An image of a Dream Eater plushie being shown at Jump Festa 2012 for Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance has surfaced online. The plushie being shown is of the Wonder Meow spirit, as you can see below. Thanks to Kingdom Hearts Insider for the tip.
According to a Tweet from Tetsuya Nomura, the Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance trailer for Jump Festa 2012 will be 8 minutes long! Nomura also says that the trailer will be available online early next week. Certainly, with a trailer of this length, we'll be getting a lot more new content. Please keep watching for the next couple of days in case the trailer appears.
Update 2: The two coming soon buttons on the website are named "System" and "Extra". What do you think will be added there?
Update: Oishii has translated the Story section of the website, and this translation can be read at our forums.
Square Enix's official Japanese website for Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance has been completely launched. The website contains various sections including "Story", "Characters", "World", "Spec", "Special" and of course it's "Top" page. There are also two sections "coming soon". We'll now go into the website in detail for you.
The website plays a new track from Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, specifically, a new version of Dearly Beloved. You can hear this below. You can listen to this song in our music section, here.
Under "Characters" and "World" are a large amount of screenshots and renders, a lot of which are new. These can be seen below, in our gallery. There's over 50 screenshots and renders, so we can't embed them all. You'll have to click the link below!
Screenshots → Kingdom Hearts 3D, Japanese website
Under "Special" are two new wallpapers, available in five different resolutions. These can all be seen below, in our gallery.
Update: Oishii from KH13 has translated the scan. In the screenshot, Beat is saying "This time I will protect Rhyme." The text next to the screenshot says "Neku's two companions want to return to their original world."
Scans of the January 2, 2012 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine are starting to appear online, and Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance appears with an article. The article appears to contain the same information on the new world, "Country of the Musketeers", and also some additional information. Below, you can see both Joshua and Beat from The World Ends With You appearing in Traverse Town. Please click to see the image larger.
Weekly Shōnen Jump → January 2, 2012
Update: Oishii from KH13 has translated parts of the article. You can read this translation below.
The name of the world is "Country of the Musketeers"
The hooded men: "The boss will scold us."
Princess Minnie: "Over there! Please capture those thieves."
Sora and others: "And one for All!"
Pete to others: "Why, with this on I can be a Musketeer too."
"The dream eaters will not only be your companions. On the screen you will be able to train them making their abilities stronger!!"
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance has appeared in the January 2012 issue of V Jump magazine. FF-Reunion has found scans of the article, which you can see below. The article reveals that the new world to be announced at Jump Festa 2012 is a world based on The Three Musketeers. You can see these scans below, in our gallery.
- The Three Musketeers world announced
- Mickey, Queen Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Pete (and of course, Sora and Riku) will appear in this world
- Three new Dream Eaters have been announced, Frog Chef, Mimi Bunny and Naru Bird
- Apparently, next week's Weekly Shōnen Jump will reveal more, including that you will fight with all of Neku, Joshua and Beat from The World Ends With You
V Jump → January 2012
Please feel free to discuss this news at our forum! In other news, according to a Tweet by Takeharu Ishimoto, one of the composers for the Kingdom Hearts series, they will be composing some tracks for KH3D in the studio tomorrow. Cool!
The next issue of Famitsu Weekly magazine, releasing on December 22, 2011, will include an article on Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance. This is to be expected, as with Jump Festa 2012 occuring on December 17 and December 18, the magazines will have some new content to show us. High quality scans will be made available as soon as possible!
It is also likely that Weekly Shōnen Jump, which releases on December 19, will have an article with the same information. However, with the next Famitsu Weekly, we also have some confirmation. This comes from miladesn on Twitter, who posted a scan of the current issue which mentions KH3D appearing in the next. Thanks to Kingdom Hearts Insider for the tip.
Square Enix have posted an image of their booth map for the Jump Festa 2012 event, which of course runs on December 17 and December 18, 2011 and will feature Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance with a new trailer, playable demo, and a new world announcement. You can see this map below. Please click to see the image larger.
This and other images relating to Jump Festa 2012 have also been added to our Gallery. You can view them below.
Screenshots → Jump Festa 2012
This is DChiuch testing the new multi-site feature. :) If all goes well, no one will read this.
Edit by Aaron: 26/08/2012 at 7.26PM
OH GAWD, SOMEONE READ IT. EVERYTHINGS NOT OKAY. ABORT ABORT.
A map of the Jump Festa 2012 floor has been posted on the official website for the event. If you look below, you can see a translated map from Tgirl. Square Enix has a large booth where they will be featuring Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, as well as other titles, as outlined on their website. Kingdom Hearts 3D will be featured with a new trailer, playable demo, and a new world announcement.
You can view both the original and translated versions below, in our gallery.
Screenshots → Jump Festa 2012
Siliconera have posted an article about Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance. Thanks to KH13's Pandora333 for the find. They have provided some analysis of the recent news from Famitsu Weekly magazine and Square Enix's Jump Festa 2012 website, showing the same screenshot's from the latter and giving the following information:
In past Kingdom Hearts game Jiminy Cricket’s job was to chronicle Sora’s adventures. He has a different role in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance. Riku will find Jiminy Cricket in Prankster’s Paradise, Pinocchio’s home in the Nintendo 3DS game, taking care of Pinocchio after the Blue Fairy brings him to life.
