~Hopefully, this will help get the guild back into a more active state. And I'm sorry if this belongs in the 'KH...3' speculation subforum.
Big news for those of you who haven't already heard: Square-Enix has confirmed three new Kingdom Hearts games.
358/2 Days: For the DS. Focuses on Roxas and what he'd been up to during the time Sora spent asleep. Apparently you're able to play as other Organization members during certain parts. And, (as the norm for SE to make random twists) there's a new, fourteenth member of the Organization that is a female. No pictures or element/weapon known about this character yet.
(Sept.26)
~Meant to revolve around the daily life of the Organization. It will reveal Roxas's intentions upon joining and leaving the Org. The battle between Roxas and Riku will, of course, be present.
All the Org. members are available in multiplayer mode, which is not related to the story at all and is simply for enjoyment. Missions can be replayed endlessly after defeating the area boss. There are different missions available for each character, and after a mission is completed an Org.'s chair will raise a little higher.
The 14th member is a 'key character to the story'. And the title may only be understood after completing the game.
Confirmed Worlds
Alice in Wonderland
Twilight Town
The World That Never Was
Birth by Sleep: For the PSP. Heading into the past where Sunset Horizons took place, there are the three Keyblade warriors we're about to learn about: Terra, Ven, and Aqua (though, she hasn't made a confirmed appearance yet); Ven happens to be the real mystery to me due to his likeness to Roxas. The bald man present in the secret movie is called 'Master Xehanort' -it's befuddling how this man and the Xehanort we're familiar with are connected.
(Sept 26)
~The storyline continues through three separate people, each of them having their own gameplay style. That being said, the battle system is new compared to what's been seen in the KH series.
It was said the 'Keyblade Master' is someone that hasn't yet appeared in the series. It's meant to be a complex and serious game with a mystery behind each of the characters.
~Goes back 10 years before the KH storyline. A new leveling system had been added where the player must meet four obligations with a scenario (pending). The new enemies are neither Heartless nor Nobody as 'the story takes place even before they appear'.
Confirmed Worlds
Olympus Colosseum
Sleeping Beauty
Hollow Bastion/Radiant Garden
Sunset Horizons
Destiny Islands
~Cinderella (possibly deducted from an image of a staircase)
Coded: This game is available on mobile (and only in Japan, as with Before Crisis) so it won't really concern us. Jiminy seems to be searching through his journal when he comes across an entry he wasn't aware of: "You need to return, to heal the wounds", or some other variation akin to this saying. It follows a virtual (KH) Sora around on his previous adventures. There's some feature called 'debugging' that lets Sora move very quickly before vanishing. Really odd.
(Sept 27)
Considering sending the game overseas. Right now they're working out the bugs and the delay time may be even further due to incompatibility with graphics.
(Sept 26)
~This game is meant to reveal what and where Riku and Mickey were during KH. Debugging is now said to move from the data to the real world.
Confirmed Worlds
Traverse Town
Disney Castle
For those of you who don't have both of the former two systems it's up to you to choose whether to obtain them. Seeing as I lack either of them, I'm having some difficulty choosing...haha. sweatdrop
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~After reviewing a scene involving Terra present on a beach (Destiny Islands?) where he says: "Please don't depend on me, just erase me...friend," this may have contributed to the appearance of KH's main antagonist. And there's that 'friend' bit Xemnas was preoccupied with in FM. As it was Aqua's armor then, and because she seems to be more skilled in magic, she may have come up with a ...'spell' to do this. sweatdrop Just speculation on my part.
...It'd be really bad for SE to have Aqua's...'Nobody' as that 14th member. Just, really, really bad. Who knows what they're thinking of.
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~Continuing my speculation on Terra from my previous comment. As I'm pretty sure Terra is the Unknown Soldier present in the portal from Disney Castle I found a better translation of what he was saying in the cutscenes:
"Keyblade...who are you? I can feel it...we have met before. It was when before...No, it isn't you. It isn't you that I have chosen. Why is it not him. Xehanort...is that you?"
And if Terra was on Destiny Islands possibly watching Riku and Sora playing, then it's clear to say that it's Riku he's speaking of. There was a scene back in Kingdom Hearts that had little Riku find the keyhole on the door -this could be around the time when Terra showed up; the Meteor shower that brought Kairi, perhaps? A not-as-obvious princess of heart that needed to be protected in some way? Again, just my opinion.
