When are we expecting news? (EDIT: MAY 14 / 15 2025, 1,131 days after the first trailer)

[Luminary]

Turns out we’re getting cutlery before any actual game news.

The KH cutlery’s been out for a while. I know because I went to make a joke a while back about how we’d get that before ML. But figured I’d better look it up to check it wasn’t already an actual thing. Lo and behold.

 

[Keybearer Ruth]

So, I just want to talk about this very briefly. This summer gamefest I'm sort of feeling like square enix could show kingdom hearts 4. Why? Because investors probably want to see more of it to you know make sure they can keep their money in it. But also I doubt they'd show Ff7 remake part 3 before another kingdom hearts 4 trailer.

 

[celebi]

So, I just want to talk about this very briefly. This summer gamefest I'm sort of feeling like square enix could show kingdom hearts 4. Why? Because investors probably want to see more of it to you know make sure they can keep their money in it. But also I doubt they'd show Ff7 remake part 3 before another kingdom hearts 4 trailer.

While we're on that copium, I hope they also reveal that the release date for KH IV is winter 2025.

 

[Chaser]

It's more than likely that there'll be a FFVII dedicated live stream in September to coincide with Ever Crisis's second anniversary (and it'd be like the first one where they announced Rebirth and Crisis Core Reunion)

But I'd love for Summer Game Fest to have FFVII-3 and KH4 (and I guess Missing-Link) and be a repeat of 2013 E3 where we got FFXV and KH3 reveals back to back.

 

[Luminary]

We’re basically in an exact repeat of this time last year. Even down to the Linking Hearts thing. All the indicators for something happening then also apply this year.

• Linking Hearts lottery event starting May 23rd (the kuji events are usually timed with releases or major series milestones; this is the first time they’ve repeated a specific one)
• Various merch releasing in May/June including the Sora Form-ism
• SE has no new AAA games announced yet for FY2026
• Their annual shareholder meeting is in June so they probably want to show something significant.
• They could repeat the Ever Crisis/Rebirth re-reveal trailers at SGF.

I think they could potentially start ML pre-reg sometime in May and then have a launch trailer for it alongside a KH4 trailer at SGF.

If not, I’ll see y'all here same time next year.

 

[2 quid is good]

Nomura will likely only retire when he feels he’s told the stories he wants to tell. Or if he feels like he can’t tell these stories at SE anymore.

He’d probably take a reduced role (not directing and just sticking to design and story) and work on more creative pursuits like fashion.

SPOCKANORT IS BACK THE DROUGHT IS GONNA END GUYS

 

[Squood!]

So, I just want to talk about this very briefly. This summer gamefest I'm sort of feeling like square enix could show kingdom hearts 4. Why? Because investors probably want to see more of it to you know make sure they can keep their money in it. But also I doubt they'd show Ff7 remake part 3 before another kingdom hearts 4 trailer.

I think it's safe to say there's absolutely zero point in predicting or guessing what Square will do.

7R part 3 is apparently entering english VA work so at this point though it really is more likely that 7R will take the spotlight once again.

 

[Oracle Spockanort]

My copium right now is FF7R3 and NieR are up next as far as the big titles. David Gallagher said he hasn't been in for KH on one of his streams recently and he's a pretty forthright dude. In comparison, Cody Christian has been in to record for Cloud on something FF7 related.

Not that it means anything. SE and Disney could decide tomorrow it is finally time and drop info. Or they can wait until SGF. Or they can wait for Destination D23. Or they could wait 2 more years. Things aren't the same as they were before.

But I am hoping for KH4. I will always hope for KH4.

(I can live without ML haha)

At the very least release a PS5/Xbox/Switch 2 port of Integrum Masterpiece with MoM. Do we need more ports? No. But they have yet to do any for the current gen beyond EGS/Steam so it seems a bit overdue.

SPOCKANORT IS BACK THE DROUGHT IS GONNA END GUYS

I hope I can be a positive omen as the Oracle xD

 

[HakaishinChampa]

My spotify just started playing Sanctuary as I'm reading this thread, news incoming in the next 13 Years :O

 

[MATGSY]

Go fork yourself, Square,

 

[Squood!]

