Square unveiled a new website for their upcoming game, Kingdom Hearts 528/2 Days. Now, I can't read moon-speak but just hearing the music and thinking about the prospect of playing a new Kingdom Hearts on the DS is enough to make my pants damp.

When I first heard about it Kingdom Hearts, I HATED the idea of Final Fantasy-esque characters mingling with the likes of Disney. Because that's how fucking hard core I was. I thought that it was the worst idea to come out of the company (This was before I knew about Tom Sawyer). Against my blessing, my little brother picked up the game and after spending a few days with it, he talked it up to being the next best thing ever, ever. After several days of listening to my little brother rave about this... "thing"... I finally, I gave way, and fell head first into the game.

And I LOVED every. frickin'. minute. I even loved the Gummi Ship! YEAH, EVEN THE FRICKIN GUMMI SHIP WAS AWESOME!


Oh, I could spend hours with you...


Sadly, my PS2 died and I never got the chance to pick up and play Kingdom Hearts II (I did watch the last cut-scene on youtube). But, I did pick up Chain of Memories for the GBA and I have to say it's one of my favorite GBA games of all time. (Although, I did miss the trips in my Gummi Ship.)

Now, Square Enix has been very short on details about the game since they announced it was in development a year ago. Thanks to the website, we know the game is now in the hands of H.A.N.D., the team that developed Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales. The game will follow the story of Roxas and the mysterious Organization XIII.


iFlamboyant Hair styles? Check. > 1 Zipper per article of Clothing? Check. Must be a Sqeenix

One cool feature I've heard about is that the game will feature 4-player Coop multiplayer, following a story separate from the single player campaign. I'm not sure if this means it will make use of the DS's Wifi capabilities or remain local, but I'll keep my hopes up.

The game is set to come out in Japan in 2008, with no release window for the US or Europe, however, the devs have said they plan to release the game outside of Japan.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to my favorite new RPG, Final Fantasy IV which I'm sure I'll have something to say about later.

-Via [NWR]

[NOTE: The title is a typo. I mistyped "updates", and found the result clever, so I kept it.]