Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days dated

By Robert Purchese Published 5 August, 2009

DS RPG arriving here in early October.

Square Enix has announced a 9th October European release date for Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days.

This DS mashup of Disney and Final Fantasy revolves around hero Roxas and his mysterious past as part of Organization XIII. Timeline-wise, the setting sits between Kingdom Hearts I and II.

More significantly, 358/2 Days is the first Kingdom Hearts game with multiplayer - a maximum of four friends can team up together.

Renowned FF creator Tetsuya Nomura and his team have made a full 3D world stuffed with hefty bosses, full orchestral soundtrack and varied missions. The Limit Break system from FFVII makes an appearance, as does a Panel System to keep spells, abilities and levels tidy.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days was released for Japan in May, and appears fractionally earlier in the US on 29th September.

Japanese magazine Famitsu scored Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days four nines, totalling 36/40.

Our Kingdom Hearts 358/2 gallery can show you more.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • JohnnyWashnGo #1 3 years ago

    This game looks great, though I have never played a Kingdom Hearts game before so will probably be lost in the story.

  • cloud_ix #2 3 years ago

    even if you have played all the kingdom hearts games you'll be lost in the story

  • DFawkes #3 3 years ago

    I love Kingdom Hearts. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside :) One of my top games ever, so glad to see a DS version on the way, and not looking too shabby if I do say so.

  • Golgo #4 3 years ago

    I've never played a Kingdom Hearts game but this looks fun. The non-Disney cast seem a bit 'emo' and into themselves from what I've heard though, but I guess that's only to be expected from Square.

  • Burkey123 #5 3 years ago

    Game looks great! Good news.

  • mkreku #6 3 years ago

    Looks surprisingly good.

  • Cid #7 3 years ago

    I'd be more excited if it were a main series game, but I'm willing to give it a go. It does look very nice, at least.

  • Kremlik Verified Co-Founder, Crash To Desktop #8 3 years ago

    @Cid - techically it IS a main game it fills in those 358 and a bit days between Chain and KH2 :) and Birth by sleep fills in the origin storys

  • Cid #9 3 years ago

    I know they link the games together, but they're still spin-offs. Just as CoM was.

    Not that I think there's anything wrong with that, of course. I'm just not so into the series that I care all that much about side-games. KH3 will be a different story.

  • VicViper #10 3 years ago

    KH3 just needs to come out, if anyone has seen it, regarding the special ending at the end of the KH2 international edition any idea if that was a refernce to birth by sleep or kH3?

    Regardless I'll be getting this and birth by sleep, october this year is pretty early usually it takes squenix at least a year to even think about bringing games to europe.

  • FenderMaster #11 3 years ago

    been playing the japanese version a bit, it's extremely faithful to the KH series in gameply, music and looks, i'll defintely be picking this up when it's released

  • Cid #12 3 years ago

    MilkybKid1985:

    It filled in the blanks, that's all. The only two main series Kingdom Hearts games are KH1 and 2. They're the ones that matter most.

  • smelly #13 3 years ago

    Dammit i wish they'd release a kingdom hearts game for a machine i own!

    last gen i owned an xbox and cube.. missed out on kingdom hearts.. but was seriously tempted to buy a ps2 soley to play it!

  • Skurmedel #14 3 years ago

    So the name of this game is really "Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days"? ... doesn't beat "Infinite Undiscovery", but it comes close. Well as long as it's good...