Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded: Gameplay Trailer
A gameplay trailer for Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded (2 min 3 sec), built around real captured DS gameplay footage framed by animated foreground and background elements recreated from the game's own visual design.
The Brief
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 a character attribute — life, elemental resistance — and filling in the grid lets players unlock new abilities, like a higher jump or access to more battle commands. It combines a wide range of gameplay styles, a feature Cumi used in creating this trailer, taking inspiration from the design of the game itself and recreating elements from it for the foreground and background.
What Cumi Created
One of the main issues in creating any trailer for a DS game is that the gameplay footage captured cannot be blown up to fit a conventional 16:9 screen, so the footage sits in the centre of frame with a lot of space to fill in around it — the fun part being filling that space with something that enhances the feel of the game.
The Film
Filling the space around the game.
Credits
- Animation
- Cumi
- Client
- Square Enix