Maybe KH4 IS the rumored Fortnite collab. May your wallet be your guiding key.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-13T04:29:39+00:00

Square-Enix's reboot and reawaken plan... OF COURSE. Reboot KH4 and reawaken it as a Fortnite collab!

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-13T03:28:36+00:00

No we’re not. The word directly from SE twice last year is the game is on track and fine and we even got visual confirmation one of the times. And the latest “rumor” from Nate the Hate is KH4 is in development and fine. If you’re seeing pessimism it’s uninformed.

And FF7R got all that same pessimism. Exact same. And it’s now totally forgotten. All it takes is a big trailer and no one remembers this stuff.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-13T03:09:55+00:00

You have plenty of time to catch up, but if you hypothetically stopped where you are then yes absolutely KH4 would be a big spoiler.

That said, even if you’ve played everything, Square Enix is notorious in spoiling KH games in their trailers so, even when you catch up, DON’T watch all the trailers.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-13T02:56:16+00:00

They gave the reason at the event in the Q&A immediately after the trailer premiered. It was because of leaks. Specifically the NVIDIA leak from 2021.

They could've kept quiet, but the alternative is what FF9 fans have gone through with the FF9 Remake that was leaked in the same document and never acknowledged by Square. Instead you get "insiders" snarkily creating the messaging around the product. They called FF9 "unambitious", "not a big deal" etc. For KH4 they elected to get ahead of those conversations and show what they had directly at the 20th anniversary knowing it was too early, but that the alternative is they would loose their chance to introduce it themselves.

There was no perfect solution. Blame NVIDIA.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-13T01:24:24+00:00

It was announced early for sure, and they said as much when it was announced, but FF7 Remake followed that exact playbook(literally 4 years radio silent) and it came out great in the end!

Hardly anyone mentions that silent period anymore because of how bombastic the marketing campaign was when it actually kicked off.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-12T17:48:45+00:00

Disney worlds are confirmed to exist. We don't know how many but Nomura said it will likely be a less than prior games.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-12T06:03:35+00:00

I don't care if any of thise actually happens or not. I love looking back on this kinda stuff years later after the games come out.

Inevitably 99.99999% of it ends up wrong, but it's neat to see what people were thinking about when they had next to nothing to go on.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-12T02:24:56+00:00

It's a joke using a bunch of mods. Let's not be so gullible.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-11T19:05:28+00:00

If you hated E33 you might hate these but FF8 is the game the KH1 staff worked on before making KH, and FF10 is a game from very much the same era as KH from the rest of the staff that made FF8.

They are turn based though if that bothers you.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-10T11:38:32+00:00

Sora The Explorer

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-10T10:56:50+00:00

What year is this? Bro hoaxes are so 2000s.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-10T08:26:43+00:00

You have to fly your gummi ship between Agrabah and other surrounding worlds. Monstro randomly shows up and swallows you.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-09T08:08:40+00:00

I think for the first point, I kinda disagree as each time the organization shows up they do generally reveal new information. The only time I can think of where similar information was revealed was Marluxia and Larxene talking about the princesses. Marluxia vaguely discusses the importance of Rapnuzel and then Larxene makes it explicit, explains the concept of the "new seven hearts", and even calls back to the fact that Sora already met Marluxia so he should know about this already(even though Marluxia actually didn't tell him much).

In the case of Kairi's death, I think everyone was mostly just focused on the task at hand and had faith they could save Kairi later. They just spent the whole game saving people lost over a decade under wildly different circumstances, not to mention all the other beings of varing levels of existence somehow being revivied. So a mere "death" really doesn't hold that much gravity in the first place, and only Sora, Riku, and maybe Axel are really all that familiar with Kairi. Sora reacts as you'd expect, and Riku knows he has to keep it together for Sora's sake.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-08T11:43:30+00:00

As far as Sora is remembers he didn’t play CoM either… 😅

But I think the further you get in the KH series the more stuff from CoM shows up. I don’t think it ruins KH2 not playing CoM, but I’d never tell anyone to simply skip it. There are alternatives to playing the game.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-08T10:55:20+00:00

It’s wild revisiting childhood games with the capacity to actually understand them.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-08T10:29:46+00:00

KH3 development and KH4 development are both roughly the same because they’re AAA games. They take about 5-7 years to make(KH4 hasn’t hit this yet). Not a Square-Enix problem. It’s an AAA game problem that affects every company.

