PSP Kingdom Hearts arrives this summer

By Robert Purchese Published 17 March, 2010

Birth by Sleep has meaty multiplayer.

Action role-playing game Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep is heading to Europe this summer.

Released January in Japan, this PSP instalment earned high praise from regional magazine-giant Famitsu, scoring 37/40.

Birth by Sleep serves as a prequel to the first Kingdom Hearts game on PS2. There's a new Disney-meets-JRPG story as well as multiplayer for six people, either fighting against each other; teaming-up for a wave-based arena mode; racing on hovering Keyblades; or strategising on the Command Board.

Besides that are various enhancements to the battle system and some apparently very pretty graphics.

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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 (7) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • INSOMANiAC #1 2 years ago

    Ooo Ill be buyng this one a month after release, now then, £34.99 on PSN or £4.99 form HMV, decisions decisions......

  • Slipstream #2 2 years ago

    ^^^ Ugh! Kokoty, Get rid of it!

    Birth by Sleep, I've been looking forward to this one. The graphics ARE indeed impressive and the gameplay looks like it has remained intact.
    I really enjoyed the DS version, so much so that it was actually the first game I finished on the DS, despite owning one for over a year!

    But yeah as the tagline says, multiplayer is where it's at, not looking forward to what will undoubtedly be a broken vs mode but Team Arena mode piques my interest, the other mini-games could be interesting I suppose, hoverkey racing...lol.
    Iit's a shame there is no co-op campaign mode though, or at least a side campaign for multi-player, why do developers forgo this?
    Edited by 1 at 17/03/10 @ 10:54

  • Bigglesworth #3 2 years ago

    Excellent! Just in time for me squeezing the last drop of completionism out of Dissidia =)

  • alcides #4 2 years ago

    So, Codemasters guy, PSP is useless? Not so much!

  • Zidargh #5 2 years ago

    Kingdom Hearts games have such weird Engrishy- titles.

  • abigsmurf #6 2 years ago

    Looking forward to this. Wonder if the new Kingdom Hearts Spin off will be announced at E3 or TGS....

    Also Squeenix: Please cut down on the number of consoles we need to own to follow this series on!

  • Stepharneo #7 2 years ago

    "Kingdom Hearts games have such weird Engrishy- titles. "

    because you expect them to be metaphors until about half way through the game where you realise that it is a literal title. For instance birth by sleep sounds like some sort of poetic term for dreams, but I bet that there is some crazy Avatar like machine in the game.