Additional screens of upcoming Kingdom Hearts games

Famitsu has made available for viewing some new screenshots of the upcoming Kingdom Hearts games: 358/2 Days, Birth by Sleep, and Coded.


358/2 Days (DS)



Birth by Sleep (PSP)



Coded (mobile)



Also, the links above actually lead to a three-part interview with Tetsuya Nomura, but it's all in crazy moonspeak and I can barely understand any of it, although I'm pretty sure he answered what the hell exactly "358/2 days" is supposed to mean.

Kingdom Hearts spinoffs: new scans and info

Looks like the rumor about milking the Kingdom Hearts franchise is true after all. Three KH spinoff games - 358/2 Days (silliest name out of the bunch), Birth by Sleep, and Coded, are in development for the DS, PSP, and mobile platforms, respectively. Famitsu magazine scans and some info below:

Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days (DS)

-Developed by h.a.n.d., responsible for Chocobo DS.
-Multiplayer gameplay is mission-based
-Scenario is comparable to FF7: Crisis Core, wherein you know where it ends but don't know how it flows.


Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (PSP)


-Developed by the KH2 team
-3 scenarios and 3 main characters, playable in any order (a la Suikoden III ?)
-Battle system takes from both Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories for the GBA and regular KH controls


Kingdom Hearts Coded (Mobile)



-Brought to you by the same team that did FF7: Before Crisis
-Different Disney worlds available through download.
-The setting is Sora's memories, being accessed as though through computer.
-Graphics are 2D sprites on 3D backgrounds (lol mobile phone powers)
-Planned for international release (!)

It's interesting how Square Enix spread the three games on all three platforms, made each exclusive to their respective platform, and are developing and possibly releasing them simultaneously...Hmmm. Parents beware.

(thanks to duckroll of NeoGAF for info and scans.)

P.S. coding fucking sucks

Capcom Announces New Megaman Legends Game!!!!!!! But..

Just recently, in the TGS, Capcom made an announcement that, under normal circumstances, would have made millions of gamers across the globe cream their pants profusely in excitement.

However, this is how it actually went:


http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/...70919/ctgs.htm

So, after waiting long, long years in grisly anticipation of the next Megaman Legends/Rockman Dash game, we get....THIS?!

Just exactly what the hell is Capcom thinking? Are the standard handhelds really that bad? I mean, that's what the DS and PSP are for right? Handheld games? HAY CAPCOM, THIS GAME WON'T SELL OUTSIDE OF JAPAN, WHERE PHONES ARE NIFTY AND CAN PLAY GAMES!!!!

I got all excited for nothing.

>:(

...

In related news, they also have a Resident Evil and Devil May Cry game lined up for mobile.

*sigh*...

Konami: Two Castlevania Games, One Brand-New

Good news from Konami, perpetrators of such atrocities as Metal Gear Solid, Dance Dance Revolution, and Castlevania. They are preparing to release yet another--nay, two--new games in the Castlevania franchise. Well technically only one new game, since one of them is just a port of Gameboy Advance's Aria of Sorrow. The other new one, called Castlevania: Order of Shadows, is fully, completely, and totally original, and even comes with an all-new whip-wielding member of the family, Desmond Belmont. Looks like they need to update the timeline--again. But it's Castlevania, so whatever the fuck they do to the official history and timeline, it's cool. (Just no more 3D games pls.)

Well...sounds cool, right? Excited? Can't wait to whip the shit out of Dracula once more? Here's the letdown: these games are exclusively for mobile phones. Yes, an all-new, original, Belmont-centered Castlevania story...exclusively for mobile phones. I could care less for Aria of Sorrow, I have that for my Gameboy, but Order of Shadows...How cruel can you be? Also, do you even think you can profit from this?

Game launches September 18, 2007.