Another Ultimania Interview!!

[Eclipse]

thanks to pazuzu who translated this. this was already posted in the spoiler forum, but if you didn't get to see it here it is. the first part is nothing but spoilers so i'm putting it in a box

[spoiler]
Anti Form

Sora has an Anti Count, which is not displayed on-screen.
As that Anti Count grows higher, there is more of a chance of Sora Driving into Anti Form.

Anti Form is not activated when:
a) You are outside battle.
An ally is fainted.
c) You Drive into Final Form.


Things that affect Anti Count

- Driving into Brave, Wisdom or Master Forms adds 1 to your Anti Count.
- Driving into Final Form subtracts 10 from your Anti Count.
- Driving into Anti Form subtracts 4 from your Anti Count.
- Getting a new Form resets your Anti Count to zero.


Percentage Chance of Driving into Anti Form

Count -> Chance
0-4 -> 0%
5-9 -> 10%
10+ -> 25%


Battles that affect Anti Form activation

- Mandatory battles double your chances of getting it.
- XIII Order battles quadruple your chances of getting it.
- The battle with Xemnas (Armoured) multiplies the change of getting it by 10.
- Battles which introduce new allies or special battles (VS Beast, Hades, Pete, Past Pete, Barbossa, etc.) bring the count to zero.



Final Form

After fighting Roxas in The World That Never Was, what would have originally would turn you into Anti Form now has a 25-100% chance of producing Final Form. When you Drive into Final Form, it becomes activated in your Drive menu.

You originally have a 25% chance of becoming Final Form instead of Anti Form. When this does not happen, the chance rises to 50%. If this again does not happen, the chance rises to 100%.

Note that your Drive Gauge must be above 5 to get Final Form.



Mickey

In certain battles, upon dying you'll get a different option.
- あきらめちゃダメだ！ (Can't give up!)
- もうダメだ・・・ (It's over...)

Choose option #1, and you can control Mickey to fight.


The battles Mickey appears in are:
- Shan Yu (The Land of Dragons)
- Gate Guardian + Possessor (Beast's Castle)
- Dark Stalker (Beast's Castle)
- Black Thorn (Beast's Castle)
- Cerberus (Olympus Coliseum)
- Hydra (Olympus Coliseum)
- Volcano Lord + Blizzard Lord (Agrabah)
- Storm Rider (The Land of Dragons #2)
- Xaldin (Beast's Castle #2)
- Grim Reaper (Port Royal #2, 1st part)
- Xemnas (Armoured)


The chances of getting the other option are:
- First time - 100%
- Second time - 80%
- Third time - 64%
- Fourth time and after - 50%
[/spoiler]



Now it's ok to read

Placeholder 3: Nojima (Scenario) Interview-


Interview with Kazushige Nojima - Scenario Writer


Section 1
Using the "Mystery List" as a base to unravel the mysteries left over from the previous game.


Mr Nojima, can we ask you what your motivation to take part in the KHII project was?

Around when work on FFX-2 was finished, Tetsu-san (Director - Tetsuya Nomura) casually invited me to, saying "Will you do it?" Well, not as much as invitation as "Dooo it!" (laugh)

You also worked on the previous game.

I wasn't a main staff member there, but I helped out towards the end. I mainly wrote the scenarios following Hollow Bastion.

There were a lot of mysteries left unanswered in the previous game. Was that your doing?

Mmmmm, if I did something like that, I'd be strangled. So I don't tend to. (laugh) I get the feeling it's usually Tetsu-san who leaves them there. After writing the scenarios and looking at the full game, I thought "Yeah, there's a lot of stuff there we don't know about". Watching the secret movie in KHFM also made me think "What's...going on here?" (laugh)

Did Mr Nomura give you the concepts for this game's scenarios?

Yes. I got the plot that Tetsu-san and the Event Team had thought up, and went to turn that into scenarios. At the very start, I got a huge plot from Tetsu-san for the stories of the main characters, Sora and Roxas. I thought "With this on its own I should be fine". And I only had the beginning Twilight Town bit written. (laughs) But because Tetsu-san always had a clear idea of what he wanted, once he told me about that I was givven free rein.

What kind of things did Mr Nomura say he wanted?

He said that he generally wanted to unravel the mysteries from the first game. At the very start, he gave me a "Mystery List" compiling all of the mysteries from the first game. When I asked him "Do I think up all of the answers to these?", he said "Right now, I've thought up a few of them." And I thought "What? Still not all of them?!" (laughs) There were a lot of keywords included in the last secret movie, and I was to incorporate as much of them as possible into the scenarios.

Was it difficult to put in lines from the secret movie, like "This time, I'll fight"?

Well, I knew from the start that I has to put them in, so I had to put together situations where someone could say that line. Of course, I couldn't make up a story to make them say that. (laughs) I was always conscious of that, so it wasn't all that troublesome.

The Seasalt Ice is a major item in the game. How did this come about?

The Seasalt Ice is something Tetsu-san said he wanted to put in. I originally wanted something as a symbol of Hollow Bastion, and to put in the Ice, I made it the computer password. I decided that Ansem, who chose that passowrd, would like Seasalt Ice because I wanted to show some of his humanity. Isn't it good to know that an adult likes ice-creams too? But I think it's a bit bad to put the name of a food you like as your password. (laughs)

On that subject, in the scene when they were looking for the password, Leon said "It's like grasping a cloud", and Tifa jumped in with "Trying to grasp who?". That was to do with "cloud" and "Cloud", wasn't it?

At the beginning, I'd thought of that pun and I wanted to make that scene from it. (laughs) Basically, because it'd make problems when foreign versions were being made, I try not to play around with those words. When it's translated into English, it'll stay as it is.



*spoilers again*

[spoiler]
Xemnas - Nothingness
Xigbar - Space
Xaldin - Wind
Vexen - Ice
Lexaeus - Earth
Zexion - [unlisted]
Saix - Moon
Axel - Flame



Demyx - Water
Luxord - Time
Marluxia - Flowers
Larxene - Thunder
Roxas - Light


Yes people, Xigbar's is space, and Luxord's is time.. and Xemnas isn't darkness, it's known as Nothingness.
[/spoiler]

Since Pazuzu is also currently working on the Nomura interview, Xaldin will begin working on the Nobody statistics translation, that were already scanned.

this was posted by xaldin, but here it is anyway

[AngelofFate]

nice find even though I did'nt read it it looks like a nice find.

[Eclipse]

Originally Posted by jaxvex

nice find even though I did'nt read it it looks like a nice find.

well i put the part you CAN read out there and put the parts you CAN'T in spoiler boxes :D

[Anonymous]

Thanks for putting into anti spoiler gamer friendly text! Interesting... not really! but good find!

[ShadoWanderer]

Nice Find! Thanks for those info!

[The M.C.]

there was a lot of info onthe anti-form

[exile31]

Nice find TwilightSoulKey. This is a good interview.