Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (subtitle read as "Three Five Eight Days Over Two") is an action role-playing video game developed by h.a.n.d. and Square Enix (in collaboration with Disney Interactive Studios) for the Nintendo DS. It is the fifth installment in the Kingdom Hearts series, and takes place near the end of the first game, continuing parallel to Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. The game was released worldwide in 2009. The story is told from the perspective of Roxas, following his daily life within Organization XIII and his relationship with fellow Organization member Axel; it also introduces a fourteenth member, Xion, who becomes friends with the former two.
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days was directed by Tetsuya Nomura and Tomohiro Hasegawa. Nomura decided to develop a game for the Nintendo DS, and once a system had been chosen, decided upon Roxas as the protagonist. The development team wanted to use gameplay similar to previous Kingdom Hearts games but could not due to the insufficient number of buttons the DS had. Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days received generally positive response, with praise for the gameplay and graphics but criticisms of its storyline and controls. A soundtrack, various light novels, and a manga series based on the game were released in Japan.
The game was dedicated to Wayne Allwine, the longtime English voice of Mickey Mouse. Allwine died on May 18, 2009, 12 days before the game's release in Japan. This is also the final game to feature his performance as Mickey, though his performance was archived and reused in remastered ports of older games released after his death.
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