Well since the game isn't out I might as well do a Preview of this.
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
Style: 1 Player Action/RPG (4 Player Local)
Developer: Square-Enix/H.A.N.D.
Publisher: Square-Enix
For the: Nintendo Dual Screen (DS)
Release Date: September 29th 2009
This is the second attempt for Square Enix to bring Kingdom Hearts to a handheld console, first one was Chain of Memories for the Gameboy Advanced, which the combat I didn't like, the good news about this one, is that there isn't a card battle, Woo Hoo!
As far as I could figure out the story goes like this: Main character, Roxas, who is Sora's Nobody (A nobody is basically the shell of someone who turned into darkness.) who joined a group of powerful Nobodies called Organization XIII as the 13th member, but a new member came, a black hair girl name Xion, just about the same time Roxas did. (Picture below is Xion)
Gameplay is different in this, you do missions for the Organization, by talking to Saix, you can walk around chat with the other Organization members if you want, or buy items in a Moogle Shop. You will revisit some familiar places like Twilight Town, Agrabah, the Beast's Castle, once you select a mission you have to option of going alone or with another member.
Mission Mode: This is where the multiplayer aspect comes in, in mission mode, you and 3 of your friends can play as any member of the Organization, each with different weapons and stats, players will compete and also coop each other, to have the most points, there are exclusive rewards in Mission mode, as far as I can tell Square Enix tried to focus on multiplayer aspects of this game more than anything else, cause it really looks promising.
Uniqueness: What is unique about this game? Well the leveling system is, all equiped moves, items, keyblades (weapon) spells, and accessories, and even level-ups are arranged on a rectangular grid (like the brief case of RE4) there are special modifier pieces that take up slots and look similar to Tetris blocks, this creates a interesting puzzle for ability management.
Graphics and Visuals: It's pretty nice for a DS game, but I'm not sure there gonna do the PS2 graphics cinematics like they did in Chain of Memories, but it looks so well done each and every one of them, the enemies look nice, the abilities look nice, the not important people look nice.
Replayability seems to be in this game, cause there are Challenges you must complete with each missions like a time limit or no damage and other things like that.
This is a game that people should check out if they want to play a game with coop and a RPG feeling to it.
Linear Mode
