Kingdom Hearts next game not “III”

by FakeTrout, filed in Uncategorized on Apr.03, 2007

Over the weekend the Square/Disney faithful wept openly as this pre-rendered battle sequence found its way to the internet. It takes a while to really get to a point where you can even tell its even supposed to be Kingdom Hearts, but it is. This video was hidden at the end of the recently released Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix on PS2 in Japan.

Or maybe not. Eurogamer reports Tetsuya Nomura, the director of the Kingdom Hearts II, says the next title will be a completely new series. Why change it up? Maybe its not an RPG? Maybe it deviates too far from the conventions of KH? Who knows.

Also up in the air is where this series will be released. The pre-rendered video is no clear indication of hardware. It could easily continue on the PS2, jump to PS3, or even go cross platform to Wii or Xbox 360. The only certainty is that when it comes out it will sell a bajillion copies like the last one.

Tags: Animation, Disney, Japan, PS2, Square-Enix

francisco

I would love it if gargoyles will appear on the sequel, wouldnt it be cool to play as sora in gargoyle form with Goliath. And you have Demona with her own army of heartless or nobodies. hahahah or yet, Demona with Heartless and Macbeth with Nobodies. hahahaa
http://adamrulz.com/ aDam

This game needs switching up. I loved both Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2 but 2 didn’t bring much new to the table gameplay wise. All it did was simplify the fighting mechanics and remove puzzle elements from the game making it more of a “walk straight, fight” type of game.

Looking forward to 3 and hoping I don’t need a PS3 to play it. What does this video mean? Who knows. The preview video for KH2 was so criptic even after playing the game it’s hard to see how it ties in.
joerammstein

I think all Nomura is saying is that Kingdom Hearts, Chain of Memories, and KHII are three parts of a story following the exploits of specific characters, and for now that story is concluded. This new series will simply introduce a new story and new characters.

I’m willing to bet the actual game structure will remain largely similar. But like aDam mentioned, hopefully it’ll be a lot less straightforward this time around.

Really though, in that trailer I see a heart in the sky, and I see Mickey (the King), not to mention the thousands of keyblades, but it’s not Kingdom Hearts? Guess I’ll just have to take his word for it.
http://powet.tv Zac Shipley

Well he could just mean it won’t be called “Kingdom Hearts” but will take place in the KH universe.
joerammstein

Regardless, I doubt we’ll be seeing this game before 2009:

KH — JP (March ’02) | US (September ’02)
KHII — JP (December ’05) | US (March ’06)
dayla

Wow, that was dimly lit. Maybe in this version you play as mickey and those two characters join you. Heh… I would hate being mickey.

I’d be happy if it left the second game with an end to the story. Everyone is back together again and they got a happy ending. Why say something else has come up and the same frickin’ kid has to play hero again.
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khfanatic

I hope kh3 or whatever its goin to be called will b for ps2 and that the ultimate weapon willb easier 2 make ;]

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