TGS: Portable Kingdom Hearts

By Robert Purchese Published 20 September, 2007

New games for DS, PSP, mobile.

Square Enix has announced that it's working on three new Kingdom Hearts games for DS, PSP and mobile phones.

So far the trio are only confirmed for Japan, with releases in other territories still to be determined.

The DS offering is Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, directed by moody Tetsuya Nomura and Tomohiro Hasegawa. Popular faces Roxas and Axel are said to be playable here, either in single- or multiplayer missions.

The second game is Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep for PSP, which will introduce a trio of new keyblade apprentices who are trying to find a missing keyblade master. Nomura is once again involved, co-directing with Tai Yasue.

Last but not least is the mobile title Kingdom Hearts: Coded. Here events kick off after Jiminy Cricket finds a mysterious message, prompting a whole new quest for Sora embark on. Glad to see the insect still finding work, he was particularly strong in Pinocchio.

Kingdom Hearts is a franchise that mixes the world of Walt Disney into a Japanese role-playing smoothie. The effect is enormously tasty, commanding over 10 million sales-slurps worldwide.

The most recent instalment in the series was Kingdom Hearts II on PS2, which turned out to be well worth the lengthy PAL-release wait.

Pop over to our Kingdom Hearts II review to find out 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 (15) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • drunkymonkey #1 4 years ago

    Woot! Kingdom Hearts is perhaps my favourite RPG series. But given the platforms they're going to be delivered on, I most likely won't be buying them.

  • Les #2 4 years ago

    Loved 1 and 2 but no way I'm going to get all 3 cash-ins. Though Chains for GBA was rather good...

  • viper_h #3 4 years ago

    Final Fantasy VII please.

  • Triggerhappytel #4 4 years ago

    Anyone else think KH2 was pretty jank, or was that just me?

  • JohnnyWashnGo #5 4 years ago

    Mobile phone games, in general, are not very good.

    The limited display, the difference in hardware between devices and the usually poor control systems all mean that a game on a mobile is a waste of time and money.

    I don't understand why companies continue to make them.

  • Les #6 4 years ago

    "I don't understand why companies continue to make them."

    Because there are a lot of mobile phones.

  • VicViper #7 4 years ago

    @les
    If you seen the secret ending trailer form KH2:FM, then you have seen that brith by sleep with be a excellent addition to the story so that one is at least not a cash in, don't know about the others.

    Personaly having both a DS and PSP I will probaly get both as KH has easily become my favorite RPG series. KH2 was excellent with some of the later bosses being some of the best gaming I've had in some time. If anyone remmbers the boss with the sky scraper combo attack (not the end game one but being vauge to avoid spoilerage) you'll know what I mean.

  • Les #8 4 years ago

    @ VicViper

    I think they are cash-ins because its three games instead of one. Square's milking of it's popular franchises becomes a bit ridiculous.

    But indeed, boss fights in KH2 were awesome. What I appreciated most about the game though was the stunning sound track.

  • GamesConnoisseur #9 4 years ago

    Milk milk milking! Yummy!

  • Triggerhappytel #10 4 years ago

    Jesus, I thought the boss fights were probably the worst parts of KH2. Some of the most unbalanced difficulty spikes I've ever had the misfortune of sampling.

  • Kazzahdrane #11 4 years ago

    If the rumours of the DS one having co-op multiplayer then eeeeexcellent, there are a few friends who would probably play it with me.

  • a8a #12 4 years ago

    KH2 was pretty much my favourite game of last year, I'll defnitely be wanting to play these... but mobile phone? Don't tell me I'm going to have to upgrade from my prehistoric nokia D:

  • VicViper #13 4 years ago

    @ a8a

    I woudn't worry, those mobile game never make it out of japan, well as far as I've know I could be wrong, actually on that subject has any of the squareenix mobile games made it to the uk?

  • Ryze #14 4 years ago

    Nice. Not played any of them yet, will prob grab the PS2 version, then, if the PSP version's loading times don't stink - go for that one.

  • ArtOfLife #15 4 years ago

    Very excited by the news, although also slightly disappointed as I thought what is now confirmed as a mobile game was in fact going to be for the PS3. Still, I'll be getting the other two without a doubt.