Cast your minds back to February of 2007; six months after it was first announced, we finally got a full trailer for the much-anticipated Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix+. It gave us our first, in-motion peek of all the new stuff we'd been promised, including the new cutscenes.
These new scenes were presented as they were set to appear in the game itself; fully cinematic but with dialogue conveyed entirely through subtitles, with no voice acting… with one, rather perplexing exception.
The very first new scene that we're given a glimpse of is Roxas waking up in front of the old mansion, with Xemnas showing up to give him his new name. Now, in the actual game, the scene is entirely voiceless like all the others. But not here!
As the scene plays out in the trailer, we hear the following dialogue:
Roxas: “Roxas…”
Xemnas: “A new. You!”
The scene appears to be going the KH1FM pre-mysterious-figure-cutscene route by using recycled voice clips. Roxas says his own name in what is clearly Jesse McCartney's voice, while Xemnas' line is delivered by, what sounds like two completely different Paul St. Peter voice clips, awkwardly and unconvincingly spliced together, YouTube Poop style.
So… what's the story here? Was this a holdover from a, frankly rather infeasible abandoned plan to give the new cutscenes voices?
This is just such a random, unexplained moment that stuck out to me all those years ago that has seemingly been ignored/forgotten by the fandom at large, and I would love to get some context on it, if any can be provided.
These new scenes were presented as they were set to appear in the game itself; fully cinematic but with dialogue conveyed entirely through subtitles, with no voice acting… with one, rather perplexing exception.
The very first new scene that we're given a glimpse of is Roxas waking up in front of the old mansion, with Xemnas showing up to give him his new name. Now, in the actual game, the scene is entirely voiceless like all the others. But not here!
As the scene plays out in the trailer, we hear the following dialogue:
Roxas: “Roxas…”
Xemnas: “A new. You!”
The scene appears to be going the KH1FM pre-mysterious-figure-cutscene route by using recycled voice clips. Roxas says his own name in what is clearly Jesse McCartney's voice, while Xemnas' line is delivered by, what sounds like two completely different Paul St. Peter voice clips, awkwardly and unconvincingly spliced together, YouTube Poop style.
So… what's the story here? Was this a holdover from a, frankly rather infeasible abandoned plan to give the new cutscenes voices?
This is just such a random, unexplained moment that stuck out to me all those years ago that has seemingly been ignored/forgotten by the fandom at large, and I would love to get some context on it, if any can be provided.
