Jump Festa 2009 Coverage - UPDATED

[bittermeat]

Jump Festa 2009 begins today, Japan local time 9:00 AM on December 20 2008. That's less than 2 hours from now. While we often don't receive detailed reports until after the event has been going on for a few hours, here's what we have to look forward to.

Each game will have a playable demo and featured trailer:

• Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (For Nintendo DS)
• Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (For PlayStation Portable)
• Kingdom Hearts Coded (For Docomo P-01a)
• Kingdom Hearts Mobile (For Docomo phones)

As usual, I'll keep updating this post as news comes in. Thanks for your patience!

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358/2 Days Trailer Impression from The Light in Chaos & FF&KH Online:

BGM: Passion -after the battle-

Xion: Who the heck am I...?

Destiny Island.
Roxas is standing on the shore and picks up a shell.
Roxas: Xion...

Twilight Town.
In the pod room Sora sleeps.
Namine: If it's connected to another memory, surely she can't endure it
Diz: She?

Beast's Castle.
It looks like it immediately follows the DKS3713 scene.
Riku defeats Xion, she is fallen over, the keyblade that left her hand disappears.
Xion: You say this keyblade is a fake...? Don't say such a selfish thing!
Xion moves to grab the abandoned keyblade.
Xion: Hyaa--!
Riku avoids her attack and deals a blow to her side.
Xion: Augh...
Riku: Here's some friendly advice, get away from those guy's base immediately
Riku: If you do, you can be together with those two people
Riku starts to walk away.

Destiny Islands.
Riku and Xion are talking beside the paopu tree.
Xion: Do you hate me for taking away your friends?
Riku: No... But I'm sad
Xion: I'm sorry, but I can't disappear now

The King and Riku (as Ansem) appear in the forest.
Riku puts on the blindfold and regains his original appearance.

Destiny Island.
Axel, Roxas, and Xion are together by the paopu tree.
Xion: Do I not exist?
Axel: What are you going to do, Xion?
Xion: I... I want to be together with the two of you
Roxas: Well, then come back
Xion: But... I can't return as it is now
Xion: How can two people be the same?

Twilight Town forest outskirts.
Xion is being detained by Axel.
Axel: Xion! ... What are you doing?
Xion: I'm... I'm going back to where I belong
Axel: At first, I thought that was the best thing to do too...
Axel: But... I couldn't accept that. There had to be something else.

I assume these lines were in this scene, but the blogger wasn't specific where.

Axel: Even if I become a dusk, it's fine.
Xion: At any rate, I'll still be erased.

Twilight Town.
Xion: Should I call you Roxas?
Roxas: (Blogger can't remember, but something to the gist of "It's nice to meet you Xion.")

The World That Never Was.
Saix: Your worthless friendship or the annihilation of Roxas
Saix: Which one is more important to you?

Beast's Castle.
Xaldin (So it seems): The master turned into a monster?
(It's probably part of the mission in Beast's Castle)

Blogger forgot where.
Xion finds a seashell.
Xion: This, it was put here for me.
She puts the shell to her ear.
Xion: I can hear it... Yeah, I can hear the sound of the waves.

Twilight Town.
Roxas: Xion can use the keyblade too.

White Room.
Axel: There's nothing here.
Xion: Lies! My secret is here

???
Roxas: If Xion and I are special Nobodies, (blogger forgot)

???
Roxas and Xemnas are talking.
Roxas: What's wrong with ___?*
Xemnas: It's an important Organization member, I'm going to take a rest now.

*Blogger just lists ??? for the person

???
Xion is sitting with her knee pulled up.
Xion: What should I do...Riku?

???
Axel (So it seems): Recently it's Xion who has escaped.

Castle Oblivion (Destiny Island world)
Roxas: Huh?
Zexion: Surely you knew this would happen
Riku: Why would I know that!?
Riku is standing behind Roxas.
It's very similar to the scene in Chain of memories, except that Roxas is present.

Twilight Town, the clocktower.
Axel and Roxas are waiting for Xion.
Axel plops himself down beside Roxas.
Roxas: Still... It's getting late
After Roxas mutters, Axel stands up.

Twilight Town, open tram space.
Roxas is on his own and Xion turns the keyblade on him, then Axel enters.
Roxas: Wait!
Xion points the keyblade toward him.
Roxas: !!
As they are about to fight, a chakram flies out and Axel appears.
Then Axel and Xion begin fighting.
Roxas: Cut it out!
Xion: Hya--! Ha--!
She fights back against Axel, they don't hear Roxas's voice at all.
By the way, Axel fights in complete silence.
Roxas looks to the sky.
Roxas: Stop it!
Also, Roxas does not have his keyblade.

