Jump Festa 2006

[iMustang]

Well, Square Enix's biggest event has begun. It's a chance for them to show off their newest and upcoming games. I'm a huge Kingdom Hearts fans, so I'll bring you all you need to know about Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix & Re: Chain of Memories.

-There is as scene of a battle against Marluxia, and Lexaeus.
-There is indeed a new form.
-New Area added
-A new Project is said to arise in 2007. No details yet however.
-It's believed that the Reverse Rebirth is a lot more interesting then before.
-In a battle it seems as though the Mickey Card is used.
-There is a postcard of Santa Sora, rather it's how he'll look in Christmas Town or not is unknown!
-This new Project text was shown after the KH2FM+ trailer.
-The Demo featured Halloween Town, and an (Unsure) Boss fight against Vexen? It's said this was to mainly advertise how tough the game will be. There seems to be no changes in the controls either.
-A "Stop" Reaction Command
-Organization Lookalike Mushrooms
-An Organization Apperance and Fight at the Colliseum
-Something about Versus (Literal Translation is Bloodshed Versus, however it's believed to be Vs each other, possibly a KH:COM vs mode remade)
-Battle System Upgrade for RE: Chain of Memories

And here are some great scans:

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Sadly the trailers are not avalible, but here's the full script of what happend.

Kingdom Hearts 2: FM+ Trailer Script:
There is first an image of Namine's room, and then a picture of Namine.

Namine: Do you not want to know the truth?

The scene of Roxas' name being created by Xemnas is shown in front of the residence of Twilight Town.

There is then a scene of the location where Sora and Axel fought against the Nobodies.

Sora: There is anger and hatred in the mind.

Riku: None of those things in the mind are ordered. (Eh?)

A scene where King Mickey takes out his keyblade.

Ansem begins to hold the machine that was used to absorb data.

A scene where Namine jumps at Sora.

Namine: Sleep, we made a promise that we'll meet each other again.

A scene where Saix says that Xemnas are in Kingdom Hearts.

Sora helps Riku walk.

Sora has new form, and opening clothes.

Ragnarok skill has "Shot, Impact, and Gigaimpact".

A scene of the Mushrooms in Organization clothing.

A new area in Hollow Bastion, and another town.

Disney characters are now not just in their normal world!?

A scene of Alladin who runs away from Jack and Nightmare Santa Sora who are in Santa's house. (Or that first there's a scene of Alladin running, and then the Jack/Nightmaresanta Sora scene).

There is a scene of Ariel, and Tron in a world.

Scene where the Beast rushes at Xaldin.

New map and Hollow Bastion, Netherworld? Castle Oblivion? It's hard to use, and you also have the skill "Fly up".

Coliseum is where you will be fighting against Vexen. (EH!?)

Sora, Donald, and Goofy vs Lexaeus. (EH!?!?)

A huge pointed rock shoots out from the ground.

Sora, Donald, and Goofy vs Marluxia.(EH!?!?!?!?)

There are a lot of counter moves in this battle, mainly against Marluxia's scythe/sickle.

There is a conference with 4 members of the Organization.

Luxord: He can bet against you to obtain something.

Saix: There's nothing to put out, when obtaining a friend.

Xemnas: Axel shook up Sora's mind.

The Camera approaches some of the chairs.

Xemnas awakes.

Sora vs Roxas

Roxas is seen in The World that Never Was, at a skyscraper where Sora suddenly has memories of Roxas.

Roxas is really really fast.

The organization appears through an opening of a ground. (Possibly Xemnas)
He sits on the chair in the Nobody room.

The words KH RE:COM+KH2FM = KH2 FM+

There is someone on the ground in armor.

Xemnas:? "Friend"

RE: Chain of Memories script:

Sora vs Guard Armor.

Battle: Traverse Town, Olympius Coliseum and Halloween Town (Halloween Costume).

There is a scene of Sora vs ?

Sora, Donald Goofy, and Axel are there.

