth By Sleep, had an interesting cast of characters, great pacing, tougher difficulty, and a great tweak on the game play with the command decks. My second favorite has to be KH2FM, since it manages to improve the game in almost every way from balancing the op combos (reaction commands, drive forms, etc..), increasing the difficulty (granted all they did was give 1/2 HP and double enemy damage in critical mode), and bringing more compelling post game content (vanilla KH2 had a dramatically easier Sephiroth, and a broken coliseum vs. Org XIII rematches, Mysterious Soldier, new dungeon, mushroom XIII challenges)

Re:CoM is a nice game, but I won't be attempting to platinum it, the time constraints kill the customization of the game.

Not that hard honestly, PSP games got regularly ported to PS2 and a few have been remastered on PS3 so should be no issue to get Birth By Sleep on it

I played most of CoM on an emulator, then I lost everything on the hdd of the computer and eventually bought the GBA game and beat it shortly before KH2 was released. As for Re:CoM I'm actually playing through it right now on my PS2

If the games continue to be good, I'll continue to buy them.

I think they just translate some text into english or slap some subtitles on it

It is a rumor that's been circulating for awhile, but this one hasn't been shot down completely (the cancellation rumor was shot down). Would it surprise me if it happens? Not in the slightest, but I'd be kinda mad if I had to get a PS4 to play this game (which motivated me to buy a PS3 years ago)

From the old school animated: The Black Cauldron, Robin Hood, Great Mouse Detective, and The Jungle Book Pixar: Toy Story, Brave, and Up Live Action: The Lone Ranger (if it's good), Oz the great and powerful, and John Carter (a little bit of wishful thinking though I think it would be cool)

I didn't have a problem following the plot, but lack of long term story planning is killer on long running franchises. I also think the direction since KH2 has been really scattered (3 titles focusing on different time periods and characters) made it confusing for the casual fans. DDD was the biggest offender of this since it had to smooth out all the differences and retcon certain elements of KH1.

My 3 questions: 1. What's the deal with FFVsXIII and why is it taking 7+ years to show it 2. Why not give Kh3 to the Osaka team at this point 3. Why no BBS V2 at this point

While KH1 is my favorite game of the series, BBS and 3D are presently the most important games in the series. BBS is the origin story of how things came to be and what is to come in the future for the series (particularly the whole Xehanort-Terra and Sora-Ventus-Roxas connections, in addition to what those have mentioned in prior posts). 3D provides the explanations of some vague plot points that have come up during the series (I wasn't a fan of some of the explanations or the time travel mechanic) and connects the series together from BBS to the present

So KH2FM and BBSFM are gonna be remastered and Re:Coded will most likely be a short movie which sounds about right (BBS probably requires more work since it can't be a straight port considering they have to rework multiplayer and drastically increase the resolution). My opinion on DDD is that your more likely to see a Re:DDD after KH3 (maybe with the inevitable KH3FM)

Good week for the Vita, but is it the start of a real comeback or an aberration (price cut and AAA game release doesn't come every week).

Wouldn't be a punch in the gut to announce it at TGS 2013, Square lives in a box where they don't think anyone outside of Japan is privy to game announcements at TGS (technically 1.5 remix wasn't announced in their eyes in the west till last week)

I suspect KH3 will be revealed at TGS 2014, might show up for E3 2015 for a trailer or playable demo

Flowmotion was a fine addition to the franchise and would like to see it incorporated into future games. The retcon of the story, the bigger emptier maps, and lack of compelling post game content were the problems.

I've always believed Microsoft mismanaged Rare how do you explain the constant success with the N64 and one relatively successful Gamecube game and then they go to Microsoft where they kind of stumble thru the original Xbox and have been hit and miss with 360 games

Keep the voices as is, but if they want to go with an orchestra soundtrack (as many games are going now) I don't see an issue with it

While it would be nice to see it back on, I've already seen this on multiple sites and it's been officially ruled as fake

Remastering in HD is somewhat significant, but in the end it's a PS2 game with increased resolution, cleaned up textures, and character models from DDD. Was mainly referring to lack of additions to gameplay and opening cinematics, which I didn't expect there to be

One thing that has been very clear is that 358/2 Days is the only one being remade as a movie so anything is possible with that in terms of new openings. Re:COM and KH1FM are not being altered in any significant way (unless you consider the addition of KH2 controls in KH1 as significant) so no new openings for them