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Jesse McCartney confirms Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep localization

by Andrew Yoon on Dec 1st 2009 7:00AM

It may seem like an unlikely source for video game news, but pop singer Jesse McCartney's Twitter account has confirmed the localization of Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. Square Enix hasn't announced a US release for the PSP prequel, but considering the franchise's penchant for making money, it certainly was never in doubt.

Birth by Sleep would be McCartney's third foray into the Kingdom Hearts universe, having previously voiced Roxas in Kingdom Hearts II and 358/2 Days. Kingdom Hearts Union suggests that McCartney may be voicing Birth By Sleep's "new" character, Ventus (pictured, right) -- y'know, the one that looks exactly like Roxas (pictured, left).

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Tags: birth-by-sleep, jesse-mccartney, kingdom-hearts, kingdom-hearts-birth-by-sleep, square-enix

Reader Comments (38)

As long as they keep away from the card based battle system, I will probably buy it for my wife.

I was expecting you to say "...probably buy it." instead of for your wife lol..

i wasn't

Birth by Sleep DOES have a Chain of Memories-esque battle system. Look closer at the videos out there.

The card battling system was the greatest.

@Elranzer: Are you sure? It looks like the original with an added chain command or something.

If EA made toilet paper, they'd make you pay per wipe.

Brilliance can feel free to be off-topic.

You're waaay behind dude.

It's Activision that does that now.

...plz downvote that asap.
posted totally wrong spot.

I upvoted it

yeah i can't downvote that in good conscience because it's the truth

I think Jesse McCarntey does a great job voicing mainly because its an awkward thing to voice. Everyone is all friendly and goody and happy and extremely corny. I would get annoyed after a while voicing stuff for this game especially Sora/Roxas/Ventus

THIS.
I feel the same way. I actually didn't know he voiced Roxas until a couple of years ago. I was pretty impressed with how his VA flowed so well considering he probably never even met his co-stars.

"Square Enix hasn't announced a US release for the PSP prequel, but considering the franchise's penchant for making money, it certainly was never in doubt."

Final Mix 1 and 2.

Where the hell were those, Squeenix?

They were in Japan, ready to be imported.

Yeah, of course the new character's gonna be Roxas in some form. It's like when "Iroqouis Plisken" appears in MGS2. If you didn't know immediately that was Snake, you're straight-up retarded.

"MGS2 was my first MG game and I still knew it was Snake."

Except that Pliskin really WAS Snake, just using a pseudonym.

The thing with Ventus is that, while obviously connected to Roxas (and thereby Sora), he is at least his own separate character... That's just Tetsuya Nomura for ya... I really like certain aspects of his style, but more often than not he just comes off as bizarrely lazy in the design-diversity department.

That's why I said "In some form", he might be some alternate-universe bullshit or something.

I demand to know which Joystiq editor follows Jesse McCartney's Twitter account.

Hinkle... I'm looking in your general direction.

At least he's becoming a productive member of society. Unlike that Hannah Montana slut.

woah, slut? really?

Don't you know? All famous women (or in fact all women who are not interested in him) are sluts. So sayeth the Bradwart.

You know, Im getting really fucking fed up with all this Twitter bullshit.

Despite your antipathy, Twitter is rapidly becoming a tool that people are finding value in. Brevity is a virtue I feel is long since lost i

you used up all of your characters

You guys may hate it, but it's really useful for many things.

I can't get back into KH since KH2. Loved the first one, hated the second, and it's all starting to take itself way too seriously now.

So the "new" characters name is Ventus. Isn't that latin for wind?

Yep, and Terra for Earth and Aqua for water. Obviously trying to tie into the 3 main characters of the story.

Is there a competition at SE to create the most idiotic sub-name for this franchise?

'Kingdom Hearts: Allegory of Night's Fall into Resonance'

*copyright as of RIGHT NOW!"

It's only idiotic if you don't understand that the sub-names have everything to do with the games themselves.

Chain of Memories: had to do with Sora's memory "chains" being broken and rearranged.

358/2 Days: 358 days shared by two people

Birth by Sleep will become evident when the game comes out...unless it doesn't, in which case I apologize for my matter-of-fact commenting.
Besides, BBS kinda rolls off the tongue pretty well. Although, tbh, 358/2 Days was a pretty dumb name.

Any chance of Roxas actually being Ventus's Nobody, and not Sora's?

None.

Man, with how long these games are taking to come out, they'd better get to KH3 quick. Haley Joel Osment isn't getting any younger.

wait the kid in the picture on the right with the shoulder armor isn't roxas?
I thought this one was suposted to be about roxas before he joined the organization.

Nope, no card bassed system from what i have seen on youtube. so there is nothing to worry about.

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