Kingdom Hearts III

[Tashasaurous]

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Vexen's VA confirmed that Even/Vexen

isn't returning for KHIII.

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Huh. I would've thought Even would've returned considering his reconstruction in Dream Drop Distance. Maybe they're saving him for

KHIV?

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Mark Hamil teased he's

returning too.

I had a bit of a feeling that

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he'll

be back.

We should have a release date within the next 6 weeks hopefully at E3.

I hope so too. If not, then June/July are our next safe bet for a release date.

I'm curious as to who will voice Master Xehanort. I hope they found someone close to Leonard Nimoy.

So do I. And I hope they won't use Corey Burton for Master Xehanort, and I'm sorry, but he's nowhere close as Ansem the Wise/Diz. Jamieson Price has a more potential in voicing him and actually sounds more like the late Sir Christoper Lee.

I'm not saying Corey Burton isn't a good voice actor(He's brilliant with his talents in so many tones and voices that you'd think it isn't the same person), but Ansem the Wise/Diz is an exception in that role.

 

[Ryuman]

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Derek Prince not going in to record for Evan/Vexen

doesn't mean he won't appear. It's entirely possible

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he'll be present without lines. Nachi Nozawa, who voiced Vexen in the Japanese version, passed away in 2010. Perhaps they're not recasting him out of respect.

 

[Tashasaurous]

Regarding how Infinity War had ended, now I'm extremely worried about how the ending of KH3 will turn out, but at the same time expecting but hoping that it won't come to pass.

Spoiler: Possible Ending Spoilers

My hopes and wishes for KH3 ending:

Sora, Riku, Kairi, Lea/Axel, Saix/Isa(Yes, I like the Isa persona), Roxas, Xion, Namine, Terra, Ventus and Aqua ALL survive and have a happy ending to be together again, they, Mickey, Donald and Goofy return to their worlds.

Lea, Isa, Roxas, Xion and Namine moving to either Radiant Garden or Twilight Town to rebuild their lives.

Aqua, Ven and Terra to rebuild Castle Oblivion back into it's former glory-Land of Departure, similiar to how Leon and the others are rebuilding Radiant Garden.

Kairi deciding to stay with Sora and Riku on Destiny Islands and Sora and Kairi end up together.

Now, for my worst fears and horrible expectations that I don't want to happen:

Kairi, Xion, Namine, Lea, Isa, Ven, Terra and Riku all end up dead in some ways during the final battle, Sora goes missing and leaves on an adventure alone, Mickey, Donald and Goofy return home heartbroken, Aqua gives up her lives and decides to remain in the Realm of Darkness.

Or just having most of my favorites-namely whom I've mentioned-die and I have to wait for KH4 for another ten years to see what happens next.

I also have a feeling that Terra will end up sacrificing himself and die in KH3, and who knows what will happen to Ven due to him having been in the Previous Keyblade War.

Call me old fashioned, but I'm a fan of happy endings and I just don't want KH3 to end up on the same path as the endings of FFXV and Avengers: Infinity War.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

"Infinity War" is part one of a two-parter ...

 

[Tashasaurous]

I know, but still...I can't help in being worried. I mean, I know the game is said to be darker, but I really don't want my favorites to be

Spoiler: Possible Ending Spoilers

killed off. After everything they went through, they all deserve a happy living ending, and I'd really like Sora and Kairi to be together.

 

[Ryuman]

Outlets who are attending the secret premiere event for KH3 have been given the OK to say that the embargo for their impressions will be lifted on May 18th, 6:00am PT.
https://twitter.com/khinsider/status/996155664845168641

Edit: I didn't realise the actual event has in fact not yet happened.

 

[JechtShotMK9]

Please be excited.

 

[Lex]

Full scale promotion of the game has also now begun, judging by this bus in London:

It could be releasing sooner than anyone expects. This kind of promotion doesn't normally begin until the game is just around the corner. Imagine they shadow dropped it at E3? lmao

 

[Teioh]

Pretty old bus for advertising

Looks like it was for an event of some kind where it was used to pick up some people. Either Square Enix picking up people or people picking up Square Enix. I don't quite understand the tweet lol

Shows a photo of a bus with Shadow of the Tomb Raider with the September release date too.

Edit: to say that it looks like Square Enix were the ones doing the picking up of representatives from Koch Media Spain.

 

[Ryuman]

I'm currently in the mind of treating this Premiere event as being something like the FFXV Uncovered event (Marketing-wise, not content of course).
By the time the Uncovered event rolled around and gave us a release date the game was scheduled to release 6 months from then. Obviously they're different games with different promotional campaigns but I'm honestly not expecting a different M.O. right now.
However, if they want to surprise us then then by all means!

