It sounds like the game will have plenty of new and old worlds returning with more content in them then in any KH title before. It also sounds like we'll have more worlds in this one then in the original KH but not more than in KH II. Maybe the same amount.

DLC when it comes may bring it over the level of KH II.

Considering Luminous is kind of... well... not very good, I feel like the switch to UE4 probably wasn't a delay in the grand scheme of things.

Also, I hope there isn't DLC.
I'll buy it anyway, but I hope it doesn't happen.

I'll buy anything this game gives me.

Now I'm thinking we're looking at 11-13 Disney worlds total not including the original ones. Around the same or a bit less than KH 2 but they will be so much bigger than any KH before.

Yeah, I figured the switch from the Luminous Engine to UE4 was probably the main reason why the game has taken so long since it was initially announced. The concept for KHIII may have been in development since early 2013, but the current version of KHIII as we see it now has only been in development since mid-2014.

13 worlds seem fine.

I just hope it's not less then that and it's mainly new besides for the originals..the lower the world amount the lower the chances some favorites making it in.

Thats very optimistic. I'd say you're looking at 15 worlds total like KH2 at most with his comments. I'd say 8-10 Disney worlds is the realistic amount with 10 being on the high end.

That DLC comment is such a tease fr fr

I don't see there being that many original worlds though. Radiant Garden, Twilight Town, The Keyblade Graveyard, and Daybreak Town.

Gives space for 10-11 Disney worlds for the total of 15. KH2 had 14 total.

I say we're looking at the same amount as KH 2 here, but they'll be so much bigger than any in the franchise.

KH 2 had 11 Disney worlds, not including the originals, which there were only 3. I imagine KH 3 will have the same amount of Disney worlds or one more. DLC could make it more.

I think Destiny Islands will only be shown in cutscenes like KH 2.

I would say bank on Frozen being one of the remaining 6 or 7 worlds. Followed by Jungle Book and Incredibles for the 2nd Disney Pixar world.

The other 2-3 I have no idea. Aladdin I think is returning.

Marvel and Star Wars will be in the game but similar to FF characters.

I think it's a horrible idea for DLC to play a part in KH3 if the DLC will be new worlds. The worlds are a major part of the story. Intentionally leaving some out just to make them DLC is going to be bad for the story and make everyone angry at the game. Or making DLC worlds just to pander to the fans that are begging for more content. Why make a world that was left out of KH3 available as DLC and not necessary to the plot on the disc, when the world could be used in KH4?

KH's DLC should be additional keyblades, side story chapters for Kairi/Riku/Aqua/Lea/Mickey (whichever character), additional gummi ship modifications... basically things that are not necessary to have a complete experience from the game that is on the disc.

I completely agree. Side Story chapters to add more to the worlds already in the game.

I think that there are still 6-7 Disney worlds left to be revealed. I wonder what they will be. I would say the 6 are...

1. Frozen
2. The Jungle Book or Zootopia
3. Brave or Moana
4. Treasure Planet or POTC
5. Aladdin
6. Robin Hood or The Black Cauldron
7. Beauty and the Beast

the season pass is gonna be called the "final mix".

What's with the DLC hate? As long as the game is complete and it's nothing necessary, why hope there won't be DLC? It's a good way to add content to those who really love the game and would like to pay, and for those who don't, they can just say "no, thanks, I don't need this."
So… why do you hope there's no DLC? Genuine question.


;(

I'll buy anything for this game including a season pass and whatever.

Completely understandable to be hurt when you're accused of being the main "culprit" of something which wasn't in your ability to influence, yet the only advice one may give there is to ignore those whiners. They're there since 2006 more or less anyways.

How many of those more "grounded" fans have said this from the very beginning? Now we have official confirmation on it but I doubt it will actually have much influence on that particular part of the fandom.



In all honesty he can reveal every single world just fine if he cuts down on the story spoilers in return, would be a neat payoff.

As for the whole DLC-business. Nowadays having at least some additional stuff delivered later is almost a default of the gaming industry and I have actually no problem with some extra Coliseum Cups, Super Bosses or clothing/Keyblade DLCs.
Story DLC would really depend on what exactly it is as the main story should certainly be complete with the vanilla launch and definitely NOT something like FF XIII-2 had.



15 worlds with these massive areas is already much more than KH 1 and KH 2 had when looking at it overall.
The actual number of worlds is not really an indicator if each single KH III world is two or three times as big as one of the old worlds was.

Depending on how many original worlds are included, we may end up on around 16 or 17 worlds overall, but that is a generous estimate.



