Nomura on Sora’s design, Kingdom Hearts 3, more

February 5th, 2010 Posted in General Nintendo, News, Posted by Valay

Tetsuya Nomura, the creator of Kingdom Hearts, was interviewed in the latest edition of Famitsu. We’ve posted details from the interview below.

- The first design of Sora was of him being a lion with a tail, Nomura wanted him to be like a Disney character
- Idea of having the chainsaw as a weapon came before the keyblade idea
- Sora’s tail was drop during the development of FFVIII, a character in FFIX had a tail and therefore Sora lost his tail
- Sora’s shoes and pants were added when Nomura was discussing the character with Disney
- Sora will be in future games
- Nomura isn’t sure what the future work will be
- Nomura believes Birth By Sleep shows that the Kingdom Hearts Osaka dev team has similar ability to create a quality KH title
- Kingdom Hearts 3 will be implemented as soon as possible

Thanks to Chase for the news tip!

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  1. 18 Responses to “Nomura on Sora’s design, Kingdom Hearts 3, more”

  2. By aeslfunnf on Feb 5, 2010

    i want KH3 NOW!

  3. By necronzero on Feb 5, 2010

    KH3 will be on PS3 without a doubt!

  4. By Kyo on Feb 5, 2010

    Wii Exclusive for sure.

  5. By ok on Feb 5, 2010

    Why does it take Kingdom Hearts to actually START developing the game? Development time will likely be around 2 years, until 2012 comes, we would have to beat the game in like 6 hours, IN JAPAN.

  6. By vbr on Feb 5, 2010

    Finally, after how long?
    PS3 exclusive all the way

  7. By wowkh2 on Feb 5, 2010

    PS3 ONLY! if its on anything else besides ps3, or even not a ps3 exclusive (just cause dev for other systems only brings down the game itself(ffXIII)
    i will probably die,,, would be the biggest gaming pain in the history of my life. if its not graphic edged and cutscene filled polished to the T and flawless on the ps3 and nothing else,it will be a letdown 8+ years in the making.

  8. By Bowserone on Feb 5, 2010

    lol dont listen to the fan boys…only my system! lol idiots. make the game for all next gen hell sony fanyboys only scream youll get the best graphics on playstation…but not so…if you build a game with the intent of doing all next gen then sony’s system is the one that cant keep up aka bayonetta, also sony’s console is just now starting to sell, 360 has a bigger fan base…period. but i want to see the game sell over a million so even more installments are possible. make it for everyone guys.

  9. By scvdmg on Feb 6, 2010

    @Bowserone you’re a retard sir. PS3 can’t keep up? you have no idea how games are developed, lazy developers tend to do poor quality conversions its easier for 360>PS3 due to sonys proccessors being different ( on a technical point much better ) just look at FF13 ps3 compared to 360 because it was the other way round this time, the ps quality dicks on 360, douche.

  10. By Bowserone on Feb 6, 2010

    hahaha once again people like scvdmg are missing the point…lazy developers?? haha so they spend months no years making product so it can flop on its ass? save ur insults for ur mama everyone’s tough over a computer screen fan boy. and if u hadnt been so wrapped up in ur crusade to re claim sony’s lost fan bass( their own fault i might add) you would have realized i said i still want the game for muiltiplatform. and save the sir..i dont seek respect from an idiot.

  11. By Bowserone on Feb 6, 2010

    at the end of the day its all about doller signs, developing for only sony’s machine which is in last place this gen(its true fanboys look it up) would be a fools move…these companies are trying to bring us quality games yes…but they have to sell…period. yeah sony’s toy does have power im not desputing that…but wii and 360 (even with is red rings lol) has the fan base.

  12. By scvdmg on Feb 6, 2010

    no fanboyism, you just clearly have no idea about anything. Sega even said they hold themselves responsible for the ps3 version. When effort is put in you see real quality from sony ie. Bioshock. If ps3 was so shit they wouldn’t have uncharted 2 standard games and games like MW2 wouldn’t look identical to the 360. OH and last place this gen? yeah but it came out too late 360 is on 38m world, ps3 is on 33m. 5m difference with such a huge gap? idiot gimme a break PERIOD

  13. By jaydiz94 on Feb 6, 2010

    haha yah i think its goin 2 b a ps3 exclusive just for the fact that Noruma is the one behind final fantasy versus 13 and that it is also being developed by the same team that made KH1 and KH2 so it looks like they are praticing with the system with vs 13 b4 they make KH3

  14. By David Macphail on Feb 6, 2010

    The 360 has garbage graphics, anyone who says otherwise doesn’t know what videogames are. The PS3 outsells the 360 every single week without fail because the 360′s exclusives are all making the jump to multiplatform so they can be on a console with good graphics for once.

    For the past two years in a row it has been a PS3 exclusive that won the “Best Graphics” award at the VGA’s. Why? Because crap 360 graphics don’t come close to the PS3. MGS4 and Uncharted 2 took the awards while garbage, low – quality games like Gears 2 or Forza 3 didn’t even get a mention.

    The 360 can’t do graphics even 1% as good as the PS3, 360′s hardware is outdated already which is why PS3 exclusives have better graphics and the PS3 beats the 360 in hardware sales every single week. Those are just the facts.

  15. By Lazyeye79 on Feb 6, 2010

    I dont care if the game is PS3 exclusive or multiplatform just as long as it is not exclusive for a different console. I would prefer it to be PS3 exclusive seeing as they can make the game look better and gameplay last longer with the extra space that blu-ray offers. Also I hope it comes out soon.

  16. By Kyo on Feb 6, 2010

    Epic Mickey is coming exclusively to the Wii.
    Dragon Quest X is coming exclusively to the Wii.
    Most of the Disney Interactive Studios crappy games easily sold 1 million on the Wii. Imagine what a ‘AAA’ disney game can do.
    Kingdom Hearts games are selling most of their LTD sales in NA and Japan, the two best territories of the Wii.
    And I don’t even talk about the KH audience.

    Now let’s guess which console it will be released on…

  17. By Chad Warden on Feb 6, 2010

    PS3/360 game for sure. LOL @ dumbasses thinking KH3 will be for wii. Worse graphics than the PS2 games? No thank you!

  18. By Kyo on Feb 7, 2010

    Worse graphics than the PS2 games? The Wii is stronger than the PS2 so why would the graphics be worse? That would be the developers fault and I doubt SE would do that.
    And even if the game looked like KH2 everyone would be perfectly fine with that besides the graphics whores which I’m guessing your one.

    It’s almost assuredly going to be a Wii exclusive. All the Sony-Fanboys just refuse to accept reality.

    Besides the plethora of better sales potential reasons, it also has going for it the fact that the Wii will have Epic Mickey beforehand. That will attract the enormous numbers of Disney/Mickey fans out there to come into Wii gaming/pay attention to Disney games. Then KH3 will come out and they’ll be all, “Oh snap! Here’s another cool Disney game! WANT!”

    It’s sheer genius in marketing. They’d be idiots to release it on the PS3 and divide their market. The “hardcore RPG” gamer market and the “Final Fantasy gamer” market both aren’t sufficient to support KH3 the way Square would want them to. So you go for the OTHER market that KH3 will interest. All THOSE gamers will be on the Wii.

  19. By Captain N on Feb 14, 2010

    Wii exclusive is a must. Sorry Sony and 360 owners, but Wii has the biggest market to make money on, and its about time Nintendo got one on their console, Have you not seen a trend of major franchises coming to Nintendo Wii, Tales games, Monster Hunter 3 Dragon Quest 10, Kingdom Hearts 3 is the nail in the coffin for this generation. Wii all the way Square/Enix.

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