After seeing that commericial, it does seem that YuRiPa are, indeed, fairies or fairy-like creatures. This will be interesting story-wise.
Oh, and watch me not care about Sephiroth.
~Neo
Likewise... the big girls blouse.
So Yuna isn't a pedophile.. yaay.... :0 Now I wonder how big Yuna is.... That's even if they do the yunatidus thing, they don't have to. >_> I just like to play around with the thought
Coming to this topic kinda late I'm not sure what everyone has already said, but I saw somewhere that Craig had said something about it being cool if FF9 characters appeared in KH. I loved that game, but the style of the game might be a problem, with the big heads and all. Translating them into a more realistic style wouldn't do well for the character.
Oh, and has anyone seen this yet?
Coming to this topic kinda late I'm not sure what everyone has already said, but I saw somewhere that Craig had said something about it being cool if FF9 characters appeared in KH. I loved that game, but the style of the game might be a problem, with the big heads and all.
I don't think it should matter what FF character belongs in what KH games purely because of artistic difference. I mean, the near entire cast of Kingdom Hearts aren't realistic to belong with. For goodness sake, there's an anime-ish character with a cartoon duck and dog team.
Not to mention this has surfaced a while back. Scroll down to see what I mean.
~Neo
Falcon. See, here's the scoop.
NEVER.
EVER.
LINK.
TO.
KHINSIDER.
They steal their info from other sites, and have viruses/spyware on their site. Go to kh2.co.uk or sorasdomain.net instead.
Oh, and new news! According to a new source, Setzer Gabbiani could appear in KH2 as a part of The Struggle contest, supposedly a sports competition involving a ball.
Of course, that's unconfirmed.
Also, if you see anything about "Ultima" form or "Darkness" form, and BHK's name being Roxas, it's a JOKE. KHInsider stole it and posted it without confirmation, and it was all a joke by Gotran. XD
Oh, and new news! According to a new source, Setzer Gabbiani could appear in KH2 as a part of The Struggle contest, supposedly a sports competition involving a ball.
(I know it's rumor at the moment, but I'm still gonna say this for now). It's like Squenix digged into my brain and picked out characters that I abosolutely adore. Setzer is one of my FAVE FF6 characters and one of my all-time fave FF characters of all time, so if this actually became true, I shall dance a little dance.
Now if only they put in Rufus...wait, I like Rufus, but I don't think we really need any more FF7 stuff.
~Neo
seriously if they delay this game any longer, i'll go crazy.
also the fact that PS3 IS COMING OUT SOMETIME WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR makes the fact that they took so long to make the freaking game look pathetic.
(on an unrelated note: this is probably going to be one of the longest games i've ever played.)
It's only 2 years since Kingdom Hearts 1 came out o.o; it's not exactly a long wait, especially as the game boasts to be 4 times bigger.
Plus the advertisement campiegn has started, it's guaranteed to be out on the 22nd in Japan, which means March releases for UK/US. At the rate Square are adding things to this before deadline, it wouldn't suprise me if we got extras again, seeings as Final Mix sold so well in Japan, they may aswell keep working for the US/UK release, then have that come out in Japan between now and the wait for 3. It's how Square do things *shrug*
And as long as it makes money, fair play to em. o_O
To be perfectly frank, not being as into Final Fantasy as the bulk of people here it'd seem, I really don't give a crap which FF characters are in it or not. I'd be just as happy, if not happier in some ways if the likes of Yuna and Seifer weren't in it. Screw the FF characters... PETE! =D
March? I thought it was slated for february?
The official NA website says Spring 'O6. Last I checked, February was one of the Winter months. The earliest it could be released is March, though it's not inconceivable to see it slip into April. They're gonna have a heck of a time synching all the lip movements in the better animated cutscenes to the new voice acting.
In which case I'd rather they took their time. To save it at least from looking like a bad kung fu movie. In the meantime I'm hoping import peoples and far eastern gamers don't reveal too much to the public... :S
though it's not inconceivable to see it slip into April.
Stop using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means ;p
Anywho, Kingdom Hearts is about the only game out there with proffessional voice acting for practically every speaking character, it's an all-star cast in a literal sense, from Angel-Squally, James "Hades" Woods and I see dead Sora, to Lance Bassiroph.
*Giggles* Seeings as Link never speaks, Twilight might beat it to the UK :O
No chance!
Don't forget Johnny "Savvy" Depp and Orlando "girls swoon at me" Bloom.
With all the FF characters getting tossed around, I wonder how long it'll be before Kefka comes back, if only to remind people of the evils of self-help instruction booklets.
You might want to realize that they're not adding things, currently. The game is completely finished now, and they're getting ready to release it on the 22nd.
It's just that info is getting leaked. o_o
I HOPE they don't add extras in the later versions. It might mean another Final Mix. Ah, well. Three months for voice dubbing and text translations isn't bad, I guess.
