A commercial for Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days has begun showing in North America, on YTV. choboco_king has recorded this trailer, and thanks to him, you can view it below, our download it from our trailers section for the game.
Famitsu.com have updated with an article concerning the upcoming Kingdom Hearts game for PSP, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep. This article includes new and previously seen screenshots in high quality, featuring the worlds Neverland and Dwarf Woodlands. All included screenshots can be viewed below, in our gallery.
Famitsu.com (September 25, 2009)
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The latest issue of Dengeki PlayStation magazine has included an interview with the director of the Kingdom Hearts series, Tetsuya Nomura, concerning the release of Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep. ReBirth Wings have typed up a script of this interview, and Kingdom Hearts Insider have translated it. You can read this translation below.
-- We’re at the part in development where we’ve just finished recording voices and are now getting to the best part. How we should present the credits at the end, what day we should release it, now we’re just starting to think about these things concretely.
At TGS you can play as each of our three characters, and even try out the multiplayer in “Mirage Arena.” There will be four different types of modes you can play in. Cooperative games in the Arena will be be short mission type games that will be found in the Arena only.
-- We aren’t planning for this game to be like Days, where the multiplayer and single player have equal importance. We feel that the main story for this game takes precedence.
-- [The armor they wear in the Arena] isn’t so important for battles, as it is for the story where they will wear it frequently.
-- The story will start out with the three of them together, which will continue until a certain point where you’ll have to choose a character. After that you’ll have to play until that scenario is finished. Once you’ve finished one you’ll have to choose another character again at the same time as you did before. There will be different endings for each character “Actually that part was a bit difficult, we considered making seperate credits for each of the three main characters (laugh)”
You can tell the love and effort that went into this game by how much there is of it. Even though it’s the same world, there will not only be differences in the scenario but different bosses to fight for each character. For example, in Cinderella’s world Aqua fights the pumpkin carriage as a boss, but Terra fights a boss that uses musical instruments.
-- The main characters actually meet several times during the story. Like when they get to a new world they’ll meet one of them, or it will be just after one of them had been there. So only after you’ve finished all three of the scenarios will you understand why a certain scene happened in a certain way. “That’s why if your friend is playing too, you probably shouldn’t talk about the story with each other. You’d probably spoil each other for the story. So it’s probably best to wait until after you’ve finished all three scenarios to talk about it (laugh)”
-- In what order you go to each world will vary by character, but you do have a little bit of choice in where to go.
-- You can’t fly in Neverland. “I won’t tell you why, I’ll just say that 'They are people who don’t need to fly.'" If you play all three scenarios until the end, will there be something? He says, “That’s a secret. (laugh)”
Tokyo Game Show 2009 is running in Japan, and at this event, both Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts coded are featured. Although photos and videos of trailers at the event have not yet surfaced online, many impressions have been written concerning them. This detailed impression comes from HEARTSTATION.ORG, and can be read below. Also, many illustrations were included in this impression, including one of a new character from Birth by Sleep, so be sure to check those out below, in our gallery.
Tokyo Game Show 2009
Thanks to Joystiq and HEARTSTATION.ORG.
Aqua made three charms like the one Kairi gives Sora, she gives one to Ven and one to Terra. The area they’re at is completely new area. There’s a town/castle with a purplish glow in the background and they are on a beach looking area. Here’s my sad illustration of it.
The next scenes reveal the new character who appears to be Terra, Aqua, and Ven’s Master, though his name isn’t revealed. He has dark brown hair and very chiseled features, I can’t remember if he had facial hair. His hair was tied back and there was a zigzag swirl bang on the left side of his face. He wore a yukata like robe with his chest bare, and straps crossing over it in an X shape. Again, here’s my poor illustration of him.
In this scene the new character is talking to Terra, Ven and Aqua, who are lined up in front of Master Xehanort and the new guy. Behind those three is a stained glass window wand the area they are in has a palace feel to it. The bits about “Master Qualification Exam” is spoken about here. Master Xehanort is sitting upon a throne the whole time.
