Kingdom Hearts 4 gets new gameplay trailer, confirms Nintendo Switch 2 release

It’s been four long years since Kingdom Hearts 4 was announced during the franchise’s 20th anniversary livestream with a gameplay trailer. Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct livestream brought a new look at the game. The new footage mostly focuses on Sora’s battle with a giant Darkside Heartless inside the realistic-looking world of Quadratum that seems to be modeled after Shibuya.

A hooded female figure in Organization 13 robes offers narration about the nature of this world: "The structure of this world is incredibly complex," she says. "At first, there were no manifestations of what we know as Light and Darkness. But our arrival here brought those concepts with us — the Darkness given physical form only after we defined it." Gameplay shows Sora leaping off cars and buildings and using a new chain-like ability tied to his Keyblade as he tries to protect civilians.

Japan, Shibuya

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