Why is that a bad thing? It's my understanding that in FF games when we get extra bosses like Kurt Ziza, The Phantom, Dark Aeons, Ruby/Emerald/Omega Weapon and so forth, then Japan get a re-release with extras and maybe a cutscene like the Order member in Hollow Bastion or Squeaky Toy Wakka in FFX.
I endorse additions!
Although a nice idea, it's really annoying when you realise there's stuff your missing out on...
Yes, we havesomething the americans may not, the americans have somethingthe japanese may not of but the japanese then get it all back again later with another re release... And there's something the REST of us have ALL missed out on 
So far the worst offenders are KH1 and FFX-2...
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Stop using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means ;p
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inconceivable adj.
1. Impossible to comprehend or grasp fully: inconceivable folly; an inconceivable disaster.
2. So unlikely or surprising as to have been thought impossible; unbelievable: an inconceivable victory against all odds.
I find your lack of faith in me incomprehensible.
Yeah, that's right.
I'm aware you used it in context. However for Princess Bride, I would walk on hot coal and call myself a nancy boy if it meant getting a quote or reference in the end 
Looks quite a bit different, especially the hair. Hello, Nomura, the hair is supposed to FLOW instead of SPIKE, but I guess people would confuse him for Sephiroth or something.
Still nice.
If Yuna and co are fairies, they're big fairies. o_O; Either that or Sora happens to be really small at the time..
I guess Sora and co shrunk, they clearly have wings, the large shot shows Paine's chibi-devil wings and the in-game has Aguilira!Rikku with Phoenix wings.
Ah we all knew that one was coming, he was on the voice actor sheet and everything.
Still, he looks just as cool now as he did back then.
Huh? I guess I zipped over your post while checking. Sorry.
YAY!!! Now to wonder what plot hole has him back... Well, aside the concepts laid down in CoM.
Spoilers (Select To Read): Is this Ansem's shell, or was what you fought in the 1st game a shell? Eh!? Dun dun duunnnn....
Just a random guess at a potential plot hole
Well the stuff in CoM would make his return even more appealing, wether it mean appearing as a vision or taking over a certain someone's body (cloak = yes?), any which way, he's back and that certain someone is getting more screentime than we're seeing in promo.
I find it annoying that they'd give us a pic of him and not Riku though. I mean besides the Deep Dive clip used in the advert and Organisation Memeber with Soul Eater, we've not seen heads nor tails of the bishie blade master.
I appreciate that Squenix are probably trying to avoid KH2 being "Every moment of this game tells me it would have been better if Riku was the Keyblade Master" like KH1, but come oooon... fanboys need food!
YAY! SETZER! SETZER! SETZER! HURRAY!!! Granted, his hair is suppose to be more wavy abd flowy then spiked, but damn it, it's SETZER! YAY!
~Neo
Which games Setzer from?
Sorry, only played FF 1, 2, 7, 8, 10 and 10-2... I have zero knowledge of everything in between untill those GBA ports come out.
FFVI it would appear, from the text next to his pic.
As I, also, am lacking knowledge of the old skool games, could someone fill me in on who he was and what he did... in spoiler tags for Swifty's sake 
Spoilers (Select To Read): Setzer is a traveling gambler with the world's only airship in the game known as the Blackjack. A free spirited individual, leading life like a gambler.
The heroes need him for their airship, so they go to the Opera where he (Setzer) vows to kidnap the head Opera singer, Maria to marry. They basically disguise another FF6 character, Celes, to be Maria in order for Setzer to join them. He eventually does and pretty much ferries them around.
It is also later revealed during the latter half of the game he was once friends with a woman named Daryl who had an ariship called the Falcon. They would often race. Then one day, Daryl went off somewhere while Setzer waited on their favorite cliff or something, but she never came, so she's presume to be dead. Sezter build a memorial for her and hid her airship, The Falcon, inside. Setzer later took the Falcon out for the other portion of the game.
I'd laugh if Squenix actually thought no one knows that Riku's in the 2nd game or something, and then make it out to be some huge revelation... like "GUESS WHO IN DA GAME!?"
Eh, I was going somewhere with that but now it just sounds like an "O RLY?" picture edit waiting to happen..
EDIT: AHH! I remember him!! @ contents of neos spoilers
Wait a tic... Nomura appears to state in the newest Dorimanga interview that KHII will release worldwide Feburary 2nd.
EDIT: No wait, it's bull. March it is, for now.
KH2.co.uk reports:
-You do start with BHK and he can Drive, and in the tutorial as well
-The Tutorial is like KH1 yet different.
-The battles are described as very fast paced.
-BHK is seen facing Setzer
The names of the BHK kids are revealed!
Big, Brown Haired Boy: Pints
Brown Haired Girl: Oret
Golden Haired Kid: Hain/Heine
Trailer:
- Hollow Bastion, Mickey says to Sora, "You do not have those feelings"
- Saix is talking about Sora, saying " He is the one who will carry out our mission"
- In a dream that Sora has, Setzer says "Now, what was thought to be true, is now just a lie."
