We've been a bit inconsistent with the KH game titles on KH13. Originally, we followed what I'll call the "encyclopaedic style", which is basically to write things as they would be written on Wikipedia, following Wikipedia's guidelines. Around the time that the first KH HD collection was announced, we started using the "stylised trademark" style of KH titles, which is to write things as Square Enix write them in their press releases, official websites, etc.

Here are some examples of what I mean:
 

 

encyclopaedic style

Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix

 

stylised trademark

Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix

Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance]

Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX

 

That should demonstrate what the difference is. The question is, which should we use for content on KH13? Of course, people are welcome to use whatever they like on the forum and in comments, etc-- but the question is, what should we decide to use in news articles, content archives, and so on?

 

I'd like to hear some arguments from both sides and hopefully we can reach a satisfying conclusion.

 

PS: Yes this is all extremely picky but we'll be re-doing a lot of content soon and I want to get it right for good

Enyclopaedic looks much better.

Why is there no "who cares?" option

Looks like there's a bit more support for encyclopaedic, but overall it's pretty even.

 

I realised something else about the two options-- for encyclopedic style to be correct, game titles should be in italics, ie. Kingdom Hearts. Conversely, according to Square Enix's trademark style, game titles are not in italics, ie. Kingdom Hearts.

 

Thus, I think a nice little compromise is to use the encyclopedic style in situations where we can use italics, and to use the trademark style in situations where italics is impossible. This generally means that in article titles, website section titles (forum names, gallery albums, etc), we'll use trademark style (as we couldn't properly imitate the encyclopedic style in those circumstances), where in the body of articles or pages, we'll use encyclopedic style.

Encyclopedic because when I read the styliezed it makes me feel like someone is yelling at me, then i feel bad about myselft, then i go sit on a bridge and think about my life choices, then because of that, i reset my avi, remove all my friends, and delete all my status updates, come back to the site a week or two later, wash rinse and repeat.

Looks like there's a bit more support for encyclopaedic, but overall it's pretty even.

 

I realised something else about the two options-- for encyclopedic style to be correct, game titles should be in italics, ie. Kingdom Hearts. Conversely, according to Square Enix's trademark style, game titles are not in italics, ie. Kingdom Hearts.

 

Thus, I think a nice little compromise is to use the encyclopedic style in situations where we can use italics, and to use the trademark style in situations where italics is impossible. This generally means that in article titles, website section titles (forum names, gallery albums, etc), we'll use trademark style (as we couldn't properly imitate the encyclopedic style in those circumstances), where in the body of articles or pages, we'll use encyclopedic style.

 

I'm liking the sound of this.

 

So:

 

News article titles

Forum titles and tags

Gallery section/album/sub-album titles

Archive page titles

Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube and Vimeo

 

Will all use Square Enix's trademark style?

 

Can you think of anywhere else?

Looks like there's a bit more support for encyclopaedic, but overall it's pretty even.

 

I realised something else about the two options-- for encyclopedic style to be correct, game titles should be in italics, ie. Kingdom Hearts. Conversely, according to Square Enix's trademark style, game titles are not in italics, ie. Kingdom Hearts.

 

Thus, I think a nice little compromise is to use the encyclopedic style in situations where we can use italics, and to use the trademark style in situations where italics is impossible. This generally means that in article titles, website section titles (forum names, gallery albums, etc), we'll use trademark style (as we couldn't properly imitate the encyclopedic style in those circumstances), where in the body of articles or pages, we'll use encyclopedic style.

 

Okay so, Sora96 pointed out to me that this isn't correct, actually both should have italics. Square Enix's press releases state the game titles like  Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX, which pretty much destroys my whole compromise haha.

Encyclopaedic style.

Dat caps, it hurts.

all hail the master 

Encyclopaedic style? YES PLEASE