Someone on another site was lucky enough to get an interview with the creator of Kingdom Hearts, Nomura (I forgot his first name, sorry) about a new Kingdom Hearts game. Heh, I guess what I said in other threads was wrong. Anyway! This was how the interview went down. ( Oh and the following information is real. So please, don't post anything that says it's not.)



Interviewer: About the new KH title that will be announced after summer this year (2007), will that be a direct sequel?

Nomura: Hmm...I'm not sure how much I can say (laughs). I'll start of by saying that it's not Kingdom Hearts 3.

Interviewer: So this game will be a side story?

Nomura: That's right. My own feelings are that I would like to give Sora a break from large adventures for a little while. So I'm thinking of making the next game's story focus on other characters.

Interviewer: So by a little while, do you mean that Sora's journey from Kingdom Hearts 2 hasn't finished?

Nomura: Yes. If you're talking about the mysteries that started from Kingdom Hearts 1, then those were all revealed. In the ending of Kingdom Hearts II, there was a scene where Sora received a letter from the King; for Sora, I would like you to consider this as a new beginning. The truth is, until the very end, I was considering whether or not to include a scene showing them setting off on a journey after reading the letter.

Interviewer: So, let's talk about this new story, which doesn't have Sora as the main character. What sort of story will it be?

Nomura: Well, I need to start with the story depicted in a Birth by Sleep. Aside from that, there's the story of how the King found his keyblade in the world of darkness and other things like that. Myself, one of the things I most want to do is to give Roxas more of a role to play. I think it would be interesting to flesh out more of the year he spent between his birth and disappearance. Or making Riku the main character, and writing about his desperate fight while Sora was asleep, and things like that. You get the impression that Riku summoned Roxas to a place of shadows, and that Riku is a master of shadows, so I would like to give him more exploration in the game.

Interviewer: Will there be anything different in the game system?

Nomura: I'd like to try something a little different to the previous games in the KH series. I'm not just talking about the next game, more about the next project, so I can't say that it will just be one game (laughs). For the Kingdom Hearts series, being made with our company and Disney, both companies have things in mind that we would like to make reality, so there's always at least two things we want to do.

Interviwer: What platform does it look like the next game will be released on?

Nomura: Hmm... Probably a hand-held platform. Right now we're working on titles for the PSP (FFVII Crisis Core), Nintendo DS (This Wonderful World) and for mobile phones (MONOTONE), so I wouldn't be surprised if it were on any of those platforms.

Interviewer: Is there any chance that this game may be released on multiple platforms?

Nomura: We haven't considered that in the development. If possible, I would like to make a system that suits the platform. But in contrast, in terms of ideas, I would want ideas that could be released on any platform.

Interviewer: The more I hear about the next game, the more exciting it sounds, but for the fans the first thing to do is to see KH2 Final Mix's secret movie isn't it?

Nomura: Yes. I'm worried that we made the conditions for getting the secret movie too hard, but through reading this guide, I hope the readers will be able to see the secret movie. Finding a way to defeat (the new boss) is tough, but I've seen it done, so I know it's not impossible (laughs). If you're able to see the new secret movie and turn your thoughts to the next Kingdom Hearts, I'd be very happy.



Yep a side story, who would've thought!?

I believe it's call KH 2:Final Mix

Nah it's not called Final Mix, actually I don't think they have a name for it, yet. But KH 2: Final Mix has already come out over there in Japan, and that's where this interview was held. So it's not Final Mix, just a side story game.

Nah it's not called Final Mix, actually I don't think they have a name for it, yet. But KH 2: Final Mix has already come out over there in Japan, and that's where this interview was held. So it's not Final Mix, just a side story game.

Wasn't Final Mix supposed to be released in America sometime soon?

I've already posted this information in another KH3 thread. Please search before you submit it.

Yet, it was a thread! Most people search in threads not posts. And said post you're talking about didn't have the full interview, savvy?

I posted the same information as you did. But with different words. I didn't copy and paste the whole thing.

Wow.. This seems cool. I hear that it's like coming out in a few years, or in 2007.

Wow.. This seems cool. I hear that it's like coming out in a few years, or in 2007.

I can gurantee not in 2007. Probably 2010 or so.

I can gurantee not in 2007. Probably 2010 or so.

If you read correctly in the interview, it said the games title will be released sometime after Summer 07 (which means very soon ;)). So, That means we may be seeing it next year or so. KH2: FM+ was released in Spring, and it is supposed to come here next season. So we would most likely see this game in Spring '08 for Japan. Here, maybe Winter '08.

Also, PirateMario, can you explain why you said this?

-That my friend is a fake. The Creator of Kingdom Hearts hasn't even began in starting A New Kingdom Hearts. He's finishing up on the game Final Fantasy v.s. XIII (versus thirteen). Plus, he hasn't even stated on a new Kingdom Hearts. In a commentary, he states that the part with the three armored knights was a new series.
And here you are, talking about KH3. It makes me think why you said there was no statement about the game, but then prove it was coming...

One more thing. Th creators name is Tetsuya Nomura.

Heh, oops. I said that cause I hadn't found out about the new interview. And from the other interviews mixed me up, cause Tetsuya ( Btw, thanks for the name >_< ) first said it was a new series, then now he says it's a side story. Yeah, my apologies, there has been other cases where people have been confused with what I type.