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Re:Mind is Almost Here; New Kingdom Hearts Coming “Surprisingly Soon”

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Jan 222020
 

Kingdom Hearts III’s Re:Mind DLC is almost here. It will officially be available tonight at midnight.

Ahead of the DLC launch, the 1.09 update is also available.

This update includes adjustments to cutscenes in the main game, mainly along the lines of improving lighting and animations, changing some camera angles, more focus on characters like Riku during the ending, etc. So don’t worry about missing any story content if you’ve already played (although the updated cutscenes can be watched in theater mode).

It also adds Oathkeeper & Oblivion (unlockable if you’ve found all of the Lucky Emblems and finished the game on Critical Mode, respectively), new forms, and new abilities.

But for me, the most exciting Kingdom Hearts III news of the day is the “13 Questions of Darkness” Q&A posted on Twitter and translated by Goldpanner.

After going through some general information about the free updates and Re:Mind, including the decision to put the Final Fantasy characters in Re:Mind’s story and the debate about whether or not a certain member of the New Organization XIII should be included among the limit cut bosses, it moves on to the amount of content in Re:Mind.

According to this interview, while a new world was initially considered for Re:Mind before they decided it would feel strange to add it in, the total content included in Re:Mind is equivalent to “more than one world’s worth of content.”

Then it gets into the most interesting parts of all. Re:Mind’s title screen “serves as a piece of foundation” for the next Kingdom Hearts game, which they’re already working on. There are also two more teams working on Kingdom Hearts in addition to the KH3 and KHUX teams, and one of them has a title “coming surprisingly soon.”

A surprising KHUX announcement is also set for tomorrow.

This has spurred all sorts of speculation about the new title coming out. It’s not a mainline title, but that still leaves open a lot of possibilities. Some people think it’s just a port to another system, while others think it might linked to the KHUX team’s announcement and be a full console version of KHUX.

Personally, that’s what I’m hoping for, since the KHUX story is too good (and important) to be confined to a mobile game forever. Whatever it is, I’m excited for both Re:Mind and all the upcoming Kingdom Hearts announcements!

Update: They’ve also tweeted this new artwork, which suggests the KHUX news might be linked in some way to Young Xehanort.

What do you think the KHUX team is going to announce? What do you expect from the non-mainline title from one of the new teams? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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?

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