Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days + NA release confirmed = headline

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Dec 2nd 2008 at 4:30PM }

Square Enix has confirmed a North American release for Kingdom Hearts: Ludicrous Subtitle (AKA Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days), the Action-RPG franchise's first entry on the Nintendo DS. The game revolves around Roxas, star of Kingdom Hearts II's prolonged prologue and one-time member of ~~My Chemical Romance~~ Organization XIII.

Though Square Enix has yet to provide a definitive release date for the English version, players can start looking forward to a series first: a multiplayer mode that allows "players to control their favorite Organization XIII members!" Oh, our favorite? Uh, well ... the one with the spiky hair, ominous coat and largely impractical weapon, obviously.

Tags: BreakingNews, JS-Twitter, Kingdom-Hearts, Kingdom-Hearts-3582-days, Roxas, Sora, Square-Enix

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Fernando Rocker @ Dec 2nd 2008 4:33PM

hehe My Chemical Romance... nice one =p

Kye says: Know thyself @ Dec 2nd 2008 4:37PM

Off topic:

Joystiq, do you have to have at least one hyperlink in every blog description?

On topic:

I may or may not agree with the above person's comment.

Fernando Rocker @ Dec 2nd 2008 4:39PM

Oh no no...

I mean, nice joke... not nice band or anything.

Wiinterfang @ Dec 2nd 2008 4:53PM

I was preparing to flame you so hard that your grandsons dicks will burn when the pee but since you rectified your my chemical romance comment you shall be pardoned.

(The Award-Winning) dark_inchworm @ Dec 2nd 2008 5:25PM

We can all agree that MCR blows, right?

WilhelmThe1st @ Dec 2nd 2008 6:04PM

Right. Hedley, Simple Plan, Panic at the Disco, and Fall Out Boy all suck too.

Paulmichael @ Dec 2nd 2008 6:06PM

Pretty much, yeah.

-slycooper_rocker- (lorddshadow the amazing) psn: shahanasalam @ Dec 2nd 2008 6:38PM

you forgot nickelback! they top the douche list! until fall out boy's new album comes out anyways. then its a tie.

tcc3 @ Dec 2nd 2008 6:54PM

I sure am glad I have random internet strangers to tell me what bands are cool.

Roto13 @ Dec 3rd 2008 12:39AM

Nobody has told anybody what bands are cool. :P Just which ones specifically aren't.

SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread - XBL: SoCoolCurt) @ Dec 3rd 2008 2:33AM

i have a confession to make...i loved Panic! At The Disco's first album...and the last Fall Out Boy album too./hey, put those stones down...

Burritoclock @ Dec 2nd 2008 4:35PM

Never saw the appeal of these games, don't get me wrong, as with most things I don't get I'm happy someone out there enjoy's it.

I'm sure someone out there thinks me listing Fallout 3 as my all time favorite is whack-o.

Duke @ Dec 2nd 2008 4:50PM

I enjoyed them and have been waiting to see one on the new consoles. Besides that, I like Fallout too!

Courtney @ Dec 2nd 2008 4:50PM

I'm with you, but I get that "omg, what is wrong with you" look from my daughter if I dare say anything about the KH series.

Burritoclock @ Dec 2nd 2008 5:13PM

The best thing is how people I would never imagine in a million years liking it LOVE IT. I went over this friend of a friends house once, big thug, drug dealin stereotype kinda fellow and there is kingdom hearts on his PS2, funny stuff.

Haggard @ Dec 2nd 2008 5:14PM

You're not allowed to think games that came out less than 3 years ago are the best games ever. It's the law or something.

Mr Khan @ Dec 2nd 2008 5:31PM

I'm a sucker for crossovers, so long as i care about both of the universes in question. However, i am a skeptic of JRPGs

But considering KH was previously bound to PS2, i never got a shot, considering i didn't feel like picking up Chain of Memories as it was a spinoff

Burritoclock @ Dec 2nd 2008 5:37PM

Normally I would agree Haggard, but I have made an exception for Fallout 3 because it has sucked my life away.

Roto13 @ Dec 3rd 2008 12:40AM

I played the first one up to the Hercules level and quit. If I'm fighting a giant three-headed hound of hell and I can't freaking see it, there's something unforgivably wrong with the camera.

SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread - XBL: SoCoolCurt) @ Dec 3rd 2008 2:43AM

i love the KH gaes myself. i think i love the fight system more than anything. ad im with Roto13 about the camera in the first one and that fight with Cerberus was the most frustrating part in the series hands down lol.

CJLopez @ Dec 2nd 2008 4:36PM

Looking forward for bouth handheld KH!!!!

Brent @ Dec 2nd 2008 4:37PM

I never played any of the other kingdom hearts games. Are they Role Playing games? I never liked those kind of guys. Maybe because they pretty much take to much time and over your whole life for a while.

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Zertoss @ Dec 2nd 2008 4:41PM

Ugh... Math.

"the one with the spiky hair, ominous coat and largely impractical weapon, obviously."

Not the token female? Can't say I blame you, she was incredibly cheap on Chain of Memories on the GBA.

Yourself @ Dec 2nd 2008 4:58PM

My biggest problem with this subtitle is that I have no idea how to say it. Like, is it "358 halves" or "358 over two" or "we really are just throwing stupid shit out there without even thinking it through"?

Kingdom Hearts, though, was an incredible game, easily one of the PS2's best. It sort of had all the great elements of JRPGs minus the annoyances (bad VO, offensive story, random battles, etc.). KH2 a little less so: it felt like everything got really generic really fast.

Ludwig Kietzmann @ Dec 2nd 2008 5:08PM

See, I thought I had it figured out. The story takes place over a year, and over two screens. 365 days over 2! But it's only 358 days. So, I'm guessing they trimmed the days where Roxas was just sitting around reading a book?

Daniel @ Dec 2nd 2008 5:12PM

They took out all the bathroom breaks. Roxas takes a looooooong time in the bathroom.

Zertoss @ Dec 2nd 2008 5:13PM

Maybe 6 of those missing days were in KH2? So they only cut the one day he was reading a book, which I'm guessing probably wasn't Winnie the Pooh.

The Fatass of Kickassness @ Dec 2nd 2008 5:23PM

It's pronounced Three Eighty Five Over Two Days according to Square.

It's pretty fucking stupid, yeah.

Snowblind @ Dec 2nd 2008 5:25PM

Wow. And people complained that Halo: ODST was hard to say? :P

Wiinterfang @ Dec 2nd 2008 5:26PM

Kingdom Hearts DS.

End of Story.

Sora @ Dec 2nd 2008 6:24PM

According to Tetsuya Nomura, the director of the series, it's "Three-eight-five days over two." Screwed up, I know...

Tez @ Dec 2nd 2008 5:25PM

Fail.

John Z @ Dec 2nd 2008 5:26PM

I'm looking forward to finding new and inventive ways to inflict MAXIMUM PAIN upon Demyx. And it's all because of this bit from KH2:

Demyx: "Dance, water, dance!"
Sora: *dies*
Me: "F$%# YOU, DEMYX!" *stops playing KH2 for 3+ years*

JWC @ Dec 2nd 2008 5:28PM

That's a terrible subtitle. Square needs to fire their translator.

Pedobear @ Dec 2nd 2008 8:59PM

Except that is not the translated subtitle. In Japan, the game is also called 358/2 days

JWC @ Dec 2nd 2008 9:00PM

Does it mean anything in Japanese? I mean maybe then I could say oh well... but otherwise they need to fire someone in Marketing.

rowd149 @ Dec 3rd 2008 12:03AM

They're numbers. They mean the same thing everywhere.

JWC @ Dec 3rd 2008 10:48AM

@rowd149: you sir, are ignorant:
http://japanese.about.com/blqow7.htm

tb4m @ Dec 2nd 2008 5:32PM

Why isn't it just 179 days?

wesley johnson @ Dec 2nd 2008 5:42PM

shoulda been Kingdom Hearts: 33 1/3

Zertoss @ Dec 2nd 2008 5:53PM

Kingdom Hearts in the 24 1/2 Century!

In A World (XBL) @ Dec 2nd 2008 9:27PM

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Kai Hikari @ Dec 3rd 2008 1:00AM

I don't understand two things:

Why the kingdom hearts hate?

And

Why comment a post about a game you don't give a damn about?

Nomura said that the subtitle has a meaning that the gamer will understand by the game's end.

(But I think that the 358 are the days Roxas stayed at the org XIII minus the 7 days of the Kh II prologue that would make the complete year. The over two part is still a mistery though.)