OMG GUYS!! A friend alerted me to a post on Gamefaqs that KH Will be for Nintendo Switch and the 3DS!!

 

 

See article here

 

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Rumors and rumblings have been going around here that the HD Remixes were headed to the Switch, and now we have some decent confirmation courtesy of Famitsu. No HD Remixes. Instead, the Switch is getting a brand new game titled Kingdom Hearts -1 Another Dive, while the first original Kingdom Hearts is getting ported to the New 3DS, simply titled Kingdom Hearts 3D Remix.

Scans here:






Proper translations will be going up on KH13 in a couple of hours, but until then you guys will have to make do with my friend's (and mine!) shoddy Japanese.

Kingdom Hearts 3D ReMIX

• A port of the original Kingdom Hearts Final Mix, headed to the New Nintendo 3DS (won't work on first gen 3DS's, obviously). And....that's about it.
• New control configuration - the command menu for instance is getting moved to the touch screen while the upper menu displays just the "Fight" command and reaction commands like Open and Sonic Rave. UI's been redesigned a bit to accomodate the smaller screen.
• That's....really about it lol. They mention the 15th Anniversary, so I guess this is a part of that thing.
• I noticed the Gummi Ship only displays the HP gauge. Work in progress likely.
• Playing as Riku? Either a non-canon Riku mode is being added just for fun, or it's a side-story. Likely the former as they state no new story content is gonna be in this.
• Release date is Q4 2017, so I'm guessing this december.

Kingdom Hearts -1 Another Dive

• Brand new game for the Switch. It uses the KH2 engine but with some sort of enhanced graphical thingy going on.
• I don't even know what the f*** is going on here lol. Best as I can see, it's a reimagining - a "what if" story that plays out as if Riku got the keyblade as intended, and he's the one going on a Journey instead of Sora. You can see the iconic scene where Goofy and Donald land on him play out. There's also a guy in a black coat, because of course's there's a f***ing guy in a black coat. It's canon though, so.... I mean, they already did time travel. Why stop at making it even more incomprehensible with parallel universes!
• Combat system uses deck commands, but it's a bit different. Rather than each command having a cooldown, they have a cost. When you attack, you build up a gauge that adds numbers - when you have enough, you can let loose a command. So, I guess something like Unchained X's system merged with deck commands.
• There's a "Speed gauge" going around the HP bar, like the old MP gauge. It's got something to do with Free Flow (Flowmotion). Basically, the longer you stay in Free Flow, the more the gauge builds, and the more it builds the more powerful your Free Flow attack.
• You can change Keyblades on the fly via a sub-menu (via D-buttons like in FF15). I'm guessing this means each Keyblade has unique combos, otherwise this is kind of pointless.
• You can charge normal attacks by holding down the attack button. There's a gauge below the attack command that I think serves as an indicator for this.
• Coming out next year, doesn't say when.

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Edited June 2, 20178 yr by catmaster0116

Someone has some good MMD skills

Though this might explain the scene with the black coat Riku in Prankster's Paradise the latter game.

 

Pretty sure that Black Coat Riku is Riku Replica. The Replica always wanted to be more than just a carbon copy of Riku, and by being part Xehanort, that goal's achieved.

i feel like the New 3DS part should have been the tip off that this was fake.

 

i could see a Switch Port but is there any reason to port the 1st KH game to 3DS?

The idea that anybody was seriously fooled with these screenshots just makes me facepalm as I remember how relatively young and naive our fanbase is compared to others out there. Still, at least nobody is an asshole like in the Sonic fandom, it can be really hard to have a rational conversation over there. But anyway, yeah clearly fake, I mean there's just obvious, and then there's just post-April 1st levels of obvious jokiness.

Hm....this could be fake, but I'm not sure....maybe the title having the word Fake and being in random are clues lol

The title didn't originally say fake

That's why a lot of people were questioning it

The title didn't originally say fake

That's why a lot of people were questioning it

Oh. Well that answers my questions.

