I wan Mickey to be playable, more cool villians (Ansem was cool!), and more characters... an I definitely wan ta see Sora confessin his feelins more ta Kairi.. he only began ta do it at the end of KH..

a better battle system, more neat worlds, a better plot, and a better replay value.

the battle system was just slash-slash-slash-heal-slash-heal-slash-almost died-goofy died-slash-slash-etc.

some of the worlds were retarded. neverland comes to mind. they could have made it so cool with the mermaid lagoon and the clubhouse.

the plot didnt twist around any. it was pretty straight-forward.

i have yet to replay kh.

The battle system felt kinda stiff, especially when you're plain slashing on the ground. To really slash and do damage, you'd have to jump and press X rapidly. I would like to see better ground attacks that are faster.

Most of the music tracks were just rehashed versions of the original music track from the original films... they really should do away with them.

Playable FF characters would be nice.

A better command system would be nice too. Using the Control Pad to change options is a pain in the butt. :(

I want Square to take over and have a heck of a lot more influence on everything in the game instead of all the disney stuff o_o

Yo Quistis... if KH2 were ta be heavily influenced by Square.. den it definitely wun be KH animore.. ;)

What I would like would be for people to learn to spell.

Oh, you mean in KH2! Id like square to put more into it. Like Square worlds....not just Disney stuff.....maybe a disney character on a square world

gd Idea Tal... KH was full of disney worlds yet we didnt see one FF WOrld.. but tink bout it.. the FF Worlds wud be BIG rite? I mean.. look at FFVII...

They could be in Midgard? Or Balamb Garden. *shrugs*

I personally did like the whole fact that theres a whole mess of Disney stuff in it. They really shouldn't tone it down.... besides, it's not exactly an RPG that is targetting everyone.

It annoyed me how Donald & Goofy kept shouting "Help!" and "Sora!" when they were in trouble in a battle, like you're gonna help them when you're the only one who has to stay alive not to lose the game. Why didn't Donald use his cure magic sooner?

I hope they're not in KH2 actually.

Hades was fun - I wouldn't mind seeing more of him. Wouldn't mind seeing more Yuffie either.

Battle - make summons more useful / more balanced - most of them weren't that helpful and Tinkerbell was overpowerful.

No "Final Mix" version - give everyone everything. (Right, I'm sure that'll happen.)

Maybe they will make the FF characters more mature..

Judging by the pictures ive seen of this they are going for a slightly more mature look. Sora is now a teenager and his costume is black. The main problem with the ff characters in the origional is that strictly speaking, they really werent the true characters. They all lived on the same planet and Aeris/Aerith is alive. Plus no ff9 characters. They could include more ff style bad guys too, rather than just variations on the "shadow" theme. Stuff like Bombs and Ouchus.

They are updating the magic casting and summoning part of the game to try to make it easier to summon and to cast magic. I also think that they should let some of the FF characters playable and it should let you go to some FF worlds, that would improve the game, instead of just having to see the FF Chars standing infront of you and not helping you.

The reason that we didn't see any FF9 characters were because they weren't designed by Tetsuya Namura (or however you spell it ^^;), character designer of FF7, 8 and 10.

The things I'd like to see in KH2 look like they're happening - darker storyline, more character focussed. In KH1, it was a great game, but the storyline could be loose at times. Hopefully in KH2 it will be a lot tighter.

Also, I hope it ties in well to KH1, without needing to play KH:CoM - not for my sake, but for the many many people I know who don't have a GBA.

A Toy Story level would be nice. Its the only Disney film i like, aside from nightmare before xmas. Removal of Donald and Goofy, or a vastly improved AI for them.

But I think Toy Story was absent from the first game for the same reason that every other Disney/Pixar film was. They probably couldn't get Pixar to go along. That's assuming they even considered trying.

According to one of the KH designers to be able to follow along in the storyline and understand what is happening in KH2 then you will have to play KH:COM:( :whatever: .

man tat sux!!! Esp. for pple who dun own Game Boy Advance!!!

:( I Know, it sucks. I have seen the screenshots, and let me tell you, they aren't that great. You have to play will cards now?!?! I think they should have just kept it on PS2 and they shouldn't have brought it into GBA.

When will people ever read the news properly...

From what I can remember of that press release, S-E said it WASN'T necessary to play CoM to enjoy KH 2 - it would flow from KH 1 quite well. CoM merely pads out the story for fans who want to know a bit more before KH 2 is released, but all will be explained in the PS2 version anyway.

Square is not stupid...they're not going to screw up one of their biggest franchises by leaving a gaping hole in the middle.

...and hell, if you like KH that much, why don't you go out and get a GBA anyway? They're cheap, fun, and well worth the cash.

Prob is KH2 will be released very late 2004... waaa

You should be able to go to the Treasure Planet world. ( Was that a Disney movie?) More spells! More summons and more FF characters like Zidane and Vivi. They'd fit real well into Kingdom Hearts.

FF9 characters were not in kh because for ff9 they got a new team of characters designers and they didnt give permisson for their characters to be used.But now,after seeing its poetenial,they will recosider,i think

maybe they shud let the player control FF characters... tats more like it..

