Original data went missing a long, long time ago
In a recently postedE3 interviewconducted by Square Enix,Kingdom Heartsgame director Tetsuya Nomura divulged that the original assets from the 11-year-old title had been lost. Because of this, the graphics forKingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIXhad to be recreated from the ground up on the PS3.
“Kingdom Hearts 1was created a long, long time ago, so actually the original data was missing already,” Nomura said. “It was lost, so we had to research, and we had to dig out from the actual game what was available and recreate everything for HD. We had to recreate [the] graphics and it was actually not that easy.”
It’s actually pretty cool that theKingdom Heartsteam went to this much effort to bring the series into the high definition era. At this year’s E3, I was blown away by how visually striking the game is, and it turns out there was a pretty good reason why.
Now will somebody at Sega go dig out and rebuildPanzer Dragoon Saga’sassets? I think it’s time that game got the HD treatment.
