Update on KH 358/2 days

[Kyohei Suzumiya]

At this point, the title is anyone's guess. The most prevalent idea about the 358 in the title is this:

-Roxas existed separately from Sora for a year. 7 of those days were spent in Twilight Town; the other 358 were spent in Organization XIII.

The title is confirmed to be read Three Five Eight over Two Days. Some ideas about how to interpret this include:

- The title is a reference to both Sora and Roxas existing at the same time; 358 Days over two parts of the same person.

-The title is reference to a potentially heavy role involving Axel in the story, perhaps using him as a second main character.

-The title is a reference to another Reverse/Rebirth style story after you beat the game as Roxas, wherein you play as Riku during the time period between CoM and Roxas's defeat.

Nomura has said the title is a puzzle you will only understand after beating the game, so it's anyone's guess.

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VIII. Screenshot Information & Confirmed Worlds {s008}

Worlds confirmed include:

Twilight Town
Agrabah
Olympus Coliseum
Wonderland
The World That Never Was

Also, there is a third bar above HP and MP in some scans, labeled LM. The best guess as of now is that it stands for Limit Meter.


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IX. Jump Festa Information {s009}

Multiplayer Demo
- Multiplayer mode lets you use Roxas, Axel, Xigbar and Saix.
- The Multiplayer Character Selection screen shows the Organization members sitting down in their chairs.
- Roxas is only able to use three hit combos in this demo.
- Axel has a different feel then Roxas, and the demo player was relieved when he/she was able to use his fire attacks.
- The Stage is Twilight Town and considered of 4x small wizards, 1x Fat Body and 4x Shadows, afterwards you fight against a boss which is Dark Side.
- The mission of this demo is to defeat Dark Side.
- When the mission is cleared you are taken to the record screen.
- Images of the Demo Booth
- Once you are finished playing the demo, you are presented with a Kingdom Hearts strap.
- 358/2 Days is set for a Summer 2008 release.


Single Player Demo
Before the Mission
The demo starts off with Roxas walking towards the Organization chair.
Xigbar: "Woops!"
Roxas ignores Xigbar, and moves to Saix.
Saix: "We suggest you take Axel for this mission."
Roxas then moves to the corridor and is warped (Unknown how he gets here) to twilight town. There he is presented with two missions, the main mission is to defeat Dark Side, as the first mission is to defeat four heartless..

After the Mission
Roxas and Axel have just defeated Darkside.
Axel: "Roxas, what are you doing here?"
Roxas: "Axel..."
The two are soon caught off guard by heartless, and are both saved by the 14th member, who takes down the heartless with ease. (However no weapon is shown)
The 14th member smiles at both Roxas, and Axel however the two are showing mixed feelings towards this new member. Her face is not revealed, and the demo ends there.

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-The game will most likely not be using the stylus or touch screen. Nomura says it clashes with KH controls too much. However, you can draw on it for kicks, and there is info displayed on the bottom screen.
-The lack of buttons on the DS is giving them some trouble.
-A Riku vs. Roxas fight is CONFIRMED.
-The DS was chosen for its Wi-Fi capabilities.
-There IS a gameplay video. However, it's only two seconds long and really blurry.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9fBjD951n-g

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XI. Credits {s011}

All info is courtesy of KH-Vids and Famitsu scans and translations unless otherwise stated.

This FAQ was compiled by Dusk, A gamefaqs.com member  

[Kyohei Suzumiya]

This is KHVids's description of the first trailer:

"The trailer starts from the scene where Re:COM ended, afterwards the words "The other side attached to Sora still sleeps" and "The mind comes back whenever they touch." The scene then moves to Twilight Town, where Roxas, and Axel are sitting on the edge, as seen in KH2FM+.

Soon the trailer switches to Roxas being invited to the Organization XIII, and introduced to them, which soon cuts out to another scene of Roxas joining the Organization for the first time. Soon the scene then switches to the King talking about Axel, and Saix with Roxas pulling out his keyblade, moving into gameplay.

The gameplay features Roxas fighting with other Organization Members in a multiplayer game. This one confirms the allowance of being able to play as Roxas, Axel, Saix and Xigbar.