Out of these, I'm even not entirely sure about Daybreak Town being actually playable when there are locations that make more sense narrative- and timeline-wise (Daybreak Town is a relic of the past after all) like i.e. Castle Oblivion/LoD.
Twilight Town we already know to be present while Radiant Garden as the Capital of Light and the main home of over 90% of the FF cameos is almost a no-brainer while the Graveyard might be the site of the series of final battles.
If we still want to include Daybreak it would be five originals if we insinuate that Yen Sid's Tower is again attached to Twilight Town.
1. Daybreak, 2. Graveyard, 3. Radiant Garden, 4. Twilight Town, 5. CO/LoD.
Yet in DDD, it was stated in the Ultimania that the World that never was has special properties which allows all 13 Xehanorts to gather in one place, so this may catapult this world back into the circle of possible playable originals as well.
But even with six originals there are still nine slots left for Disney-worlds if one wants to reach a number of 15.



It may be because examples of incompleteness and DLC-"fixing" already exist especially from Square, read: FF XIII-2 and FF XV to quite an extent.
For some people, those already constitute as a negative precedence cases which outshine the admittedly positive examples like i.e. World of Final Fantasy.

On one hand I am supportive of Nomura actually addressing this issue, yet on the other I doubt that it will do much to change the minds of the KH 3-whiners in regards to their scapegoat.

9-10 slots left and 4 are already revealed giving us 5-6 more Disney worlds IMO.

I don't think we'll play through TWTNW, I imagine that world much like DI will be just in cutscenes.

Really isn't much they could do with TWTNW that they haven't done in DDD anyway.All the districts look the same and so you can't revamp that along with the castle.

They'll find a way to revamp it. Don't know how, but they will.In my personal opinion, I just wanna run around TWTNW in those amazing graphics~

Chuman, I know you usually say things in jest, but this is such a Square Enix thing that it'll happen.

I'm pretty convinced Downloadable Content (DLC), will come to KINGDOM HEARTS III. Square Enix wants to make a business model based on inclining games to be more of a "service", than a "release, and move-on" product. Just look at FINAL FANTASY XV and how we're still getting content with new updates and DLC episodes based on characters from the main cast. You could say that FFXV is the "guinea pig" of this new model SE wants to promote. I'm predicting one, to three worlds via paid DLC that will be based on upcoming Disney movies. That way you can keep the game alive, well, selling like hot pancakes and with nice marketing.

Other DLC may revolve around costume pieces, seeing as how we saw that in 0.2.

Personally, I might consider stop following news if they show ALL worlds beforehand.
That's a level of knowledge I don't want to have.

Yeah, I agree. Part of what was fun with KH1 and KH2 for me was getting to see what new worlds were going to be explored and all the different areas of them, since I didn't follow news for either of those games at all. I don't want to see EVERYTHING before I play. It kind of takes the fun out of it.

DLC is completely fine with me. I'm not a fan of obvious DLC that was cut from the game to make money or rush a game out, but I'm always down for DLC that is either cosmetic and reasonably priced.

I'm also good with DLC story as long as it is very clear it couldn't have fit in the game but is still fun/important to know.

Also, I'm glad Nomura explained this stuff but I'm also sad that the reactions affected him that much that it sounds like he feels somewhat guilty about it all.

This is what has always happened since the very start lol Just take a break from news once a release date is known. By that point they'd be on the fast-track to monthly world reveals and you can easily gauge where you want to stop finding out things.

Less worlds means we need the hype worlds like Star Wars and Marvel.

for nomura it more quality then quanity which is pretty fine with me

Really, we don't. Disney has more than enough properties that get people on their feet to work with.

They're really revealing all worlds? I don't mind either way, but wasn't expecting that. Guess it builds the hype for some people?

Haven't they always revealed all the worlds in one way or another?

Yep. If not through a trailer, it is in Famitsu, JUMP, or Dengeki.

Well i think there are chances of more Worlds being revealed before Releasing the Game in 2018 so i expect at least Tokyo Game Show, Jump Festa 2018(If there is going to be one), Playstation Experience(I want to see if Kingdom Hearts III), and maybe Famitsu could make Magazine Scans maybe revealing more Worlds and Characters for the game.

Just checked. Famitsu March 2012 issue had TWTNW in it, so...

SE revealing all the Disney-based worlds in a KH game prior to it's release is nothing new. I think with KHII, we knew that TWTNW was probably going to be in the game, but most people knew it as "Deep Dive City" prior to the game's release. It wasn't until the game's release that people knew what it was called.

