June 22nd, 2012

Kingdom Hearts 3D demo is now on the eShop

46 Comments

Nintendo of America has confirmed via Nintendo Direct that the demo for Kingdom Hearts 3D is now available for download via the eShop. The game itself will be available in July.

  • Jon

    I want to play it so bad but I’m just gna hold off until my mark of mastery edition =)

    • Kyrect

      It has no spoilers, just gameplay pretty much, but do whatever.

    • Soeroah

      When you say ‘no spoilers’ do you mean there are no cutscenes at all, and it’s just gameplay?

      I wanna try avoiding any exposure to cutscenes full stop, plot-important or not.

    • Zack

      there’s a small cutscene with sora and neku but nothing that reveals anything. It’s not story-related at all, they just meet eachother or whatever.

    • miiworld2

      Not story-related?
      I guess you haven’t seen the full cutscenes in the Japanese version.

    • Symbol de Au

      There’s a cutscene but it wasn’t a spoiler. If anything it’s an anti-spoiler.

  • Porkins

    I started screaming like a little girl when i saw it on the eshop :)

    • 009soulmaster

      i screamed when i saw Neku. god i want a fucking the world ends with you sequel so badly to me its like the persona series.

    • http://twitter.com/DonSerrot Don Serrot

      I’m reminded how much I love TWEWY every time I see the screenshots for this game. We really need a sequel. Heck, I’d even settle for a remastered 3D edition of the original! BRB, Gotta listen to “Lullaby For You” again.

    • miiworld2

      I screamed when I heard Neku.

      No, scratch that, I KICKED and SCREAMED.

  • Kevin Jo

    Rather have the Heroes of Ruin

    • Jon

      That’s true I already know I’m getting kh but idk about heroes of ruin. I would have preferred that just because I’m still undecided on it

    • Roxas

      Fuck you Kevin Jo

  • Michael

    This game is so amazing, it makes me wanna cry. Everything from the sheer awesome gameplay alone, or the gorgeous graphics alone, or the intricate story alone, or the fantastic easter eggs from other games alone…and combined is something truly remarkable: The best video game series EVER.

    • Michael

      By the way, guess I should say I’m playing the game demo right now. And it’s brilliant!

    • AlCoCeR

      ^^^ Same here, I’m playing it right now and it’s amazing. BTW this is going to be my first KH game so by playing the demo I lost my KH virginity and it felt sooooooooooo good LOL.

    • critical

      Kingdom Hearts is a hardcore game, casual gamers will not like it. I thought BBS is complicated, with the amount of moves and power available… oh man this DDD adds even more things to jazz up the action.

      In this game, you can have like a hundred ways to kill your enemies. In the game when you are linking to all the characters, it becomes even more complex.

  • http://nintendovn.com mm

    o yed

  • Big E

    The 3-D visuals look fantastic. Gameplay was very smooth to boot…Fun, but short. Oh, and Sora is WAY overpowered in the demo.

    • PoorSerahFarron

      Heh heh. You make me feel inferior. I actually had trouble with that monkey dude at the end.

    • Big E

      This upcoming comment will make you feel worse: The Freeflow actions were easy to master….to me anyway.

  • http://www.gamesradar.com GameManiac

    This is slightly unrelated, but I managed to obtain the 52-piece soundtrack for this game.

    I’m actually listening through it, and it’s just incredible. They add plenty of new original pieces, and even add in existing pieces and evolve them.

    • Big E

      Like L’Oscurita dell’Ignot? I loved the remix more than the original. That organ….nngh.

  • Ty

    Played the demo, and I loved what I saw- was too short though. It controls pretty much like Birth By Sleep- the only downside is that because of the 3DS’s layout (circle pad is above the D-pad rather than below), it’s hard to change the battle command while moving (the PSP has it’s analog nub below the D-pad). Wonder if the circle pad pro changes that? It does have two extra shoulder buttons.

  • http://sadface.com HappyFaceInTheMirror

    Wow! Great demo, AMAZING graphics, tight controls.
    This will likely be my favorite game I’ve played in a long while once it releases in a month.
    <3 this demo!

  • J. Severe

    Downloaded it. Love it! :D

  • Roxic

    FINALLY!

  • http://youtube.com/revolutionizethegame RevolutionizeTheGame

    Have already played it and posted on YouTube the day it came out. the link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_ei2w40qTE

  • Khfan360

    Man why did I have to forget my 3ds at my grandma’s house this and she lives a state away and I’m busy so I can’t go right now this truely Sucks :-(

    • PoorSerahFarron

      Trust me, you’re not missing out on ANYTHING!! Demo was horrible. Much to short and it didn’t show axel or roxas (my two fav characters!)

    • unbeknownst

      well @poorserahfarron, its a demo, and because there is so much story in the game, they cant spoil any of it, and that is why it was short

  • Khfan360

    Shout outs to my homiletic bill who hooked me and introduced me to kingdom hearts shouts to B,H my homie:-)

  • Khfan360

    Sorry auto spell check :)

  • miiworld2

    The flowmotion feature makes parkour look like kindergarten naptime. It’s THAT good.

    • PoorSerahFarron

      I loved holding the “b” button the whole time! You go so fast!!!!

  • http://www.comic-ray.deviantart.com Jordh

    It is also aviable in Europe, as well as the demo for Theathrythm Final Fantasy.

  • http://anthony-lomeli.co.cc Lomeli12

    …no words…just pure……happiness…

  • AceOfBlades247

    I wanted to play as Riku… :(

    • It’s an iTouch, not a uTouch

      Same here.

  • It’s an iTouch, not a uTouch

    I downloaded it as soon as I heard about it! The demo is awesome, and I love Traverse Town’s music (although I wish it would play the original theme more prominently)

  • su

    I want to see Sora’s failing the test with my own eyes.

    • DKoji

      Damn man don’t you even mark your spoilers?

    • Samurai

      FUCK YOU i hate spoilers i hope you die -_-… ( sorry for the rage )

  • http://mayker.tumblr.com Mayker

    Yeah this demo was so amazing, the first thing I thought was “I’ve gotta blog about this.” I stayed up an extra hour putting together a first impressions on my tumblr.

    Jumping off walls, all the crazy neon colors, and it still has the stuff that makes Kingdom Hearts king. Plus, the 3DS is the most powerful thing that the series has ever been on, so the graphics are amazing!

    My favorite in the series was 358/2 Days, so I hope this tops it.

  • PoorSerahFarron

    Man, this was the lamest demo EVER!! Just showed gameplay, nothing else. One small cutscene, but I hate that person who has a waist like a girl anyways (his name was Neku or something?). And he talks weird. and so does sora. oh, what has the NA version of this game come to? KH 3 better be good to make up for this atrocity.

    • Soeroah

      Isn’t gameplay the whole point of a demo?

      Go look up the trailers if you want to see cutscenes. With two 9 minute trailers, there’s a good 10 minutes of cutscenes full of spoilers. I much prefer gameplay demos as they don’t spoil the story.

      The only complain I have is that is was too short.