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Yakuza, Kingdom Hearts, and More Coming to Xbox

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Nov 152019
 

Yesterday was X019, an Xbox-centric event, and while I didn’t watch the stream live, several exciting announcements came from it.

The Yakuza series is coming to the Xbox One. Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami, and Yakuza Kiwami 2, which are all currently available for the PS4 and PC, will be available for the Xbox One in early 2020.

They will also be included in Xbox Game Pass, both for console and PC.

In possibly even more exciting news, the remaining Kingdom Hearts games are coming to the Xbox One in 2020 as well! It never made sense to me that Kingdom Hearts III, the conclusion of a story-driven saga that all but requires you to be familiar with the previous entries, was available for the Xbox One and yet they never brought the remix collections.

Now, Xbox One players will finally be able to play the Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix and Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue and experience the series properly.

2020 will also see Final Fantasy VII, VIII (remastered), IX, X and X-2, XII, all three XIII games, and XV added to GamePass. Meanwhile, Final Fantasy XIV is planned for Xbox in the future, although it isn’t ready yet.

Those are some exciting announcements for Xbox players! If you have an Xbox One, will you be picking up any of these games when they come out next year?

Snack World Localization, Project Resistance, and KH3 Re:Mind Trailer

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Sep 092019
 

We’ve got a round-up of announcements to talk about today, staring with The Snack World.

Localization of Level-5’s RPG The Snack World had been hinted at before, but now it seems all but confirmed. There hasn’t been an official announcement yet, but the ESRB has rated Snack World: The Dungeon Crawl – Gold for the Switch.

This is most likely the localization of The Snack World: Trejarers Gold, the Switch port of the original 3DS game.

“Trejarers Gold” might sound odd, but personally I like that title better than Snack World: The Dungeon Crawl – Gold. Anyway, I’m looking forward to seeing more from Snack World.

Now let’s move on to Resident Evil. Remember the new Resident Evil game that was being tested? After a few more details came out, fans began to believe it was a new entry in the Resident Evil Outbreak spin-off series… but unfortunately, it’s not.

No, Project Resistance has now been revealed as a team-based horror game for the PS4, Xbox One, and PC.

It doesn’t quite look as action-focused as Operation Raccoon City (or Umbrella Corps, which I actually forgot all about until I saw someone else mention it), but it doesn’t look like Outbreak, either.

More information about Project Resistance will be shown at TGS, but right now I’m not too interested in this one.

So let’s talk about something I am interested in, Kingdom Hearts 3’s upcoming Re:Mind DLC!

As announced, a new trailer for the DLC came out today.

Warning: The trailer includes big spoilers for Kingdom Hearts III. Don’t watch the trailer if you haven’t finished Kingdom Hearts III.

The trailer doesn’t really clarify much about the DLC, but it does support my favorite theory about what the events will cover/explain. I’m looking forward to the Re:Mind DLC quite a bit, and I hope we get a release date soon!

I’m excited for Re:Mind, tentatively interested in Snack World, and… really not interested at all in Project Resistance so far. How do you feel about these three games?

Kingdom Hearts: DLC Trailer, KHUX Updates, and a “Third Line” Coming Soon

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Sep 022019
 

Get ready, because we have a lot of Kingdom Hearts news coming up.

First, a new trailer for the Kingdom Hearts 3 DLC “Re:Mind” has been announced for September 9. Hopefully it will shed a little more light on what we can expect.

But that’s only the start.

As we speculated last week, a special Keyblade War event has begun in the Japanese version of Kingdom Hearts Union Cross. It appears to be a standalone event, rather than specifically coming up in the story, at least for now.

It’s the 4th anniversary of KHUX in Japan, and Nomura released a special message about it, translated here by KH Insider.

Nomura has been working on the main scenario of Union Cross, and four story updates are planned for October. He shared two screenshots related to the first two of these updates.

The first one appears to be the Master of Masters talking to Luxu, telling him something about when he (the Master) was a child. The second shows Ava meeting with Brain, who says her message has been received. Both of these are significant, the first because it sounds like we’ll be learning about the Master of Masters’s past, and the second because it implies Ava chose Brain after all.

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Ever since Brain was confirmed to be the “virus” in the system, it seemed clear he was the impostor union leader who took Strelitzia’s place… but if Ava chose him, then the actual impostor (and possibly murderer) is most likely someone else.

Of course I’ll be speculating about this in more detail over at my Kingdom Hearts theory site.

Finally, Nomura gave a general update on his current progress: he’s finished the Re:Mind scenario and the first two KHUX story updates, but before he returns to working on the rest, he needs to work on a “mystery request” related to “a yet-unannounced 3rd ‘line’ of KH.”

What does that mean?

A third line of Kingdom Hearts sounds like it could be something separate from the console games and the mobile game (if we take those to be the first two lines, which is my theory).

Is it a game? A parallel universe? Something related to the new Kingdom Hearts novel series from Scholastic?

Whatever it is, it sounds like we have a lot of exciting Kingdom Hearts updates to look forward to. Oh, and Nomura mentioned that “mind boggling” changes might be on the way to KHUX, giving only the hint “double feature.”

What do you think Nomura is talking about? What will the “3rd line” of Kingdom Hearts be? Are you looking forward to the Re:Mind DLC trailer? Share all your thoughts in the comments below, and join me in my current Kingdom Hearts confusion/speculation (the natural state for Kingdom Hearts fans).

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