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Chiunion is working on a spreadsheet of the medals, if anyone wants to check that out. While the spreadsheet doesn't display images, it does tell you whether a medal is single or multi shot, how much AP it costs, and what it's base multiplier is at every star rank. The list of special abilities is incomplete, but it's being worked on. The second tab (find it at the bottom of the page) gives some fun math about which medals are the most effective overall against single and multiple targets, and which ones just have the best boosts in general.

Moogle Event Missions happen (almost consistently) every day from 10PM to 11PM EST and 2AM to 3AM EST (these being New York time). I have seen some days where they didn't appear, oddly enough. Unfortunately, the contents of chests seems randomized, if you're going after a particular item. The best thing to do would be to replay and keep track of all missions that have the blue and purple chests.

Oh hey, the next 50 quest missions were added to Unchained earlier today.

And, importantly, for the next little while (until maintenance on Thursday, October 1st) all materials gathered in the field will give you more materials than usual, and, all materials will respawn in 30 minutes. This is especially nice, considering some materials usually take several hours to return.

Right now, my fully installed game takes up 788MB. You'll need at least that much room, but updates may continue to take up additional space.

Per norm, the Japanese get a "Final Mix"-esque option to play in English. Whereas we, once again, will not get any option to play in Japanese.

KHUX is actually a lot of fun!

I'd expect something longer than the FF15 demo... (Very grind-y, that.) They're not calling it a demo so it must be longer than one? But length of gameplay all depends on the player, and this sort of thing always does.

Ty~

Yet they're listed down for three "unannounced" titles that are going to be livestreamed. . . .? Either they're lying, something was lost in translation, or we better be getting TWEWY and FF7 news.

Nah, it wouldn't have made any sense with Kairi. It all comes down to understanding Xemnas' plan in the first place, though. He never wanted to recreate Kairi. If she'd been created post-Castle Oblivion it might have worked from a 'oh well maybe he's trying to replace Namine' standpoint, but that was never the case. Xion was specifically created to harness the power of Sora's Keyblade. Due to repeating complications, it was easier in the end for their to only be one of them. Xemnas didn't need both Roxas and Sora's replica.While Xemnas liked the idea of two, and had hoped for it, it was clear to see one would never survive. He'd had his last straw with Xion, so either she was going to fight Roxas to prove herself and take his place, or that was the end of her. She was placed in a position where she was going to die no matter what. Rather than immediate death at Xemnas' hands, she opted to face Roxas as a warrior instead - the most honorable way to go, given the situation - she was near the peak of her strength because of how much she'd absorbed from him via Sora's memories. She was literally becoming Sora - it was what she was made for!Inevitably, it would have made more sense if she'd simply won that fight. Afterall, she was stronger. She threw the fight! She just really wanted to see Roxas one last time and give him a chance to run. But from the very start, she was being watched. I'm pretty sure whatever 'devices' Xemnas had Saix equip to her would lead to her self-destruction if she'd tried to escape again or waited too long to eliminate Roxas.

If by 'recently' you mean in the last six months, then yes. I own four t-shirts, a hoodie, two necklaces, a plushie, two keychains, a bracelet, a watch.... this doesn't even begin to include fan made merch like decals, prints, posters, doujinshi... or the games themselves.My most recent thing was a gift, however... earrings. They're fan made/on etsy. o3o One heart, one heartless symbol.

Birth by Sleep took three years, but most of their titles are released within a year of their announcement. Then again, most of these titles have been for handhelds and aren't large numbered titles with a lot expected of them.I expect the KH2 reMIX by 2014 spring JP/fall NA, (with 2013 fall JP/2014 spring NA being the absolute earliest - and it seems unreasonable, honestly).We'll probably end up with a larger trailer for KH3 at Jump Festa later this year and a full six or seven minute one (as for previous large releases) at E3 next year - with fall 2014 Japan being the absolute earliest launch - but that'd be almost ludicrously fast. They want people to have time to play the KH2 ReMIX and get caught up.So I'm going with a good bet of spring 2015 JP/fall 2015 NA for KH3....... else they take their time and it goes for a fall 2015 JP/2016 spring for NA. This series is notorious for fall/spring and spring/fall releases, it follows a very strict pattern few exceptions - and it's usually spring/fall.

