Kingdom Hearts

I'm also not sure time as Xemnas counts for Terra, he looks about the same now that we see him again.

Well, Aqua is looking quite corrupted in her fight. Also, the place the fight occurs on. That beach. GOD DAMN IT.

also ven is like a 1026, or however long ago the chi stuff happened

I mean, my read on the cover location was less 'Daybreak Town' or 'Cable Town' and more... It looks like a cross between Twilight Town and World That Never Was. The Clocktower combined with Memory Skyscraper.

And it looks pretty cool.

Probably won't be an ingame location since that was true of KH 1's cover.

I just realized Aqua's health bars, she's probably a lategame boss. Could it be she is Xehanort's last ditch attempt for his XIII since trailer dialogue indicates his first choice is willful and uncooperative?

Also apparently young Xehanort is 18-20 and Master Xehanort is in his 80s.

Edited by lycropath on Sep 22nd 2018 at 12:15:16 PM

Aqua could just be a darkling heartless.

@ Mizerous: One that still has Xeanhort in her, though.

Also, here's a colage of the gameplay shown, including the Aquanort fight

The combat looks immensely improved for the keyblade tranformations. They look and feel extremely quick and fluid now, especially the Monsters Inc Keyblade.

Man, the combat looks so fast and tight now which is a marked improvement over previous builds. Everything else also looks pretty amazing and my hype levels are through the roof.

I'm not entirely convinced that Darqua is a late-game boss. Yeah, she has a lot of HP but Sora is doing a pretty solid amount of damage per hit and doesn't have that much HP himself. If anything, she might be more of a mid-game boss. Also, the song that plays during that fight is great and it sounded a bit like a Dark Reprise of The Other Promise for some reason.

Edited by Zelenal on Sep 22nd 2018 at 9:40:26 AM

Now I'm definitely getting the feeling that SE are showing too much. The trailers were fine, introducing the worlds, major characters and setting the scene.

After we waited so long for Kingdom hearts 3 (which was beginning to be as mythical as Half life 3) they can show as much as they want

And you can always NOT watch it, obviously.

We have the Spoiler Thread for that reason.

AQUA IS 18 YOU SAY

I had been imagining her to be in her early twenties as of BBS.

(Obviously we're not counting, or at least not fully counting her time in the Realm of Darkness, because there's weird time shit going on there.)

But 18 is like an anime 27.

Those ages sound about right. Ven’s a year older than I expected, but I’d figured Terra and Aqua were in the 18-21 range and that Terra might be a bit older if they weren’t the same age.

Edited by SapphireBlue on Sep 22nd 2018 at 7:20:11 AM

Wait, we got canon ages?

Apparently. Someone mentioned it on the last page.

Still worried about the combat. Keyblade transformation animations are still long, the ground combo finisher still looks like ass, and you still take damage during Summons (Sora gets hit while using Simba).

I already assumed Aqua was 17-18ish with Terra being older, but confirmation is nice.

Yeah, I'm still not sold on the BBS-type Command Style combos where even the basic ground combo has massive windups and leaves you in midair after a finisher or whiff. But I'd have to play it to judge, and at any rate it doesn't seem like that's universal to all the transformations.

x4 Yeah during the livestream at Tokyo Game Show, omnicient voice Nomura was asked how old the cast of Birth By Sleep is and he gave a rough estimate for each.

Edited by lycropath on Sep 22nd 2018 at 10:05:01 AM

And I say you guys are getting far too worked up over it.

Plus, being hurt during summons was already something from previous games, anyhow.

Nomura did say a few months back that the ability system was back, anyhow, so I'm not worried.

Dunno in the first game made you invincible.

But he isn't good in the first place for anything else.

Hell, aside from Tinker bell, and to a lesser extent, Bambi, all the summons from the first games are rather shit.

You need Dumbo to farm Gigas Shadows.