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All I can say is:

From the looks of it she’ll be playing a bigger role in the fight and be less of a damsel in distress (yay!) but that’s all the trailers have shown since I have (so far) avoided most spoilers

I think this tweet is more referring to any future plans for the series or future titles he works on as a whole. Something that he has more control over. He can’t really suddenly say “Release date is pushed forward! Let them eat cake!” Kind of thing in regards to the current release, especially with global only being less than 5 days away. He would anger a lot of people that ordered physical copies and got theirs well after digital sales, or even if the team allowed brick and mortar retailers to sell it in advance now, but the other sources (online orders, digital, etc.) had to wait that would cause the same issue.

Oh I fully agree. Having that information would be amazing. If anything I would say it might be possible that Nomura was only saying a half truth or something at the time and that it might be Nobodies don’t age after a certain point. But even that would be weird for an answer. Time does work in mysterious ways in the KH series though, I’m sure many of us can agree with that. Zexion, comparatively, does look younger than the others in the organization but not by much. So it’s hard to say that a year would age him that much unless his Nobody continued to age and then stopped a couple years later. I would love a more concrete timeline on this. And maybe we’ll get it with the first patch for KH3, since that’s supposedly going to have information regarding the previous entries to the series.

Welcome! ^_^ it’s nice to meet you!

Oh right! I forgot Leon gave context that it was 9 years before KH1, but that doesn’t change the rest of the theory. Xehanort took over in Radiant Garden, effectively ousting Ansem the Wise shortly before Maleficent showed up with her heartless and ousted him. We know how much characters can change in a year in KH time and those characters being on the floor in the lab would make sense. A year would give Ienzo, Lea and Isa time to grow up a bit by time Xehanort takes over and releases the hearts of everyone in the lab. (sorry I’ve been dealing with back to back sickness and pain so my mind has skipped over details in some replies I’ve done)

The theory that I have is that around the time that Xehanort regains his memories and releases the floor of Heartless on Radiant Garden that wound up transforming it into Hallow Bastion is when they lost their hearts and became Nobodies. Hallow Bastion came to be not long before the events of KH1, maybe only a year or two, which would have allowed Ienzo, Isa and Lea to age a bit to what we see them as in the present. We know that Kairi wasn’t always with them on Destiny Islands, only arriving, suddenly, a few years prior to KH1 as well. So it begs to reason that the spell Aqua placed on her sent her to Destiny Islands at the same time darkness overtook the lights of Radiant Garden.

I would honestly say that the leverage might be as simple as them knowing he was looking for it, even if they don't know why. Xigbar shows in KHII:FM that he knew, and knew that Zexion overheard, that he talks to his "friend" Aqua in the Chamber of Repose, and that he was looking for the Chamber of Awakening for some reason. Xigbar even said he wanted it so he could "find his other 'friend'" Saix and Axel may not have known that was the reason, but they knew Xemnas wanted the chamber. They knew he was after something withing. Even finding the chamber would be able to gain them leverage because they found it, and would therefore had knowledge that he desperately wanted. While that may not be the overall plan, and Saix might have known more about the chamber's contents, it stands to reason that they could have used it as a bargaining chip even just having FOUND it.

I’m basically just sticking to my subscriptions on YouTube and ignoring anything else. There is a Chrome extension that @Zeldablade7 linked to earlier, and I would not be surprised if there is one for Firefox too, that hides recommended videos and would be worth giving a try for anyone that doesn’t want to see the spoilers. It’s dangerous to go alone, after all.

As Lord Revan has said, possibly stolen copies, but it's also not uncommon for games to break street date due to early shipments (even this early). For example when Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII was releasing, I got my copy almost a full week before release with standard shipping (free) selected. Human error is a thing as well. As for the End spoilers, I was really sad to have opened my YouTube today and seen a big "THE END" Video in my recommended, and since I was on mobile my tapping the tiny little dots wound up causing the video to play. I don't think I've exited a video so fast in my life.