With Versus XIII first being announced at E3 2006... I'll be impressed to see it again. Crisis Core was also announced at E3 2006. Later that year, TWEWY and KH2FM were also announced at TGS. At E3 2007, Dissidia was announced. 358/2 Days was announced alongside Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts coded at the Tokyo Game Show on September 20, 2007.It was a very surreal time, to have so many awesome Square games announced to us at once in both 2006 and 2007. In a single year, we were announced nearly ten games. So what happened?Crisis Core came out in in 2007 in Japan, a year after its first trailer.Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix+ came out a year later in 2007, but given that it was a remaster, only the fact that it included re:Chain of Memories makes this significant.TWEWY came out in 2007 in Japan, a year after it's announcement.Dissidia came out in 2008 in Japan, a year after it's announcement.Kingdom Hearts coded (the cell version of the later re:Coded) released it's arcs throughout 2009, but the initial install was in 2008, just a year after it's announcement. Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days came out in 2009, two years after it's initial trailer.Before Birth by Sleep could even come out, it was announced Coded would be re-released on the 3DS as re:Coded.Birth by Sleep was released in 2010, three years after it's initial trailer. And we felt this was a long time.re:Coded came out later that same year.While above I listed the games Nomura was directly involved in, I didn't include any of the other Final Fantasy titles. Since Crisis Core we've had Fables, Tactics, the remake of IV, Crystal Chronicles, Chocobo Racing, Final Fantasy XIII, XIV, Dissidia 012, another port of IV, Type-0, XIII-2, a Windows port of FFVII......and not to mention Dream Drop Distance.I strongly, strongly, feel that Versus XIII is deader than dead. As beautiful as those initial trailers were, it's as lifeless as the FFVII teaser with PS3 graphics (that we had hoped meant we'd get an actual VII remake).So, in conclusion... why does the media still think Versus XIII has a chance?

So Yahoo just bought Tumblr... =| Let me tell you, I still miss my GeoCities webpage. Why couldn't they have just relaunched THAT instead of buying something they clearly don't comprehend?

Probably because to accept that beginning you have to accept the entire thing.The problem there is, the entire Christian, Catholic and Morman First Testament is literally the same in full to both the Islamic Qu'ran and the Jewish Torah. So... which should we be teaching, since they're all identical, word for word, with that creation story?What if I can agree that the Big Bang happened, but disagree on when and how fast it happened, and just say that God caused it? It's not really that hard. erWhat we're left with is the best excuse we can muster, because people can accept parts of those scientific theories without needing to believe the full thing, either. We've literally seen evolution in action with the domestication of dogs. We kind of created the Pomeranian and the Chihuahua, you know? You could easily just say that's how God made all of things, over time. In the beginning, there were just a lot less things. We don't have to believe we came from monkeys, we don't have to believe in ridiculous extremes, to accept things change over time and adapt to their surroundings. Things we're taught in school are mostly left to compliment what religion is already handing us, regardless of which particular offshoot it is.* edit *Not that I wouldn't like to see a school system where we're taught religion that isn't strictly one specific telling. As I stated above, those religions all have the same root, and the same God, even if by a different word, considering the difference in language. Wouldn't it be interesting to be taught the stories all Abrahamic religions have in elementary school, have all the values they share enforced on us in middle school, and be left to study and choose what we believe after that in the same way we choose electives (hmm... art... or band....... video production? sweet!)?The problem there is, none of the above religions get along very well on a group level, even if individuals can be friends. Christians are bothered by the Catholic over-representation of Mary and the Pope, Jews are bothered by the idea of Christ in general, and the Muslims have a completely different prophet. Then we have the Mormans, who believed ancient Jews sailed to America and were greeted by Christ during his three day death period. I'm sure there are lots of tiny little sects with even more additional details. I'd love to learn them all and take them with a grain of salt, but you're not allowed to be all of the above. That's not cool with any of them.So we keep religion out of school mostly to keep from starting the next world war over a playground vendetta against two nine year olds with different beliefs stemming from the same origin story.