 

[Tashasaurous]

Full scale promotion of the game has also now begun, judging by this bus in London:

It could be releasing sooner than anyone expects. This kind of promotion doesn't normally begin until the game is just around the corner. Imagine they shadow dropped it at E3? lmao

Pretty old bus for advertising

Looks like it was for an event of some kind where it was used to pick up some people. Either Square Enix picking up people or people picking up Square Enix. I don't quite understand the tweet lol

Shows a photo of a bus with Shadow of the Tomb Raider with the September release date too.

Edit: to say that it looks like Square Enix were the ones doing the picking up of representatives from Koch Media Spain.

As much I want to believe that KH3 could be releasing sooner than anyone's expecting, I find this to be suspicious, especially since most people in London's more focusing on Harry and Megan's Wedding on Saturday than games at the moment.

 

[Lulcielid]

Leaked screenshots of the Premiere Event demo.

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More probably coming, regardless we are getting footage tomorrow.

 

[ChipNoir]

Man that's so meta. A game character meeting a game character within game.

 

[Tetsujin]

 

[ultima espio]

Man that's so meta. A game character meeting a game character within game.

It gets a little weirder:

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[SeaDragon]

 

[ChipNoir]

Man that's so meta. A game character meeting a game character within game.

It gets a little weirder:

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THat's a bit harder to swallow. I could buy Andy's mom having gotten him some made up JRPG game, since the first two Toy Story games take place between 1997 and 2000, and that was when those games really kicked off on the playstation.

Dissidia, that's a little too direct. But that's their game to market to the kids this way I guess...

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Perhaps theirs is an Earth where gaming is 20 years ahead or the calendar is 20 years behind.

 

[Ryuman]

Or in their universe it's just a line of toys, considering that's all I can see there.

 

[ChipNoir]

Is anyone else worried that Sora yelling Yeah every third attack is gonna get annoying?

 

[leadmyskeptic]

Man, I gotta say, having never played any of the "Kingdom Hearts" games, but still having seen people play segments of the core 2 games at their houses, witnessed plenty of promos/trailers/etc over the years, it's still very striking to me just how god-damned ridiculous these games are in concept and execution. Now, I don't mean that they're not good or even great games, or that the concept doesn't work I mean, 24 million copies...obviously, it does. But that doesn't make it any less "Am I having another acid flashback?"-y to see Donald Duck quacking wildly while Nomura'd-up-to-their-eyeballs JRPG characters shoot magic out of door-opening tools. What a world we live in.

 

[Purple]

Is anyone else worried that Sora yelling Yeah every third attack is gonna get annoying?

I noticed that his battle dialogs are too few and hence are very repetitive

Saw most of the gameplay and it looks great so far but I don't know why I'm not hyped for this game as much as I should be. Maybe 13 years of waiting was too long? Maybe too many prequels, mini sequels I haven't played? Maybe story is too convoluted now?

I just hope someone posts a very detailed story summary on Youtube

 

[Kai Schulen]

[url="https://twitter.com/skywardwing/status/997543904801996801]Nomura challenges the YouTubers to be able to keep up with the flood of incoming news since it will come to a daily release.[/url]

Issat so, Nomura?

(A part of me is thinking that Nomura's talking big, but a bigger part of me is optimistic and that Nomura's being productive again.)

 

[Tashasaurous]

Nomura also posted on Twitter a possible(and very likely) leak about the ending to end badly because he mentioned something about it being "Hard to Swallow".


Which means KH3 ending will be just like Infinity War which I really didn't want but will have to accept.



This also means that the endings that I want will never happen and the next Saga won't just bring in a new bad guy to the series once Xehanort's gone:


Lea, Isa, Roxas, Xion and Namine eating Sea Salt Ice Cream in Twilight Town alive.


Terra, Ventus and Aqua rebuilt the Land of Departure to honor Eraqus's memory-Eraqus at least I'm positive won't come out of this alive.


Mickey, Donald and Goofy returning to Disney Castle to reunite with everyone.


Sora, Riku and Kairi return to Destiny Islands and Sora and Kairi confess each other's feelings:


Or maybe history will change and the entire franchise will be just like X-Men: Days of Future Past and none of it ever happened.


Either way, as much as I wished and hoped for a happy ending, it's coming closer and closer to the truth that KH3 will be a mixture of Infinity War and FFXV.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Or it could just be difficult bidding farewell to the gang after so many years? Not to rain on your gloom parade or anything ...