In a recent interview with Ultimania (helpfully translated by the folks over at Kingdom Hearts Insider), Director Tetsuya Nomura stated that he has multiple ideas for the next Kingdom Hearts game, and that it's likely that the next game he starts working on won't be the hotly anticipated Kingdom Hearts 3. While discussing the upcoming Birth by Sleep and its connections to the original Kingdom Hearts (as Birth by Sleep takes place before the original game), Nomura stated that BbS would contain a lot of unanswered questions. When asked if Kingdom Hearts 3 would be the game that bridged Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts, he responded as follows.
Who knows? I already have ideas for the next installment. But since Birth by Sleep isn’t even out yet, I don’t have to think about it until awhile from now. Recently everyone kepts asking me when I’m planning on coming out with KH3. Even though I’m currently busy with Final Fantasy Versus XIII, I’m also thinking that it’s almost time to start thinking about it seriously. Though it’s entirely possible that the next game in the series won’t be KH3.
While I don't think this necessarily means that the game hasn't been started at ALL, it's definitely a sign that fans of Kingdom Hearts will be waiting a while before KH3 is finally released, particularly since it sounds like yet another spin-off game is being made first. When asked about what this mystery spinoff game might be, Nomura only said that it would be "more official than a side story" and that it is a "mystery KH". Regardless of which game ends up coming out first, Nomura suggests that both games are not very far along in the development process.
The full interview goes into a lot of detail about Birth by Sleep, coded, and 358/2 Days, so if you're interested in Kingdom Hearts it's definitely worth reading.
Does this 'mystery Kingdom Hearts' sound appealing to you, or are you ready for them to stop messing around with spinoffs and finally make a true sequel?
[Via The Examiner]
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1:00 AM on 07.01.2009
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so yeah... i won't hold my breath to 'proper' KH3
Okay, I was quite happy when Sephiroth came out in the first Kingdom Hearts and owned my roommate in about five seconds. It made my week.
With all these spinoffs, they make it seem like they're gonna answer the questions first, then conclude it in KH3.
For real, though, I like Kingdom Hearts. The fact that he's trying to make spinoffs with angstier protagonists annoys me though. It's Disney, dammit.
Still, without playing Birth by Sleep, I don't see the need for a game to bridge BbS and KH1. BbS happening before KH1 should hopefully answer enough questions, and 358/2 Days should fill in the rest. I'd assume any lingering plot threads would continue in Coded, since that is the first game planned to happen after KH2, and from there, that should lead into KH3. Honestly, I'm not sure where they can take the story, but in retrospect, I thought that KH1 ended fairly conclusively (besides the open ending, I thought all the questions were answered), but KH2 provided answers to so many questions I didn't even realize were in KH1 until they were presented to me.
Long story short: I'm eager for more games, but I can wait for KH3 without any problem.
@ EternalDeathSlayer
It's called "triangle" for reaction commands, hitting R2 to bring up magic command shortcuts, and "square" for guarding and parrying attacks. Those were all in KH2. (Even if magic was far less useful compared to KH1...)
The PSP is more than capable of making PS2 quality games, and Birth by Sleep is in no way any less of an official sequel just because it is portable.
But that's not a 2 button combo system, it's a context sensitive button pressing bonanza.
Either way, the combat was sort of stale, and I agree that magic was far more useful in the first game. I'd prefer a return to that type of game, not the dumbed down shit they gave us with KH2.
More on topic, Versus 13 is pretty much gameplay wise what KH3 is imagined to be. I hope that comes out nicely, sadly we wont see it for at least a year.
You just have to start KH2 on the highest difficulty available (proud), otherwise they made it WAY too easy in comparison to KH1. Why is it better? One word: Tron.
oh I don't doubt that it isn't going to be good, I just meant that I don't own a PSP and would therefore personally like it to be on a system that I have.
That doesn't mean KH2 sucked before Tron, I'm just saying, Tron has power.
Considering that FFV:XIII is taking up Mr. Nomura-san's time is great news to me, as I know almost nothing about that title. I guess this is something, right?