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Several new Dissidia: Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep and Kingdom Hearts: Coded screenshots have surfaced on the internet. We’ve seen the majority of Dissidia, 358/2 Days and Birth By Sleep screenshots before, however all of the Kingdom Hearts: Coded screenshots are new.

Two of the Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep screenshots are of conversations during cutscenes, however the other two seem to show some kind of in game mini-game. It’s hard to tell what’s happening in the mini-game, but it looks as if Terra has to kill one enemy after another within a certain time limit. The ‘Time Limit‘ ring could be part of the battle system, but it’s more likely to be part of a mini-game.

The Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days screenshots don’t really provide us with anything new, they’re just high quality screenshots of those shown in Shonen Jump earlier this week.

As I said earlier, all of the Kingdom Hearts: Coded screenshots are new. From what I can make out, it looks as if Coded’s in game battle system will use a mobile phone’s arrow and letter keys to create combos. Whilst in a battle, Kingdom Hearts: Coded seems to use a 3D engine; however from the looks of things Coded’s field play is going to be 2D - reminiscent to titles such as Crash Bandicoot.

All of the Dissidia: Final Fantasy screenshots have been seen before, just not in as high quality. One of the more interesting screenshots features the recently announced Onion Knight.

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This month’s issue of Shonen Jump featured a two page spread on the upcoming Nintendo DS title, Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days.

The scan is broken down into several sections, called “scenes“. As far as I can make out, the scenes are the order that the events took place in the playable demo that was available at Square Enix’s recent DKΣ3713 Private Party. The first and second scenes show several new screenshots of DiZ and Namine inside Twilight Town’s Mansion; as well as DiZ and Namine - the fourteenth member of Organization XIII is in the room. The majority of the fourteenth member of Organization XIII’s face is covered, though feedback from the DKΣ3713 Party claims that her name is Xion (Shion); and that she has red hair similar to Kairi’s.

The third scene shows new screenshots of a blind-folded Riku holding Sora’s Keyblade inside Beast’s Castle, with a member of Organization XIII keeled over on the floor. Though it’s not confirmed, I believe that the member on the floor is Xion; mainly because her hood remains up. Also, in other screenshots Roxas is partied with the ‘hooded member‘; so the chances are that it is Xion.

The fourth scene shows several screenshots, some old and some new of Axel and Roxas in Twilight Town. It’s hard to make out, but it looks as if Axel is about to fight Riku in one of the screenshots. Though it’s hard to tell because of the quality.

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IGN recently posted a video summary of Square Enix’s recent DKΣ3713 Private Party that took place last weekend. The video doesn’t tell us anything that we didn’t already know, however it does show some game play footage of the playable Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days demo; so it’s definitely worth checking out!

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With Square Enix’s DKΣ3713 Private Party that took place last weekend, it really comes as no surprise that Japanese gaming magazine; Famitsu have something to say about the titles featured at the event.

This month’s issue of Famitsu featured a two page spread on Dissidia: Final Fantasy, a two page spread on Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, and a three page spread on Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep. Due to our lack of knowledge when it comes to the Japanese langauge, we don’t actually know if the magazine scans contain any new information; however the scans do contain some new images so it’s worth checking out.

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The above photo was snapped at Square Enix’s DKΣ3713 Private Party that took place last weekend. The photo contains three concept box arts for Dissidia: Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days and Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep.