Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep

[Shin-Ra]

www.square-enix.co.jp/kingdom/bbs




AQUA | VENTUS | TERRA

TRAILER (.flv)

[HebrewHammer00]

OH hell yeah, cant wait. this will make my PSP worth it, other than God of War

[w_tanoto]

i'm definitely buying this thing, along with the DS games

[Shin-Ra]

Official Kingdom Hearts Site with links to each game's individual site.

Birth by Sleep

Couple more screens.

[supersix4]

I havent ever played it is it like FF?

[KoL]

I love the Kingdom Hearts series, Im getting this one too. They havent annouce a release day yet right?

[X400]

Originally Posted by supersix14

I havent ever played it is it like FF?

OMG?!!!! you havent?!! dude your missing out on a great great series! go out and buy them now! they should be pretty cheap now.

Kingdom Hearts 1 was the reason i wanted a PS2




can't wait for this psp game, i hope they end up coming out with a Kingdom Hearts PS3 game but that probably wont happen for quite a few years i guess :/

[Shin-Ra]

Famitsu direct-feed screenshots













Mickey, Donald, Goofy..

edit: Unseen footage/trailer

[w_tanoto]

Originally Posted by Shin-Ra

Famitsu direct-feed screenshots













Mickey, Donald, Goofy..

edit: Unseen footage/trailer

OMG, OMG, OMGOMGOMG..... wonderful. thanks for the screenshot. it seems that we're getting near to the release. I am ready. I got both Nintendo DS and PSP (Japanese)

[Cordre69]

Hopefully they downplay the Disney aspect. I love the KH games (except CoM which is on my list for worst games ever) but the Disney stuff prevents what could otherwise be a delightfully dark series from reaching its potential.

[w_tanoto]

Originally Posted by Cordre69

Hopefully they downplay the Disney aspect. I love the KH games (except CoM which is on my list for worst games ever) but the Disney stuff prevents what could otherwise be a delightfully dark series from reaching its potential.

I disagree. It's disney that made me love this game. I'd say keep it as it is.
I also final fantasy fan prior to the release of KH, but what contributes more is disney side.

[Shin-Ra]

Kingdom Hearts and Dissidia playable at Square Enix party

Shouldn't be more than a year off release then I'd imagine.

[Chocolatejas]

Does this have a date yet?

[Shin-Ra]

Didn't post these yet.

[Shin-Ra]

All About Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
New characters, new worlds, new battle system...

When was the last time you heard anything new about Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep? Unless you work at Square Enix, it's been over 10 months -- they haven't shown the project off much since the 2008 Tokyo Game Show. That all changes with this week's issue of Famitsu magazine, which reveals story details, shows off a couple of new worlds and gives you more of that natural Tetsuya Nomura sheen that you can't stop craving.

Here are some of the new details revealed:

- The PSP game is the first chronologically as far as the plot's concerned, depicting Aqua, Ventus and Terra on the chase after Master Xehanort. All three characters operate independently for the most part, and you choose which one to control at the start of the game. "There's plot for all three people in each world and the bosses are different for each one, so it's like having three games in one," director Nomura told Famitsu. "If you're playing with friends, the content of the game will change if you choose different characters, so you'll have to be careful not to spoil the story for each other."

- What does this mean for game length? "Right now we're imagining 15 hours for one character," Nomura says. "If you get into customizing your deck and so forth, you can get pretty involved timewise, so you might be looking at over 50 hours of gameplay if you play as all three."

- One new world in Birth by Sleep is Castle of Dreams, home to Cinderella (whom we last saw in the original Kingdom Hearts). Essentially this is a retelling of the old fairy tale, with each of the three heroes playing differing roles in it. Ventus, who's three inches tall in this world for some reason, has to help Jaq the mouse get material for Cinderella's royal gown. Terra, who believes that finding Xehanort involves tracking down a "heart of pure light," thinks Cinderella is the key to discovering that. Aqua, for her part, is chasing after the other two and somehow winds up being the one who puts on the glass slippers.

- Meanwhile, Deep Space is Lilo & Stitch land, although there's no Lilo -- it's the bit from the start of the film when "Experiment 626" is still making his escape from the alien spaceship. Terra has, by chance, infiltrated this spaceship and winds up helping 626 out; Aqua, for her part, winds up getting saved by 626 from some unspecified menace; and Ventus, who arrives after the other two, is the one that finally gets the blue thingie off the spaceship for good. All three will be chased after by Gantu and his Experiment 221.

- The battle system is an evolution of the usual KH action-RPG malarkey. Depending on how you fight, your Command Style will change, and so will the moves you can unleash. This Style can change whenever you fill up the Command Gauge; it all depends on whether you trigger a change based on the types of commands you've been using. If you don't trigger a change, you'll execute a powerful Finish Command instead.

- Birth by Sleep still has a tentative "winter" release date in Japan. Nomura commented that the exact date won't be finalized until Final Fantasy XIII's is. "Since FFXIII is further ahead in development, I imagine it will come first," he said, "but I think people will get to play this without waiting too much longer."

The game will be available in some sort of playable format at the 2009 Tokyo Game Show in late September.

[Xerios]

KH3... i want it, i need it

[Toxa]

[Shin-Ra]

http://uk.psp.ign.com/dor/objects/96...=7ln4u64ui2irj

Three videos starting there, not very clear but you can see the smooth animation.

edit: Full preview on IGN too.

In the end though it wasn't even the variation in combat that truly won me over with Kingdom Hearts – though it certainly helped – but rather the general polish and feel that convinced me Square's pocket Hearts will be a true winner. The game is amazingly slick, animations are crisp and impactful during combat, and the control mapping is amazingly intuitive for being so complex. When beating on enemies over and over again with a few simple combos is fun to pull off over and over again you know you've nailed the core battle mechanic, and such is the case with Kingdom Hearts PSP. It's just fun to beat up on enemies, and as long as the team continues the tradition of great story and a strong Disney supporting cast Birth by Sleep will be an awesome 2010 PSP offering for RPG fans. I've played maybe two hours of Kingdom Hearts ever, and I'm already sold on this one.

[Shin-Ra]

Here's another TGS gameplay video, clearer view of the screen this time.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tg...m-hearts/57054

[Shin-Ra]

http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1228734_1124.html

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/kingdom/bbs/

New screens (including Sakaguchi direct-feed ) and the TGS trailer on the official site.

Release this coming January in Japan!