Sorry, but I made up the part about the belts. Wouldn't that be funny, though? He shows up in a suit made of belts and a leather mask that requires 5 unzips to reveal his face? 

The lover of belts and buckles and zippers, Square Enix director and big man Tetsuya Nomura, will be showing face at E3 this year. Shinji Hashimoto revealed on his Twitter account that Nomura would be traveling from Japan to Los Angeles for E3 next week. “Next week, after a long time, Director Nomura will go on a business trip to E3,” Hashimoto tweeted.

Speaking of Nomura and Square Enix, I got to play his/their latest from the Kingdom Hearts series, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. I can't bring you a full preview for another week or so, but know now that it's quite good. Look for our full preview soon.

Tetsuya Nomura making an appearance at E3 [Siliconera]

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electrikmayhem

Birth By Sleep is sooooo good.

hyakushiki1234

Please, Nomura-san, show us Versus XIII!

MuddBstrd

Interesting. I doubt he'd come here just to show off Birth By Sleep, especially since its gotten so much exposure already since it's so close to release. I wonder if his business has more to do with a big reveal of FFvXIII.

Handy

Damn, the hundred belts thing had me kind of excited there for a minute, still it’d be nice to hear something about versus XIII besides the stuff we’ve known for like five years already.

TJF588

Would want Belt-Man. Also want BbS...and a PSP. So, SQEX, better pack in an irresistible pre-order bonus, lest I hold off 'til I can play your game (and oh how I'll want to...).

HEL105

If someone's coming with a plethora of belts, it had better be Lulu.

yoko

Blah blah Versus multi-platform there I saved him a trip

Robotic Robot

Birth By Belts.

Strandli

FFv13 and KH3,riiight?

Diremagic

Kingdom Hearts 3 or GTFO

electrikmayhem

@Strandli - don't hold your breath. We won't see KH3 for at least another couple of years. I'm thinking it'll be FFvXIII-related.

Genius

I cant wait to play Birth By Sleep, the visuals are amazing, they really dont look like they are on a PSP at all. Hopefully they will keep the japanese voice acting, but I doubt it.

drzero3

Birth by Harry Potter with Belts or GTFO

RenegadePanda

I figured he would be wearing 358/2 belts.

GoldBlaze

DON'T LIE TO THE RSS FEED.

pbrand

HEL105 beat me to the punch, though. Good job :(

Shinta

Not only could this be vXIII, but he's said for a few years now that SquareEnix has 5 unannounced projects that have been in development for a bit. Nomoura is working on at least a few of them.

MmmCurry

Headline: I lol'd.

HEL105

@pbrand
When you posted that picture, we both won.

Oishidesu

@pbrand
is that her chastity belt?? I wonder how Wakka got through all those without getting angry and still be able to tap her... btw I hope Kingdom Hearts: BBS comes to PSN... I don't want to buy the UMD version.

lucame

why wait a week for the impressions, here are my impressions from the fan translated pirated version: IT FUKKEN OWNS

yea its a really nice game, and even if the story is not fully translated (weapons and most important stuff is) i have played already more than 10 hours so i reiterate:

lucame

IT FUKKEN OWNS

Healerdoc

Well if we want to get into belts, look at DiZ: he has belts strapped onto his face.

ammoelf3

I laughed way too hard at the headline.

RichardBlaine

Glad to hear from some of the people that have played imports/pirates that it's good. Hopefully you guys will support the stateside release. The gameplay has definitely looked solid from all of the previews. Looking forward to checking out the latest chapter of the story. Hopefully it'll have a bit more mythological substance than 358/2, even though I did like spending time with the Organization.

@pbrand

I normally don't go in for the Goth look, on real or animated women, but I always thought that that little bit of thigh that Lulu shows was such a hot touch on that character design. Nomura's a bit of an odd duck, but his designs resonate with me, for whatever reason.