Thanks @Green Sparrow, I was going to mention this earlier myself but work took over for a bit. As just mentioned, while I do not blame anyone for their initial reactions and opinions of the endings, we must remember that the game was leaked early, and they specifically cut the ending into pieces to allow for the rest of the world to be able to play before they gave us these close tidbits. The story we have is incomplete and missing, quite possibly, crucial pieces to it. While JP region games will get their DLC a few days ahead of the Global release, that still hasn't been released to them yet even and won't be until after they're able to play in a couple days yet themselves. Everyone is definitely allowed their initial reactions, however, and first impressions do matter. I hope that everyone gets an ending they're satisfied once we have the complete story, regardless of initial reactions.

-casually wonders if I can afford to go to the New York concert- I'm sad I've missed every other Kingdom Hearts Orchestrated concert to date and would love to finally catch one!

I am not going to believe this is reality until I boot up the game at midnight a little over 6 days from now and finally get to play this beautiful thing for myself. I have had so many good memories from this series. It's made me happy and sad, furious and confused, I've cried more times to it than I care to admit (358 especially) and made me care about characters far more than any game ever has. I think of this as not the end, but another adventure on the horizon to take me down a wonderful trip of many emotions and to finally get some resolution after the last 13+ years since Kingdom Hearts II. I've made so many friends in so many different places thanks to this series. One of my fondest is still playing Kingdom Hearts II on a Japanese Playstation 2 with my host student on an exchange trip right after it came out and absolutely falling in love with Roxas and the new gameplay elements, even if I couldn't understand a word that was spoken at the time for the most part.

As far as I could find, unfortunately no. Their twitter account did post a new video today featuring Monsters Inc., but I don’t know why they took the Olympus Coliseum one down with no other way to view it.

I only really looked her up myself after KH1 to be completely honest, but when I went out to Japan and she was still somewhat popular out there at the time (she'd be playing in some convenience stores for example) with non-KH music. Her albums are in a few different styles but they're all pretty interesting. I do feel her KH music was some of her best work though to be completely honest and so I'm really glad this one has topped charts already

While I had my feelings on that song and to why I've been feeling something familiar this is amazing to see and hear that it actually does call back to that! No wonder I love the song so much ;D Two of my favorite songs mashed together to make a beautiful new one.

I look forward to working with you as well!! Thank you ^_^

For me it was Kingdom Hearts 1 as well, but much much earlier. I fell in love with the game from the intro. The Dive to Heart that Sora went under and the story that was built upon in Destiny Islands sold me on the game and every moment after continued to make me love it more. Even some of the "worse" games I absolutely adored. I beat Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories on the GBA before I beat KH1 though and it just made me want to find out more!

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Luxu was Xehanort. It would also help connect him to Ventus in another way than just being his master prior to taking him to the Land of Departure. I've been thinking that myself for a while now as I kept trying to wrap my head around Luxu giving Xehanort the Master of Master's Keyblade, which he would not have unless specifically told to. Especially with how much Luxu knows, and the mysterious black box he was carrying around, it makes me think it might have something to do with why we've never seen his face and, potentially, holds the key to connecting Xehanort to his past, present and future incarnations.

Thank you! And I look forward to working with you Tk! Currently snowed in so going to make the best of this day methinks lol

I would, honestly just to see what is going through his mind for most of it. I know he seems like he's wholly devoted to the Organization, but something had to happen that changed in the 10~ from Birth by Sleep Isa and Nobody Saix. That being said it might just have been him becoming a Nobody or being Norted that changed him but I'd love to learn more about all Org members.

It's always really hard for me to say what I'm looking forward to most with this. But I have to say Flowchain since it's something that I've always loved from it's previous incarnation in Dream Drop Distance of Flowmotion. That kind of movement has always been fun to me.

Can I just love how many people are giving love to Xion's Theme ;D

Thank you @HarLea Quinn! I look forward to working with you all in this community that I've long lurked in for a game series I love