Video: Lost pilot animatic for scrapped Kingdom Hearts animated series unearthed
Posted on 2 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments
Nearly two decades after an animated series based on Kingdom Hearts came to be, a lost pilot animatic has surfaced online.
Seth Kearsley, who has worked as a director, producer, and more on a variety of movies and TV shows, was heavily involved with the project. It turns out that the anime wasn’t allowed to follow a sequential story and instead the episodes needed to be standalone. Many of the voice actors from the game would be reprising their roles other than Haley Joel Osment as Sora due to a scheduling conflict. Kearsley had pushed for a rewrite of a script he was given to make it feel more like Kingdom Hearts, but in the end, the show never materialized.
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Sakurai on working with Square Enix and Disney to get Sora in Smash Bros. Ultimate
Posted on 3 years ago by Jarop(@gamrah) in News, Switch | 0 comments
In his latest column for Famitsu, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai talked in-depth about the game’s latest DLC fighter, Sora from Kingdom Hearts, including how an unplanned meeting with a Disney rep kicked off the whole process. He spoke about the negotiations with Square Enix and Disney, how Sora was actually the series’ most requested playable character ever, as well as unpacking many details around the character’s design.
Below is a full translation of what Sakurai had to say.
Square Enix now says native Kingdom Hearts Switch ports are “undecided”
Posted on 3 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments
There may still be a glimmer of hope for native Kingdom Hearts ports on Switch.
During the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate presentation unveiling Sora for the game last week, it was revealed that all of the major titles will be appearing on the console. But rather than going the native route, Square Enix is putting all of the games on the cloud. That means you’re required to have an internet connection to play, which many fans aren’t happy about.
It sounds like nothing is in the works at present, but speaking with Nintendo Life, Kingdom Hearts series producer Ichiro Hazama left the door slightly open to the possibility of native ports on Switch in the future. Although the team previously ran into issues such as “the storage capacity of the hardware”, true ports are “undecided” and Square Enix is “excited to hear feedback from our fans”.
Hazama’s full words:
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Tetsuya Nomura says Square Enix considered Kingdom Hearts ports for Switch, but was technologically difficult
Posted on 4 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments
Square Enix will finally be bringing a Kingdom Hearts game to Switch this year, but perhaps not in the way that fans had hoped. Rather than releasing one of the core past titles, we’re instead getting Melody of Memory – a rhythm action spinoff.
Unfortunately, Square Enix isn’t planning any other Kingdom Hearts games for Switch at the moment. Franchise director Tetsuya Nomura told Nintendo Enthusiast that the company considered porting other entries in the series, but found things to be technologically difficult.
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[Nintendo Everything Podcast] – episode #40 – DQ Hero’s Thwack attack and FOMO in your Shlooters
Posted on 5 years ago by Oni Dino(@Oni_Dino) in Podcast | 0 comments
Hello my beautiful Black Eagles, Blue Lions and Golden Deer! In this episode of NEP, we put on the boxing gloves and discuss microtransactions in gaming, why Fire Emblem: Three Houses is so damn good, and the wild mechanics with Dragon Quest Hero as he debuts in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. We also have a chat about the new additions to Nintendo Switch Online and if they save the service or not, Ubisoft’s Chinese Rabbids game and the meager announcements from Nintendo and Tencent at ChinaJoy. Finally in our Listener Mail segment, we recommend JRPGs and give our brutally honest feelings about the Final Fantasy series and Kingdom Hearts series.
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Square Enix sends out Kingdom Hearts-related survey
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 7 Comments
Square Enix has started sending out a new survey for the Kingdom Hearts franchise. It’s notable because fans can provide feedback about what they’d like to see and what they want to see for the series’ future. Square Enix teases at the beginning of the survey, “The more you share with us, the more great stuff you’ll see from us!”
Topics found in the survey include players’ past experiences with Kingdom Hearts, their attitudes, what they enjoyed, what they didn’t enjoy, how they feel about the Disney aspect of the game, and more. You can take the survey here.
