KINGDOM HEARTS RE:CODED GAMEPLAY TRAILER

Re:coded is a perfectly paced action game that borrows its character-building mechanics from disparate sources in the Square-Enix canon. Rather than just have Sora’s statistics (health, strength, etc.) grow steadily as he fights the Heartless and familiar Disney antagonists, the game has players fill a colourful circuit board with stat tiles found during play. Each tile represents an a character attribute—life, elemental resistance—and filling in the grid lets you unlock new abilities, like a higher jump or access to more battle commands.

It combines a wide range of gameplay styles. Which is a feature we used in creating this trailer. We took our inspiration from the design of the game itself and recreated elements from it to use in the foreground and background.

One of the main issues in creating any trailer for a DS game in that the game play footage you capture cannot be blown up to fit the conventional 16x9 screen. Therefore the footage sits in the centre of frame with a lot of space to fill in around it. The fun part for us is filling that space with something that enhances the feel of the game.