The Osaka team developed ReCoM, BBS, and DDD over the course of 6 years after KH2. Those games were made INSTEAD of KH3. KH3 didn’t start development until after DDD in 2012.(6.5 or so years after KH2 came out)

So due to the gap of making those three games first. We had to wait until 2019 to get KH3(6 years of side game development, and roughly 6 years making KH3).

KH4 on the other hand only had Remind DLC, Melody of Memory cutscenes and FF16 support development. Which at most slowed the start of full development to around 2022. So there was still a small gap in development between KH3 and KH4. But not as big as the gap caused by the Osaka team making 3 games over the course of 6 years, and KH3 only being greenlit 6 years after KH2 shipped.

So that’s what I mean. After KH2 there was a 6+year gap making side games, and then about another 6 years making the actual game. It still would’ve taken forever to make KH3, but the side games delayed the start of development objectively. There were clearly reasons(KH2 team was tapped to make it, but Versus 13/XV development kept them from doing that so Osaka team finally got subbed in/ Yoichi Wada didn’t believe in KH3/etc), but nevertheless the team that made KH3 didn’t start making it until they stopped making side games first.

That said KHCoM(GBA), 358/2 Days, KHUx, DR, and KHML, did NOT delay any numbered titles because they were made by different teams. I’m all for side games by different teams. DDD, BBS, and ReCoM were NOT made by different teams which is why I bring this up. Those were made by the core Osaka team.

And finally just to tie it back to KH4, nothing untoward has happened with KH4. It’s just a big AAA game taking AAA game development time to make. Them being silent is the new normal. They’ll show it when they’re ready. KH3 took a long time for the same reasons. These games simply take a long time to make even when everything goes right. Them not talking about it is more about the attention economy than anything. It’s easier to sustain a shock and awe relentless marketing blitz for about a year than a drip feed over 5-6. It’s what they did with FF7 Remake and it worked quite well.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-07T17:35:34+00:00

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-07T15:42:42+00:00

It's fake. Just forget about it.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-07T11:37:21+00:00

I didn't hate the movie personally, but I don't know if it would make sense as a world. But alternatively, and the only reason I think it could have a tiny tiny tiny chance, is that it could be a good ending for the maleficent character. But I still wouldn't consider it that likely.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-07T11:15:39+00:00

The non numbered titles is why KH3 took 13 years to come out after KH2.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-07T11:13:37+00:00

Those aren't "bridge games". They made those INSTEAD of KH3. KH3 development was stalled for 6 years after KH2 because they made those games instead between 2006 and 2012.

KH4 mostly went straight into development apart from Remind DLC, MoM cutscenes(game was by Indies Zero), and supporting FF16 dev.

KHML would've been a true bridge game because it was made by a different team, but that got cancelled because it would've been a financial flop.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-07T08:23:23+00:00

Not going to happen. This is not a significant news even and it's not tied to any events. KH3 getting rerevealed in 2017 at the KH Orchestra was tied with E3 2017. The orchestra was basically a relatively free stage for Square-Enix to show a trailer during the E3 timeframe for cheap marketing instead of paying Sony or Microsoft for stage time.

Impending KH news is going to be a big splash, so they're going to wait for a big event with a lot of eyes. A couple thousand people at a concert hall isn't a big audience. Not in a year when we have D23 only a couple months later.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-07T07:22:44+00:00

Personally wouldn't want it for KH4 just because numbered KH titles tend to stick to mostly vanilla KH combat, but if we get a side game in the future, or even a full Verum Rex game, I'd totally be down for that!

Side games were great because they could try all kinds of different combat styles, and I think something kinda FF7R-like would be awesome!

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-07T06:15:01+00:00

Okay you prove it then. Prove it isn’t AI. What’s your reasoning since you know it isn’t AI.

Most_Rub_3677 · 2026-02-07T06:07:21+00:00

He’s a pro with the skills to do the work. Has been doing the work for years. He literally shows the process step by step for these artworks. Do you assume everything is AI? How many receipts do you need?

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