The title says fake broseph.

Also the link only takes you to the Nintendo Switch gamefaqs board. When I looked up Kingdom Hearts, there was nothing there related to this.

And besides, this Another Dive thing looks too freaking outdated for the Switch considering the Switch supports Unreal Engine 4 and the KH2 engine was a PS2 thing.

I believe some people have a misconception of what Unreal Engine 4 actually is...

 

Unreal Engine 4 isn't some "magical-game-upgrade" thing that's equipped with every console. It's a bunch of tools you can use to create a game. Most often times, and in the past, developers use their own tools (a la Crystal Tools and Luminous Studio, the latter being its latest games engine). Unreal Engine 4 has nothing to do with graphics (even though it makes things look better with easier "automatic" graphical tools), and the fact is, if this were a "remaster", it wouldn't even be using Luminous Studio OR EVEN Unreal Engine 4; it'd be using the OG engine it was made with.

 

All the HD Remasters are just being emulated by the PS4's hardware with different shaders and updated models and textures. Again, how good a game looks is NOT based on Unreal Engine 4, any game engine with proper support can make identical (perhaps not exactly the same) graphics. It's just a tool.

 

Tl;dr just trying to help squash the misconceptions about Unreal Engine 4. It's a renderer and graphics tool, and developers use it to make their lives easier when adding things to the game, like graphical fidelity. Just cause something is SUPPORTED by Unreal Engine 4 doesn't mean it automatically has better graphics; in fact, most AAA studios that make big games don't even use that engine (CD Projekt Red uses their own proprietary engine to make Witcher games, Sucker Punch does too, and SE does for the most part since before ).

 

This wouldn't even use UE4; this would use an emulated version of original assets created by their KH engine. Everything from physics to lighting is tied to that; that's why they had bugs in 1.5 + 2.5 PS4.

Edited June 3, 20178 yr by Clouded Sun

I believe some people have a misconception of what Unreal Engine 4 actually is...

Unreal Engine 4 isn't some "magical-game-upgrade" thing that's equipped with every console. It's a bunch of tools you can use to create a game. Most often times, and in the past, developers use their own tools (a la Crystal Tools and Luminous Studio, the latter being its latest games engine). Unreal Engine 4 has nothing to do with graphics (even though it makes things look better with easier "automatic" graphical tools), and the fact is, if this were a "remaster", it wouldn't even be using Luminous Studio OR EVEN Unreal Engine 4; it'd be using the OG engine it was made with; Crystal Tools.

All the HD Remasters are just being emulated by the PS4's hardware with different shaders and updated models and textures. Again, how good a game looks is NOT based on Unreal Engine 4, any game engine with proper support can make identical (perhaps not exactly the same) graphics. It's just a tool.

Tl;dr just trying to help squash the misconceptions about Unreal Engine 4. It's a renderer and graphics tool, and developers use it to make their lives easier when adding things to the game, like graphical fidelity. Just cause something is SUPPORTED by Unreal Engine 4 doesn't mean it automatically has better graphics; in fact, most AAA studios that make big games don't even use that engine (CD Projekt Red uses their own proprietary engine to make Witcher games, Sucker Punch does too, and SE does for the most part).

This wouldn't even use UE4; this would use an emulated version of original assets created by Crystal Tools.

Huh. You learn something new every day.

Huh. You learn something new every day.

Yep, that's the idea (actually just back pedaled and found out SE doesn't use Crystal Tools for KH like they did for most Final Fantasies, they use their own engine. Not even KH1 and KH2 were made by the same engine, which makes sense - the physics are COMPLETELY different! Edited the post for more correctness)

 

But yeah, it's not uncommon. That being said, UE4 is a fantastic thing for developers to use - I myself am using it and it's super easy to make things look fantastic.

Edited June 3, 20178 yr by Clouded Sun

Okay, I know this might technically be necroposting, but who else thinks this would be a good AU? I'm already having some ideas for it myself.