Eat Your Heart Out, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep Localization Underway

Is it even remotely surprising that the game will release overseas? Seriously, were this 1994 I could see the news, but it's kind of obvious now...

I imagine there are still a lot of folks that don't pay attention to the Japanese releases. This could be a surprise for several KH fans out there. Let them have their fun. =P Besides, if that's the case, does any magazine or game site need to let us know any big title is ever being localized? News is news, my friend.

It's more to do with the way the article is written, along with some of the comments, that this is a shocking turn of events.

Is KH even about Disney anymore? Or are they all concentrating on their (crappy) new characters now?

i still don't get how this a prequel(i still don't get this story)but i guess im gona hafta w8 till comes out to find out...

there were doubts we would get this? really?

First time I'm hearing there were doubts of it coming over. Always seemed like a sure fire thing.

Need to finish 358/2 before this come out..

I assumed the kid who looks like Roxas would get Roxas' va...

Uh, Ven is getting Jessie. He is the one who looks like Roxas.

y do they look the same

Roxas' english VA did a great job in KH2 I thought, and I know it will fit Ven well. I hope Terra's voice is good...

You know something that really bothers me... The english VA for Onion Knight in Dissidia should be Jesse McCartney. Not that I'm a huge fan of him or anything but the current voice of OK is the only voice in Dissidia that I absolutely cannot stand. A Roxas voice for my Onion Knight would be sweet...

Can't wait! and btw, am I the only one that noticed that KH3 hasn't even been announced? It's been since 2006 when I last played a Kingdom Hearts game (because the DS version was basically a waste of time. Just read the story and ending) I've been up to date as far as the story goes, and birth by sleep doesn't have anything to do with the other ones!! BBS is Years before Kingdom Hearts!!!! so what gives!? where the F*ck is KH3!? We need a true squeal!

I guess they are still deciding what system it'll be on before working on it? I can see SE pushing for Sony for graphics and Disney for Nintendo to get a wider audience.

Yes we will end like the teacher in the final fantasy 13 ad.

Finally, after 5 years... kingdom hearts 3

It's already been 3. : (

Cool, though i was expecting this xD, i still think there is a reason why that guy looks like roxas, and i wanna find it out already

From what I've seen BBS is the equivalent of KH3. All new worlds, new charcters and it is being developed internally by Square unlike the other two. I'm hoping it is up to the quality of the ps2 games at least :)

If you count the fact that KH3 is 10 years before KH1, that is =P

I'm not worried about the quality of the game (gameplay-wise, it'll probably be a blast to play), so much as how connected the whole game will be to the rest of the story... There's probably a reason they didn't name the game KH3.

Now the question is should I import or no :(.... the US version probably would be here sooner than we thought.. and P-A is giving free gifts if one pays w/ Visa card.

Get it in English. Having the original Disney VAs makes it worth it.

I'm getting both, I just pre-ordered it on P-A w/ the $8 coupon and my $3 store credit. I have both Jpn/US version for both KH 1&2, but I have only finished the first game in English and played the Mulan world in KH2, way behind... I know Disney characters would better in English, but the S-E characters sound cooler in Jpn. So Mickey's VA needs to be replaced right, how about Snow White, is the lady still around? Last time I saw her in some show doing Snow White's voice and she's at least 80 something, looked a little weird.

Heck yeah man, I already used my coupon to get a copy. I'm usually pretty strict on myself about waiting till the english releases and not importing. Especially when I know it's coming over. I think though that the multiplayer aspect of the game will be something you can enjoy without understanding it. It doesn't seem to complex and it looks like a lot of fun.

Seconded, i must say, even though they still (stupidly, since is impossible) try to make Mickey look cool... Disney(this time fused with square enix) makes an excellent work related to voices (and even art in their movies), i sometimes watch disney movies english dubbed, and spanish dubbed, and is just perfect, Disney is the best one in this field in my opinion

Mickey is cool: Castle of Illusion. 'Nuff Said.

Lol, but they are making too much effort with mickey and his hood -.-

Yes, I played that game to death, on my "Mega Drive", even my old lady liked it back then. Such an awesome Mickey Mouse game, or platformer in general.

I hope I'm not the only one that isn't enjoying any of the handhelds thus far for Kingdom Hearts. I'm hardcore in love with the console iterations but the handhelds are trashy time wasters. There has to be .0005 ounces of storyline in 358/7 Days. And Chain of Memories? Have fun playing the game to have it all erased from your memory and not have purpose really. :/

Stop wasting time and just make KH3... PLEASE!

Funny. I actually always thought of KH2 as the worst one in the series, followed by Days.

I actually felt that they were milking the franchise after KH1 and 2 came out. It's not that I don't enjoy the handhelds -- no, I enjoyed 358/2 very much while I was playing it, and CoM is still the only GBA game I've finished -- but somehow, it's like...

Hmm... I guess the best way for me to explain it is like there's a mainland continent. That's 1 and 2. And then, off of the main continent, is an island, far off, and connected by a long bridge (that is CoM), and that island are Birth By Sleep and 358/2. They're connected, but not with the main story lines. Gaidens are another way of thinking about them, I guess. Expansion on the world, not on the main characters (Sora, Riku, Kairi, etc.).

But anyways, I enjoyed playing the games. Excellent gameplay, great music, just had a lot of fun being not-Roxas in 358/2 (Zexion's my fave still). I guess my main point is that at least Square is doing a good job in making 20-30 hours of filler.

Laura, I mean this in the nicest of ways but we really, _really_ need to rectify this:

"...and CoM is still the only GBA game I've finished"

=) So many good games you're going to miss out on as they become harder to find!

I've been talking with lots of KH fans and they weren't pleased with the DS game. I played KH and KH:CoM but never finished KH2 so I'm a bit behind myself.

Apparently you've never been to Gamefaqs; say ONE negative thing about Days, and 99% of the population will call you a troll, and whine non-stop to moderators to ban you.

Or at least they'll attempt it; you'll need at least FIVE negative critiques for a banning....but one is all it takes to get them to hate you.

there is always ppl who like "X" game and ppl who doesnt. I liked this KH, but i was already bored of always doing the same. Talk-mission-do whatever i have to do-again back to the same place. But the only thing i didnt liked is that the finger i always use to walk ends up numb D:

Well, you're right there. I don't go to gamefaqs really, so I got my opinions from some local friends. I have an ongoing joke that the DS game is an "Ice Cream Eating" simulator because everytime I look over at the game it's inbetween missions where they are just eating ice cream.

I dunno about hating the KH series. It always seemed fun to me. I played the first one a LOT. It just seems like it's gone a different path. It's lost me but as long as the main fans are happy, that's fine.

Yup, a first time KH player wouldnt enjoy KH too much, and an old player will just try to like it to know more of roxa's and organization's story.
But this the first that is going for psp, and as we all have seen, is almost as watching a ps2.

Playing on the psp will be the same as the ps2, so just imagine is for ps2 :P

I actually still haven't finished KH2 and haven't touched the DS game so far. It looks like Birth by Sleep would be closer to its PS2 brothers due to his graphical capabilities, so it should have a more epic story being a prequel and all?