Kingdom Hearts III

[Lulcielid]

The fact Square for some reason wanted to make their own game engine from scratch, rather than use what the industry standard was that would allow them to make the game in a reasonable time frame is one major factor in why it's taken a decade to get a sequel to a PS2 game

Making their own engine is also a normal practice of the industry*, Unreal Engine is not the end all engines.

*to name some major devs that released games with their own engines for the last 5 years:

1. Naughty Dog (The Last of Us, Uncharted 4)
2. Capcom (Resident Evil 7, Monster Hunter World)
3. Konami (Metal Gear Solid V)
4. CD Project Red (Witcher 3)
5. Guerilla Games (Horizon Zero Dawn)
6. Ubisoft (Many Assassin's Creed games)
7. Nintendo (The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild)
8. Santa Monica Studios (God of War)
9. Insomniac Games (Marvel's Spider-Man)

 

[Lulcielid]

https://support.jp.square-enix.com/...&tag=8a0f0fc43475e0f3ff8aea3ae5aa536aacc57d3d

Japanese release schedule:

Day 1 Patch (1/25)
Epilogue (1/26)
Secret Movie (1/31)

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From the USA Kingdom Hearts Twitter, American release dates:


Tuesday, January 29

Update 1.01 (several data fixes)

Memory Archive (videos)

*The Memory Archive option will be added to the game's title menu and can be viewed at any time.

Wednesday, January 30

Epilogue (video)

*Players will need to have completed KingdomHearts III and seen the ending to view this video.

Thursday, January 31

Secret (video)

*Players will need to have completed #KingdomHearts III and seen the ending, as well as fulfilled certain criteria during play to view this video.

*The criteria vary depending on the difficulty level selected.

*The Memory Archive is a digest of the #KingdomHearts story in the series up to this point.

*The epilogue and secret movie are video content that will enhance player's enjoyment of the world of #KingdomHearts.

*These pieces of downloadable content are additional elements for #KingdomHearts III

*The main game allows players to proceed to and view the ending without the need for an internet connection.

*An internet connection is required to download patches to update the game.
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[Tashasaurous]

I just told everyone about the Epilogue and Secret Ending in the Spoiler-Kingdom Hearts 3 Thread, lol. But thanks anyway.

Plus, I don't think it'll be much of a problem for players who will take a couple of days if not longer to finish the game after buying it. And not everyone will be buying the game on the very day of release since the sales and copies will continue until the end of the Console anyways.

 

[ChipNoir]

I'm really surprised they don't have a demo out yet. Getting our hands on the gameplay would do a lot to alleviate hesitiatons and get people to pay less attention to the leaker's stuff and more making opinions of KH3 for themselves.

 

[Tashasaurous]

Maybe the demo was exclusive to the events they had last year and decided to ultimately let players wait until the actual game comes out, and that's why Nomura and the team felt the need to wait a day or two until after the game's release to bring out the Epilogue and Secret Ending due to the leaks.

 

[JechtShotMK9]

I'm really surprised they don't have a demo out yet. Getting our hands on the gameplay would do a lot to alleviate hesitiatons and get people to pay less attention to the leaker's stuff and more making opinions of KH3 for themselves.

Wasn't .2 basically the demo?

 

[Alex Strife]

I just told everyone about the Epilogue and Secret Ending in the Spoiler-Kingdom Hearts 3 Thread, lol. But thanks anyway.

Not everyone wants to spoil themselves.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Not everyone wants to spoil themselves.

 

[Alex Strife]

Well, I mean, I have been checking the spoiler thread so I can't say too much .

But I felt, just because something is there, it doesn't mean people will have seen it.

 

[ChipNoir]

Wasn't .2 basically the demo?

It's a demo of the most basic elements of KHIII. It doesn't really tell us that much about everything else going on here.

 

[Tashasaurous]

I didn't say I've seen both the Epilogue and the Secret Ending, I meant that both will be released not long after the actual game's release for the rest of the world, lol. If I've seen both, I would've mentioned how it was like by now, but neither are released nor had they been leaked yet.

0.2 was a story set during the events of the first Kingdom Hearts via Aqua's point of view and then later from Mickey's memory as he retells that encounter to Riku and Kairi before setting off to rescue Aqua which will be one of the obvious points of Kingdom Hearts 3 as everyone has known since the Secret Ending of Birth By Sleep and in Dream Drop Distance, LONG before 0.2 was even heard or thought of.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

I didn't say I've seen both the Epilogue and the Secret Ending, I meant that both will be released not long after the actual game's release for the rest of the world, lol.

Alex's point was that someone would have to go into the spoiler thread to know what you've posted there, and the people trying to avoid spoilers aren't going into that thread. Therefore, they don't know what has been said.

 

[Dark and Divine]

 

[Lulcielid]

 

[Tashasaurous]

Spoiler

...I think the final battle with Sora against Xehanort will take place in the Keyblade Graveyard rather than Scala Da Caelem and...I still think the ending of this game is gonna be tragic and heart-breaking.

 

[Tashasaurous]

...I could be wrong about this....at least hopefully, but no one really knows.

 

[Makoeyes987]

Spoiler

You're wrong, it's Scala Ad Caelum, 100%. That's the final world.

The penultimate battle, the whatever Keyblade War thing, happens at the Keyblade Graveyard, which manifests Kingdom Hearts, which then somehow leads to Scala Ad Caelum.

 

[Tashasaurous]

Spoiler

Maybe so. But somehow I don't think Kingdom Hearts leads directly to Scala Ad Caelum. It just doesn't...sound right.

Spoiler

Edit: Amazon has posted a new Kingdom Hearts III video with the Pre-ordering of the Dawn Till Dusk Keyblade and given that Sora's in his KH3 outfit and the area is new, I'm guessing this is part of Scala Ad Caelum.

 

[Dashell]

Spoiler

You're wrong, it's Scala Ad Caelum, 100%. That's the final world.

The penultimate battle, the whatever Keyblade War thing, happens at the Keyblade Graveyard, which manifests Kingdom Hearts, which then somehow leads to Scala Ad Caelum.

uh oh... this topic is safe from spoilers right? or no?

 

[ChipNoir]

Both of you. Out. Now.

 

[Tashasaurous]

Sorry. I just made my posts about the spoilers into spoiler tags.

 

[Dashell]

Guess Ill just avoid this topic for now... and if I know Mako he's just going to say, "Well it's obvious if you think about it." and yeah it kinda is... but still... there's no point in sticking around.

 

[Lex]

Any more spoiler posts in this here non spoiler thread will result in a thread ban

 

[Strangelove]

i just want to say that i'm not reading anything in this thread and i haven't even seen any of the trailers from the past few years

but i just did the mini games in union cross to get the code for a keyblade in kh3 and i thought 'oh god do i have to get these high scores? this sucks' but the target scores were the total for each time you played so that was much better because i wouldn't going to get 15000 in a single game on these

so now i have a code but i tried to enter that on the psn store but it said it wasn't valid so i'm wondering if i have to wait for the proper release date

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

You do.