[Title] Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
[System] Playstation Portable
[Genre] Action roleplaying game
[Developed by] Square Enix Osaka Team
[Director] Tetsuya Nomura
[Co-Director] Tai Yasue
[Executive Producer] Shinji Hashimoto
[Game Producer] Patrick Chen
[Co-Producer] Yoichi Yoshimoto
[Writer] Masaru Oka
[Composers] Yoko Shimomura, Tsuyoshi Sekito, Takeharu Ishimoto
[Content Rating]
CERO A
ESRB E10+
PEGI 12+
[Release Date]
JP January 9, 2010
NA September 7, 2010
EU September 10, 2010
[North American Preorder Bonus] (Click for Picture!)
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[European Special Edition] (Click for Picture!)
Special Edition Comes With: 2 Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Art Prints, Hardback 48 Page Artwork Book "The Art of Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep". The Special Edition is being distributed into UK, France, Germany/Austria/Switzerland, Nordic countries, Benelux, Spain, Italy, Australia/New Zealand, Russia, Greece, Portugal and Cyprus.
Please do check availability with your friendly local retail outlet! The box will contain the game in its usual PSP-style packaging with the additional components too, so please be assured that the original game boxart will still be a part of the Special Edition.
[System Requirements] Official Firmware Update 6.20 (Comes with UMD Disc)
OP Note: The characters section contains early game speculation and spoilers. They aren't really spoilers so much as they are common pre-game release knowledge, but I thought I'd place a disclaimer regardless.
[Terra] - One of three apprentices to Master Eraqus, Terra, along with Aqua, are preparing to take the Master Qualification Exam when mysterious circumstances arise. Terra has been said to be one who puts his goal as his top priority over everything else, and that his stress of his goals causes conflict between him and the other characters. His name is Latin for "Earth", a meaning he shares with Riku whose name means "Land".
[Ventus] - The youngest apprentice to Master Eraqus, Ventus hasn't been an apprentice long enough to qualify to take the Master Qualification Exam along with Aqua and Terra. When compared to the other apprentices, Ven's story is the one that is most similar to past Kingdom Hearts games. His personality is much like Sora's, in that he easily makes friends with the residents of the worlds he visits and he is able to blend in with the world's inhabitants naturally. Ventus' name is Latin for "Wind", which poses a connection to Sora's name which means "Sky".
[Aqua] - Master Eraqus' only female apprentice, Aqua, was set to take the Master Qualification Exam with Terra when a threat to the worlds arose. Aqua is said to be a serious character with a steady mind, although she often worries about Terra and Ven. Magic is Aqua's specialty and her fighting style uses it heavily. Her name is Latin for "Water", and while Kairi's name has a similar meaning ("Sea")
[Mickey] - Birth by Sleep goes back to the days when the King of Disney Castle was still training under the wise Yen Sid. He wields the Star-Seeker Keyblade and has been seen carrying around an object known as a Star Fragment, which seems to be involved with traveling from world to world. He is one of the games' D-Links.
[Master Eraqus] - Master Eraqus is one of many Keyblade Masters. When he passed his Master Qualification Exam, along with his peer Master Xehanort, he decided to stay and govern the Land of Departure. Not much is known about Master Eraqus presently. His name is an anagram for "Square" which mirrors Mickey's Master Yen Sid (which is an anagram of "Disney"). Though Master Eraqus is a brand new character to the series, he has been said to be heavily linked to the plot and a character to keep watch on.
[Master Xehanort] - One of Master Eraqus' old classmates. Master Xehanort has shown invested interest in Terra and Ventus, going so far to seek them out on multiple occasions. His reasoning behind these encounters are unknown however. Master Xehanort shares his name with the series' main antagonist, Xehanort. He also sports the same clothing that Xehanort's Heartless (Ansem, Seeker of Darkness) wore in the original Kingdom Hearts. There is an obvious connection between Master Xehanort and the apprentice Xehanort that Ansem the Wise finds without his memory, but the details of this connection are unknown.
[Vanitas] - Vanitas is Master Xehanort's only apprentice. His name is Latin for "Vanity" or "Emptiness" and was chosen for him both for its meaning, and for it sounding similar to Ventus' name. His face will not be revealed until the very end of the game, and it has been said that there is a very important reason behind him concealing his face. Because of this, he is to be considered more mysterious than the other characters.
Official Playstation Magazine - 4/5 said:
Level Magazine - 8/10 said:
Best Buy Magazine -4.5/5 said:
IGN - 8.5/10 said:
Gamespot - 7.5/10 said:
G4 - 4/5 said:
Game Informer - 8.5/10 said:
[Random Credit/Shameless Plugs]
-Kagari - OT inspiration comes from you, this is my first try at an OT guys, so tell me what can be improved/added. I know I'll be adding a section on general game play improvements sometime this week, depending on if this thread gets any interest.
-Wikipedia Page - for Birth by Sleep. Got a lot of the general information from there.
-Official Birth by Sleep Website (NA/PAL)
-Kingdom Hearts Insider (KHInsider.com) - This is where I pulled a lot of the graphics/renders/etc from. , It's been a personal project of mine as since the summer of 2005 I've been working as a site manager there. It is easily the largest Kingdom Hearts website around.
