Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is a unique experience on DS. For fans of the work of Tetsuya Nomura is a must-have title in the collection; and for those that couldn't appreciate 358/2 Days can be a good option to start.

Given the hardware limitations, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is quite a bit of a miracle. In spite of a few technical flaws and some repetitive quests this new installment in the franchise is a brilliant game, deep and well done, filled with charming backgrounds and characters. However, its major strength is also a weakness: the main plot will look meaningless to whoever isn't familiar with the series. But to fans of Kingdom Hearts this is an absolutely must-have.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is another epic video game by Square Enix and Disney and brings informative insight into Roxas' story and Organization XII. Every Kingdom Hearts fan needs to have it. If you're not a fan, but still interested, get yourself a copy of one of the older games and start playing the epic adventure.

Indeed, there are plenty of fun missions and challenging boss battles, but things get repetitive fast. [Oct 2009, p.100]

While it doesn't really add a great deal to the overall story of the series and recycles a lot of content from the previous games, what you'll find is a very enjoyable experience, chocked full of content that will keep you glued to your DS for a long while.

A soulless entry that's packed with fan service but lacks appeal for newcomers. [Dec 2009, p.63]

What little the game does add to the saga is forgotten by everyone at the end. Disney fans will be most disappointed of all: Disney's characters barely put in an appearance, and Disney's worlds are just window-dressing for a killzone.

Es un magnífico juego, es mi juego favorito, no doy mi opinión, porque darla aqui seria hacer una biblia cosa que nadie leerá. No es un juego que sea muy bueno a nivel gameplay o de misiones, pero tiene por lo menos para mi la mejor historia de kh. Demasiado triste que siempre me hara llora. Suelo sacarme unas lágrimas siempre que juego. En la 2 cuando a sora se le sale una lágrima cuando se despide de seyfer y los otros en la estación de tren. Solo los verdaderos fan sabran porque sora suelta esa lágrima. De verdad kh 358 days es hermoso, y espero que le hagan un remake algun dia, asi el mundo sabra lo hermoso que es este juego.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is a lousy game with just as lousy of a title. This handheld spin-off is an overlong, repetitive slog with an uninteresting story focused on the blandest and most obnoxious group of characters from the Kingdom Hearts series -- Organization XIII.

30/100 358/2 Days is most definitely the worst entry in the Kingdom Hearts series thus far, with painfully repetitive gameplay due to an extremely lacking combat system with very little depth, enemies with decent variety but repetitive, dull attack patterns and some abysmally boring missions. There are a handful of interesting ideas like making Magic and Abilities acquisition more of a resource management matter, giving the gameplay a somewhat strategic feel, but even that is implemented in such a way that it often becomes more of a chore than anything else. The story is enveloped in a charmingly melancholic, somber mood that elevates the beautifully poignant emotional struggle of the main characters, but the drama is severely held back by the tragedy not hitting as hard as it could've due to the friendship uniting the main characters feeling somewhat forced and underdeveloped.