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    http://kotaku.com/5638845/kingdom-he...ew-sleeper-hit

    "A decade before Sora faced off against his first Heartless, Terra, Aqua, and Ventus battled the Unversed across a multitude of Disney-themed worlds in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep.

    Kingdom Hearts fans have been eager to get their hands on Terra, Aqua, and Ventus since they first appeared in the secret trailer for Birth by Sleep which released with Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix in 2007. After a long wait, fans can finally experience the trio's adventures as they battle the mysterious Unversed, hobnob with well-known Disney characters, and help set in motion the events that lead up to 2002's Kingdom Hearts for the PlayStation 2.

    Was it worth the wait, or should Square Enix have left sleeping hearts lie?

    Loved
    Sleeping Beauty: As with the previous installment of Kingdoms Hearts on the PSP, Birth by Sleep is a thing of beauty, bringing the worlds and characters of the most beloved Disney movies to life is amazing detail. Square Enix's characters retain their characteristic androgyny and spikey hair, while not looking too out of place with their Disney counterparts. While game's environments might be a bit bare and lacking in life, they still carry a pleasant aesthetic that does the best it can with the resources the PSP provides.

    Coming Full Circle: Kingdom Hearts tells the story of Terra, Aqua, and Ventus, good friends and keyblade wielders all, during a time ten years before the original Kingdom Hearts. You'll play through each character's story through the course of the game, the plots winding together into a grand conclusion that answers many questions raised in the earlier Kingdom Hearts titles, with plenty of familiar faces to please long-time fans. It's not quite as dense a tale as I'm used to seeing from the series, though perhaps playing through the previous titles helped me make sense of the plot twists. Though the triple nature of the story does lend itself to lots of backtracking, the differences in combat styles and the final plot payoff make the 30 hours I spent playing worth the return trips.

    Old Friends: A large percentage of Kingdom Hearts' charm lies in the inclusion of characters from Disney's long-running line of animated films. Characters like Mickey Mouse, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and Experiment 626 from Lilo & Stich are the sort of iconic characters you remember your entire life. Getting the chance to walk alongside them for a time is always a treat. I love the way Square Enix manages to integrate the Disney characters with their action role-playing mechanics just enough to ensure that young boys never figure out they're playing a Disney Princesses title.

    Battle Evolution: Birth by Sleep's battle system takes elements from the previous Kingdom Hearts games and mixes them together into something that feels brand new and familiar at the same time. At the base of it all is the command deck, a series of slots you fill with cards representing fighting moves, spells, and items. Use one ability in battle, and the next queues up while the previous cools down. As you fight, your command gauge slowly fills. Depending on what skills you use to increase the command gauge, when it fills your command style can change, unlocking a new series of abilities with even more impressive finishing moves. The whole system adds an interesting element of strategy to how you fight. One set of attacks might be better for one group of Unversed, using less effective techniques might result in a command style better suited to the situation. It's an elegant system, providing plenty of depth without sacrificing the fast pace of the game's combat.

    Strong Relationships: While they'll never quite replace the summon system from Kingdom Hearts I and II, Birth by Sleep's Dimension Links, or D-Links, are the next best thing. As you progress through the story, Terra, Aqua, and Ventus will form strong emotional bonds with the Disney personalities they come across, forming a D-Link. Once a D-Link is created, you can access them during battle, exchanging your own customized command deck with that of your friend, giving you access to a wide variety of new attacks and finishing moves. Some of the game's most visually impressive skills are found in the D-Links you'll forge, and the unique powers you gain during the link are extremely helpful during the game's more difficult boss battles. My only issue is that you don't change outfits when you activate a D-Link, which just means there's something wrong me.

    The Command Board: Birth by Sleep features multiple mini-games to help distract you from the threat of the Unversed, but none quite as compelling as the Command Board. Accessing an option from the main menu at any save point launches the player into an extremely entertaining board game. Players take turns rolling dice to travel around themed boards unlocked as you play through the story, using the skill cards in their inventory to buy squares. When an opposing player lands on your square they have to pay the price, using points accumulated by passing checkpoints scattered across the playing field. It's like Kingdom Hearts Monopoly, only when you lay down your skill cards i the game, they actually gain experience, leveling up just as they would when you use them in battle. So not only is the Command Board a fun diversion, it can really help a player power up. My only regret is not having a PSP partner to try playing it via Ad Hoc wireless.

    Hated
    A Heavy Load: Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep will hurt your PSP in ways you couldn't imagine. Multiple options are available to help lessen the loading times, from upping CPU speed (thus eating battery life) to installing a large portion of the game onto your memory card. Neither really help much, and even simple actions like opening the menu will result in the agonizing whir of the disc as the system struggles to perform. Being this pretty comes at a cost, it seems.

