1) looks amazing, the best they could do with the 3 covers IMO
2) spoils most games - BBS is absolutely ruined.
3) this needs to be our limited edition (not gonna happen)

All I know is that I'm gonna be salty af if SE doesn't deliver something similar to their western audiences. It costs so little to make boxes in bulk for goodness sake.

Surely North America will get something cool too right? ..........Right? (sobs)

How exactly does it "absolutely ruin" BBS?

One thing that really catches the eye is the ongoing changing sky in the three covers already mentioned by Nomura a while ago.

Also, the Skinjuku Memorial Exhibit picture seems to be slightly different. The characters are arranged differently, especially in the middle.

Yeah, they had to fit all of the characters from the wall onto a box. xD

Terra-Xehanort.. Vanitas....

I mean, seriously. It's saving grace is that it's probably aimed at fans and not newcomers.

SQUARE ENIX USA YA'LL BETTER DELIVER AND GIVE US A BOX TOO BECAUSE THIS IS GORGEOUS AND I NEED IT IN MY LIFE.

But no seriously, at the very least give us a pretty art box to house our games in with the KH symbols all over it or something. I'm going to be severely disappointed otherwise seeing these HD collections are begging for one.

Hmm, would have loved to see some new art but this is fine too. I hope Nomura has some time to draw something new to celebrate KH`s 15th anniversary.

so in the box there will also be the games of 2.8? God, how lucky these Japanese fans are :/

No, the box will only come with the disc for 1.5+2.5. There will be a spot in there to put 2.8 though so you can have the entire collection in one box.

So hypothetically, should this come to NA on Square's site for preorders on 1.5+2.5, do preorders on Square's site require it all up front or is it billed a few days beforehand?

Oh, that?
Well, I guess by now this can be considered a thing very similar to the "Aerith dies"-fact in FF VII. BBS is over six years old by now and with Vanitas the funny thing is also that it is more a red herring as despite all appearance-similarities he has nothing to do with Sora, he only looks like that because of Sora's connection with Ventus, the latter to which his actual connection is.

On that you're probably right as casuals and newbies probably won't be interested in such extras and memorabilia anyways, the former because they're not into it so intensely to begin with and the latter because they're just starting and not yet knowing if they want to stay the whole ride and/or immerse themselves deeply into it.
Newbies can after all become either a dedicated immersed fan or a casual one.

I literally need this

Give this to me or there will be consequences SE!!!!!

I definitely need this, if only to scan that fully combined cover art and turn it into a big ass poster.

oh look, they got rid of all of those random keyblades from 2.5's cover.

I know, it makes me sad. ;-;

[strike]lol i was the only one who liked them i guess lol[/strike]

Man, I better get at least one of these two things for 1.5 + 2.5

1. A cool-a$$ box like that one.
2. CROSS-SAVE PLEASE

Considering they are altering the trophies for 1.5 + 2.5, I really doubt they will make it cross-save. (I am hoping though. X/X-2 HD had it)

As someone who vowed to Platinum every Kingdom Hearts game, this is a little painful to know. On the one hand, more Platinum trophies for the roster. On the other hand, I already have PTSD from Re:CoM's "Card Collector Sora" trophy; three hours spent trying to get an Aquatank Enemy Card, getting a dozen other Enemy Cards in the process that I didn't need. So long as difficulty trophies stack as they should in 1.5, I can cope.

I digress, though, back to the topic at hand. That box is positively lovely, and it'd be such a wasted opportunity for Square-Enix's other branches to not offer it as a pre-order bonus. So fingers crossed we don't get stuck with another pin in a not-quite-as-fancy-as-this box.

I was hoping for cross-save/shared trophies, but the fact that they're altering the trophies outright confirms that it will have to be re-platinumed if you want the platinums for the PS4 collection. Which, yeah, makes cross-save unlikely since that might cause all sorts of weird inconsistencies in the code, although I'm sure they could figure it out, but are they too lazy to try? Probably.

I'm over here about to platinum 1.5 (didn't even start 2.5) like:

On the bright side, they said they're trying to make the trophies on PS4 easier, so platinuming the ReMIXs on PS3 is now subject to greater bragging rights :D

I thought this was including the games. My salty ass is mistaken.

I'm really glad they put Eraqus on the box. That poor man needs more appreciation!

Wait has Nomura been intentionally designing the sky in the game boxes so they can connect like this? Because these look to segway together way better than a photoshop job would make.

Yep, he confirmed this to be the case. Also that Sora goes from sitting down -> standing up -> walking towards Kingdom Hearts 3.

It's why the 1.5+2.5 PS4 box art looks like that, because it needs to have both of those artworks beside each other so it works with 2.8.

Huh that's really neat....also I just realized there isn't a SINGLE image of older Riku on these boxes. There is KH1 Riku, Data Riku who is based on KH1 Riku, and older Riku who was reverted to the physical age of KH1 Riku. >.>

If I have to plat all the ganes again I'll cry. BBS and Re Com were such a gigantic pile of shit when it comes to that.