The second title, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (what the fuck is with these titles?) is going to appear on the PSP. Birth of Sleep will be a prequel to the series, occurring before the events of Kingdom Hearts and will center around earlier Keyblade masters; namely Xehanort. Fans of the series will know Xehanort as the fake Ansem who was the main villain (at least his alternate forms were) in both PS2 games.

The third and final game, Kingdom Hearts: Coded is going to be on the mobile platform. There’s not as much info about this title as there are the first two, but from what is known it seems to take place parallel to the PS2 games. It will feature Sora as the main character and be a basic dungeon crawler.

While I’m a fan of the Kingdom Hearts series, I’m not really too excited two more hand-held titles for the series (don’t expect Coded to ever be released here). Though I’m interested in playing 358/2 Days, I really want to find out the history of Xehanort, but of course it’s on the hand-held I don’t have. The chances of me picking up a PSP in the future, even with some titles I want to play, is very slim. If they did something like the Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix + release with the two titles included in Kingdom Hearts III, that would make me very happy. Of course, there’s no guarentee that the game would come out in America should they do that.

Noriyuki Iwadare – Gyakuten Saiban – Courtroom Suite Gyakuten Saiban Orchestra Album ~Gyakuten Saiban Meets Orchestra~ From the Gyakuten Saiban series (Phoenix Wright in America), this orchestral version of the soundtrack is amazing to say the least. The music takes on a whole new persona with the full-bodied sound that only an orchestra can provide. This song in particular becomes an epic masterpiece by itself. You can just imagine yourself in a courtroom as the drama unfolds before your eyes.

Yoshihiro Arita With His Band, Seiko – The Song of Epona Mario & Zelda Big Band Live CD This interpretation of the Epona theme from Ocarina of Time does such a good job of recreating the feel of the song. The performance throws the song heavily into the Country genre, but that’s where it belongs to begin with. Even those who aren’t fans of the style might enjoy this track.

London Symphony Orchestra – LILIA Symphonic Suite Falcom Neo Classic From Studios in London City Whether you’ve played a Ys game or have even heard of Falcom is not important here. What is important is that the music to their games is generally in the higher end of the spectrum, and this piece helps prove that. This 10+ minute suite is beautiful to say the least. It’s almost hard to imagine that it came from a game, but it did.