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Developer: Square Enix PDD
Publisher: Square Enix
Designer: Tetsuya Nomura (game director)
Tai Yasue (co-director)
Shinji Hashimoto (executive producer)
Patrick Chen (game producer)
Yoichi Yoshimoto (co-producer)
Writer: Masaru Oka
Composer: Yoko Shimomura
Tsuyoshi Sekito
Takeharu Ishimoto
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Platform: PlayStation Portable

Release date: JP January 9, 2010
NA TBA
Genre: Action role-playing game
Mode: Single-player, Multiplayer
Rating: CERO: A
ESRB: RP
Media: Universal Media Disc
System requirements: Official Firmware Update 6.20 (Comes with UMD Disc)


Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (Kingudamu Hātsu Bāsu bai Surīpu) is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation Portable. The game was released in Japan on January 9, 2010, planned for a Summer 2010 release in the US. Square has planned releases in other territories. Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep was also released with a limited edition PSP-3000 as a bundle in Japan featuring designs from the Kingdom Hearts series on its back. Nomura has referred to the game as "Episode 0" saying that the game is on the same scale and plays as big an importance as the console titles in the series, Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II.

The game is a prequel to the first Kingdom Hearts game for the PlayStation 2, taking place ten years before the original, and features many previously unseen characters and unexplained plot elements from the original Kingdom Hearts series. The game centers on the journeys of Terra, Aqua, and Ventus, characters briefly featured in Kingdom Hearts II, in their quest to locate the missing Master Xehanort. The game also utilizes an overhauled battle system different from previous games in the series with new elements such as the Command Board, Command System and Dimensional-Links added in.

Setting

Birth by Sleep is a prequel to the first Kingdom Hearts game, taking place ten years prior. Like the other games in the series, the player progresses through a collection of various worlds, based on various locales from the Disney animated features canon: Dwarf Woodlands from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; Enchanted Dominion from Sleeping Beauty; Castle of Dreams from Cinderella; Olympus Coliseum from Hercules; Deep Space from Lilo & Stitch; Neverland from Peter Pan (featuring for the first time most of the main island setting new to the series rather than Captain Hook's pirate ship and Big Ben from the first game and Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days); and Mysterious Tower from Fantasia. The game also features various new worlds specially created for the series by Square Enix such as the Land of Departure and Radiant Garden. Disney Town, which is the town that surrounds the castle grounds of Disney Castle, serves as the game's minigame world. Worlds such as Destiny Islands and Castle Oblivion also appear in the form of cutscenes, while the 100 Acre Wood from the Winnie the Pooh franchise, which had appeared in most other games of the series, only appears as a Command Board in Birth by Sleep.

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