"You lose sight of the light in this darkness, and forgot the one thing you setted your sights on."

Sora: Weather it's darkness or light.

Riku and Zexion.

Riku: Sora is here?

Zexion: The Shadow of Darkness, and Ansem remain in your mind, do you wish to see Sora in such a shameful state?

Axel and Marluxia are in this scene.

Axel: Sora is the plan to erase the Organization?

Marluxia: Put our betrayer in order.

Vexen being executed.

Vexen: You will not have a future.

Lexaeus and Riku, Riku is not shown.

Lexaeus: When light loses sight of the road, the only option is to use the Dark.

Sora vs Axel

Axel: I want to meet an important Existence again.

Sora: This card?

Riku and Zexion.

Zexion: Riku...

Riku: This card, will erase the darkness?

Marluxia and Namine.

Marluxia: Do you not want to complete the promise you made for Sora?

Larxene and Sora, Sora is not shown.

Larxene: Do you enjoy forgetting in this castle?

Sora vs Larxene.

Scene of Hades.

Scene of Cloud.

Riku vs Zexion.

There is a struggle: "reaching for Sora and Namine as the island is collapsing".

Sora: I wanted to meet you for a long time.

Namine: Having come to meet you was terrible, althogh it was also good. I'm sorry Sora, I wasn't really here.

The text Kingdom Hearts Re: Chan of Memories appears.

Edit: New info

KH2:FM: During the extended secret movie, n orgamozation member is sitting on a chair while a knight is laying on the floor. They are talking to each other. Where they are appears to look like a basement (?). And then afterwards, we see a knight's helmet getting blown up and he turns around.

Re:CoM:
• The X button serves as the jump button.
• There's a mini map that resembles the one in KH2.
• When the room card is selected, the number of heartless and the size of the room express it by three (?-stars?).
• There seems to be Trinity. Not much detail on this yet.
• There is also a gimmick card. (This one is stated before.) Xaldin's Note: I believe the "gimmick" card is the same as the "Stop" command, which is likely the Mickey Card, since it held a similar feature and was reported once.
• The blog user felt that the cutscene in the Vexen boss battle hasn't changed much compared to CoM.

[Captain Highwind]

A new Project is said to arise in 2007. No details yet however.

Which we all assume is KH 3. T'would be most foolish to let this series slip through Nomura's fingers.

[Yash]

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Disney characters crossing worlds? A new form for Sora? Bigger Hollow Bastion? New worlds? AN ACTUAL BOSS BATTLE AGAINST ROXAS? It's times like these that makes me hate the fact that Square doesn't want to bring the Final Mixes to the U.S.

Excuse me, I need to go shoot something.

[TheMecca]

Damn.
Ariel and Tron.

[Captain Highwind]

AN ACTUAL BOSS BATTLE AGAINST ROXAS?

And from what has been said, difficulty-wise, it sounds like he'll be a mini-Sephiroth.

[Luna]

The Final Mix version of Kingdom Hearts 2 sounds really cool.....I wish they'd bring it out for North America(Heck,I'd settle for just the PS2 remake of Chain of Memories)....With all the features they're adding,plus the fact that(at least KH2 Final Mix)will have the English voices,it's really stupid of them not to....

[KuwabaraTheMan]

It does sound really, really cool. There is a shot they'll bring it over, if enough people complain.


Also, its Jump Festa 2007.

[iMustang]

Let's not forget however that Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix has a high chance of coming to America. Not only was it said it was being considered, but a lot more is being added in FM2 than FM1, a bigger fan crowd has gathered, and we want Re: Chain of Memories. Not to mention the game's already in english. I hope if it's also released here, that it's given no edits (such as Xigbar's wepon), and just gets rated T for Teen.

[ChibiGoku]

It does sound really, really cool. There is a shot they'll bring it over, if enough people complain.




