Birth By Sleep: Gaming Union's Best PSP Game Of TGS 2009

When our parent site Gaming Union went to TGS 2009 and got their hands on a vast amount of new games in production, they decided to award those with more merit, for standing out above the competition.

While there are quite a lot of PSP games to choose from Gaming Union narrowed it down to their final three choices; Final Fantasy Agito XIII, Valkyria Chronicles 2, and of course Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep.

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep was their chosen PSP Game of TGS 2009, and was highly commended for giving players the chance to experience much more of the backstory to Kingdom Hearts and for its improved gameplay and multiplayer components.

TGS 2009: Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep Hands-on

Tokyo Game Show 2009 played host to a magnitude of PSP games. Outside Microsoft's own booth, there seemed to be a PSP demo kiosk at every turn. Square Enix in-particular knew that Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep for the PSP would be particularly popular among press and show-goers, and devoted rows and rows of tethered PSPs behind a winding waiting-line to showcasing the title. Luckily on the press days the lines were very short, and Gaming Union managed to pick up Square Enix's demo of Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep not once, not twice, but thrice.

Three times might sound like a bit overkill, but the demo of Birth by Sleep actually consisted of three different stories to play through, as well as a multiplayer battle mode. Birth by Sleep's three lead characters have one story-based demo each, Ven goes to the Castle of Dreams, Terra goes to Enchanted Dominion, and Aqua takes on the Dwarf Woodlands. The game's presentation was extremely polished, with graphics on-par with Kingdom Hearts 2. Clothing and hair swayed while walking, magic sparkled and wowed, with superb animation to back it all up.

Check out the full story for our complete impressions.

Kingdom Hearts Union: Episode 2

Lauren takes the reins as Kingdom Hearts Union host, and is joined by Fozzie, Marina, and Kyle. The KH Union crew hit up tons of Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep news, including Neverland making it into the game, the game being over 50 hours long, the Japanese website opening, and a possible delay!

Lauren also has an exciting announcement regarding the next Kingdom Hearts voice actor to be interviewed on Kingdom hearts Union!

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Neverland to Feature in Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep

The latest issue of V-Jump Magazine has confirmed that Neverland will be one of the worlds featuring in Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep. Also showing that Peter Pan will be in the game alongside the Lost Boys and Tinkerbell.

Although there isn't a great deal of information divulged as of yet about how it will feature in the game or what to expect, there were some images of a new multiplayer mode as well.

Birth By Sleep will be coming out on the PSP in December in Japan, while no North American or European release date has been been announced. We'll have some hands-on impressions from Tokyo Game Show soon.

Kingdom Hearts At Tokyo Game Show 2009

With Tokyo Game Show 2009 on the horizon, Square Enix recently divulged what would be appearing during the prestigious Japanese event.

Revealing that both Kingdom Hearts Coded, their mobile game, and Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, for the Sony PlayStation Portable, would feature at the show.

Kingdom Hearts Coded will only be showcasing a trailer, however, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep will be featuring not only a trailer, but a playable demo of the game as well.

TGS 2009 will run from the 24th to the 27th of September. So stay tuned for more coverage from TGS 2009 as time draws closer.