Then it switches up and new scenes with Mickey are shown! He is wearing the same outfit as seen in previous screenshots. He is riding atop a large book under a flood of water thats creating a whirlpool. It looks very much like something out of Fantasia. Again, poor drawing.
My memory starts getting fuzzier here. Especially since it was the first trailer shown, my mind is starting to misplace things. Terra speaking with the Queen from Snow White was shown, as well as Aqua approaching the Seven Dwarfs after she’s fallen asleep. Aqua on the floor of Cinderella’s home while the Step Mother and sisters approach her, the guy with the slipper wants to try it on Aqua. Lots of gameplay scenes. Mostly custscenes we’ve seen before.
The scene where Ven is wearing his armor and floats after Stitch in Deep Space is very reminiscent of the end of Kingdom Hearts II when fighting Xehanort where Riku is driving the device to chase after Xehanort and Sora does the fighting. Anyways, it looks alot like the thing he is floating on is made from his Keyblade, similar to the fight with the Lingering Sentiment in Final Mix how his Keyblade transforms.
Eventually we see Vexen dressed in a white lab coat in what I assume is Radiant Gardens. It looks just like vexen, no visual differences. Xaldin and Lexeaus are dressed in guard uniforms in front of a large door, and they block someone from entering. They’re wielding long stick weapon things, but I can’t remember what they looked like other than they were black.
The outfits Lexaeus and Xaldin wore were dark blue with a lighter color down the middle. Buttons down the sides, and a red and silver heart decal under the collar. Just like Xeven, they have no physical differences from their appearance as members of Organization XIII. More bad drawings.
The last scenes show the masked Keyblade wielder accosting Ven. It looks like it leads up to the scene where Ven is knocked over in front of this guy seen in other trailers. He speaks to Ven and summons a Keyblade. The Keyblade looks like the one Riku used in Kingdom Hearts, and his stance as he holds the Keyblade is the same as Riku’s. His voice is masculine, but not very deep, alluding to the notion he maybe quite young.
After that, the same scene shown in KH2 Final Mix where the Keyblade graveyard is reanimated in Birth by Sleep graphics, only Terra and company aren’t wearing their armor. Just like before, Master Xehanort is approaching the trio and the masked wielder appears out of him. This is where Master Xehanort explains about the Keyblade war.
Sorry for the lack of details, I’ll watch it again later today and try to remember more! I played Aqua in the Birth by Sleep demo, fought the Man in the Mirror as the boss. I foolishly ran through the level without checking things out in detail, but I’ll report more on that later.
The highlights of the Coded trailer involved Sora breaking into the library room Mickey and company monitor their computer from. Mickey pulls out his Keyblade in surprise. Lots of gameplay scenes. The last scene shows Riku first with his hood on appear digitally and then once he’s done appearing, he isn’t waring a hood. Sora shouts out to him, “Riku!”, but with his arms crossed and sounding quite sour, he says “I am not Riku.”
Tokyo Game Show 2009 has recently started in Japan. Recently, at this event, Square Enix have announced that they are working on the second album of Piano Collections Kingdom Hearts. The only known track of this album is Sinister Sundown, which was given out on a promotional CD at the event.
Footage has surfaced from the current event occurring in Japan, Tokyo Game Show 2009, where the upcoming Kingdom Hearts game for PSP, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep is featured. This footage comes from Natural Born Gamer, and includes small clips from Birth by Sleep. You can view it below.
Tokyo Game Show 2009 has recently started in Japan, and featured at this event is the upcoming Kingdom Hearts game for PSP, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep. A new trailer for the game is showing at the event, and although this trailer has not surfaced online yet, summaries of the trailer are available. Famitsu.com have posted an article concerning the event, and included in this article are screenshots, and an extensive trailer summary. The screenshots can be view below, in our gallery, and a translated version of the article, supplied by HEARTSTATION.ORG, can be read below.
Famitsu.com (September 24, 2009)
All images are from Famitsu.com.