    Repeat Performances: One of the few major gripes I had with Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days returns in Birth by Sleep. Can someone please pay Hikaru Utada whatever it takes to create a new opening song for a Kingdom Hearts game? 358/2 reused "Passion" from Kingdom Hearts II, and Birth by Sleep opens with "Simple and Clean" from the original game, setting the tone for a game filled with reused music and art assets. Maybe I just want more Hikaru.

    With so many elements in common with previous games in the series, it's hard to say if Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep is a true evolution of the franchise or yet another stepping stone on its way to something much better. Everywhere you turn you see bits and pieces of previous games. You'll hear the same music and revisit many of the characters you've already met, albeit from the fresh perspective of three sets of new eyes. Even the battle system, for all its enjoyable complexity and depth, could be considered a reworking of previous systems; familiar pieces fit together in a different way.

    Perhaps that familiarity is where Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep's true strength lies. Much more than its PSP predecessor, Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, Birth by Sleep is a homecoming, bringing players back to the fictional world they know and love, changing just enough to make the return visit an exciting new experience.
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    • Re: Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep TGS 09 Trailer

      Confused as to why he thinks so much of the game is recycled content. With the exception the Tower and Olympus Colosseum everything in the game was totally new assets. OK, they kinda/sorta used the block Merlin lived on again, but Radiant Garden didn't even look the same as the last couple of times.

      Also, I like how he said 358/2 Days was a PSP game.

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        Well, in a sense its all recycled content. I mean, we've meet every single one of the characters in other games, save the minor ones in some of the Disney worlds. There was a good deal of reused music too (one of the first things I noticed). I will say some is a bit unfair, since some of them are different characters, though they look the same.

        Anyway, didn't have to go to lab today so I threw my extra time into beating Aqua's Story and the game.

        Well duh, they are spoilers
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          Holy Necrobump Batman.

          BBS final Mix is getting one more secret boss on top of the Mysterious Figure that the NA/EU versions got, Monstro and Eraqus's Lingering Sentiment:

          Oh and I am lazy and it is kind of a spoiler, so I am just going to link it. All I will say is, he's back?

          http://www.kh2.co.uk/wp-content/uplo.../bbsfmscan.jpg

          If you want to import, its a good thing the PSP is region free.
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          • Re: Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep TGS 09 Trailer

            I guess the question is "which him?"

            Xehanort?
            His Heartless?
            Xemnas.

            Hell, maybe all three.

            IGN had some new videos up, but pretty much stuff we've already seen in Japanese. Wonderland and Olympus and how they work.

            So in KH we had Sora's brain normal.
            KH:CoM was brain damage to Sora.
            KH2/358 fixes it and puts most of it back.
            Re:Coded repairs what we knew and probably new things

            Following this logic KH3DS is probably a remake of KH, with all the memories from the original story and the "forgotten" stuff recovered from Re:Coded, I'm wagering. Birth of Roxas, the encounter with Xemnas and hell, why not just work the rest of the Organization into the first story. Its totally plausible at this point. Sora's brain just got that fucked up.

            So, basically, including 358/2 Days, its taken seven games to explain the first one. Are Nomura and Hideo Kojima having lunch together or something?

            omg spoilers


            Now who wants to bet we can weasel one more prequel story out of Metal Gear while Raiden does his thing?
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              Fuck this, no spoilers I'm just coming out and saying it

              KH3D is not a remake of KH. It is Sora's and Riku's mark of Mastery exam. Supposedly every Disney world will be brand new. Production is going into high gear now that the BbS staff is pretty much done with BBS:FM. KH3 will be the rescue of "those who are suffering" and the final showdown with Xehanort. That much is known. More about 3D will be revealed at the press thingy on the 18th.

              And it is his Heart that is and always has been a bit off. Sure he lost all his memories of CO, but Namine put everything else back to where it was.

              Btw the villain who messes up the journal data from KH1
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                If its their mastery exam, though, why are they all younger again? It has to be a flashback thing.

                Also, heart, brain - same thing when it comes to Sora. He's damaged goods.

                I guess its plausible Sora's Heartless messed it up, given Jiminy was on Sora's person when Sora became a Heartless. He wasn't given a lot of time to do much. I don't know why there's a motive to do that, though that heartless does come back out from time to time, but only on random limit breaks.

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                  Yen Sid is giving their exam, so anything is possible. Zipper Man has stated their appearance is necessary for the story. He has also stated it is the next progression in the story to lead to III, a type of story similar to BbS. If most of the Disney worlds are new, plus a Nobody in Traverse Town, I really doubt it is a flashback thing.

