Kingdom Hearts IV will reportedly feature much better visuals, including improved lighting and general detail, whenever it actually comes out. Reported by Japanese outlet Famitsu (via VGC), the game's announcement trailer was running in Unreal Engine 4. However, the title will be upgraded to the newly released Unreal Engine 5 by the time of launch.
"The full game will be made with Unreal Engine 5, and the quality of lighting and detail will be several levels higher," the website said following the Kingdom Hearts 20th-anniversary event. Famitsu goes on to say development is being led by the Kingdom Hearts III team at Square Enix's Osaka studio, with co-director Yasushi Yasue leading.
The outlet also seems to suggest Kingdom Hearts IV won't be part of any summer gaming events in June, although this seems to be more speculation on its behalf instead of a confirmed detail from Square Enix. E3 2022, at least, has been cancelled in its entirety.
Are you happy to hear Kingdom Hearts IV will be upgraded visually in time for release? Let us know in the comments below.
[source famitsu.com, via videogameschronicle.com]
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Why are they wasting time on an unreal 4 trailer then? Is it a very simple process to migrate a project from 4 to 5?
I thought KH3 looked incredible on UE4 so I'm very excited to see what the team can do with UE5. Even in this very early concept footage, the imagery is very striking on UE4.
@Apfelschteiner Epic mentioned after announcing UE5 that dev's could get started on UE4 and port later. Sounds good in theory, not sure if it's that easy in practice.
Three years from now: Unreal 5 is not up to the vision the developers have for KH4 so the game will be delayed several years as we transfer development to Unreal 6. 😂
This is great news, even though I thought the trailer looked amazing anyway.
Kingdom hearts 4 already looks amazing on unreal engine 4.so unreal engine 5 is definitely going to make it look better.word up son
Epic sure got it made at least with their engine and popular games (let's not mention their store 🙂). They have an engine that everyone is falling over to use, even studios that have their own in house engine are putting theirs on the side to use Epic's .
Daaaaang, I thought the trailer WAS in UE5. This game is gonna look Uber crisp
Ok with me... toss in all the UE5 bells and whistles. Good times!
This is going to look amazing. Something we can all agree on is that KH3 had great graphics.
I hope UE5 enables 60fps gameplay on PS5, though. Kingdom Hearts feels much better in 60fps.
The game footage on the trailer already looked good in UE4 so imagine what they can make it look like in UE5
SE really needs to focus less on graphics and more on gameplay, storytelling, writing, a rich and dense world design, and greater player freedom. They are too obsessed with graphics which is negatively impacting their games.
I hope it is similar to Kingdom Hearts 2.
The best gameplay of the series and overall favourite in the series
Exciting times to be a Kingdom Hearts fan, makes me wanna go back and replay thru the entire series again!
@Mylo you're right. All you do is open the UE4 project in UE5 engine and it prompts you to update the entire file so yes 1 click and it's done.
Naturally, I watched the DF video on it, and it seems to be an alpha stage still. I hope with Unreal's release schedule this allows devs more input and allows them to customise the engine more.
I really hope as well it's not another generation of 30FPS games
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