RPG Site chats to Tetsuya Nomura, the mind behind Kingdom Hearts and some of Final Fantasy's much-loved entries about the past, present and future, including Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts III.
Footage from an early Kingdom Hearts 3 prototype has confirmed Square Enix's original plans to include assets from Final Fantasy Versus XIII.
The first two titles in the trilogy were already Steam Deck Verified, but now Kingdom Hearts III has gotten its coveted green checkmark.
Travis Bruno of Capsule Computers writes:
"When it comes to the Kingdom Hearts franchise, fans have had a variety of ways to play it throughout its incredibly long length. They could have followed it from 2002’s original release and subsequent questionably canon releases on handheld devices only to return to the core game again with Kingdom Hearts II to find out that yes, they were canon. Then in that wait until the third game the mixture of titles along the way and other numerous platforms would make following Kingdom Hearts‘ story a challenge even for the most eager fan. Square Enix made up for this prior to Kingdom Hearts III’s release by bringing together an HD pack collecting the game’s together in an easier to digest package for fans and releasing them on consoles only for PC fans to be left in the dark. That is of course until all of the games arrived on PC, but not in a way that many had hoped. See, PC users can be a fickle bunch and when the Kingdom Hearts collection arrived on PC exclusively through Epic Games, it may as well not exist. Now, three years after the fact, these same PC players can now enjoy the exact same games on Steam with a bit of extra support including Steam Deck compatibility with Kingdom Hearts Integrum Masterpiece. The question is, do all of these games still hold up on their Steam PC ports?"
Far from a 9, Square have left these games a janky mess since their epic release. Even now they have not said anything about fixing some of the problems that many steam reviews mention. You gotta download the re:fined mod to fix what square refuses to do.
Summary,
Buy Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX, to Give them Money to make Kingdom Hearts 3.
Final Fantasy series went downhill without Sakaguchi. Tetsuya is not great without the proper guidance of the veteran and visionary Sakaguchi.
god rubs hands together *almost starts a fire* cant wait to read this article and unfold what he says in my jrpg junkie brain.
How many interviews he's gonna do lol?
daym he got to put out or nggz gonna start a riot two games with incredible history.