Didn't work for:

Kingdom Hearts: FM
Final Fantasy X: International
Final Fantasy X-2: International

[Nin-Nin69]

A hate SquareEnix a lot for reasons like this. American and European gamers need love too! :mad:

[Captain Highwind]

Moved all CC news here. (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?p=2379566#post2379566)

[RogueFanKC]

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Disney characters crossing worlds? A new form for Sora? Bigger Hollow Bastion? New worlds? AN ACTUAL BOSS BATTLE AGAINST ROXAS? It's times like these that makes me hate the fact that Square doesn't want to bring the Final Mixes to the U.S.

Excuse me, I need to go shoot something.

Now, now, let's not jumpt to conclusions. There IS a small chance the US and Europe will get Final Mix. If we don't, then you have full permission to go shoot something, and then no jury will convict you for it. :)

But I have to question the validity of Disney characters crossing worlds and coming to the same level. I thought Nomura was specifically told that Disney characters must remain in their respective levels, and thus, we can't have Beast teaming up with Jack Skellington and Tron teaming up with Ariel. Were the pictures in the trailer specifically showing Ariel and Tron together in the same shot? Were they both actively doing something as well?

I mean, now that I think about, there has to be a good reason to bring Disney characters from different worlds together. Nomura isn't the type of person to just put them together for a gimmick or an appearance. Perhaps if this is true, then you can fight Organization members using a combination of different Disney partners, regardless of the worlds.

:evil:

Hmm...I wonder how you would fare with Winnie the Pooh as your partner? :D

And wow, the new additions to Final Mix do sound wonderful! Well, let's cross our fingers and hope for the best...

[PhantomZero]

This just made my day.

I'm personaly a big Kingdom Hearts fan, I enjoyed both the first two games and now this appeared.

Heh, as far as catching the audience's attention there sort of doing a good job at it.

[K-S-O]

Holy cow, that's a lot of new stuff! I hope they bring over KHII: Final Mix over regardless of how small the chances that is.

I've heard about the PS2 remake of Chain of Memories but now it's confirmed to be true, huh? Sounds really cool!

[Ishtar]

I swear, if KH2-Final Mix doesn't get released in North America, I'll be very dissapointed at Square Enix. I want to get it badly, especially for the Chain Of Memories remake, because I never got the original Chain Of Memories.

[iMustang]

Well it seems there is more little pieces of information that we now know. This is probably the last Jump Festa KH news (from KH-Insider):

KH2:FM: During the extended secret movie, n orgamozation member is sitting on a chair while a knight is laying on the floor. They are talking to each other. Where they are appears to look like a basement (?). And then afterwards, we see a knight's helmet getting blown up and he turns around.

Re:CoM:
• The X button serves as the jump button.
• There's a mini map that resembles the one in KH2.
• When the room card is selected, the number of heartless and the size of the room express it by three (?-stars?).
• There seems to be Trinity. Not much detail on this yet.
• There is also a gimmick card. (This one is stated before.) Xaldin's Note: I believe the "gimmick" card is the same as the "Stop" command, which is likely the Mickey Card, since it held a similar feature and was reported once.
• The blog user felt that the cutscene in the Vexen boss battle hasn't changed much compared to CoM.

[TheMecca]

• The X button serves as the jump button.

Well THAT's certainly news!
Great to know for me and all us Kingdom Hearts fans!

[Yash]

The X button is the jump button for all the Japanese Kingdom Hearts games.

For some reason, Sony decided to make most developers switch the positions of O and X on their games. So in the JP version of KH, you jump with X. In the US version of KH, you jump with O.

[Nel]

In that screenshot of Riku fighting Zexion, can anyone make out what weapon Zexion is using? Looks like the same as Riku's.

And I also hope they release this in the U.S.

[Captain Highwind]

And for the rest of the controls:

Circle button = attack.

Triangle Button = stock cards

Square button = Dodge Roll

L buttons = Flip cards left.

R buttons = 3-card technique, flip cards right.

