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Square Enix has heard your groans about the lack of updates on Kingdom Hearts 4, and it’s moved to rectify them by releasing new screenshots of the upcoming PS5 game.
The images, which have been deployed as a kind of collage on Instagram, show an updated Sora model, combat against the Heartless, and what appears to be a playable Mickey Mouse.
Check out the screenshots below:
“We’re currently working hard on Kingdom Hearts 4 and will continue pouring ourselves into the game’s development,” a statement reads. “We’re dedicated to making this an experience that lives up to your expectations!”
It continues: “We’ve seen how excited you are, and we are truly grateful from the bottom of our hearts. We are equally excited and can’t wait to share more about Kingdom Hearts 4 when the time is right. Until then, we appreciate your patience.”
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The character models and environments look really nice, and it’s good to know progress is being made. It sounds like we may have to wait a little longer for a new trailer, however.
Original Story: It’s been over six years since Kingdom Hearts 3, and it doesn’t really feel like we’re any closer to Kingdom Hearts 4, the latest instalment in Square Enix’s unapologetically anime Disney mash-up.
And for those of you who were hoping GPS-based mobile Missing-Link would fill the gaping chasm in your heart, prepare to be consumed by all-encompassing darkness: the Japanese publisher has pulled the plug.
This is all part of a wider effort from the organisation to clean up its output and release bigger titles quicker. After working on this project for over three years, the company’s finally decided enough is enough.
“Although we worked hard on developing and adjusting the game in the hope that it would be enjoyed by lots of players, we determined that it would be difficult for us to offer a service that players would find satisfactory over a long period of time, leading us to the decision to cancel development,” a statement reads.
“The Kingdom Hearts series will continue. We are hard at work on Kingdom Hearts 4, and hope you’ll continue to support the series as you keep an eye out for further updates.”
There has, unfortunately, been no word on when Kingdom Hearts 4 will come out, but we’re not expecting it until at least 2027 at this point.
[source kingdomhearts.com, via gematsu.com]
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Can't wait for KH4 in 2030.
But seriously, I think Square announced KH4 way, way too early.
For the best. The series was swamped in multiple releases across multiple platforms. The focus is appreciated.
The crushing part of the mobile game being canceled is that yoko shimomura just posted about it and hoping the music she made for it is heard somehow. And I hope so too, please add it to kh4 or something
I’m just hoping (and praying) KH4 comes out THIS gen.
@Nem Yeah I definitely think this is squares opportunity to focus the series with a nice linear sequence of main entries only. I just couldn't bring myself to play all of the handheld entries before 3, and that game referenced EVRYTHING.
3 was a bit of a mess story-wise and I'm usually quite forgiving when it comes to JRPG plotlines.
Not sad in the slightest. I want to follow all the lore of Kingdom Hearts, and a mobile-exclusive game would make it a lot more difficult to me. I can wait for KH4.
@Deadlyblack As usual with every dev that announces a game too early. Lets announce it at the start of its development and then never tell you anything about it for the next 4 years.
Let's hope it's not as bad as KH 3 ! That game was a crushing disappointment
Besides a new KH4 trailer, this was the best KH news I could have woken up to this morning. Good riddance!
@Deadlyblack Still not as bad as Elder Scrolls 6...
I’m just not sure I can keep going with this series. The plot is so convoluted and KH3 basically dropped Final Fantasy completely, which was a huge part of the novelty of the original games. As much as I enjoy the gameplay, it just hasn’t “grown” enough for me. The lore expands like a giant balloon every entry but the themes and general plot beats stay very similar. Sometimes it feels like Nomura is a genius and other times it feels like he is just plagiarizing himself constantly and just picking words like “darkness” and “heart” out of a hat when writing the stories.
Long story short, I love the series but unless this game is radically different, particularly in its goals as a narrative, I’m probably out.
You watch kingdom hearts 4 and elder scrolls 6 will be released in the same year I’m thinking both will be next gen or the very end of this gen and be released on ps5 and ps6. Though I would love to play it now there are a lot of other games so don’t mind the wait. Just hope there’s final fantasy characters in this one more and not the lack of like in 3
more Final Fantasy less Disney!
At this point, I expect it to be a PS6 cross-gen title, the same goes for DQ XII. SE is and remains a bunch of incompetent jerks.
If we get the 3rd part of the remake before kh4 and dq12 I'm gonna be pissed
@Fartingale Then why not just play Final Fantasy?
Years of crumbs that slowly put me off the direction the series is going in, followed by an inevitably disappointing game. Welcome back Kingdom Hearts III!
Updated with new screenshots.
Speak of the devil.
I really truly hope we get a new Kingdom Hearts IV trailer at Summer Game Fest.
If not then, there's always Tokyo Game Show, The Game Awards, or Jump Festa.
@KidRyan Fingers crossed!!!
Fine, I will accept your table scraps, Square.
@Veritas7Ax Maybe after working on Final Fantasy VII Re.... he might add back Final Fantasy characters or forget which game he's working on.
I wonder if it's the same team working on KH4 and FFVII R3?
I got the feeling this game will release next year.
Star Wars world please 🙏
I never finished KH3 sadly, I need to get back to it
Been playing through The Story So Far since the pandemic, atm playing Dream Drop Distance, in the Notre Dame world, and the gameplay is starting to grow on me. But the franchise really should find a way to knot everything together in a satisfactory way and start anew someway, cause damn is the story a mess even if you try to follow it ... After playing for 400h, really want to dig into KH3 but still got to get through Chapter 2.8
For some reason I decided I was going to platinum all of the Kingdom Hearts games. I got up to that one where you play as the three people who aren't Sora before I got bored and gave up, vowing, of course, that I'd get back to it soon. I think that was like seven years ago. I wonder if I'll ever do it.
Quite funny actually. As a long time KH fan, KH3 actually killed my interest in the series. So I couldn't care less
Nothing's coming out next year because of GTA6.
Can expect this to come out in 2027 at best
Kingdom Hearts needs a complete story reset into something more cohesive. Fingers crossed.
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