Kingdom Hearts 358/2 days review. - Help.com

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 days review.

This is a new thing that I think I’m going to be doing on help.com. I’m going to try my best to review games, new or old, bad or good about every month or so. So here it is, the first review.

Intro:
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is a game that is based on the bad guy side of the Kingdom Hearts story, Orginization XIII. Basically you play as the new orginization’s member, Roxas, who finds himself lost in his life with the orginization, but finding friendship between an older member (Axel) and a brand new member (Xion, pronounced Shion).
Basically all of them are Nobodies, which means that they don’t have a heart, and therefore can’t feel emotion. This is where the Kingdom Heartts comes in. You fight nemies called Heartless that when destroyed by the keyblade (Xion and Roxas’ main weapon) release hearts which get transferred into the Kingdom Hearts. Once the Kingdom Hearts is finished, the Nobodies (supposedly) will be allowed to have hearts of their own.
Now that the main story is cleared up, lets get on with the review.

Base:
358/2 days is an amazing, emotional game for all. Because the Orginization members can’t feel emotion, they’re basing their feelings on how they remember them from before they were in the Orginization. This really shows and adds to the games unknown feel, but at the same time, it’s a bit odd when the 3 friends are laughing or crying. It kind of makes it feel as if they’re doing the exactly what they said they COULDN’T do, and that hurts the story of the game quite a bit.

Features:
358/2 days also has a new feature never before seen in the kingdom hearts series, coop multiplayer. Multiplayer is extremeley fun and friendly for if you have a few friends that you want to kill some time with, however there isn’t any wi-fi play, which means that in order to experience the fun of multiplayer, you have to have at least one more friend that has the same game, and they won’t always meet your standards.
The only real problem that I found with the multiplayer is that the game slows down a bit when you get 3 or more players, but this isn’t unexpected because it is only the DS, and it’s already an amazing game in terms of graphics as it is.

graphics:
Speaking of graphics, they’re amazing for the DS. The artwork and animations are outstanding, and there are only a couple of places where this hurts the game in terms of lag or slow-down. There are also voice acted, movie like cutscenes, which are outstandingly beautiful, but it’s sad to see that there are so few of them. The majority of the game’s cutscenes are text with game graphics, when I felt that there really could’ve been more of the movie cutscenes that I love so much.

sound:
The sounds are amazing, especially for the DS. Music ripped right out of the original games sounds high quality and brings back memories. Great, nostalgic memories. The worlds are also ripped right out of the original games. You’ll find yourself familiar with places such as Twilight Town and Halloween Town.
With stars such as Jesse McCartney and Christopher Lee, the voice acting is outstanding. It really is just like watching a movie when those cutscenes come along.

Overall:
The biggest problem with the game is what happens at the end. Don’t worry, no spoilers here, but after you beat the game, there’s nothing to do in the main story anymore. You’re just left in Twilight Town with nothing to do, no one to talk to, not even anyone to fight. You can go ahead and fight the final boss again, but this isn’t something that I want to do at all.
There is a challenges mode where you’ll be given an objective such as find all of the treasure chests in level ___, or defeat all of the giant heartless in level ____, but these get a bit boring, and ther really are some missions that I just don’t want to replay. You can also replay missions without the challenges and collect Munny (the currency in the game) or Hearts to shop for upgrades with, but the same still applies with me and repeating missions.
The game also repeats A LOT. You’ll find yourself with the same objectivve over and over again, just in different worlds. I’m so sick of trying to collect hearts in Wonderland, or perform recon in the Beast’s Castle, or defeat the Phantomtail in Neverland. GAH! but this only lasts for the first hundred days, which really is more like 40 missions.

Final verdict:
358/2 days is a die hard Kingdom Hearts fan’s game, which I am not…..I’ve actually never played the originals in my life. But the game is revealing enough that you’ll understand what’s going on. Either way, it’s an amazing game, with amazing graphics and sound (I especially love the music) and will keep you going for well over 30 hours without the challenges and multiplayer.
Final score: 8.5/10

I really hope you enjoyed my first review, and they will get better. I’m no writer, but this is something that I’ve wanted to do for a really long time. Thanks! and let me know what you think :)

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