If there are about 5 worlds left to reveal I expect only 1-2 more new worlds and the rest are returning worlds. Since post KH1 almost all KH games have had a pretty big mix of old and new worlds. Currently we have seen only one old Disney World and I doubt it will be like DDD where all the Disney worlds were actually new (even if they had some old areas from other worlds in them like SoS) because they have a much larger world number than DDD had.

I'm guessing 3 of the worlds to reveal are going to be returning worlds specifically princess of heart worlds because Xehanort will go after them to make us gather the guardians. Of those worlds I feel we can cross out any that just end and have nowhere else to go so.... Wonderland, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Beauty and the Beast are all on the block. However I feel the latter two still could appear with original stories pretty easily and I think Beast's Castle is the most likely of those 4 ended stories to reappear. Beast and or Belle could both be party members even if Beast isn't a Beast anymore they could still have him fight. The two princess worlds I think are most likely are Agrabah and Castle of Dreams.

Agrabah writes itself you have....
-An entire third story we can address bringing closure to Aladdin and Jasmine's storyline
-A story about a man who grew obsessed with finding something and in doing so discarded everything and even went as far as to become a bad guy, Xehanort and Aladdin's dad get along swimmingly.
-An oracle that can lead you to anything and answer any question, the perfect tool for someone searching for something like the key to return hearts or a specific black box.
-An ancient ruin beneath the sea on the back of a turtle that has been untouched for centuries and is a great potential hiding place for the box Maleficent is search for, or at least a place that would be logic her to search in.
-The movie takes place almost entirely outside of agrabah and what little inside of Agrabah takes place in the palace we never explored so the world is ripe with many unique and new locations for them.

Castle of dreams has...
-A plot about a villain who was defeated but gets a second chance at victory by stealing a magic wand that lets them rewind time.
-Xehanort is seeking a way to bring back a lost darkness this magic wand whose rules of time travel differ from his own I can see him trying to steal it.
-It's a way to potentially allow Terra, Aqua, and or Ventus to interact with the plot and Sora before being rescued since they were involved in this world's past which be super trippy. Actually if they made it Terra he would then have memories of meeting Sora as a wielder, memories that could carry over to Apprentice Xehanort and thus perfectly answer how Xehanort knew Sora was going to be a wielder before he ever even got the keyblade.
-Takes place in almost entirely new locations like the majority of the palace we've never seen, the path between the town and sea, the docks, and the ship Cinderella was almost shipped off on.
-There is also a whole story about connected hearts transcending time, space, and magic restoring lost memories and what not that could factor into both Sora and Xehanort's quest.

I also expect to see Disney Town/Castle again. It's an incredibly prominent world in the series lore and every major KH game has had it especially because it's the only way we can see Minnie and Daisy who never leave the place. More so Minnie because while her role is lesser to Mickey's they've actually always treated Minnie with a certain level of prestige when the plot can do it in a way that makes sense. Not to mention why bother giving TAV specifically "lifetime passes" if they weren't trying to leave the door open for them to be able to return to the world again one day. At the very least I will be shocked if we don't see the world in a cutscene and also Maleficent said "what I seek is in these walls" so we know she is going to launch another attack on the place. It's kind of hard to say if this place qualifies as an original world or a Disney world...I tend to lean more towards the latter than the former myself.

Nomura said almost all the Disney worlds will be new.

Thing is he said that before about DDD and it wasn't true then either. The names were new and they were largely new locations and layouts but at the end of the day DDD only had 3 truly new Disney Worlds the rest were still actually old worlds or connected to old worlds or different versions of old worlds. Nomura has a very generous idea on what new actually means...our character roster in it of itself speaks of that....

I was down with the idea of Castle of Dreams returning, but Sora interacting with Terra through this world's time travel is a genius idea. Now I genuinely want this world to return. I can see Saix visiting this world. Saix as a character has powers off the Moon, and Cinderella gets her wish at night (and all the BBS stuff happens at night anyway). You can have a boss battle with him here in his werewolf form.

I'd rather see Lilo and Stitch return.

Here's the full dual shockers interview:

Nomura Reveals More On Kingdom Hearts III's Keyblade Transformations And Summons - News - www.GameInformer.com

theres a lot of overlap since it was a round table interview, but he does say they're confident that they'll hit 2018. The was he words it though does make it sound like it's Q3 at best. I assume their internal date is September and they'll give the team wiggle room to December just like FFXV.

if that case i can bring va on around december this year to recored

That's not the DualShockers interview.

