With Kingdom
Hearts I.5 HD Remix out and II.5 HD Remix on the way next year,
there’s nothing left to re-tell as we prepare for the eventual release of Kingdom Hearts III. Oh wait, yes there
is.
The HD collections of the Kingdom Hearts saga currently cover
every previously released console game in the series except for Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance].
Asked about it in an interview with Weekly
Famitsu, series director Tetsuya Nomura replied, “The HD remastered
games are a summary leading up to KH III.
It’d be sad for one chapter not to be in HD in remaking the series, plus KH3D is a necessary piece for telling
the story of KH III, so I’ve been
telling myself that we need to start considering it.”
https://kotaku.com/kingdom-hearts-ii-5-hd-remix-is-just-like-i-5-hd-remix-1488864477
Like Kingdom
Hearts 358/2 Days and Kingdom Hearts
re: coded, KH3D was a game for a
dual-screen console – 385/2 Days and re: coded were for the Nintendo DS, and KH3D was for the 3DS. In order to
include the former two games in the single-screen HD collections, Square Enix
opted to have them be movie collections, omitting the touchscreen and
multi-display elements altogether. While the same could be possible with KH3D, packaging it alone doesn’t seem
like it would be a very popular idea.
Hopefully, Nomura will have a satisfying
way to offer the remaining chapter, be it as DLC, included in another Kingdom Hearts related game or something
(but for God’s sake, don’t have it as a limited bonus for the inevitable Kingdom Hearts I.5/II.5 HD Remix Consumer
Wallet Gouging Collector’s Box That Hasn’t Been Announced – But You Know They’re
Totally Thinking About), as the release of Kingdom Hearts III draws nearer (“near” being a relative
term).
On the topic of Kingdom Hearts III, Nomura also briefly mentioned the Keyblade transformation
feature, saying with a laugh, “You saw it turn into a gun form in the
teaser video, but there’s also an unbelievable transformation as well. The
other day when checking it, the staff told me, ‘it turns into XXX’ to which I
just blurted out, ‘Seriously!?'” It’s unclear what this “XXX”
the staff said actually is, but hopefully it’ll be as exciting as Nomura seems
to imply.
Kingdom
Hearts II.5 HD Remix is scheduled for release in
2014. We can probably expect Kingdom
Hearts III sometime before human civilization comes to an end.
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