                  A thought accrued to me yesterday. If Sora can wield the keyblade as can his nobody(s), and Kairi, who accidentally performed the right of succession with Aqua, can wield a Keyblade, couldn't Namine, who is Kairi's Nobody?
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                    The Video is gone T-T

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                      Originally posted by Luna Flower View Post
                      The Video is gone T-T
                      Old trailer was old. Here is the Birth By Sleep Final Mix trailer

                      [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk-bN6Q2uJs&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - Birth by Sleep Final Mix trailer - Jump Festa 2011[/ame]
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                        Originally posted by Gobo View Post
                        A thought accrued to me yesterday. If Sora can wield the keyblade as can his nobody(s), and Kairi, who accidentally performed the right of succession with Aqua, can wield a Keyblade, couldn't Namine, who is Kairi's Nobody?
                        Its possible. Though I think the difference between Roxas and Namine is that Roxas is really the heart of Ventus, which would explain why he has feelings, but no memory (though that could also have been Namine's doing) and to complete Sora's memories, he and Xion had to go back to him.

                        Namine is a different set of special conditions - I think Kairi's succession could be part of them, but we also know she's technically also Sora's nobody, created because Roxas already became his Nobody instead.

                        I guess I'm just curious about the Organization's originals and their Heartless. Where did those guys go if their Nobodies are running around. Are they like Ansem? Did they lose their human form? Maybe they were bosses? Or become little ones that Sora killed off. It was suggested "almost" all the organization's member's lost their human forms.

                        But we know now that Braig did not lose his human form, so there's one. I also doubt Lea, Isa and (?)Lumaria (Marluxia) faded out, given they were all rather strong-willed nobodies.

                        Damn, all the other important nobodies have such girly human names.

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                          Originally posted by Omgwtfbbqkitten View Post
                          Its possible. Though I think the difference between Roxas and Namine is that Roxas is really the heart of Ventus, which would explain why he has feelings, but no memory (though that could also have been Namine's doing) and to complete Sora's memories, he and Xion had to go back to him.

                          Namine is a different set of special conditions - I think Kairi's succession could be part of them, but we also know she's technically also Sora's nobody, created because Roxas already became his Nobody instead.

                          I guess I'm just curious about the Organization's originals and their Heartless. Where did those guys go if their Nobodies are running around. Are they like Ansem? Did they lose their human form? Maybe they were bosses? Or become little ones that Sora killed off. It was suggested "almost" all the organization's member's lost their human forms.

                          But we know now that Braig did not lose his human form, so there's one. I also doubt Lea, Isa and (?)Lumaria (Marluxia) faded out, given they were all rather strong-willed nobodies.

                          Damn, all the other important nobodies have such girly human names.
                          But Xion was just a copy of Roxas. She lacked a heart yet was able to wield a keyblade as long as she contained enough of Sora's memories.

                          Braig's Heartless? You mean his appearance at the end of Aqua's Story? He is still a Somebody, succumbed to the darkness.
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                            Originally posted by Gobo View Post
                            Old trailer was old. Here is the Birth By Sleep Final Mix trailer

                            YouTube - Birth by Sleep Final Mix trailer - Jump Festa 2011
                            Oh nice ^^ looks fun!

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                              Originally posted by Gobo View Post
                              But Xion was just a copy of Roxas. She lacked a heart yet was able to wield a keyblade as long as she contained enough of Sora's memories.
                              As long as, yes. She was the direct opposite of Namine, she needed Sora's memory for her keyblade, but Namine has the unique ability to shape, destroy or restore Sora's memories. That could be a facet of the keyblade's power just realized in a different way.

                              Braig's Heartless? You mean his appearance at the end of Aqua's Story? He is still a Somebody, succumbed to the darkness.
                              Well, you do have a point. Ansem the Wise also had yellow eyes, but he never had a heartless. I guess the real question is where is the tipping point and is that going to be another element of the story that gets explained.

                              Sometimes when you develop a mythos, you need to stick to your rules and only bend and break them on occasion to keep it interesting. Like with the movie Inception - its not so much that the rules have to make real-world sense as they require to be meaningfully followed so they seem sensible. Break them all the time and the story starts getting hard to follow. That's why I always like how Metal Gear roots itself in some kind of real world history before it goes off the deep end and breaks some rules.

                              Now, KH does go to great lengths to point out there are special conditions at play when you meet a new character. Fair enough. Problem is we have too many of them to keep it straight. Sora, Riku, Kairi, the Riku Replica, Roxas, Namine, Xion, Terra/Xehanort's Heartless, Ventas, Vanitas and Xemnas all get special conditions. And then there's the special condition/magical loophole that all hearts and memories are connected by Sora.

                              Re:Coded and KH3DS, just like 358/2 Days and BBS before them, have a good opportunity to sort out some of these details. But they gotta resist raising more questions, the mythos is reaching its limits.

                              Let Mickey, the Keyblade War and those dark pathways be their own little mysteries.. But Heartless that aren't really heartless and Nobodies that have hearts - that bears some explaining.

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                                Eeeh, I still think Ansem the Wise's eyes are more orange than yellow. And his ears are not pointed either.
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