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The Game: Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days

The Console: The Nintendo DS

The Rating: 10/10

The Good: Awesome graphics, story, and characters. Expansive story and mission modes

The Bad: Camera( people say they are having trouble with this but I haven't discovered any problems)

The Review:

When you first load up up the game, you get the title screen with the oprtions to start story mode or mission mode. I jumped right into the story mode and created a new file, instantly after a great intro started to play using the same song from the Kingdom Hearts 2 intro. The intro displays and talks about all 13 members Organization 13, the main characters of the game. Afterwards, It goes to Day 255 and shows a cutscene between Roxas and Axel(to of the Organization members) talking about why the sun sets red. then aftermthat, it goes immediately back to Day 7, when another cutscene was shown, this time about a fourteenth person joining the Organization. Her name is Xion. The first couple of days give you tutorials on the basics like the command menu and limit breaks where as the rest of the missions can range from "Investigate the New World" to "Defeat Six Giant Heartless" each having there own difficulty levels. Grasping the controls are easy, like using the d-pad moving your character, x scrolling through the command menu, etc., which makes the game very much comparable to its Playstation2 counterpart. The gameplay is fantastic whether you are fighting a small heartless to a big boss. Now whe =n people first heard that this game would be based around a mission mode, people thought it would ruin the franchise. It didn't. As a matte rof fact, it made the game suit the Nintendo DS even better. It also incorporated a new customization system involving panels that could be used to change your characters weapons, items, abilities, and usable magics. That was a huge success too. The system is very simplistic, not have any guidelines like "two of the same color panel cannot touch" or "two of the same panel can't be in the same row or column." Instead of that, all you need to do is arrange the panels how you please to attain abilities and such! Now that I have explained all of the stuff I could think of that you really need to know about story mode, I will move on to mission mode.
For mission mode, just go back to the title screen and select the option mission mode. From here you can either select solo or multiplayer both of which requiring you to load a save file or load the guest file. In both modes of mission mode you can play as all 13 members of the Organization and equip all your panels from story mode to any of those characters. Starting with solo mission mode, you can play as any of those characters and play any missions you unlocked in story mode. In multiplayer mission mode, you can do all of the same things, except you can also play with and compete against up to three friends, making this form of mission mode one of the best.
After you clear the game, you unlock yet a nother mode on the title screen, theater mode. This mode allows you to watch over and over again all of the cinematic cutscenes that took place in the game.
That concludes my review for Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. Please check back for my next review!