Random Info:
- Saix's attitude is kinda like Axel's
- Saix's sword has a shape similar to the keyblade
HE COMES IN PINTS!?!?! I'm gettin' one!
Speaking of Sex. I mean Saix
kh2.co.uk/image.php?view=...ns/146.jpg
and, because they're cute, more Winnie and Stitch
Some other new info:
- Neverland will NOT be returning.
- Kingdom Hearts 2 will have over double the amount of cutscenes.
- Party member behavior can be configured in greater detail.
- There will be Boss fights in which you fly
- Each new world you visit will reveal a new suprise
- There are more elaborate gimmicks in each world than last time.
- Each world can take upto 8 hours to complete
- There will be two types of continues for boss fights.
- The first part of the game (playing as BHK), leading up to the logo appearence can take upto 3 hours.
Each world can take up to 8 hours? Damn. Oh, and that pic of Vivi with his eyes close is super freakin' CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE!
~Neo
BAM.
Also, take a look at this guy.
Saix. And that's one wicked Claymore. =D
Also, BHK on the left... skateboarding?
More, MORE I say!
- Kairi speaking (Destiny Islands): Even if we're far apart, I know we'll meet again.
- BHK: It's probably fate
- (Right after the line above in the trailer) Order Member to BHK: Do you sense Sora?
- Apparently Demyx is no good at fighting
- Luxord has a gambler persona
- In order to activate the move where Sora bounces off the wall after an attack, you need the Ability 'Air Recovery'
- There are places where Sora is in Twilight Town, but the key is that Sora and BHK are never in the same places
- While using BHK, the command menu simply has 'Attack', the rest are '?', and he has no Drive Gauge
- The rules of the struggle battle are: one-on-one, pick up all the balls your opponent drops.
- BHK: I'm just thinking about what's gonna happen to me now.
- Sora and co. in front of the abandoned house with BHK's' friends. One of the friends says: They say that some really awful characters come in and out of this house.
- Sora: So you guys are all Kairi's friends too. (to BHK'S friends)
- Part-time job event with BHK: Mail Delivery and Poster Placing (you get more munny from both the faster you do the job.)
- 5 letters, 20 posters (some places you can put up to three at a time, while mailing letters, you're on the skateboard)
- Quote by Nomura: I tried to create a game where both veterans and and new players would start off at around the same level. That's what I had intended, but it didn't go at all as planned.
- Nomura: The town is quite large. Just being large would be no fun, so I started adding Minigames and such.
- The reason I put on Setzer is because I wanted to see him rendered in 3-D. FFVII's Rufus was such a candidate too (O RLY?)
- Orette's Character bio: Looks after Heine and the others.
RUMOR
Namine' supposedly begins to wipe out people's memories of Sora and move them to BHK. So BHK is living within false memories Namine' made (that witch!)
Damn it, the info's coming fast and furious. Most of it's culled from the Ultimania Alpha book that was recently released, or from japanese 2ch forummers discussing it. I think we're really going to have to start considering SPOILER warnings in the days to come.
"FFVII's Rufus was such a candidate too"
Seriously, is Nomura digging in my brain to handpick characters in the FF series I like SOOOO very much? I'm not saying Rufus will be in KH2, but seriously. Vivi, Rufus, and Setzer, the three top FF aves in my book.
~Neo
Now, a picture has surfaced that appears to be the back of the Queen from Snow White looking onto a room with one of the Good Fairies from Sleeping Beauty in it.
It's likely Maleficent, since she was the main villain of Sleeping Beauty. One of the translations make mention of Pete saying her name in a scene.
Compare that to the picture I posted above of Maleficent.
That isn't Maleficent. It looks more like the Queen with her collar and crown.
...I also haven't ruled out that it could be Sora with his hair at odd angles.
Did anyone see some of the scans from the Ultimani Alpha KH book in the KHU site? I said it before and I'll say it again, Japan gets the best stuff. I'd love to get my hands on this book.
~Neo
Yeah. At this point it's practically a given to check both KHU and Sora's Domain occasionally to view the next big find.
The Disney-fied sketches of the main 3 characters are a treat, the expressions are priceless.
Disnified sketches?! Links plz! I need to see this!
There's a new video at KHU, and from the looks of it, I was wrong about Maleficent not being the person in that picture as she rises up and you can see her horns and staff.
Only thing is, Maleficent doesn't have three horns...
All dark and menacing like that...
An FFVI character? Even though it ain't Terra or Locke, I am much heartened.
It wouldn't make much sense for Terra to show up, to be honest, anyway...
Roxas is confirmed to be the blonde boy's name (finally) due to the release of information concerning the KHII soundtrack which will be released in January. Furthermore, the track names appear to spoil certain aspects of the plot, especially near the end so thread carefully.
OHNOS! HE HAS AN X IN HIS NAME!!!!!!!!!!
*Hugs BHK and protects him from the nasty Order*
