TALKING ABOUT INTERESTING SCENES

-In this PV, Kairi makes an appearance gathering Sora, Riku and Kairi together. Could you please tell us about their design?
Nomura: Sora has less accessories now. Previously, he had a chain hanging alongside very large pockets and belts, which was the point of the design.
However, this time, since he's going to be involved in more dynamic action, I wanted him to have a greater sensation of activeness.

-What about Riku's and Kairi's?
Nomura: I'm having their "taste" to match Sora's in some parts. Sora gets a red and black color pattern, while Riku gets blue as a base and added around the
shoulder some yellow tones to differentiate it. As for Kairi, pink was the main color of choice. That's the kind of image in mind when I thought of the logical next step.
This time, everyone got their new clothes from Yen Sid, including Mickey and as expected, the ones who actually made it are the 3 fairies. Thus, I wanted
all of them to have something in common. In this case, it's the checkered pattern.

-Moving on, I'm going to ask you about some key scenes in the PV. Roxas' resurrection has been touched upon, both Sora and the New Organization XIII seems to wish for his return, right?
Nomura: Specially Sora, who has a connection with Roxas. However, that's something that is not something I can answer at the moment.

-Also, about Ienzo, Hayner and the rest, I wonder how they'll cooperate... There's something else I'm wondering about. The word Larxene used "New Seven Hearts".
Nomura: It's referring to the Seven Princesses of the next generaiton. It has to do with what Master Xehanort did in KH3D. In case the 7 Guardians of Light don't gathering
they would instead use the Seven Princesses... that's the reasoning. Those Seven Princesses are being replaced while Kairi is the only one that keeps being one.
As for the remaining 6 candidades, people like Rapunzel, Ana or Elsa are being targetted for that.

-There's also a lot of mysteries sorrounding the resurrection of the New Organization XIII. Vanitas seems to be one of them, why is that?
Nomura: While the Vanitas appeared in KH3D was an illusion, this time he's real and makes an appearance. Vanitas and the other members have resurrected in
an unusual way. Some of the members returned to their human forms only to then again turn into nobodies while other have resurrected by using other means.
For example, Lea and Ienzo who are collaborating with Sora, have just resurrected as human.

-Lea and Kairi are training together to be able to use the keyblade. Where does the scene in the PV with them happen?
Nomura: It's a world you can't go to, but I can say that the place they are in is a new location. Matching the progress of the script I wanted to show
their progress one step at a time. Previously, at the Kingdom Hearts concert, there was a speech of Kairi talking about their training together.
That speech is also used in a scene inside the game.

-Aqua's change of appaearance was also a huge shock. Her eyes turned golden and it looked as if she completely fell to darkness.
Nomura: It seems everyone was even more surprised about it that I expected. That scene happens when Riku and The King end up in a dangerous situation and then
Aqua appears in that state. Not only hers, but the mysteries related to a lot of other characters are cleared up, so writing the script for all that was really hard.

-Some time ago you told us about a Secret Movie being produced. Are there any new developments about that?
Nomura: We're already making it but it hasn't been finalized yet.

-The series has progressed a lot since the first title came out. The story has become pretty complicated and the memories about the story have become a little blurry.
Also, I think many people have only played the numbered titles. Have you thought of anything to help them catch up?
Nomura: Well, since there are so many character and relationships within the games, if we stopped every time a new character appears to introduce them, the story wouldn't move on.
We are making videos summarizing the story of the game into 5 chapters with narrations from Chirithy. They will be released shortly after E3 in our official website.
So I hope you watch these videos, play the HD remasters until the release date of KH3. Also, the videos need adjustments for it, bbut we're looking into adding the videos to the KH3 game.

WORRIES ABOUT THE GAME'S VOLUME?!

-I'm sure that now that you have announced the release date you are working towards finishing making the game, but can you tell us what's the current state of the development?
Nomura: It's hard to give you an actual percentage of how complete it is. Right now the game's volume is way too high and space is becoming a problem where's we're running out of it.

-What's the cause for that?
Nomura: There are many reasons. One of the bigger ones is that movies take up a lot of space. When you're running a cutscene in real time there's very little data to load
but, let's say the previous scene I talked about with Kairi and Lea, it happens in a completely different place, so you'd have to load in all that environment since it isn't
loaded and it would result in very long loading times between key cutscenes. So, in order to solve that, we make a part of some cutscenes into videos,
however, since they have to be in high resolution, they take up a lot of space. That has become a problem beyond our expectations.

-Speaking about space problems, switching between japanese and english voice acting is also a problem, right?
Nomura: That's right. It's not only about the voices, there's also lipsync to worry about and we have to put that in. Up until now, in "Final Mix" titles
the english voices were used and as far as I know, many people want to play KHIII that way. Dealing with the exchange of voices is being really hard.

In KHIII, will there be a "Final Mix" expansion like there was with previous titles?
Nomura: It's not under consideration at the moment. We're having space problems after all (sarcastic laugh). We have plans to make updates as DLC, so if we
do it, it will be that way and not as "Final Mix". We haven't thought of the details yet, but it won't be things like the DLC keyblades, but things that expand
the ways to play the game. The content will be released in packages instead of having a Season Pass. Although now, we are focusing on finishing the main title.


-Finally, can you tell us about the future of KHIII? For example, will there be any trials or demos like the ones in the Premiere to be distributed to the public?
Nomura: Since there is a lot of work to distribute and create a demo or a trial, there are no plans for that, but japanese people will be able to try the game
at the Tokyo Game Show. So I hope you get to play it there and keep your expectations high. I'm sorry for making you wait a little longer than expected.
We already have a release date, so now we just have to move towards it. We'll just make you wait just a little longer.