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Here is the problem with that: comparing KH 1.5 dates with trying to predict 2.5, Nomura and SE stated that they lost everything from KH1 and had to rebuild its graphics and everything making it way harder to port and remake. Plus one would assume they had an early start with teasing 2.5 with HD cutscenes of KH2, BBS, and Coded in the credits for 1.5, my assumption is when they finished 1.5, why stop there? Sure they probably had a break but I wouldn't assume they started working on 2.5 the same time they started working on 1.5. I would be shocked if they did not mirror the release the same way they did with 1.5, or earlier.

My apologies I saw Jump Festa 2014 and immediately thought it took place in the year 2014. Shows how much I know about events involving video games but yeah that is a lot better chances of things getting closer. I agree that then they will mirror 2.5's release like they did with 1.5. Still though what I said about KH3's release stands, maybe potentially a Q3 for Japan in 2015 and a Q1 for NA/EU.

Its funny because honestly we all did this when we played it at the age of ten lol. He is just older and has a more vulgar vocabulary.

Classic Disney right there, Triton: "Oh i'm the King of the sea and the plot demands me to leave my triton alone... Okay :D" *swims away* *palm to forehead* My overall guess of how King Triton knew about being from another world is because Goofy spilled the beans about them being there to find the keyhole, remember King Triton saying "THE WHAT?" "No there is no such thing, Ariel not another word!" and instead of Sora staying to explain himself and the situation he just swam away with her to her grotto. Then he confronted him about being from another world because he is older and actually can line the pieces up: visitors that is don't look familiar to me ruler of the Sea, mentions the keyhole and goes about trying to reveal it with my daughter behind my back while defeating heartless, yup keyblade wielder. Plus it isn't far-fetched to think that since he knew about the key hole to his world that someone *cough cough a keyblade wielder* mentioned him about it. In later games it is mentioned how Mickey traveled to other worlds and had his own 'adventures', KH2 in Yen Sid's tower there was a book on a shelf that said it contains stories of the King's adventures and we know how he might of got there, that star thing for traveling from BBS and what Donald and Goofy used in DDD to 'save' everyone in the World That Never Was.

Another branch of this theory is why do keychains look the way they do. Take the Kingdom Key for example, when Sora had recieved said key it had a chain, symbol of King Mickey. Why? And I always found it curious/ a loop hole in KH1 story line as to how King Mickey knew there was someone with a 'key'. This is all beside the points as you and others stated, maybe laziness plus how in KH1 (being the only game out yet) there were only three known key blades (Kingdom Key, Keyblade that unlocked people's hearts and the King's Key) and keys were rare in that game.

With the recent announcement of a playable Demo of KH2.5 at next years D23 and along with this "promise" of releasing a KH game every year (which I just now saw some people talking about on forums where can I see that Nomura promise) I would believe that means KH2.5 will be released by next Christmas at the earliest. Another factor not discussed toward guessing dates of releasing games, KH 2.5 and 3, is anticipating demo's and trailers and seeing how past games and titles were taken care of. Now for the remix's it is understandable how the presentation of demo's and trailers were made and how close it was/is toward actually releasing because they were just remakes. But when it comes to brand new titles for the KH series there have been prolonged and not so prolonged dates from the announcements to demo's and releasing. I'll take the handhelds titles (BBS, 3D, etc.) for example. BBS was announced, along side 358/2 Days and Coded, back in a Tokyo Game Show 2007 with a trailer. A playable demo was finally available in Dec. 2009 a MONTH before available for release in Japan, six months then for NA/EU regions. 358/2 had their first demo in 2008 a year before releasing in 09. DDD first announced in 2010, then with a playable demo in 2011 and then releases in 2012, March for JPN, June for NA/EU. There were multiple reasons for the delay of BBS, within the game concepts/worlds/plot changed (just look at their trailers), making FF games and porting Chain of M, Jungle Book world fiasco and and one point the game was considered a PS2 title. Same things happened for DDD, if most of you remember the original trailer of DDD was NOTHING like the finished product. Don't remember watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcKDo39twwc With all that being said the time difference now with a KH 2.5 demo in Dec. 2014, FF scheduling and games coming out causing delay (not sure which games not fan of FF), and KH3's first 'trailer' already shown along with additional summon videos. KH3 was announced this summer, adapting and making full use of the next generation consoles graphics and hardware (comparing PS4 & Xbox 1 to PS2, PSP & 3DS) could set them back in the grand scheme of the game. Meaning a playable demo by Q3 2015 at the LEAST then boom, JPN release 2015 Q4 and 2016 Q2 for NA/EU. :sad: My opinion though, plus i'm new here so sorry I am late to the party.