Kingdom Hearts 2.com has published the contents of an interview with Dorimaga magazine about Kingdom Hearts 2. Here are the main points of the article, which can be found at:
http://www.kingdomhearts2.net/news2/headli...117079248.shtmlThe following is information presented from the latest issue of Dorimaga from an interview with Tetsuya Nomura. Thanks to duckroll for translating.
- Sora's visits to netherworlds will be a core part of the game, Hades' world is the main underworld but many other worlds have netherworlds too
- Pete's involvement in the game is directly related to him being Mickey's rival and he's not limited to any one world
- Mulan will be the first world visited in KH2
- There will be combination attacks that appear on the menu if the distance and timing between characters and enemies is right, one of which is a Sora + Auron attack
- The recording for voices is done during development, so they're doing post-recording to fix things that have changed now
- The recording for each actual Disney world has been completed
- KH2 will conclude the storyline about Sora's involvement with the guys in black coats
- KH2's dialogue script is 2.5 times the size of KH's
- Motion capturing is awesome and every movement is unique
- There will be an awesome variation in combination attacks
- It is undecided if they'll be releasing it on 1 or more DVDs just yet
A full translation of the article was also published at IGN, and reprinted at
Kingdom Hearts 2.com. Here is the full article:
Though we posted the main points of the Dorimaga interview with Tetsuya Nomura earlier in the week, IGN was able to provide a full translation of the article that was featured in the magazine:
The main focus of the interview is Kingdom Hearts II. Recently, Square Enix opened up an official Japanese website for the game following months of silence. This was followed by feature articles posted in Japan's largest game publications. Could a release date at last be nearing for the sequel?
"Yes, a release is indeed approaching. The announcement of Kingdom Hearts II was actually too early." Nomura states in response to a question about the lack of information on the game. "It's not that delayed development has caused a delay in the release. Recently, a debut period has come into sight, and so we've started to release information."
Commenting on the current state of the game, Nomura reveals that the scenario is now complete. Voice recording has also finished, save for some fine tuning. The title isn't 100% complete, though, with Nomura revealing, "We're currently finishing up the main story -- the scenario featuring Sora and the black coated characters."
You may be bummed about the wait for Kingdom Hearts II, but based on Nomura's comments, there's a lot to look forward to. Asked about how much volume we can expect from the sequel, he responds, "Quite a bit. The volume of the story alone is about 2.5 times that of the original."
There's also quite a bit going into the animation data for the game. "For instance," explains Nomura, "when in Brave Form with red clothing and when in standard form with black clothing, the motion is completely different. This is, of course, true when fighting, but also when running. The motion for walking is about all that's shared. Of course, there are other forms besides black and red."
Nomura suggests, perhaps jokingly, that the game may actually take up more than one DVD.Source:
Kingdom Hearts 2.comAlso see a link to download the Jump Festa 2005 trailer for KH2 at New KH2 Trailer