Personally, I don't like the first Kingdom Hearts game, so the only thing I'd like about Kingdom Hearts 2 is that they don't bother... Or at the very least alter the battle system to something a bit more varied than hack and slash, and make the storyline more gripping from the get go.

That's just my opinion though. Carry on~

:notgood: When will people ever read the news properly...
Square Enix states, �Without playing Kingdom Hearts-CoM, you will not understand the storyline of Kingdom Hearts II.�
Before you go accusing other people of not reading the news properly, you might want to ready it properly.

i haven't read either news stories but judging by what iv read hear it seems that you'll prob need to play kh-com to understand the story.but yeah.....s-enix would say that to get there game sold dont ya think?

Well KH: COM takes place exactly after the end of KH, while KH II takes place 2 years after KH. So if you skip over KH: COM you will miss a whole entire 2 years of the stories plot.

Originally posted by ChaosGhost
Well KH: COM takes place exactly after the end of KH, while KH II takes place 2 years after KH. So if you skip over KH: COM you will miss a whole entire 2 years of the stories plot.

ok....i geuss u were right!!!

ChaosGhost, I think your piece of news contradicts with ExS's news on top of Pg 2 of this thread..

in kh2 they might make some scenes to fill the gap that it misses.like in shenmue on the xbox...

Re-reading the press releases, and sourcing the Ansem Report, i've come up with this -

To understand the Kingdom Hearts world intimately, you need to play Chain of Memories. However, you will not need it to understand Kingdom Hearts II - that game will stand alone, and make sense.

Think of Kingdom Hearts as the Silmarillion, Kingdom Hearts II as the Lord of the Rings, and Chain of Memories as the Hobbit - they all work independently, but you get the best understanding of the story by reading all three.

To understand exactly what is happening, and why it is, at the beginning of KH II then you will have to play KH: COM.

like i said before....they might do a scene showing u what happens in between...

Ya, they probably might have a breif thing at the begining of KH II so you can understand some of what happened in KH: COM and so you want be to far behind.

Those who played FFX-2 lost two whole years between the two games, but it didn't really matter. Those that did want to find something out could check out a video.

I guess the bottom line it that you should get a gba. Come on, its got FFTA as well, its worth getting a gba just for that. I did.

Originally posted by ExS
Think of Kingdom Hearts as the Silmarillion, Kingdom Hearts II as the Lord of the Rings, and Chain of Memories as the Hobbit - they all work independently, but you get the best understanding of the story by reading all three.

But the Silmarillion made no sense...

Aah, all of a sudden, the reason for Kingdom Hearts' existence as a bane of my own becomes clear...

Hey, Bahamut, if you really don't like KH, then just don't play it. You don't have to.

Originally posted by Agent0042
Hey, Bahamut, if you really don't like KH, then just don't play it. You don't have to.

That's why I'm not playing it. :)

No Cliff Hangers for the ending!!!

Please let it be better than FFX-2!! I will cry if it's not.

I want Sora to be reunited with Kiari and Riku.

Big wish here--I wish that they would start sending the same versions of game titles from Japan to the US. Nothing cut out.

i think that Cecil, Kain, Rosa, Tellah, Palom, Polom, and Vincent should be in this one and that would just be AWSOME!

No Cliff Hangers for the ending!!!

Please let it be better than FFX-2!! I will cry if it's not.

I want Sora to be reunited with Kiari and Riku.
As opposed to FFX-2 where they weren't reunited? Except that they totally were. I'm guessing that you haven't tried to get the Good or Perfect Ending.

I sort of agree that Sora should get Rikku and Kairi back. But there must obviously be suspense and twists in the middle.. then it should be alright

i think that Cecil, Kain, Rosa, Tellah, Palom, Polom, and Vincent should be in this one and that would just be AWSOME!
Ya, that would be pretty cool if they would put Vincent in the game.

zack should be in it....that would be really cool....

What I think they should get rid of in KH2 is the DISNEY CHARACTERS!!! Has anyone said that already?

some1 did say say less disney worlds and more ff worlds....thats a good idea but dont get rid of disney altogether...it wont be the same!!!

KH2 wouldnt be the same without the Disney Characters!! It would become more of a Square project instead of the combined efforts between both companies

zack should be in it....that would be really cool....
that would be kind of weird if they included him in the game, he also wasn't one of the main characters.

eventho he's not a main character...he shoud be in it!!!

What would I like in Kingdom Hearts 2? Well, for there to be no Kingdom Hearts 2. I've played Kingdom Hearts, and I didn't like it. But then, what do you expect from an unholy union of the Mickey Mouse organisation and Square? No wonder Hironobu Sakaguchi left/fired from Square. His dream is getting... butchered.

Stay out of these forums Xiahou Dun. Just cause you have mental isues doesn't mean you need to spead your 'joy.'

Originally posted by ChaosGhost

Stay out of these forums Xiahou Dun. Just cause you have mental isues doesn't mean you need to spead your 'joy.'