Kingdom Hearts 3D uses the deck command system introduced in Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep. Each move has cooldown time and the game cycles through special attacks and spells after you use them. As seen in these screenshots, Sora has Ice Breaker as one of his commands. Riku has Dark Breaker and Blizzaga. Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance is slated for a spring release in Japan.
The December 2011 issue of Game Informer magazine has included an article on Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance. The article, while not containing any new information, does include some nice screenshots and a good review of the game. The reviewer was using the Tokyo Game Show 2011 demo as a reference. You can see this article below in our gallery, scanned by Exlon of KH13. We have also provided the article below in text form.
Game Informer → December 2011
My experience with the Kingdom Hearts series is extremely limited, so when Square Enix plopped the new 3DS title in my hands I didn't know what to expect. While this Japanese-only demo left me scratching my head regarding specific details of Riku and Sora's quest, I came away with a solid grasp of the game's fun, fast-paced gameplay.
What little we do know about Dream Drop Distance's story is that it takes place after Kingdom Hearts II, and that Sora and Riku must save several Disney-themed worlds from a sleep stasis. Waking these whimsical worlds means entering their altered dream states, defeating Dream Eaters to return them to normal, and in the process earning the two heroes their Keyblade Master certification.
I chose to play as Sora during my time in Traverse Town. After my brightly dressed protagonist awoke in the gorgeous cartoon village, I spent a few minutes talking to a spiky haired boy with headphones on. This is none other than Neku from the underappreciated gem The World Ends With You. Square Enix wants to add some fresh faces to the series' crossover craze, and this character is the first glimpse of a non-Final Fantasy or Disney character infiltrating the world. All we know about Neku at this point is that he's looking for his companion from The World Ends With You, Shiki. >>READ MORE>>
Update: Oishii has translated the text on the page. It says "At the Jump Festa convention, a thrilling demo will be featuring a new world, so please be sure to stop by." Looks like they'll be announcing a new world!
Square Enix's Jump Festa 2012 website for Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance has been updated. This update include 4 new screenshots, which you can see below in our gallery, and also confirms that Kingdom Hearts 3D will be featured at the event with both a playable demo and a new trailer. Jump Festa 2012 will run from December 17 to December 18, 2011. Thanks to andriasang.com for the tip.
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance was featured in the latest issue of Famitsu Weekly, with a 6-page article. We now have perfect, high-resolution scans of this article, scanned and uploaded by KH13.com. If you use these images anywhere, please link back to KH13. Thankyou, and enjoy:
A recap of what we've learnt
- There are two known Disney worlds in Kingdom Hearts 3D, "La Cité des Cloches" from The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and "Pranksters' Paradise" from Pinocchio.
- In La Cité des Cloches, the characters confirmed to appear are: Quasimodo, Esmeralda, Phoebus, Claude Frollo and the gargoyles.
- In Pranksters' Paradise, the characters confirmed to appear are: Pinocchio, Blue Fairy, Geppetto and Jiminy Cricket. Of course, Sora and Riku appear in both.
- New Dream Eaters were announced! Nightmares: Zou Elephant, Dokudoku Lizard, Ice Penguin, Dragon Horse and Neko Cat. Spirits: Yagi Horn and Hari Lion.
Make sure you look at the scans though, they are very beautiful! Also, feel free to discuss this news at our forum.
Famitsu Weekly → December 8, 2011
Update: Oishii from KH13 has translated some of the screenshots. You can read these below, and please make sure to read her earlier translations in the articles below.
Captain guy to the Judge
"Judge Frollo, this is serious!"
Judge Frollo to Esmeralda
"At last we’ve caught this witch!"
Fairy to Pinocchio
"Oh Pinocchio, what happened to your nose?"
Pinocchio to Fairy
"I’m sorry. You helped with my wish yet I still said a lie."
Geppetto to (Sora?)
"Pinocchio did come back but he’s gone and run off somewhere again!"
Quasimodo to Esmeralda
"So, lets go!"
Famitsu.com have posted an article relating to Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance. This article contains 17 new screenshots, which appeared earlier in Famitsu Weekly magazine. However, these screenshots are now available in great quality (actual digital copies, rather than the photos we had earlier). You can see them below in our gallery. Enjoy!
Update: The translation on the news article below has been updated to a more complete version. You can also read it at our forum.
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance was featured in the latest issue of Famitsu Weekly. This article announced a Pinocchio world, called Prankster's Paradise, and various Dream Eaters, and Disney characters which will appear in the game. We now have 18 new scans of this article for you, all in high quality. These were found by KH13.com on 2ch.net. Enjoy!
As you can see from the various screenshots, Kingdom Hearts 3D looks to be amazing! Make sure you discuss this news on our forums.
Famitsu Weekly → December 8, 2011
