New English Birth by Sleep screenshots

[candyfloss]

I doubt this is of interest to the lucky bunch of you who've played the Japanese version already, but Gamespot just updated with some new English screenshots for Birth by Sleep. So far they've been pretty sparse, so any news is better than no news!



It also gives brief character descriptions and mention of some of the gameplay mechanics: D-links and shotlocks.

I don't know about anyone else, but aaaaah I'm so excited, especially with E3 in two weeks time! Thoughts? Incoherent squeeing? :D Will there be (dare I say it) a new Kingdom Hearts title announced by Nomura while he's there?

Comments

[tyger]

....aaaaah English font so weeeeiiirdddd~~ *flails*


.....don't mind me I'm always like this. ¬¬;

[candyfloss]

Haha, I actually thought the same thing. We still have months to go, so it might still be a working font they'll change later? *shrug*

[tyger]

HOPEFULLY. >: It's kind of ugly. Buuuut probably not, and it'll likely not be as distracting in-game. I hope, anyway.

[candyfloss]

I guess they wanted something that would stand out and would be easy to read even as small text on a PSP screen. Function over form and all.

[tyger]

I guess... =/

[celestinenox]

::FLAILS:: WHY MUST THIS BE FOR THE PSP WHEN I DO NOT HAVE ONE AND CANNOT AFFORD ONE?!?!? D: D: D:

SO. DAMN. PRETTY.

[candyfloss]

Better get saving? :D

[celestinenox]

If only this were possible. D: Before I got paid last night, I had $17 in my bank account.

[candyfloss]

Aww, that sucks. I've had my PSP for years since I got it as a Christmas present and never had much use for it until recently, and now it's getting all these awesome releases like BbS at once. @_@

[celestinenox]

I COULD wait for Christmas, but then it'll be between that or a netbook laptop. And 1) I don't know how to choooooose but I suspect the netbook laptop is more important there and 2) I really don't even know if I'm going to be allowed to ask for an expensive gift this year considering that my birthday present was... uh... extremely expensive.

[kunenk]

Ooooh! I'm really curious about the mechanics.

[candyfloss]

From what I've been able to tell from videos, D-links are sort of like a combination of summons and KHII's limits. And shotlocks are an ability that gives you a kind of targeting scope on the screen, with a timer, and you have to pass it over the enemies you want to hit in time to attack them.

Aaand if that explanation made no sense, there's a new gameplay video on the North American BbS site that shows it in action. :)