KINGDOM HEARTS 3 - D23 EXPO TRAILER

Hi Guys! A new Kingdom Hearts 3 trailer has been released at the D23 Expo in Japan this week. And it's really cool. It's a gameplay trailer where they show some things that'll be possible in the final game. I'll discuss the most notable things in the trailer like the train ride, the pirate ship and the dual guns! Not to forget the graphics are stunning and really match the style of the game. Watch the trailer here:

Okay so now you've seen it, it's great right? I'm really glad Square-Enix keeps releasing new info about KH3, it keeps us on a positive leash. And it makes waiting for this game less hard. So what did we see in the trailer? First there's a fight with a couple of Heartless in Twilight Town. Sora is fighting alongside Donald and Goofy more or less like they did in Kingdom Hearts 2. The magic they use looks more massive then in the previous games. You can see the sparks coming from the fire, it looks great. Then Sora goes into this command style called 'Two Shoot Blaster' and he fires away at the Heartless with dual guns, so that's definitely new. This must be some kind of new command-menu-fight style I guess. It looks cool, but it's also a bit denigrating to the Keyblade because it makes it less special. I mean, why use a sword if you got two guns in your back pocket? Will Sora obtain a rocket launcher later in the game? It's not GTA! So I hope Nomura is wise and makes this a very limited command style which lasts like a minute. This could be the case because there is a orange bar in the command menu draining down while he blasts away. It would be cool if every Keyblade has it's special command style. Then it would make Keyblades special again and I would be eager to find new ones and equip older Keyblades again.

Then the trailer shows us two things. A pirate ship with our heroes on it fighting against Heartless and the stone giant battle in a railroad locomotive. These could be summons. But it´s different from the summons in other games because Donald and Goofy don´t disappear but are still present and on the ship or train. There is once again a bar in the command menu draining down. But it´s different from the dual blaster command style because the bar is blue. You probably can´t summon them whenever you want because they take a lot of space. So calling it summons is possibly not correct. It´s almost as if it is a scripted thing. I can´t get my head around this. It´s a combination of a summon and a scripted event and maybe a reaction command in a boss-battle. I hope it gets revealed at Jump Festa Expo in December. What I also discovered is that the pirate ship and the locomotive (called Big Magic Mountain) are from a Walt Disney World parade called the 'Main Street Electrical Parade'. This parade is active in both the US and Tokyo. It features floats with characters from Disney movies. There's a list on Wikipedia and the pirate ship and the locomotive are both on it. So if you wanna know what else is gonna be in the game take a look, I place my bets on Pete's Dragon. Here are some screenshots:

	The Original Pirate Ship

But there's more. I forgot to mention the health bar faces move, the Pixar-esque graphic style is kickass. And did Twilight Town look different? While I'm still after glowing of all this info, I already look forward to more. Tetsuya Nomura proofed he still got some good ideas. See you next time!

Edit: Nomura stated in an interview with Famitsu that Sora will learn three new abilities in Kingdom Hearts 3. The first is changing the Keyblade's form and the other two are abilities that reflect attractions. The form of the keyblade will change according to the keyblade equipped. But he also says: "These attractions, which are currrently in development, are the evolution of KH3D's Flowmotion and they can be selected according to particular enemies. These are a small portion of these new elements." I was pretty close I guess.