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Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD ReMIX dated for 3/14/2013 in Japan
- Thread starter Kagari
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Not when they decided to do it for Japan, but not for NA/EU, even though they couldn't hide behind the 'we were making up to Japanese gamers for the missed content in the original release' excuse for kH2FM and even though NA is a much bigger KH market than Japan, and even though it wouldn't cost them more than a week to localize it.
Perfect Cha0s
Member
Not exactly essential to the overall plot at as of 3D. You can skip it and be fine plot-wise in the rest of the games.
Edit: Also, looking at that page got me thinking of a Remix comprised of KHH2:FM and BBS. Would buy.
Femmeworth
Banned
Yes there is, some voicework needs to be done along with some translation work.
Seven Force
Banned
Not much at all.
el retorno
Member
Yea.... no it really doesn't
Perfect Cha0s
Member
Only for Days, I assume? That is, unless they want to get HJO to redo KH1 to make the Sora's voice acting sound more consistent across the series.
The funny thing is that if you watch the original KH2FM trailer you see that they recorded new English audio for the game and then scrapped it at the Japanese release in favor of silent dialogue (Xemnas', '' the new you '' line comes to mind)
It's like they wanted to kick sand in NA gamers faces.
And yeah KH1 is really simple to understand.
Scarlet_Spider
Neo Member
That wasn't new. They just spliced audio they already had together. They did the same thing for the original KH1 FM.
CielTynave
Member
I definitely remember that part sounding more like what they did in the first final mix, which was just reusing audio that they already had even if the voice didn't match up that well with what was going on.
Did they? Hilarious. Then for a lot of the lines they didn't even need to record new VA.
But they went through the trouble of getting them for recom.
I would kill for them to bring it over with Showdown of Fate voiced. Was really sad it was silent in the original. Never gunna happen because of Sephiroth though.
I would assume its for that KH social media game that got announced alongside the HD ReMixWhat does the text in this image say?
It might be retconned into the series because of
What does the text in this image say?
Reserve the game and get a item serial code for the KH PC browser game.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
I hope the turnaround time is fast for this one. I'd really like to play this version of the games. 
Scarlet_Spider
Neo Member
I believe they said 2-3 hours worth of Days scenes. The original game had about 40 minutes worth of voiced scenes.
AgentChris
Member
KH1 was released in NA 6 months after the JP release and KH2 was only 3 months. There is going to be very little localization for KH1.5. I'm hoping for April-August.
Femmeworth
Banned
No way are they going to cut out content. I know they hate us filthy foreigners, but not enough to do that.
It'd probably be more work to cut it out at this point. The Days cutscenes are probably what's giving them something to localize, since most of them didn't have voice acting.
That said, the Final Mix content didn't add significantly much over the original localized version. An extra boss, enemy recolors and new weapons were the most notable bits.
That'd be pretty cool if they made it like a movie. I want that smooth transition at the very least. Cutscene viewers aren't really good for those though.
Seven Force
Banned
God, I hope that SE tax doesn't carry over. I could definitely see them releasing this for $59.99 when the HD remake standard price point is usually $20 lower.
Pretty much. Most of the changes in Final Mix were balance changes to weapon and character stats. If you pile on the newer additions for the HD release, it'd at least be different enough from the vanilla release to be worth a shot.
Pretty much. Most of the changes in Final Mix were balance changes to weapon and character stats. If you pile on the newer additions for the HD release, it'd at least be different enough from the vanilla release to be worth a shot.
Femmeworth
Banned
They are likely too lazy to implement a continuous play option. Might have to wait for the cutscenes to pop up on Youtube or whever.
Brand new Cloud/Sephiroth follow up to the boss battle as well.
Femmeworth
Banned
Other small cutscenes as well.
Outside of the Cloud/Sephiroth, the only one I really remember was Xemnas, but then that those were the reason I got it so I'm not surprised I don't remember the others.
Neat, it comes out just in time for my birthday!
I'd say the games in the coming soon section are 2.5 ReMIX and the PC Browser game.
I'd say the games in the coming soon section are 2.5 ReMIX and the PC Browser game.
Not true, there's a couple of new scenes in 1 that need to be done and all of the Days cutscenes need to be revoiced (along with ones that were just dialog only before) for the cutscene only version of the game in 1.5 ReMIX.
Scarlet_Spider
Neo Member
They also added a bunch of new abilities, most notably KH2-esque finishers (a lot of which ended up as sleights in CoM). Combos in KHFM are now flashier and more powerful.
There's also a few unvoiced new scenes about Riku here and there and a couple of new Ansem Reports.
They also added new gummi blocks and gummi ship missions, but nobody likes those.
It's very important. It details everything that happened while Sora was sleep. The story is amazing, and the gameplay would translate well if moved to consoles... especially if they included online multiplayer.
It also stars the best character in the series: Roxas.
More like the only thing SE have been capable of this gen are remakes and remasters.
A relic from their golden age.
A Twisty Fluken
Member
See you in juuuuly. I hope.
2014 is more likely. I don't really see Square announcing and releasing a KH game within half a year or so. Even if it is just a Collection.
But who knows...