Kingdom Hearts DS ad points to 2008 release in Japan

I'm sure it will make a lot more sense once you play the game.

This is true. On an established franchise it doesn't mean a whole lot, but sometimes a bad title can bite you in the ass (read: Zack and Wiki.)

Yeah! I mean, think back to your playthroughs of KH and KH2... when did a story element or title NOT make sense?

...oh wait

yea me too. the PSP one has me really excited but ill more than likely buy this one as well.

I have both Ds and PSP.

Kickass.

NINTENDO IS KILLING DA INDUSTRY

In before someone says 'in before!' Fuck...

Now THERE's a legitimate entry they forgot on their "MIA from E3" list

Dragon Quest IX. Best looking game on the DS, and nobody can say a damn thing about it

Dragon ball for the DBZ looks better by leaps and bounds.

Hey, fatass of kickassness, I assume you have a Wii from some of the comments you made when we watched the E3 keynote, what online games do you have?

Brawl, MKWii, and Dr. Mario.

And I bet you wouldn't stand a chance in any of 'em, heh heh

I've got all three of those, but my cousins are borrowing SSBB and MKWii. But I'd be down for some Dr. Mario Online. What's your friend code?

Were they even trying? Is that even a serious question? Look at the original character designs from KH and KH2. That answers your question right there - hell no they weren't.

As sad as it might sound, this is one of Nomura's more reasonable designs.

Not really sure what happened to him. I rather enjoyed his designs of Final Fantasy VII for the most part. Now the only design he knows how to do is throw a million belts and zippers on his characters.

'Mature' art style isn't always an indicator of qualit... wait, we're talking about KH, shit was fruity to begin with.

No, mature art style never meant better quality game.

However, I know I most likely won't play a game that looks it fell into a box of fruit loops (and not even counting blocky graphics and all that).

Kingdom hearts, never had "fruity" graphics. In terms of colors it was your typical non fps game.

Kingdom Hearts fell into the fruit loops vat pretty often. Did we play the same game? Hell, if the art style wasn't enough, the story, the character relationships, the characters themselves, they're all pretty fruity.

You're right, it was just as colorful as most non-FPS games... it just managed to give off a feel, a certain (I hate overusing this word but it's the only one that fits) fruity aura that most games I've played, even the most colorful (like, say, SMG) didn't give off.

There is a Kingdom Hearts game going to be released on PSP. Case closed.

I think we have differing opinions of what fruity means.

If you look at the FF IV for DS screens than you'll know what I mean by fruity, blocky graphics. They make we want to throw up (on a game I would've otherwise liked to play).

I think what you mean by fruity is that it simply had disney characters and the main characters were kids.

Nah, cuz I've played colorful RPGs with kids as main characters that I've enjoyed. It's just that, well, the characters in Kingdom Hearts sucked. I enjoyed the Disney/FF characters (though the new art style made EVERY LAST ONE of the FF characters look like shit), but the original characters in KH and KH2 were straight up lame. The way in which they would react with each other was lame. The fact that almost each and every one of 'em had 2D cookie-cutter personalities and character development was lame.

I've never liked Kingdom Hearts, but it's for a lot more reasons than that. The art style is the very least of 'em - in fact, I enjoyed the art style, to an extent. To say it wasn't fruity, though? That's kinda tough. Super rounded edges on every structure, a color scheme that would put even the most ambitious Nintendo project to shame... combine that with the aforementioned qualities of KH and you've got yourself one fruity number.

Well, we just have separate definitions of what constitutes as "fruity". I'll just leave it at that.

On a separate note, I loved the KH story line. Love the new characters (sora, kairi, riku).