I'm very curious as to why he's on the cover when he has such a near nonexistent role in KH2... perhaps flashbacks?

I dunno what the plan is. He's actually better at traditional art than some of the volunteers, so I wish he'd get more of his own ideas out there so I knew what -he- wanted, specifically, too. I'm still here, and I can redraw and present things in a more polished way, but... even from the beginning, I had no interest in the project at an intimate level (I was asked into this because I'm clearly an artist, but I do paid work and that always comes first - and I have my own game I'm working on, unrelated to KH). I've never been the sort of fan to make fandom OCs for myself, and I don't have time in my schedule to pour my heart into designs and concepts right now. =/My schedule is opening back up soon, so... I'll keep my eyes open if I'm needed.

So... how are there Emblem Heartless during KHχ if it's supposed to take place during the Keyblade War if they weren't created yet? Unless Xehanort teleported himself to the past with a troupe of them and they started multiplying... I smell continuity disaster.

I got a shiny Rattata without cheating. @w@ Right after I restarted Leaf Green I think. I decided to keep playing, but I think I later ported it up to the DS generation through the... safari park...? My memory is fuzzy.

Any news on the χ (chi) game yet? Screenshots from beta testers? News for it doesn't have a tab. o3o

Wish I had an easier time finding people who enjoy roleplaying over instant messengers...

Hmm, well... I think at that point, he should have already been dead so many times over that he just didn't care anymore whether he was around or not. People were already so used to having to say goodbye to him... and maybe he actually wanted to be dead but no one ever let him stay dead. Someone else should be in charge of saving the world.

I played the games in the order they were released (mind you, I never actually played Re:coded or finished 358 Days - but I DID watch a playthrough), and everything was crystal clear to me. I think people may be very confused if they don't read the reports you collect in-game and actually look at their journal. Literally everything is explained in summary form in those journals, you just have to keep in mind they were written by characters who may have been misinformed or running on theories alone (DiZ, I'm looking at you).Parts may appear contradictory, but that ends up being both intentional and integral to the plot - Ansem not being Ansem, a 14th Organization member, whether Nobodies can feel emotions/have hearts.BBS - What made you think you can trust him? Xehanort is bad. KH1 - Who knew darkness was bad? Ansem is bad. And Riku nearly became the next Terra. Sora has awesome dumb luck at winning the day. CoM - No one's going to remember you but Riku, Namine. Oh and Ansem's back. 358 - Definitely no one is going to remember you, Xion. Roxas likes icecream. Ventus cameo. No mention of Vanitas. KH2 - Did we forget about Kairi? Too busy to tell her we still exist? Yup. Hey did you know Ansem was Xehanort? Also, Xemnas. And we have anti!form. coded - So apparently data and stuff is contradictory for reals. Maybe we can help people from the prequel now that we know they existed. DDD - Random Vanitas cameo. I'm sure this will have no impact on reality. Right? Right...?? Oh hell no... why did we end with that?Which very clearly leads me to believe: KH3 - Nooooooooo. Xehanort, WHY? Oh, but Kairi is useful now, kk. No, in all seriousness, I understand the series way better than that, but so long as people can understand the above, they're doing pretty good.

Soooo.... old recordings of Billy Zane instead of re-recording Richard Epcar? I approve. But I wouldn't blame them if they did want to re-record. I'm still so attached to Xehanort's Heartless's old voice, though... but I would have supported their need for consistency. I'm indifferent at this point, but slightly happier that they're keeping the old recordings. My bias is showing. ~