Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded is a remake of an episodic Japanese cell phone game called Kingdom Hearts Coded. It covers events occurring after Kingdom Hearts 2, but delves into the data memories of Jimminy Cricket's journal entries from the first two Kingdom Hearts games. He is investigating a mysterious message he doesn't remember writing and King Mickey decides to decode the journal into data on a computer for better viewing. Finding many anomalies and mysteries that shouldn't be there, King Mickey decides to create a data projection of Sora (who appears in his Kingdom Hearts 1 attire). This data Sora revisits worlds and finds strange new people and events that never originally occurred. That's the purpose behind Re:Coded, to discover the mystery of the journal's strange messages and anomalies. The message in Jimminy's journal reads- Their hurting will be mended when you return to end it.
The first gameplay video has been made available on the official website for the game. Previously, we only had off screen footage from the trailer shown at E3 which was very low quality. Now enjoy a direct feed of some of the battle gameplay-
Re:Coded is a full remake of the cell phone game. Coded originally only used sprites for the characters, but Re:Coded is fully 3D and appears to be based on the engine graphics and gameplay engine established with Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. In addition to that, the gameplay has been overhauled to include some elements from the PSP game, Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep. You may notice the new deck command menu which is from BBS. That's completely new to the remake. Commands can be used with the X button, and the L button apparently scrolls through a list of available commands. There are a lot of new attack commands in the remake. You still have your normal commands such as attack, jump, and dodge though. Camera control has been simplified and now seems to take one view most of the time, though you can apparently rotate it to the left and right somewhat. According to a recent interview with the creator, the remake will also incorporate various leveling aspects from 358/2 Days as well, such as the panel leveling system. [/p]
More videos should be up soon as the website becomes more complete. Needless to say, a lot of effort is being put into this remake. The gameplay is completely streamlined and far surpasses the cell phone title. Not much about the story is intended to be changed, but the gameplay should be very refreshing at least. Re:Coded is being developed by h.a.n.d who also did the previous Kingdom Hearts game on DS. They know how to make a good looking 3D DS game and also know how to replicate the gameplay of the series.
Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded is due out this fall in Japan. No word on a US date, but we have seen some English screenshots already, so a US release is confirmed and will probably follow fairly soon after (perhaps this year).
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/kingdom/recoded/
The first gameplay video has been made available on the official website for the game. Previously, we only had off screen footage from the trailer shown at E3 which was very low quality. Now enjoy a direct feed of some of the battle gameplay-
Re:Coded is a full remake of the cell phone game. Coded originally only used sprites for the characters, but Re:Coded is fully 3D and appears to be based on the engine graphics and gameplay engine established with Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. In addition to that, the gameplay has been overhauled to include some elements from the PSP game, Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep. You may notice the new deck command menu which is from BBS. That's completely new to the remake. Commands can be used with the X button, and the L button apparently scrolls through a list of available commands. There are a lot of new attack commands in the remake. You still have your normal commands such as attack, jump, and dodge though. Camera control has been simplified and now seems to take one view most of the time, though you can apparently rotate it to the left and right somewhat. According to a recent interview with the creator, the remake will also incorporate various leveling aspects from 358/2 Days as well, such as the panel leveling system. [/p]
More videos should be up soon as the website becomes more complete. Needless to say, a lot of effort is being put into this remake. The gameplay is completely streamlined and far surpasses the cell phone title. Not much about the story is intended to be changed, but the gameplay should be very refreshing at least. Re:Coded is being developed by h.a.n.d who also did the previous Kingdom Hearts game on DS. They know how to make a good looking 3D DS game and also know how to replicate the gameplay of the series.
Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded is due out this fall in Japan. No word on a US date, but we have seen some English screenshots already, so a US release is confirmed and will probably follow fairly soon after (perhaps this year).
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/kingdom/recoded/