-Battle scenes-
A mission where Xion is wearing her hood is shown.
The first appearance of multiplayer mode with Demyx and Luxord is also shown.
Olympus Coliseum.
As Roxas fights on his own, Sora seems to bear the damage he takes too.
On the top screen Roxas fighting Heartless and this HP display is shown.
On the bottom screen, Sora is shown without the HP display and Heartless.

Twilight Town clocktower.
Roxas and Xion are there, she is wearing her hood.
Xion stands up.
Roxas: Huh?
Xion removes her hood, Roxas looks surprised.
Xion: My power, it's going to be fulfilled very soon. Like a vessel overflowing with water, now my memory is full of memories of Roxas. To Roxas... How do I appear now?

The title appears, coming this Spring.

Alloc from Please put PlayArts into my coffin blog reportedly played Kingdom Hearts Mobile. It's played holding the phone horizontally, given the phone type. After playing, they were given Christmas postcards and a clear file.

As much as it may disappoint you, the Square Enix Official Jump Festa 2009 site now confirms 358/2 Days has been delayed to Spring 2009.

Kanae-san from the Light in Chaos blog has played the 358/2 Days multiplayer demo. She wanted to play as Demyx, but another player stole him. So she played as Luxord. He reportedly fights by scattering around cards which gives a wide attack range. He has high magic stats but low mobility, also doesn't jump very high. She came in first.

Air's World blog is reporting that Aqua was playable in the Birth by Sleep demo, though they are not completely familiar with the Kingdom Hearts series so this is tentative.

From Independent blog, Xion is the main part of the 358/2 Days trailer and "Passion" was the theme song for it.*

*(The blogger was so vague, I'm just assuming this is what they are implying. Their note literally said "Xion is main in 358/2 Days and 'passion' flowed/streamed")

Final Eclipse blogger Leno is reporting that Demyx and Luxord are now playable options in the mulitplayer 358/2 Days demo.

The 358/2 Days demo is the same three missions from previous events. FF&KH Online blogger Kanae-san played the demo with Xigbar and reports the content is the same. She especially noticed the Heartless whose attacks froze Roxas' feet for a moment, preventing the player from attacking. She's going to play the Mobile demo next.

1. Axel in Twilight Town
2. Xaldin in Beast's Castle
3. Xigbar in Halloween Town

Another shot of the Christmas cards:



KH Sephiroth, Riku and King Mickey Play Arts figures, and a Kingdom Hearts Mobile plush:



New merchandise on a mannequin display at the Square Enix Goods stand:



New 358/2 Days illustration posted at the event:



The Kingdom Hearts Christmas Cards given away at the closed theater:



Outside the 358/2 Days demo station featuring Roxas statue:

[Faris]

i was wondering when this began. excellent cant wait for some solid info etc.

[Audo]

I WANT MAVT! AND ONLY MAVT!

[.Oji]

[Sahvergnugen]

Woohoo! Thanks Bittermeat! I hope we get a more specific date on Days (although it'll be for Japan)

Nice, Oji

[darkheart709]

now, let it begin

[Cissy]

Ah, this day just gets better and better.

I can't wait. <3

[Byronic Hero]

Originally Posted by .Oji

My sentiments exactly. I didn't even know it started today. Well that just made my day a lot better.

[Shadowlight]

What a great couple of days this has been.

Great work Bittermeat!

:D

[Sahvergnugen]

So, 1 hour left :D!

[Boukyaku]

If I'm correct, isn't this Days' last event before it's released in Japan? If so, there might be a chance for a 'big' revelation in the trailer... Not getting my hopes up or anything, but it'd be nice.
Most likely a release date will be announced, at the very least.

Is this a weekend-long event, or just one day?

Thanks for posting all this, Bittermeats. =) Greatly appreciated.

[Smile]

*crosses fingers for Unbirth info, and all but nothing about Days since if they'll reveal more they'll be spoiling*

[Radon]

Originally Posted by Boukyaku

If I'm correct, isn't this Days' last event before it's released in Japan? If so, there might be a chance for a 'big' revelation in the trailer... Not getting my hopes up or anything, but it'd be nice.
Most likely a release date will be announced, at the very least.

Is this a weekend-long event, or just one day?

Thanks for posting all this, Bittermeats. =) Greatly appreciated.

wow i never thought about that. now im hoping for some major revelations

[Boukyaku]

Originally Posted by joc1994

wow i never thought about that. now im hoping for some major revelations

Bear in mind, when I say 'revelation', I don't mean 'huge spoiler'. (Not like they'd do that in a trailer anyways.) More of 'cliffhanger to make you want to buy the game even more', or something to that extent. Something to keep us in suspense.

And if we don't see more on the BBS front about DS soon, I'll be surprised...

[Smile]

I think we're already in suspense enough as it is XD