London MCM Expo: Impressions from Dream Drop Distance

Discussion in 'Kingdom Hearts News & Updates' started by Mike, May 27, 2012.

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    If you haven't already heard; The London MCM Expo (gaming event) went live from May 25-27 2012. Today is the last day where fans can cosplay and play demo's from new releases such as Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance.

    Speaking of Kingdom Hearts 3D, the Official Nintendo Magazine's website has provided demo impressions.

    As you can probably imagine, I was literally bursting with excitement while waiting in the queue for Kingdom Hearts 3D as this is a game I've been waiting a long long time for. I'd also been avoiding any videos on the internet so that when I finally got to play the demo at MCM, this really would be the first time I got to see it.

    There were two demos to choose from. You could either play as Riku or Sora, Obviously, I picked Sora as he is the original keyblade hero. Then, the demo started and I was in the Country of the Musketeers. For people, who haven't actually seen this Disney rendition of the Three Musketeers, the musketeers are played by Donald Duck, Goofy and Mickey Mouse. A cutscene began and I sat back to enjoy the 3D. I was totally enthralled by what I saw - it does look absolutely beautiful.

    Then the fighting started and I had to take on tons of Nightmare Dream Eaters. Although Sora has new moves - he can now jump and glide - my prior Kingdom Hearts knowledge helped in these battles and I soon managed to work out the controls and take out the Dream Eaters. I also had some help from my Spirit Dream Eaters - a Meow Wow and a Necho Cat, both of whom are pretty cute!
    Upon defeating the Nightmare Dream Eaters, I had to defend Princess Minnie from a gigantic 'dinosaur' Dream Eater called a Boukun Rex. Turned out it was a boss!

    The game looks great. I really don't want to give too much away but I loved being able to play Kingdom Hearts 3DS at MCM Expo and I cannot wait till the game's release date on July 20th.

    Source: KHU & KH13

     
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Discussion in 'Kingdom Hearts News & Updates' started by Mike, May 27, 2012.

    1. greater_bloo
      greater_bloo
      Nice to see that people are liking the game!
      Can't wait until I get to play it myself on July 31st, or if that demo comes before the game.
      Though I do hate that they limit the number of times you can play a demo, I'm going to burn through that in no time at all. >_<
    2. StardustXtreme
      StardustXtreme
      I also played this at MCM Expo on Saturday and I chosen Riku since we played Sora so many times, no offence to any Sora fans of course, I shall now diverge on what I saw and played on the Demo of Riku with spoilers of course.

      The world was Country of the Musketeers as Riku approachs the Castle and notices Pete walking into the main entrance, curious, Riku follows him, it now changes to Gameplay and tutorials pop up, explaining the battle system and Flowmotion and Drop system, the commands are the same as 358/2 Days and Coded, Riku's assortment of Commands was Dark Splicer, Dark Forage, Curaga (or Cure?) and his keyblade wasn't Way to the Dawn sadly enough, we are also introduced to the Dream Eaters in battle and Riku had I believe, a Unicorn and a Bat, but silly me was too focused on the fighting ;chuckle;

      I enter the castle and another tuorial pops up of Links with another player to borrow a Dream Eater from another 3DS, the name of the player, funnily enough was named Vanille, I'd imagine the other 3DS's that had KH: DDD had different names, I also try to use the new mechinaces of the system, amzed at the idea of using the enviroment to your advantage kind of like Reaction Commands but without the obivous triangle pressing.

      I continue on, using the map in the lower screen and so far, opened two treasure chests contaning Mega Potions and see pete had ordered his goons to place wooden replicas of Mickey, Donald and Goofy in front of a stage prop ship and Riku hides, commenting how those three always are together and wooden crates fall these replicas and Pete moves on, leaving Riku to follow onwards.

      Sadly this is where I have to end it, I had a set time limit playing the demo and the attendee who had the booth said you can only reach up to the stage ship then that's it, happily, I was able to watch the cutscenes and if I remember, I was the 432nd person to play the Demo, there were seriously many people who wanted to play this game and I don't blame them for a second!

      I also played Theatrhythm Final Fantasy and it's what it says on the tin, you need to tap, press down or move the cursor on top screen with the pen on the bottom, it seems like most FF characters are there as I I saw there was Locke and Vivi in my team, sadly, I did not get far ;chuckles again; because rhythm or beat music games do not work for me due to my hearing unfortnately, trust me, when I had Birth by Sleep, I couldn't get past Ventus's Disney Town plot and shamefully, had to ask for assistance.

      All in all, I'm happy to have gotten the chance to experience these two games and look forward to Dream Drop Distance offical release and enjoy the story, the characters and of course the new battle system.