Speaking of games with 'Heart' in the title, this one is actually making it out of Japan. Not that it should be any surprise, but Square Enix announced about a week ago that Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep for the PSP should be out in the US by the summer.
Over in Japan though, they've just released the 'Ultimania' guide book for the same game. Technically it comes out tomorrow, but it's already 'tomorrow' in Japan. In case you're not familiar with SquEnix's Ultimania brand, they are basically enormous super duper guidebooks that cover every single thing in the game. For their bigger games they would even have one Ultimania book for all of the story and scenario stuff, and a separate Ultimania book for all of the battle information. The Ultimania book for Birth By Sleep is 656 pages.
In the back of the Birth by Sleep Ultimania, there is an interview from game director Tetsuya Nomura. You can read a translated version of it on Heartstation.org, as he covers a few things regarding the future of the series. One thing I thought was interesting was that Nomura says that Sora will always be the 'Hero' of the series. In an earlier interview that we reported on, Nomura suggested that Sora wouldn't be the 'main character' in games past the 3rd one. An interesting idea.
In any case, check out the entire interview on Heartstaion. And if you're the type to go importing stuff, I might go ahead and recommend it. I picked up the Ultimania for Kingdom Hearts 2, and while I couldn't understand a lick of it, it was a really nice book.
Source: Heartstation.org
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