Excuse me, but does Elvis talk to you? These are a public forum, meaning anyone here is entitled to state their own opinion about games/anime/anything they want. There are some other people who don't like Kingdom Hearts as well, and judging from your response to my post here, I'm gonna assume you think anyone who doesn't like Kingdom Hearts has mental issues.

Besides, I'm exercising my right to express my own opinion. If you don't like it, too bad. Besides, I've been here at these forums, longer than you Onion Kid.

What does you being in these forums longer than me have to do with anything?
Besides, if you don't like the game then go to a forum about 'What you did or didn't like,' not about what you would like in the sequels.

If they made a KH2, I would apprieciate it if they put Tifa in it this time. If they put some FF9 characters in it. If you could also play the FF characters and not just the Disney characters. Also if they put Rinoa in it. She's my favorite from FF8.

What I want for KH2:
Also known as "Yeah, right"

-Job system. Preferabley straight out of FFV
-More Final Fantasy-like menu, with more averaged characters (so the job system works right; but non-main characters would start out as their "prefered job" ie Beast = Monk, Tarzan = Lancer, etc.)
-Much deeper storyline
-Different weapons. Yeah, Sora is the keyblade master, but does that mean he can't use a different weapon? KH1 showed a very bland weaponry, where all people in the multiverse use Swords (keyblades too), Staffs, Shields, a dagger, and a pike to fight.
-Weapon Skills or Limit Breaks
-More direction (I did not like the several times the game wanted me to wander around the dangerous parts of Traverse Town until I found something that tirggered a new event)
-More side quests, secret bosses, etc. And harder, too! Sephiroth, supposedly the hardest boss in the game was a piece of cake =\
-More Utada Hikaru. Yay for JPop!

yeah that would be cool with thw limit breaks were in KH2!!!


Different weapons. Yeah, Sora is the keyblade master, but does that mean he can't use a different weapon?

Yeah that does!!! Did you not even listeb to the whole story line? He is the 'weilder' of the keyblade, not of the gunsword!


If they put some FF9 characters in it.

They didn't have FF9 characters because the character designers for FF9 didn't work on KH, only the designers for FF7, FF8, and FF10 did, because they were the same people.

They should also add in some FF worlds to play in and even let some of the FF characters play on your team in KH2.

Originally posted by ChaosGhost
Yeah that does!!! Did you not even listeb to the whole story line? He is the 'weilder' of the keyblade, not of the gunsword!


You're right. I did not "listeb" to the whole story line. I listened, read, watched, etc. though.

But you're giving a horrible argument. Frodo is the ring bearer, so I guess he can't hold anything else because that would just "not be right?" So, Sora can just use a keyblade all the time, and Frodo can carry nothing and wear nothing except for the ring. Makes perfect sense to me. Oh, and King Arthur used Excalibur, so I guess he never could have used something like a bow and arrow to strike his distances from afar. I could rant more on this, but =\

Sora certianly isn't unique in having a keyblade. So he cannot be "the" weilder of it, as there are more than one people weilding one. However, forgive me for my ambigious use of "the Keyblade Master" in my above post. Although we do not know how skilled Mickey is at keyblades, Sora has proved to be the best.. but not the only one.

I do agree that gunswords shouldn't be brought into KH2, as they were one of the fun and unique aspects of FFVIII.

Why not just remove all the disney influences.
That'd make it, I dunno, playable.

Originally posted by mrmonkeyman
Why not just remove all the disney influences.
That'd make it, I dunno, playable. Why don't they just make the main character Cloud and make Tifa's boobs twice as big then call it a Final Fantasy? :rolleyes:

They have anounced that Auron from FFX will be in KH2!!!!!!!!

i want them to put loads more final fantasy people in it like zell riona laguna people like that and put in chocobos and you can get your chocobo on higher levels and it get them more abilities
instead of a gummi ship and you could fight on your chocobo:D

Yeah they should put Rinoa, Zell, and Laguna in it. that would be a good idea. They better make Cloud and Tifa the couple, not Cloud and Aerith!

I've been replaying the original, and here's some thoughts for improving Donald and Goofy:

- Add a "Call" feature that would let them return to where Sora is. It's annoying when you're up on some large somewhere and they're down some where attacking some Shadow, not even helping you out.

- Improved AI: Stop willy-nilly attacking some enemy even when it's temporarily invincible or hitting with a power attack. It's ridiculous.

While I was playing KH1 yesterday (trying to get screenshots and several other things). I noticed one thing.... THE CAMERA GETS BLOCKED A LOT. X_x

I would perfer better Camera movement... probably with the right Analog Stick.

The right analog stick is already assigned the menu, which seems to work okay. The problem is that although the game lets you rotate the camera with R2, oftentimes it doesn't seem to let you rotate it enough. Another problem with the camera is that it won't focus in on the enemy that you're attacking. I'd prefer it if it would automatically focus onto the target that you're locked onto.

P.S.: Kingdom Hearts is a great game and if Square-Enix takes these complains seriously, then KHII will be a lot better, since these are things a lot of people complain about it.

One other thing, it would be nice to have some (or portions of) of the actual songs from the Disney movies in the games. I don't mean these little remixed instrumental pieces, I mean some of the actual vocal tracks.