That's the DualShockers interview.

I think that instead of the established Disney Princesses they may go for the new ones. They already have tangled and likely frozen. Those have established princesses which could be new princesses of heart. I imagine we are looking at one more princess world and my money would be on the princess and the frog. Brave or Moana are possible as well.

I think Aladdin is the most likely of the original worlds to return. I think they want more new then old worlds this time. I would say there's 3 to 4 new worlds and only 2 returning worlds left.

There won't be new Princesses of Heart.

I can see this being really true this time just because of how much more hype/interest it'll generate for a title as long awaited as this and how much more marketable KH3 will be with all the new potential Disney films.

DDD was rushed and even then it wouldn't make sense to put in highly anticipated new films in a handheld title when they were so close to the start of the development of KH3.

Quite frankly there isn't much old worlds that could return and feel fresh and new like Hercules..it just had so much unused material to work with.

If DLC is a thing, it's be great if they add in a... coliseum kind of mode where you get to play as different characters. Nomura said you'd only get to play one other character than Sora apparently, so I'd like to get a taste of everyone else somehow. Just release a new character once a month or so and boom. Much entertainment, no harm towards the story, not something cut out of the game just to make it paid later

True but what's stopping them from having new ones?

The lore? There definitely won't be new Princesses of Heart. There are seven, and there will always be seven. Sure, there can be new characters who are PoHs after these ones die, but there will always be 7.

Plot twist, there's actually 13

I rather wait no i don't want that i mean if we do Get DLC then i would be mad.

Why? What is it about this whole "DLC is inherently bad" mindset? If the game is released completely and finished, then everything should be fine. Not only would DLC give developers the chance to give us players scrapped content (Worlds, Keyblades, Summons, Attractions, etc.), but it also supports the game for a longer time instead of just being all "well, we released it. Go play now. That is all."

If you don't want to buy the DLC, for whatever reason, then there shouldn't be any need for you to be mad. Just ignore it.

Why is DLC such a bad thing when 90% of the fan base wants a Final Mix of every game? Truly, what is the difference between DLC and a KH3 Final Mix?

All right fine maybe i would considered DLC for Kingdom Hearts III for some Reasons

1: I have a PS4 and i have some Games that have DLC Content in it(LEGO Games)

2: I think i want to have some Free DLC Packs(Free Worlds, Keyblades, Outfits and Possible Story DLC Pack) while the Rest are purchaseable.

How is that relevant?

2: I think i want to have some Free DLC Packs(Free Worlds, Keyblades, Outfits and Possible Story DLC Pack) while the Rest are purchaseable.

You do realize that that will not happen, right? If you don't want to buy DLC, then that's fine. Nobody forces you to.

There's nothing stopping them from making more Princesses, princesses of heart. I mean they come up with a storyline on the fly. Whose to say Organization 13 won't discover that their were undiscovered princesses that were discovered but were unreachable before but now they are.

They can come up with a reason.

Oh god, no, please no more discussions on there being more/alternate princesses of hearts. We don't need another "Aerith is a Princess of Heart" dumpster fire topic, y'all.

I also had quite a deja-vu when reading this, lol.

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"Coming up with a storyline on the fly" doesn't translate to "contradict something that has been established multiple times throughout the series".
You can reasonably give some new spins on still ambigious issues or something that has been addressed only once and could feasibly be a fallacy or error, but not something that has been hammered down throughout the whole series.

If there's gonna be a DLC I hope its Elena of Avalor!

Nevermind, everyone go back to talking about there bring a new Princess of Heart, please.

Uh....I'm sorry but chances of that happening are slim to none.

Like dude, seriously, stop it.

I think the anti-DLC sentiment comes from the fact that it’s a money racket. If it was just little things like new weapons/outfits/etc. I don’t think I or most would care. But if whole worlds are added after-the-fact? Yeah, that’s pretty rage-inducing. Especially if (like me) you have no access to DLC anyway whether or not you could afford it.

Seriously why can't you people SEE that this is really a good solution for a world in KH3?!!! Seeing Sora Donald & Goofy make another good friend & ally in Elena CAN be interesting to see!

Dude, I'm gonna be completely honest here. Its not gonna happen.

Do I need to start an actual petition to have gibbs literally bound and gagged from ever mentioning Elena & Sofia ever again? Like bro, there are other Disney properties. Stop riding these two shows ass to be in the game. You're making the rest of us who mention that one world we desperately want look bad.