Aaron C-T Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 How is it better, though? For one, it's perfectly centered on the box. If you divide it up by the rule of thirds Sora's head would fall in the center box. It's not really all that interesting, they took artwork and made it opaque and shoved it over some sort of texture. It just looks incredibly boring because it's so uniform and centered. I mean.. if the KH2 boxart was on a poster, I'd be more thrilled as it has the main characters and the logo and all that jazz. As far as the case though... ::shrug:: Opinions, I suppose. I don't remember what the KHFM box art looked like.. I don't have any of the games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pheonix Gamma Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 I didn't say KH2FM had better art. I rather dislike it compared to KH2, KH, and KHFM. But you said KH2's didn't compare to the original's, in which case I would have to wholeheartedly disagree. EDIT: Final Mix art: http://c-uncut.com/media/kh-final-mix.jpg This would be my preffered KH2FM+ art: http://c-uncut.com/media/kh2-misc05.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angrywalrus13 Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 The KHII boxart was better than KH1.KH2 FM is done by a different artist, methinks. I can definately tell that something isn't quite right. KHFM had the best box art, if I remember correctly. Looking at Nomura's latest stuffs, it seems like his style is totally changing. :E And yes. The KH:FM art was awesome. Also, Scatta: http://www.gkworld.com/c=c7Sd0CfZAfxWCJZOOJRUkxDL5/product/GKW14757 ...Get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 PG: But.. I never said you did think the KH2: Final Mix art was better? In fact, I didn't mention that game anywhere in my second post. As far as that render, that would be my preferred as well, actually. It doesn't give me that same overly centered feeling and it has a background that doesn't just seem like someone took a few drawings, messed around with their opacity and stuck them over a textured-looking layer. I totally prefer that image over the KH boxart though.. even if Mickey does look stupid for having such a blank expression (near the eye anyway). AngryWalrus: Not sure I've seen much of Nomura's art lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pheonix Gamma Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 I misread. Woopsies. >.> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angrywalrus13 Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 AngryWalrus: Not sure I've seen much of Nomura's art lately. Don't have any links, but the FM+ poster-deal that's on the official site is an example, and he's doing that FFXII spinoff that's for DS...those look funky too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pheonix Gamma Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 But his other DS game...It's A Wonderful World?...maintains his usual art style (though pointer, ala Musashi) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 Walrus, I'm sure that's more or less simply wanting to change stuff up. He's involved with multiple projects all at the same time and I'm guessing he doesn't want all of these projects to end up looking the same. Afterall, if he's doing artwork for FFXIII, FFVerXIII, It's a Wonderful World, and KH3 all we're going to be seeing for quite some time is artwork and when it comes time to promote we'll see.. more artwork and then when it's released we'll see more artwork. And they'll all have the same exact stlye by the same exact artist. Probably just wants to mix things up a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angrywalrus13 Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 That's kinda what I was getting at; he's starting to change things. Before, you could look at any of his work and be like "Yep, Nomura." Not "totally changed," like I first said. >_> But he is evolving, no doubt. Or rather, expanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 "But he is evolving, no doubt." I was totally hoping I could find a pic of a Pokemon evolving but I can't. ;-; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtsmarty Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 - They believe that the new re:COM will be better then the game boy advance version.[ I bet that's difficult to achieve!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 Well.. I would think it would be. The only forseeable difference is that it'd be in 3D. Everyone who hated the card-based battle system will still hate it and there's really not that much I can see them doing about that unless they completely take out the card-based system.. which I thought they were going to do. So yea, it'd sorta be difficult to pull them in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angrywalrus13 Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 The new map gimmicks, apparently a LOT of new cards, new sleights, the implementation of Reaction Commands... I dunno. It already looks like it's gonna be a lot better, graphics/VA's aside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtsmarty Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 Well.. I would think it would be. The only forseeable difference is that it'd be in 3D. Everyone who hated the card-based battle system will still hate it and there's really not that much I can see them doing about that unless they completely take out the card-based system.. which I thought they were going to do. So yea, it'd sorta be difficult to pull them in. As long as they make it so that heartless appear on the map instead of a "random encounter"-esque approach, it'll be a hundred times better already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 . . . What? In Chain of Memories the heartless did appear on the map. When you came into contact with them you were taken to the battlefield. I don't see where you're getting "random encounter" from that's more along the lines of the way you can never tell where Pokemon are. >.> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtsmarty Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 . . . What? In Chain of Memories the heartless did appear on the map. When you came into contact with them you were taken to the battlefield. I don't see where you're getting "random encounter" from that's more along the lines of the way you can never tell where Pokemon are. >.> Yeh that's what I meant. I know it's not actually random encounter, (hence "random encounter"-esque), but I mean so that you actually battle heartless on the map, rather than being taken to the battlefield. Bad wording I know. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 Oh.. in that case then yes I'd prefer that as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angrywalrus13 Posted February 20, 2007 Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 :E They're keeping the Heartless-on-map deal, based on the pics from magazine scans. It does look a lot more...well, well-done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted February 20, 2007 Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 Wait.. you all are really confusing me. So they're making it the way it works in Kingdom Hearts 1/2 or are they keeping it the way it was in CoM? I'm thinking you meant the former. At any rate, I'd like to see these scans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angrywalrus13 Posted February 21, 2007 Report Share Posted February 21, 2007 They're keeping it like in CoM, sorry. >_> *goes to collect them from various sites* Hell, I'll get like every scan I see. >_> Okay, this covers all of it. Oh, and I don't know if anyone else knew about this, but it's been up for a while: http://www.square-enix.co.jp/kingdom2fm/ New music, tons of high-quality screens, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pheonix Gamma Posted February 22, 2007 Report Share Posted February 22, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4itvyMRs9cM First half: CoM. Looks kickass. Second Half: KH2FM+. Sora uses Marluxia's weapon to finish him? WIN. Also note the final 5 or so seconds of the video, hinting at the secret ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angrywalrus13 Posted February 22, 2007 Report Share Posted February 22, 2007 *was gonna post that* Yep. Whoever that is calls an armored unknown a "friend." And before anyone says anything about the new scenes not having voices: keep in mind that this video was made like, three months ago, and voices tend to come last in the list of things to do. Chances are they just didn't have them done at the time. >_> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckboy Posted February 22, 2007 Report Share Posted February 22, 2007 Sora using Marluxia's weapong against him was f**king awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtsmarty Posted February 22, 2007 Report Share Posted February 22, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4itvyMRs9cMFirst half: CoM. Looks kickass. Second Half: KH2FM+. Sora uses Marluxia's weapon to finish him? WIN. Also note the final 5 or so seconds of the video, hinting at the secret ending. Oh man. Kickass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ligar Posted March 31, 2007 Report Share Posted March 31, 2007 Please forgive me for reviving an old thread but you guys gotta see this! http://files.filefront.com/7073830 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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