Kingdom Hearts creator Tetsuya Nomura has declared that he is but to determine whether or not he’ll end the long-running collection previous to his retirement, so it is fully potential future Kingdom Hearts video games might be launched with out Nomura’s involvement.
In an interview with YoungJump (for which we’re utilizing machine translation), Nomura says he “solely [has] just a few years left till [he retires]”, and so he has to “determine whether or not to retire first or end the collection first”.
He goes on to say that Kingdom Hearts 4, which was introduced all the best way again in April 2022, shall be “a narrative that shall be accomplished”. It isn’t fully clear whether or not Nomura signifies that Kingdom Hearts 4 will not finish on a cliffhanger or that it’ll conclude the collection as a complete.
Close to Kingdom Hearts 4, Nomura says that he intends the upcoming recreation, in addition to smartphone title Kingdom Hearts Lacking-Hyperlink, to be a “reset”.
Nomura says he needed a reset after Kingdom Hearts 3, so he “appointed new writers and even made a brand new brand” in order that new gamers who weren’t accustomed to the collection would discover it simpler to play Kingdom Hearts 4.
He additionally provides some perception into his artistic course of almost about the collection as a complete, saying that though he is “had the thought of going on this path” (i.e. the general collection path) since the unique Kingdom Hearts, however that if “one thing does not match, I am going to improvise on the spot”.
In accordance with Nomura, he additionally has paperwork pertaining to components of the Kingdom Hearts collection that have not been explored or defined, and he “retains {that a} secret”. That will actually clarify loads.
It is nicely price studying the complete YoungJump interview in the event you’re a Tetsuya Nomura fan, because it goes into element not solely about Kingdom Hearts, but additionally about a few of Nomura’s different initiatives, together with the Last Fantasy 7 remake trilogy.
Kingdom Hearts 4 nonetheless does not have a launch date but, sadly. Keep tuned for more information on this and all different issues Kingdom Hearts-related.