Latest trailer begins with Aqua, of the 3 main characters, giving goodluck charms made up of seashells to Ven and Terra. Continuing, a new character that looks like a samurai appears. Terra and Aqua are shown in a scene explaining the “Master Qualification Exam”, will the two of them take the test to become masters? Nearby Master Xehanort is there as a so called “guest”. In the scene Master Xehanort explains a lesson to Terra, at this point in time Master Xehanort is respected by everyone.
Master Xehanort has been revealed publically before, but gathering from this image, there seems to be a sense of madness exerted from him…
Many previously revealed scenes are shown consecutively, and then a scene that looks like a board game in every aspect is shown. Cinderella rolls some dice and the game advances exactly like a board game. In the past, this game’s director Tetsuya Nomura mentioned “A growth system that’s quite different from other systems, maybe you could call it a mini game…?” Could this be what he was talking about!? Moreover, Vexen in a white robe, as well as the two soldier like figures of Xaldin and Lexaeus are there as one might think their human forms appeared before they were in Organization XIII. Also, in the same booth guests could try out the multiplayer mode, as well as observe plenty of new worlds like Peter Pan and Cinderella.
The 3 person multiplayer scenes were publically revealed. It happens in Peter Pan’s world, though the scenes seem to be different than what has appeared in the past titles.
Additionally, the masked Keyblade user who appeared with Master Xehanort is given a voice for the first time. Ven is shown in his mysterious armor like what the “Lingering Sentiment” wore in Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix, he rides the Keyblade with Stitch, flying into space. Anyways, there were many astonishing scenes shown in rapid succession. The release date announced at the end is for January 2010 in Japan.
The mysterious person that appears wearing a body suit like that of motorcycle rider. Though their voice was masculine…
Kingdom Hearts Mobile & Coded
In Kingdom Hearts Mobile, images of the new mini game “Rhythm Parade” which has begun distribution recently appeared. It was a cute image of FF series characters moving alongside with the avatar characters. Kingdom Hearts coded is continuously being publically featured, this time mostly with a focus on Episode 3 and Episode 4 which are distributing now. A boss stage in side scroll style was shown, as well as scenes featuring command battle methods. The high spec images were something you wouldn’t expect from a mobile video game. Also, at the end a man in a black hood appears suddenly in the room of the King (Mickey) and his company. The hood is lifted… And the face that is shown looks like that of Riku from the original Kingdom Hearts! However, the man in the hood says “I am not Riku!” The ending images just call on mystery upon mystery and leave you anxious for more.
Tokyo Game Show 2009 has begun in Japan. Featured at this event are Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts coded. Information concerning Birth by Sleep from this event has begun to surface. FF-Reunion report that Birth by Sleep was announced to be released in January 2010 for Japan. Also, photos of the event are surfacing, and will be uploaded to our gallery, below.
Tokyo Game Show 2009
Thanks to Joystiq.
The latest issue of Famitsu magazine has included an article on Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep. The article discusses the worlds Neverland and Dwarf Woodland, as well as includes information concerning multiplayer mode. Kingdom Hearts Insider have uploaded scans of this article, and it can now be viewed below, in our gallery. Also, Kingdom Hearts Insider have translated the article, and this can be viewed at our forum.
Famitsu (November 2009)
Thanks to Kingdom Hearts Insider.
Square Enix Members have created a website for the English version of Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. This website has a wallpaper section, as well as a Q&A section where fans can ask the development team their questions. All featured wallpapers, which focus on each member of Organization XIII, can be viewed below, in our gallery.
Square Enix Members
All images are from Square Enix Members.
The latest issue of V Jump magazine has included an article on Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts coded. Higher quality scans of this article have appeared on 2ch.net, and they can now be viewed below, in our gallery. HEARTSTATION.ORG have translated the contents of this article, and this can also be seen below.
V Jump (November 2009)
Thanks to 2ch.net.
Snow White’s world is called “Dwarf Woodland” which features the castle where Snow White lives and the cottage where the seven dwarfs live. There are screenshots of Ven in the forest encouraging a frightened Snow White who’s received the poisoned apple from the witch. There is another screenshot showing Aqua staring at the sleeping Snow White.