The scene then switches to Xemnas talking towards other Organization members. Xemnas explains that a 14th member has joined the Organization, and the 14th member appears to be a female, wearing a black hood. Soon the title comes up as "Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days"

You can then hear Roxas in the background saying 'I will disappear from this world in 151 days' "

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The Fourteenth Member {s006}

The 14th member is confirmed, and has been referenced by Nomura countless times. She is NOT Namine; one translation of a bit of an interview (credit KeybladeMasterA) states that there was an "important reason" she was not in KHII. Axel and Roxas are shown having mixed feelings toward her in the Jump Festa demo. This is a picture:

http://img263.imageshack.us/my.php?image=kh35803hs3.jpg

As was stated earlier, a member "disappears;" Number XIV is the most logical choice.  

[Kyohei Suzumiya]

More info



Update from KH-Vids:

358/2 Days
- The 14th member is not revealed yet.
- Roxas' gameplay in single player mode has been changed slightly to give a more Kingdom Hearts feel.
- Roxas' must collect hearts everyday, in Organization XIII Saix tells Roxas to be more careful next time.
- The game will be moving throughout from Kingdom Hearts 1 - Kingdom Hearts 2.
- Items obtained in Single Player Mode, can be used in Multiplayer Mode. Also the screen below is mostly used to display the map and target, however it is not complete.
- The new gauge LP Mode has not been fully revealed, but is hinted to be used for powerful techniques.
- In single player mode the arrow is under the right corner of the screen, when in multi player it's under the left. They didn't say if this mysterious arrow (Not the arrow showing where your character is) can be used by the touchpad or not.
- There is a type of missions called "Hologram Missions" that can be used in single and multiplayer mode. These missions are not part of the main storyline at all. This is also how the Organization members trained.
- When doing missions you'll be graded with either a "G" or a "N" The "G" means you did good, and your chair will begin to rotate and rise. If you get an "N" the chair will begin to descend, as you either swayed away from your mission or did a bad job.
- The ability of Dodge roll gives more of a KH1 feel then it does KH2FM+
- Some returning enemies from KH1 will be back, however they have been revamped and there are a few other surprises in the game.
- This game is considered to be a mix of the normal Kingdom Hearts feel, as well as a dark feel to it.
- The Organization character's personalities will be fully revealed in this game, this way you can follow the cutscenes better, and the conversations between them can become more interesting.
- This game features an interesting twist in the battle system where you can chain your attacks together! You can attack, use dodgerolling, glide and more into just a single combination!
- The actions and defenses of each Organization member is new, and they all have their own special ability! Xigbar was able to use stronger attacks for a short while.  

[Kyohei Suzumiya]

Multiplayer Information {s003}

From an interview:

"Hiroshi: Basically you will receive various missions you must clear. There is also a map, and there are a lot of gimmicks added into the levels as well. Of course we are also putting bosses in multiplayer mode."

"Koji: We made it so that people can play it many times, and some of the levels are short as well. There is a score attack mode too, to see who can grab it. However in case you don't want to cooperate, we are thinking of adding elements like versus, and competitions."

This game has multiplayer with up to four players. ALL Organization members will be playable. Another interesting point is the chairs in the Organization XIII Meeting Hall will rise and fall based on players' performance with respective characters (success raises the chair, failure lowers it.)

All the Organization members will play differently. Zexion and Demyx have supposedly been giving them trouble on how to program in their attacks. This is kind of understandable though, since Zexion uses a book and Demyx uses a sitar. Also, player balancing has been applied. Specific examples that we know of include Xigbar having a high range and slow reload time, and Lexaeus having a a slow movement speed and strong attacks.  

[Kyohei Suzumiya]

The controls on the DS has changed a bit, and now has a different feel from the demo given at Jump Festival. The changes are however much better then how it was at Jump Festa.
- There is an image of Kairi and Riku together, and another image of what looks like Riku is going to be a boss of the game.
- When asked about voices being in the game, it was commented that the capacity of the DS isn't fullly capable enough to have voicing throughout the entire game, but they are working on getting around that.
- The scenes in KH2FM+ featuring Roxas and Axel have now been done in full work detail.
- Roxas will be having a few different forms, such as Sora did when entering Disney Worlds.
- The story of the game will not be entirely understandable for those that do not have the game, however they won't enjoy it as much.(?)
- Other characters will be appearing there as well, including various Disney Characters.
- However most of the conversations in this game will be revolving around Roxas.
- Those who played Kingdom Hearts II should understand the story even more, and may even understand why this game was put onto the DS.
- The 14th Member is a female who has influenced Roxas in his future actions, however she is too much of an important character in the story to talk about.
- In the event scenes, there will be a little movie, there also may be an opening movie to the game.
- The voice is becoming a issue with capacity but I am trying to find various ways to compress it into the game.
- During this we are re-doing the cutscenes of 358/2 Days as well, this is because on the DS there is a weak design to the data and for every update to the hardware we push 358/2 Days further.
- Even though we have a low capacity problem Nintendo has made it far, even their Rom capacity is going up!....Slowly (laughs)
- The order of Single Player to summarize it up is "Go to mission, Clear Mission, Return to HQ, Prepare for next mission, go to next mission." There are also small mini events you can do such as after beating a mission join Axel for some Sea Salt Icecream.
- Missions that are beaten in Single Player can be played in Multiplayer mode  

