How to Play 358/2 Days

[Takushi Rena]

KH: 358/2 Days - How does it play?*-*Kingdom Hearts Insider

Neogaf posted up an image from Square-Enix of the controls for 358/2 Days. And, yes, the bottom screen has some use. xD;

You can see it over here! It looks like they took how you play KH on a console and put it on a DS. Sounds niftyyyyy. [AND THERE'S GLIDE TOO. YAYYYY!]

The commands are:
L: Move camera left
R: Move camera right
Press L or R twice: camera resets behind player
L+R: Lockon
D-pad: control character
X: scroll through command list (attack, magic, item)
A: perform command
B: Jump, double tap for double jump, press with direction after jumping once to air slide
Y: Reflect Guard, press with direction for dodge roll, after jumping press with direction to glide
Start: pause

And, the characters you can play as in the demo are Roxas, Axel, Saix, and Xigbar.[/size]

[O a t h keeper]

Ooh, great find! :D
The controls seem pretty simple. A lot like KH + KHII.
I'm getting really excited for this game! ^__^

[TheMuffinMan]

Well, today is a very good day for news.

See, I don't get why Nomura was making a fuss about the lack of buttons on the PSP and DS, it seems he figured out quick shortcuts to bypass a few missing buttons without much work

[monkeybutt]

KH: 358/2 Days - How does it play?*-*Kingdom Hearts Insider

[Chevalier Sombre]

Today is a fabulous day. New BBS scans, and now the control scheme? Way awesome. I agree with TMM, by the way. Nomura and his team are a capable bunch.

[Vexond]

The controls seem pretty easy to remember.

[king_mickey rule]

Sorry for the thread that I made(it was the same as this one). I was making my thread while this one was posted so I couldn't see that someone else had said this but what's reflect guard???

[TheMuffinMan]

It's that ability you could get in KH1 and KH2 where you put up your Keyblade in a Guard stance and you block any attack that hits you

[monkeybutt]

Ya, it looks like unlike KH2, abilities like dodge roll and gaurd will be extremely important. <3

[king_mickey rule]

Isn't that just called Guard?

[O a t h keeper]

Any KH game with Glide abd Dodge Roll is destined to be amazing. xD

[gavinh2007]

How does the DS have less controls then a PS2 Controller. They have 4 buttons for the controls, a D-Pad, and the L and R buttons, I don't think we need to use L2 and R2 so really they just have to do the same as they did before with the controls

[monkeybutt]

It's the analouge stick thats the problem. Remember, in KH2 you moved the analouge stick to move, the other to change the camera, and the directional pad to navigate menues. This time you use the pad to move, the l and r to move the camera, and one button to navigate menus

[gavinh2007]

Oh ok, I forgot about the Analog Stick there lol sorry, I'm dead daft

[Gildragon]

Handhelds aslo handle differently which is another thing to take into conisderation. Is it going to be relativley easy to make the commands. Remeber teh shape of the controller is different too. We might not be able to get it who we want it