Just funny since someone on the KH discord is absolutely certain KH4 will come before 7R part 3

Now it's starting to feel like 7R Part 3 will come before even ML.

And the excuse that ML is ambitious ain't gonna work for much longer.

 

[Chaser]

oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god

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If this survey is legit, these are really weird af options. What series is 9/1/2001? And Frasier? Lisa Simpson?

 

[Luminary]

March’s also had Kingdom Hearts in general on it.

 

[Launchpad]

this is a heaping helping of nothing. if anything, it's bad news when your favorite franchise shows up in the fortnite survey because it most likely means there is nothing in the works as of this date, and they still need to gauge interest. i have my suspicions their survey is automatically generated, too, since tons of characters on the list are already present in the game, lolol

 

[Chaser]

All it tells my delusion is Sora has now made it in, Goofy is ready to hyuck people up, and Epic Games are seeing how much duck leg transplants cost to get Donald to be the same height as everyone else.

 

[Phoenix]

I maintain that, despite allowing it for some properties, there's no way in hell Disney lets Sora hold a gun in a shooty game, not in this unrestricted context.

New Disney is freer with their IPs about this, but I still think it's a bridge too far.

 

[Launchpad]

I maintain that, despite allowing it for some properties, there's no way in hell Disney lets Sora hold a gun in a shooty game, not in this unrestricted context.

New Disney is freer with their IPs about this, but I still think it's a bridge too far.

Sora has been shot at by guns in like, half of the games he's appeared in. He also holds guns in KH3 and Smash Ultimate. If Elastigirl can be cocking pistols then Sora can definitely slide with the holo twister assault rifle.

The majority of Sora's fans are adults, and Disney has allowed all of their other PG13 characters shoot guns... There's not really any guard rails around Sora other than maybe Nomura himself not wanting to see it

 

[Phoenix]

Sora has been shot at by guns in like, half of the games he's appeared in. He also holds guns in KH3 and Smash Ultimate. If Elastigirl can be cocking pistols then Sora can definitely slide with the holo twister assault rifle.

The majority of Sora's fans are adults, and Disney has allowed all of their other PG13 characters shoot guns... There's not really any guard rails around Sora other than maybe Nomura himself not wanting to see it

Which is why I mentioned an unrestricted context. Fake laser guns in a fake laser fight crafted by Nomura? Sure. A game shared with actual guns? I don't think so. Not because of a veto per se, but because KH isn't big enough for most companies to want to do the actual work to convince the relevant people.

This is not an absolute statement. Guns, real guns, have appeared in KH. Notably, PotC with Will pointing a gun to his head (censored in the version Disney mostly cares about). But that was a retelling of a movie Disney made. And like you said, Smash, with characters like Snake. But again, that's far more contained. Sora isn't really getting headshotted by Snake, that game doesn't work like that.

I mentioned in my list that Disney has played with some properties (namely Pixar and some villains). I think that's partly Disney being laxer in general, and Disney wanting to do specific advertisements. I genuinely believe that Sora is considered closer to the Mickey side of the equation than the Incredibles side of the equation. Not in terms of importance (KH is barely acknowledged by Disney in the best of times), but in terms of what Disney will allow in terms of branding.

Just go look at the crossover wiki page for KH. You'll see a bunch of SE mobile games, Smash... and nothing. KH doesn't get crossovered. Occasionally a Disney show will have a cute one second nod, but that's it.

Like, genuinely, why would Sora, a character from a dormant IP that won't even acknowledge its own anniversary, appear in Fortnite? Who's doing that legwork? Who in Epic cares about Kingdom Hearts so much that they'll co-ordinate with the SE and Disney legal teams and do something it took Sakurai years to do, for a series played by (as you point out) aging millennials, and not actual Fortnite players?

Like, maybe tomorrow rolls around and I'll be proven wrong. But as someone who always wanted Sora in Opera Omnia (a full blown Square Enix game), I'd be extremely surprised.

 

[Perkilator]

In the absence of actual official news, at least we have this to tide us over once it releases.

 

[SuperNova]

If Sora gets into Fortnite before KH4 all it's going to do is give Gamersjoint more ammo for why Fortnite totally means KH4 is coming sooner rather than later and why.