[Kyohei Suzumiya]

Functions and Restrictions of KH on the DS
- There were many thoughts about making the game, before moving it to the DS.
- One of the thoughts was the capacity of the game, while the other one focused more on.
- The second thought was more on the use of the double screen, and the touchpen.
- When the story of the game was told, everyone was really interested in it, and wanted to work on it right away and deserved special production.
- The main problem of putting it onto the DS was the fact that the polygons of the characters dropped, although we tried our best to keep the cutscenes at least to the feel of the KH series. We are currently trying to fix the polygons for the gameplay to make it as smooth as possible.
- A chat option is added into the multiplayer mode, allowing other players to chat with each other.

Button Operations
- Nomura believes that the KH series feel of combat has kept that feel in 358/2 Days.
- He still will not utilize the touchpen in terms of gameplay.
- The buttons in the demo at JF have been re-arranged.
- Because this time the game will not be able to use an analog stick it doesn't really fill like the main stream of the KH series to begin with, although we are aiming to get the best feel we can give for a KH game.
- The only complaints about the game given was the having to use the cross pad buttons instead of the Analog stick.
- We adjusted it though, and added a bit of connection between speed, combo and other actions during gameplay.
- The LM gauge is used as co-operation techniques as well as very dangerously powerful attacks.
- The Organization members in 358/2 Days in Multiplayer Mode will have moves from the original KH2, however due to restrictions we might not be able to have all their moves in there.
- Originally the chairs moved up or down when failing or succeeding a mission, we might change that a bit.  

[jayjaystillhere]

hmm sounds interesting. I'm still curious on how this game and birth of sleep are related. Like is this game gonna have a part of the story birth of sleep won't have? Like birth of sleep introduces the 14th member of organization 13.  

[Shadow Katarn]

Dangit. I wanted to be number fourteen.  

[Jisen Meizuki]

Shadow Number XIV

Dangit. I wanted to be number fourteen.

No, you don't want to be number fourteen or else be killed.  

[Shadow Katarn]

Jisen Meizuki

Shadow Number XIV

Dangit. I wanted to be number fourteen.

No, you don't want to be number fourteen or else be killed.

I care not for this new member. She'll be 15 and she will like it.  

[Kyohei Suzumiya]

New scans from Japan mrgreen mrgreen



The links are:

http://www.kingdomhearts3.net/images/scan6.jpg

http://gonintendo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/422.jpg

http://gonintendo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/43.jpg

http://gaygamer.net/images/kh_scans_sm01ak.jpg

http://gaygamer.net/images/kh_scans_sm04ak.jpg

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k251/MatthewWhiteBoi3/Kingdom hearts/Kingdom Hearts 3582 days/img006-1.jpg


http://purenintendo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/scan.jpg

http://www.khmaniacs.com/noticias/img/octubre2007/khDS_scans2.jpg


http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w129/KagePhoenix/Final Fantasy Articles/KHArticle.jpg  

[Kyohei Suzumiya]

jayjaystillhere

hmm sounds interesting. I'm still curious on how this game and birth of sleep are related. Like is this game gonna have a part of the story birth of sleep won't have? Like birth of sleep introduces the 14th member of organization 13.

Well this whole game is based on an entirely different story I'll have to make a Birth by Sleep thread too I guess and BbS doesn't introduce the 14th member 358 does. Bbs takes place 10 years before the original KH  

[Jisen Meizuki]

The gaygamer links are not working.  

[Kyohei Suzumiya]

Those (Gaygamer) scans were only leaked so I guess they aren't for the public anymore
I'll look for more idea