COMPILATION: KINGDOM HEARTS: INTERVIEW

Warning:The interview and these questions may contain spoilers for Kingdom Hearts 2.

When I read a translation of an interview with Nomura several questions and answers appeared to my eye as they he talked about Cloud, Tifa, and the Final Fantasy characters in the game. Here are some questions and responses that I thought were pretty interesting, yet they may be spoiling so do not read these questions or the interview.

The Questions/Responses

Q. On what kind of basis did you choose the FF characters?
A. In a way, we selected characters that are on demand. We considered from both fans and the staff's opinions and it all ends with just characters that are highly on demand.

Q. And Tifa from FFVII showed up.
A. In fact, back when we were working on KH:FM, some of the staff members wanted to have Tifa show up. They said "Battling with Tifa would be fun, in a melee sense" and originally wanted to add both Sephiroth and Tifa (into KH:FM) but due to tight schedules, we could only go with one character so we inserted Sephiroth into KH:FM. Because of that, we decided to let Tifa show up in this game. When we were recording the voices for KHII, coincidentally they were also doing the recording for FFVII:AC so somehow we end up doing "Today we record FFVII:AC, tomorrow KHII"... (laugh) The voices were recorded in the same flow so I'm glad about that.

Q. Speaking of Tifa, there's an event where she talked to Cloud after beating Sephiroth.
A. In Nojima-san's scenario, it explained Cloud and Tifa's connection more in-depth but I deleted it away. I thought it would be more interesting to let the gamers think about it. For example, "If Cloud's darkness is Sephiroth, then Tifa is light"; in that sense you can take it that Tifa isn't really human. The reason Tifa doesn't talk to anyone else besides Sora and co. may be because she doesn't exist as a human. Of course, I also presented her in a way that she could also be a resident of Hollow Bastion, so I think you can feely think for yourself about her.

Q. Were you planning to insert FFVII:AC characters into KHII initially?
A. No. I didn't want to insert too many things from my newer works and FFVII:AC's world is very serious and has a little madness mixed into it so it was quite difficult to familiarize it to KHII's mood. I wasn't thinking of forcing to insert something that wouldn't fit in.

My Thoughts/Review

To tell the truth I always hoped for Tifa to be in KH2, even as the days of the release date in Japan were being counted down. But it took me by shock when the rumor about Tifa being in KH2 was confirmed. Of course, I was very happy of this and wondered what would her role be. As for Cloud I also wondered if him and Tifa would have any connection in the game. After reading these interview questions and responses from Nomura himself I was glad to see that my wish had come true. Though this may have been a celebration to Cloti fans this just may have been a disappointment to Cleris. As for the interview about Nomura taking out the part where Nojima-san states his scenario I can only imagine what that was. I honestly wanted to know what Nojima-san had to say. Another thing is that it is finally confirmed that Aeris/Aerith is not Cloud's light, but instead it Tifa is, and the darkness is Sephiroth. As about Tifa not being human, I am just not certain about that. It may be a posibility because I recall sometimes in the game it was as if the other characters couldn't see her for some strange reason. Or maybe they could, but something was little bit odd in my opinion.

If you would like to read the rest of the interview go here. I got the interview translation from maiki at livejournal. All credit goes to them.

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