The extra buttons will certainly help, especially the stock button, since I usually get pummelled while trying to shift back to the reload card. And I hardly ever used the dodge roll because the monsters could still reach me. Hopefully being a 3-D environment, there will be enough space to actually maneuver.

And it is now confirmed that the next KH project will be revealed by Nomura in mid-2007:

http://www.khinsider.com/


Although we do not have the actual magazine yet, Tetsuya Nomura has been interviewed about the new Kingdom Hearts project as well as Kingdom Hearts Re:CoM and Kingdom Hearts II FM+. Only vague information is released on the web so far, but it's been revealed that Nomura will announce the new Kingdom Hearts Project in the "Middle of 2007."

[iMustang]

In that screenshot of Riku fighting Zexion, can anyone make out what weapon Zexion is using? Looks like the same as Riku's.

And I also hope they release this in the U.S.

I'll anwser this question along with the new news.

In an interview with Nomura, we've learned so much new stuff:

re:COM

1. There will be separate areas for the battles, just like the GBA version.

2. The Bonus experience and leveling style from re:COM is similar to that of the game boy advance.

3. The stock technique is back.

4. You can have an additional reaction command, which will depend on the technique used.

5. An example being that if you use Sonic Rave, you will be able to use another technique with it.

KHIIFM+

1. Similar clothes from the first game, that's shown in the Jump Festa trailer, is Sora's new form.

2. There is no connection to the Org coat Mushrooms, and the Organization XIII, they are only mimicking them.

3. Because the voice acting of the XIII Order in Kingdom Hearts II was so wonderful, he plans to top that with re:COM

4. In re:COM the map gimmick, things like the Guillotine is put on the map, in Halloween Town.

5. The character in the secret ending of KHII, who was also shown in the Jump Festa trailer is New, not Sora or Roxas, however he does have relations to a character (Who's name he doesn't say)

6. The scans and the Jump Festa that show's Zexion's weapon was just him copying it, because Zexion has the ability of "Phantom/Shadow" however Zexion DOES have a real weapon.

7. In re:COM the reaction command with stocks, needs to be timed correctly in order for it to work.

8. He plans to continue the KH series, and plans for a big announcement next year. He has two or more projects in store for, but he wouldn't give out any detail about any of them.

9. They are soon planning for the Kingdom hearts FM+ Release date's announcement. Though they are not sure when to announce it.

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Edit: Even more news

1. The only reason why there is a Santa Sora is because Nomura wanted to try it out. Goofy and Donald have also been given Christmas Town clothing.

2. The battles against Castle Oblivion's Organization XIII members (CoM) do not interfere with/have nothing to do with KH2FM+'s storyline. In other words, they are non-canon. However, they are EXTREMELY hard to beat.

3. The Roxas boss battle is meant to be very tough. The Duel Bout is a more intense version of the Samurai Nobodies' reaction command. The beginning of this battle is supposed to be very grand!

4. There are two or more individual types of Mushroom Heartless that will appear in this game. There are also numbers on the Organization-clad Mushrooms.

5. The reaction commands in Re:CoM will be more difficult to pull off than the ones in the original.

6. It is not at all easy to defeat the Mushroom Heartless.

7. As for talk about a new difficulty level (which he called "Serious Mode"), it hasn't even been touched upon yet.

8. The rumor about a tougher battle than Sephiroth turns out to be, yes, the CoM Organization XIII battles.

9. Because of how mysterious the last scene of the PV is, they decided to take it out.

[Captain Highwind]

1. Similar clothes from the first game, that's shown in the Jump Festa trailer, is Sora's new form.


I wondered about this, and sure enough, here's a picture of it in the bottom left corner (http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/8499/vjumpscan2yd4.jpg).

Wonder what it does, since it's just his original clothes.

And here's some more pictures.

[1] (http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/9935/vjumpscan1nw9.jpg)
[2] (http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/7126/vjumpscan3rh2.jpg)
[3] (http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/1014/vjumpscan4ek1.jpg)
More of the same, really, but it gives a little more of what the battle system will look like in the COM remake.