I don't know how they achieve that stuff on the DS. Great job, Square.

Wow! that looks almost like the PS2 games, that's obviously the best looking DS game I've seen so far.

I can't believe what I'm seeing. Those graphics actually look on par with the PS2 games, and they seem to run at a very smooth frame rate. And there's voice acting too? This looks like it could be a PSP game, no joke. How they've managed to pull this off on the DS is beyond me.

Looks bloody impressive for the DS. The combat is sooo kingdom hearts. Button-mashy, but i like it.

It amused me how they've spun out the Utada track again from KH II.

Looking great! I really hope it's gonna be a solid singleplayer experience despite its large multiplayer focus, though. I don't live in Japan after all, so I can't just whip out my DS on the train and expect a dozen other people to be playing the same game (and seeing as it doesn't have Wi-Fi support, I'll probably never actually get to try out the multiplayer mode).

Regardless, I already have the Japanese version pre-ordered.

NICE!

Can't wait to play Kingdom Hearts again!

I am expressing serious doubt about this being rendered by the DS 3D hardware. I've dug into what the machine is capable of during my FFVII research, and what I am looking at in this trailer, to my amateur eyes, looks absolutely impossible to do with the DSs 2000 poly limit.

3D artists often challange each other to produce impressive results with the lowest possible polycount, and I have seen some amazing work being done with the DS poly limit, but none of these came even close to the character models shown in this trailer.

So either they developed some crazy technique to soften the edges and work wonders with textures on low-poly models (hard to imagine), or they did somehow work around the DS hardware's polycount-limit (impossible, as far as I know), or this is not real time.

To put things into perspective: Tekken 3 or Tomb Raider 1 have poly counts WAY over what the DS can physically handle. Compare that to the trailer above. Yeah.

How many people on Giantbomb.com actualy SPEAK Japanese?

Game looks lame, Kingdom Hearts should have been a one time thing...

Ah, yes. Looking at actual screens of the game, it's obvious that this trailer exclusively shows cutscene material. Not surprisingly, Square does this a lot.

"I am expressing serious doubt about this being rendered by the DS 3D hardware. I've dug into what the machine is capable of during my FFVII research, and what I am looking at in this trailer, to my amateur eyes, looks absolutely impossible to do with the DSs 2000 poly limit. 3D artists often challange each other to produce impressive results with the lowest possible polycount, and I have seen some amazing work being done with the DS poly limit, but none of these came even close to the character models shown in this trailer.So either they developed some crazy technique to soften the edges and work wonders with textures on low-poly models (hard to imagine), or they did somehow work around the DS hardware's polycount-limit (impossible, as far as I know), or this is not real time. To put things into perspective: Tekken 3 or Tomb Raider 1 have poly counts WAY over what the DS can physically handle. Compare that to the trailer above. Yeah."

Nope, the actual gameplay looks exactly like other DS games. The stuff shown in this trailer is from cutscenes.




And the DSi isn't more powerful than the DS.

"I am expressing serious doubt about this being rendered by the DS 3D hardware. I've dug into what the machine is capable of during my FFVII research, and what I am looking at in this trailer, to my amateur eyes, looks absolutely impossible to do with the DSs 2000 poly limit. 3D artists often challange each other to produce impressive results with the lowest possible polycount, and I have seen some amazing work being done with the DS poly limit, but none of these came even close to the character models shown in this trailer.So either they developed some crazy technique to soften the edges and work wonders with textures on low-poly models (hard to imagine), or they did somehow work around the DS hardware's polycount-limit (impossible, as far as I know), or this is not real time. To put things into perspective: Tekken 3 or Tomb Raider 1 have poly counts WAY over what the DS can physically handle. Compare that to the trailer above. Yeah."

*points to posts above*

Yeah I was writing it. I saw the new posts but I still had some more points, like the poly limit thing. Also, the DSi is more powerful according to wikipedia's listed specifications.Both have two cpus, but where the DS has one over 60 and one over 30, for a total of 100mhz, the DSi has one @ 133 and the other, I don't know. Unless I or wikipedia got it wrong.

Also, the trailer doesn't exclusively show cut scenes, it has a lot of gameplay, but not in close up view as it tends to show the 4 players. It still looks better than something like Phantasy Star 0, at least visually.

"Nope, the actual gameplay looks exactly like other DS games. The stuff shown in this trailer is from cutscenes.




And the DSi isn't more powerful than the DS.

"

What do you mean the DSi is not more powerful than the DS?. That's BS...

DS / DSi comparisons
Screen size: DSi: 3.25 inches; DS lite: 3 inches
Processor: DSi: ARM 133MHz Processor; DS : 67MHz
RAM: DSi: 16MB; DS lite: 4MB Battery: DSi: 840 mAh (up to 14 hours on low brightness) DS lite 1000 mAh (up to 19 hours on low brightness) Size: (width - depth) DSi: 5.40×0.74 inches DS lite: 5.20×0.85 inches Stylus: DSi: 92mm DS lite: 87mm"

Not likely but it could potentially have enhanced graphics, for example the cut scene models used during gameplay for the DSi. But I doubt it, the game's been in development for some time, it probably is identical on both...

"Linkyshinks said:

What do you mean the DSi is not more powerful than the DS?. That's BS...

DS / DSi comparisons
Screen size: DSi: 3.25 inches; DS lite: 3 inches
Processor: DSi: ARM 133MHz Processor; DS : 67MHz
RAM: DSi: 16MB; DS lite: 4MB Battery: DSi: 840 mAh (up to 14 hours on low brightness) DS lite 1000 mAh (up to 19 hours on low brightness) Size: (width - depth) DSi: 5.40×0.74 inches DS lite: 5.20×0.85 inches Stylus: DSi: 92mm DS lite: 87mm"

Do you think that Kingdom Hearts will be released exclusively for DSi? Will it not play on a DS lite?!"

It's looking awesome...

Is that really the best name they could come up with? Not to be a jerk or anything, and I almost hate to say it, but that has got to be the dumbest name I've ever heard in my life. Seriously, wow. I can't even think of a book or movie with a worse name than this. I think this one really beats them all. And for such a big series to have a name like this... pretty shocking, if you ask me. So it's actually pronounced Kingdom Hearts Three Five Eight Days Over Two? Dude, how does one even respond to that? It almost puts me at a complete loss for words. This name is officially... retarded.

Anyway, I think my friend Vince said it best when he said "Why didn't they just call it Kingdom Hearts 179 Days?"

Linkyshinks... I already posted a thread about the new video... : (

Sorry mate.