As for battle screenshots, there is one of Aqua fighting the boss called “Man In The Mirror”. Aqua was absorbed into the mirror to fight him. In order to attack it, you have to find the real form among an innumerable number of faces.
Snow White - A beautiful girl with a pale complexion. She is called “the most beautiful girl in the world” by the magic mirror and is envied by the Queen.
Witch - The old woman who delivers the poisonous apple. The Queen transforms into this in order to go after Snow White.
Ven: Hearts expecting fear show illusions.
Dwarf: Snow White’s pureness has changed us.
Witch: A sleep that never ends-
“Neverland” from Peter Pan returns. This time Peter and his friends are engaged on a treasure hunt on the island. There’s a screenshot of Ven smiling with Tinker Bell, and one of Aqua sharing actions with Peter and the Lost Boys.
Peter Pan - A boy who will never grow up. Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys are his friends.
Tinker Bell - She’s a beautiful fairy with a sparkling body. Peter calls her “Tink.”
Peter Pan: Hook’s just a stingy old pirate; he’s no match for me!
Ven: I think my friend lost that. Do you think you I could hold onto it?
Terra is in contact with Disney villains? Terra is the leader of the three characters and there are many scenes where he is together with the villains of each of the worlds. What on earth is his goal…? This time he’s revealed conversing with Snow White’s stepmother, the Queen, as well as Captain Hook.
Queen: A person’s heart… I’m not interested in something that fades so easily.
Three people cooperating in a multiplayer mode! It’s confirmed the “Arena” exists where up to 3 people can enjoy cooperation play. Will there be playing using the communication functions in other ways?
The world “Mirage Arena” is used for the communication play exclusively. Players who want to participate in the cooperative play wait in this world. Here there is a computer terminal from which player’s can “Access” and engage in battles in cooperative play. Perhaps the final difficult boss will also appear? By the way, the main three appear here in their armor. Also, the exclusive command “Friend Cure” is confirmed. There’s another command that looks like “Cyclone”, but Arika couldn’t read it clearly.
As for coded, Episode 5 takes place in Agrahbah and releases in October.
Sora: What are you doing here?
Aladdin: Since these weird enemies and blocks are increasing, I was worried and came to check on the palace.
IGN have posted footage of the English version of Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. This footage features Roxas in Halloween Town and Neverland. You can view it below, or download it from our exclusive trailer page.
Famitsu.com have updated with an article concerning Kingdom Hearts coded. This article shows screenshots from Episode 4, Olympus Coliseum. This includes Sora teaming up with Hercules and Cloud, in order to fight Cerberus. Also shown is what this episode can unlock in Kingdom Hearts Mobile. All screenshots from the article can be viewed in our gallery, which is linked to below.
Famitsu.com (August 18, 2009)
All images are from Famitsu.com.
Message from the KINGDOM is a Japanese blog that is updated by people on the development team of upcoming Kingdom Hearts titles. Recently, they have updated with news regarding Kingdom Hearts coded and Kingdom Hearts Mobile. This includes the announcement of Episode 4 of Coded's release, and information regarding items on Kingdom Hearts Mobile. You can view the update's included screenshots below, in our gallery, and HEARTSTATION.ORG's translation of the update at our forum.
Message from the KINGDOM
All images are from Message from the KINGDOM.
The latest issue of V Jump magazine has included an article on Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep. This article shows that Neverland will be included in the game, with Peter Pan, Tinkerbell, Captain Hook, and the Lost Boys as included characters. Also, there seems to be a new gameplay mode where up to three people can play. This is the first solid news we have heard about a multiplayer mode. FF-Reunion have uploaded a low quality scan of this article, and thanks to them, you can view it below, in our gallery.
The article also shows that the next episode of Kingdom Hearts coded, Episode 5, will feature Agrabah. Episode 4 of Coded was released yesterday, so this new episode should be expected in around a month. The screenshot included shows Sora talking to Aladdin.
V Jump (November 2009)
Thanks to FF-Reunion.
