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Square Enix has announced new details regarding its PlayStation 2 sequel to Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts II. The original game's key developers will return with Tetsuya Nomura acting as director, Shinji Hashimoto as producer, Yoshinori Kitase as co-producer, Kazushige Nojima as scenario writer and Yuuichi Kanemori as battle planner.
The new game will feature more original characters than the first game. The development also plans to answer all the remaining questions of Kingdom Hearts in this sequel. Apart from the returning Final Fantasy characters, which already appeared in the original game, some new characters from Square Enix's flagship series will make their way into the game. A slightly different looking Sora has been confirmed to return as protagonist. While there is a reason behind him wearing those new clothes, it is still a secret. Square Enix would like to work with the same voice actors as in last year's prequel. The team has not decided on a main theme for the new game.
On an interesting side note, the team reported, that the president of Buena Vista Games asked them to create up to 20 Kingdom Hearts installments.
It will not be possible to carry over an existing saved game from Kingdom Hearts into the sequel. Kingdom Hearts II's main themes will be "promise" and the "connection of hearts". The story's outline will be similar to the prequel's, but not as complex. The battle system will remain unchanged, however the team promised to address the camera and response issues of Kingdom Hearts in the new game. Clothes will play an important role in Kingdom Hearts II as a new battle system based on them has been added, though it seems to differ from Final Fantasy X-2's dress up system. Also, the amount of battle commands has been increased and players will be able to perform much more different moves during battle. The level of difficulty can be selected, in Kingdom Hearts Final Mix fashion. Last but not least ,the gummi ship portion of the game will be greatly improved.
Kingdom Hearts II has yet to receive an official release date, but is generally considered to be available in Japan in late 2004.
14 Hi resolution Kingdom Hearts II pictures Kingdom Hearts II is the PlayStation 2 release, and, according to Famitsu magazine, it will take place one year after the original game's storyline. The new story starts in a new location, Twilight Town, which remains in a sort of dim light, akin to the glow of sunset.
A number of original characters have been spotted in the game--in particular, a boy in a white costume holding a keyblade and a spike-haired youth in a hooded black raincoat.
Screenshots from the game also reveal that there is actually a whole group of characters in hooded raincoats who seem to be working alongside a man in a red costume. In a scene with one of the hooded raincoat characters and the red costumed man, the sentence "We can't have let our plans be known, Ansem" appears on the screen, which is a name that should be a familiar to players of the original Kingdom Hearts.
No Disney characters other than Donald, Goofy, and Mickey have been revealed to be in the game.
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories is the Game Boy Advance title that was announced alongside the PS2 iteration. That title's storyline begins immediately after the ending in the original PS2 Kingdom Hearts (where Sora is walking along a grassy road).
The new game begins after Sora encounters a man in a black raincoat on the road. It is nighttime. The man tells Sora that he will find what he is looking for after going further down the road, but it will be in exchange for losing something that is important to him. After the man vanishes, Sora is left to walk a trail that leads him to a mysterious castle, in which Chain of Memories' gameplay will take place.
Chain of Memories is confirmed to use a new card system in its gameplay. Not many details have been revealed, but it is known that during battle, collecting cards that contain the same illustration will create a certain "effect." For example, collecting cards with a picture of lightening will cause a thunderbolt to strike the player's enemies, and collecting cards with a picture of a character, such as Goofy, will summon that character to battle. A card with Cloud from the Final Fantasy series has been seen in one of the screenshots as well, suggesting that some non-Disney characters may make cameo appearances similar to the original Kingdom Hearts.
The cards apparently have more influence than just in battle sequences, but further details have not been revealed.
The promotional art for Chain of Memories shows a number of the original game's characters. Those characters include Sora, Riku, Kairi, and a mysterious gray-haired girl.
Disney characters seen in the illustration include Goofy, Donald Duck, Bambi, the Beast, Jiminy Cricket, Genie, Peter Pan, Simba, and Ariel.
Teaser pages promoting Kingdom Hearts II and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories are now live on the Disney and Square Enix Web sites.
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