Voice Actors Announced (Again) for Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

Breathe easy, fans of Kingdom Hearts, because the official voice list has been confirmed!

Sure, you could've gone to the IMDB and seen the same news or checked out the nine-minute trailer from earlier this month:

but it's now been officially press released! The same voice actors from the first two* games have come back. Haley Joel Osmnet returns as Sora, David Gallagher as Riku, Leonard Nimoy as Master Paycheck Xenahort, Hayden Panet...we're getting bored just typing that out. The point remains that the central voice crew returns while everyone else is given close-enough performances by some accomplished voice actors that outshine the stunt casting that has not aged well since 2002.

Dream Drop Distance even goes so far as to act as a sequel/side story with Square's amazing The World Ends With You. Why combine these properties? Because when it comes to squeezing blood from a stone, Square seems determined to do that when it comes to releasing a proper third sequel for Kingdom Hearts II.

Don't think so? In the last decade we've had, in place of proper sequels:

• 3 mobile games--as in, pre-iOS and barely functional number pad mobile.

• A trading card game.

• A DS game set between 1 and 2.

• A Game Boy Advance game.

This also spans five different platforms, with the Playstation 2 to be the only system that could ever play two of the games--conveniently the main story. 

So, sure, we're excited for Dream Drop Distance, but c'mon. Give us something concrete!

Kingdom Hearts 3D:Dream Drop Distance comes out in North America on July 31st.