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KHDays Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days Ultimania, translated content.

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A few days ago, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days Ultimania, the official guidebook for Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, was released. This book contains many pieces of new information, including interviews with and reports by Tetsuya Nomura, the game's director.

 

Kingdom Hearts Insider have been busy translating content from the book, and so far, they have translated two interviews and an explanation of the game's Secret Reports. You can read the first interview here, and the other pieces below.

 

At the same time as giving us the answers to riddles previously talked about, 358/2 Days raised countless points of foreshadowing about Birth by Sleep. Looking at the scenario itself, and the whole "plan", we asked Mr. Nomura about the more difficult parts of the story. (Interviewer: Yuuko Oono)

 

-- The "Replica Plan" that was the key to this game, was it begun with Roxas' entry into the Organisation?

 

Nomura: No, earlier than that. Originally Vexen was working privately to advance the research on Replicas, but for the Organisation's goal of completing "Kingdom Hearts of people's hearts" they needed to use the Keyblade to recover hearts, so they switched to this plan of copying the Keyblade hero. As for who was or wasn't told about the "Replica Plan", that depended only on their different missions.

 

-- Xigbar wasn't told about it, but he seems to have found out on his own.

 

Nomura: Even in Final Mix+, Xigbar was probing Zexion about the "Room of Awakening" - he was investigating various things on his own. He will be talked about again in Birth by Sleep.

 

-- Xion looked like "him" in Xigbar's eyes (see here), so why did he also treat her as a girl?

 

Nomura: First of all, Xigbar didn't always see Xion as "him", it's more like he appeared just at that moment. He always sees Roxas treating her as a girl, so he just goes along with that. There's no need to give Roxas doubts, and the way he called her "Puu-chan (Doll)" from the start was just joking around, typical for a guy like him.

 

-- Roxas and Xion collapse several times in the story, is this because of Sora's influence?

 

Nomura: Roxas has been existing closely with Sora from the start, and directly feels the influence of Sora's present conditions. Afterwards that tendency appears in Xion too. The two of them are sharing Sora's power, so if on the one hand one of them gains a lot of power, the other's body weakens and they collapse. It's a relationship that is only practical if kept perfectly in balance. (See box below.)

 

Roxas and Xion's incidents

 

Day 26: Roxas faints

-- In order for the changes in Sora's memories to progress.

 

Day 74: Xion becomes unable to use the Keyblade

-- As a counterbalance to the power absorbed when Roxas awakens.

 

Day 193: Xion, having been defeated by Heartless and gone to sleep, wakes up, then during a mission collapses, but soon gets up again.

-- While she was asleep Sora's memories continued to flow into Roxas. Due to the memories being reconnected.

 

Day 297: Roxas faints

-- A result of going to Castle Oblivion, where Sora is sleeping, and getting too close to his "true form".

 

-- Why does Xion become able to use the Keyblade again on day 96?

 

Nomura: This was less due to her doing missions together with Roxas every day, and more due to using his Keyblade. She was able to once again copy his power. At this moment, the two of them were perfectly in balance.

 

-- Xion is in a similar position to the Riku Replica of Chain of Memories, but unlike him, she is unaware that she was artificially created, and the path she finally chooses is completely different.

 

Nomura: The Riku Replica was modelled on Riku. With Xion, she becomes like the Kairi of Sora's memories. But rather than saying she was initially created to imitate something, it's more like she was a special case, born primarily to absorb Roxas' powers and evolve. It was intended right from the beginning of development that Xion and Roxas would eventually fight, but we had wondered about how to depict the conflict with Xion that would lead to this. At first I came up with the plot that would go like that of the Riku Replica, where Xion would insist that she was the real person and fight with Roxas. But many of the staff were of the opinion that Xion should stay as a nice girl, so when we were changing the scenario I rewrote it into its current form.

-- On day 356, after Axel brought Xion back, Xemnas took her away. Did something happen to her that caused her to attack Roxas the next day?

 

Nomura: No, because of what she had learned, she already knew what Xemnas expected of her. But because she had no choice but to go along with his plans, she knew she had no choice but to be defeated by Roxas. The reason why Xemnas took her away was so that he could give her a more powerful

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That is the most beautiful post i have ever seen

I didn't read it or anything, the layout just looks spectacular.

I also love the HQ scans

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I love the part in 358/2 where roxas use two keyblades.http://kh13.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif

 

[My game freezes during Xion's Death:@]

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