When are we expecting news?

[Sakuraba Neku]

I'm not feeling this saga will have three numbered titles.
Im expecting to be KH4 - Verum Rex - KH5

A KH6 should be out of question. Games take too much time to make nowadays, Nomura doesn't have much time left before he retires and the story was already dragged enough.

There was a time many people, including me, thought KH3 would be the last game.

 

[Phoenix]

I'm not feeling this saga will have three numbered titles.
Im expecting to be KH4 - Verum Rex - KH5

A KH6 should be out of question. Games take too much time to make nowadays, Nomura doesn't have much time left before he retires and the story was already dragged enough.

There was a time many people, including me, thought KH3 would be the last game.

(frankly, I remember not really being convinced that KH3 would actually ever come out)

 

[MATGSY]

I'm not feeling this saga will have three numbered titles.
Im expecting to be KH4 - Verum Rex - KH5

A KH6 should be out of question. Games take too much time to make nowadays, Nomura doesn't have much time left before he retires and the story was already dragged enough.

There was a time many people, including me, thought KH3 would be the last game.

I'm of the opinion they should be making multiple main numbered titles at once. Like they should already be working on KH5 so it doesn't take forever after 4.

 

[LucemFerto]

Honestly, I could see a world where Nomura is like Hayao Miyazaki and always comes back for "one" more game after he "retired".

 

[Launchpad]

I'm of the opinion they should be making multiple main numbered titles at once. Like they should already be working on KH5 so it doesn't take forever after 4.

Reusing KH4"s gameplay framework should lighten the load for KH5. The team was still polishing KH3 all the way up until the DLC, which had some pretty substantial combat changes with startup and endlag, and also cancel windows to improve the viability of certain moves.

All of this to say, I think ever since the release of KH3, this team has been getting more serious about KH's pedigree as a quality action game and not just a serviceable medium to deliver story and Disney backdrops. KH4 has the potential to be a perfected template that'd make more sense to use twice.

 

[Chaser]

Close enough, welcome back Kingdom Hearts 3 Remind

 

[MATGSY]

Yo, Zora!

 

[Darkspawn]

Close enough, welcome back Kingdom Hearts 3 Remind

Is he gonna fight Sora from Ghost of Tsushima in the DLC?

 

[Squood!]

I definitely understand where you're coming from! It sucks that SE or Disney don't really do anything to occupy fans while the games aren't coming out. There are no side-games anymore, but there's also no "supplementary material"? A tv-show for streaming, new books or novels (that aren't game-to-novel adaptations) that flesh out some of the gaps in the series, there's just not really any stuff like that. The fandom is also really trying hard to keep itself alive because there's not really anyone on the official KH social media accounts that gives us any sort of content. Like I'm looking at how well Avatar Studios is doing at keeping the brand alive and I'm in awe.

It's hard to have a social media presence like Sonic cuz then people will just think KH is being self-aware meta crap now, it's hard to have supplementary material cuz it'll just turn off more people who still think you need ten billion things to follow the story.


Literally the only easy thing is to just give info about the upcoming games but people hated how KH3's marketing was handled so for all we know they're too scared to even do that.

And another re-release won't do shit no matter how many times people who apparently only have a Switch/Switch 2 beg for a port. The Steam port had a big blowout but even then it feels like it didn't do much to inject blood into the series' veins.

Ironically the one thing that would actually pump some shit into the fandom's veins is leaks but we're in a fandom of people too morally conscious to handle those so the discussion ends almost as soon as it starts.

If SE just ignores the anniversary cuz it doesn't end with a 0 or a 5 and makes us wait for longer I will gladly eat up any legit leaks.

 

[Dandelion]

Ironically the one thing that would actually pump some shit into the fandom's veins is leaks but we're in a fandom of people too morally conscious to handle those so the discussion ends almost as soon as it starts.

The only reason the leaks stop is because they fear SE's fury. No matter how much they backpedal, the truth is that they didn't care about the moral ambiguity of it until they realized that Square could pull access from the series in many ways in the future for them specifically.

 

[Launchpad]

a real leakmaster posts shit anonymously for the love of the game. unfortunately some are too addicted to attention and numbers to even think for more than a second about how posting leaks might affect their future opportunities. Imagine that. Being unable to think, at all.

 

[Megavoltage]

I'm not on Twitter or Bluesky or wherever leakers post. I usually dislike leakers but the famine's now gone on for so long I'll even eat bullshit! Have they posted ANYTHING recently? What's the latest 'news'? I don't care if it's not plausible and if s/he's known for being a liar. Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.

 

[Chaser]

Have they posted ANYTHING recently? What's the latest 'news'?

The only thing of late was the Missing-Link beta prototype being datamined and then deleted.

I think all that really came out of that were the names of the two watching from across the road, Hugin and Munin (these names are based on the names of Odin's birds in mythology Huginn and Muninn)

 

[Darkspawn]

In the datamined character names, it also listed Mike and Sulley as NPCs. So it pretty much confirms Monstropolis is back, which was also previously in the leak with the Keyblade and world logos.

 

[HakaishinChampa]

In the datamined character names, it also listed Mike and Sulley as NPCs. So it pretty much confirms Monstropolis is back, which was also previously in the leak with the Keyblade and world logos.

makes sense because they can reuse KH3 assets

 

[Darkspawn]

This is gonna be y’all when none of my predictions pan out for yet another year.

 

[xenosaga]

Anniversary week.
Not expecting anything but we might get something for ML if we are lucky.

 

[Chaser]

Weren't we meant to get a Missing-Link artwork for something last year and that never happened? Would be nice to get that on Saturday at the very least but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[MemoryClub]

(frankly, I remember not really being convinced that KH3 would actually ever come out)

after KH2 a KH3 was never even really a thought on my mind for the series, even after getting 358 I just assumed we were getting some gap fillers but in my mind the story was over and I had already been off the forums. happy I was dragged back in though and now im back on forums (I've been lurking here for ages but this is my first message hi!)

Weren't we meant to get a Missing-Link artwork for something last year and that never happened? Would be nice to get that on Saturday at the very least but I'm not holding my breath.

not sure if i missed it in a previous post couldn't find it but what's happening Saturday?
Edit: just realized you’re probably talking about KH2 20th

 

[Chaser]

not sure if i missed it in a previous post couldn't find it but what's happening Saturday?
Edit: just realized you’re probably talking about KH2 20th

Whoops, sorry for the confusion! I got the anniversary date wrong.... this is what the wait is doing to me Square Enix, I'm forgetting international holidays