Random: Kingdom Hearts 4 Was Hidden In This Artwork All Along

I'm already done with Kingdom Heart games.
The storyline went BS with convoluted plot from Organization XIII, the gameplay became too acrobatic with complicated commands, it was already Blah for me.
I have ever played KH 1 & 2 on PS2 when I was teen but I have no longer interest with Kingdom Hearts games anymore. The franchise itself was slowly turned into BS.

Also, celebrate 20th anniversary of Kingdom Hearts while the Switch version got BS Cloud version, it was insulting the Nintendo fans.

Is it just a cloud version or can I download it?

@Anti-Matter and to top it off, they decided to ruin the last smash fighter with Sora!

@Anti-Matter I don't think I've ever agreed with you before. This is incredible.

@carlos82
Cloud version, unfortunately. You don't really "download" the image... They will eventually stop their servers for hosting a few drawings.

Currently unsuccessful as in they haven't released a good KH game in years (no, Melody of Memories doesn't count) nor have they made any kind of meaningful announcements regarding the series.

Their Switch effort was piss poor and downright embarrassing and the only decent event was the announcement/release of Sora in Smash Bros

Inb4 the "kh games should've been made natively on switch" comm.... oh, too late for that 😦

The artwork is very cool, though

@Anti-Matter Well, Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II are my favourites, but I don't think the series has become 'BS' with the later titles either. I enjoy the story, even if it can be a bit complicated and convoluted (that's part of the fun). It's always exciting to speculate what will happen next.

@Bizzyb I don't know, I liked Kingdom Herts III and Melody of Memory. Although I'm not sure if you're talking about games on Nintendo consoles only. Because I would recommend avoiding the cloud versions and playing the games on Playstation, Xbox or PC.

@Cinderace wish we got doomslayer over sora after square enix screwed us over with cloud versions of kingdom hearts games.

Disney pretty much ruined this franchise, but at least I can still enjoy the original and chain of memories

@ShadowofTwilight22 pretty much all KH games are mainline in some way.

That’s why the story is confusing as heck

Actually blows my mind to think that the series is 20 years old now, given that I got into it right at the start.

It's not the best series; like others have said, the story is a mess and the game quality is inconsistent at best. But as a lifelong Disney fan, and an avid fan of classic Final Fantasy, this series is at the very least a fun time if you go in looking for nothing more than a good time.

And you don't play stuff like Birth by Sleep or Dream Drop Distance.

But I still hope the series continues, as it remains a fun experience with certain entries.

@ShadowofTwilight22 probably because it’s a rhythm game and it’s a spin-off so his logic will be that spin-off = not mainline KH game.

And he thinks Melody of Memory isn’t a good game.

That’s what I think

@ShadowofTwilight22 yeah I think that’s it

@ShadowofTwilight22 Its a spin off theater rhythm game. It's nice to have but doesn't really add much to the franchise. The fact Nomura himself says it's been "unsuccessful" should say as much

@Cinderace
Me: Mains Sora
Also me: "You know how some sins are unforgivable?"

@Royalblues When I was little, my older sister would make music videos of our favorite anime. I would sit next to her and give input ^_^ I was like a co-editor! I read all the manga she owned, and we would listen to our favorite anime songs together.

Feels like a different life thinking back.

@Royalblues Right? AMV's were so fun back then! I can't remember all of them, but the AMV's I remember us doing together were one for Sailor Moon, one for Magic Knight Rayearth (the OVA version), and one for FFVII: Advent Children. I can't remember the songs we used for the other two, but I remember we used Inner Universe from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex for the FFVII: Advent Children AMV.

@ShadowofTwilight22 True but In this case it doesn't actually push the story forward in any meaningful way...lol I think they even admitted it themselves

@Marioman2020 there is a billion other characters they could have put on top of sora’s move set if they switched the neutral special.

Its funny, I have seen the artwork so many times yet I never noticed, well I knew something was different, just didn't take the time to find out what, neat!

@Cinderace I know you don't like that sora was the last fighter. But if it makes you feel any better he didn't take up anyone's spot, as said sora was pretty much an extra, so one of the S2 fighters was going to finish it off.
Even if sora wasn't an extra, the pick makes sense, KH is very popular in JP, maybe not as much here, but there it is.

@Cinderace That can be did for literally any Smash character honestly.
Person 1: "I don't like X character, Y character should have gotten into it over X character!!!"
Person 2: "You're crazy, Y character would've been really dumb, X character is much better and I love what they did with them."
Meanwhile, person 3: "X character isn't for me, but I'm happy for their fans at least!"

Be more like person 3.

@Yosher I don’t sound like Person 2 do I?

This franchise is the definition of incoherent.

Guess I played this franchise 20 years ago. Didn’t stick with it after the original tho

"Good evening. Thank you all for the 20th anniversary celebratory messages. Currently, preparations for the 20th anniversary event are pretty crazy, so I'm sorry, but I don't have anything ready for today. I only just started drawing the art for the 20th anniversary yesterday, so I'm worried if it'll be ready for the event. I hope you'll continue to support us. @Nomura"

Glad they are rebooting this. KH4 looks way better so far.

My biggest turnoff from the Kingdom Hearts series is not the gameplay, the visuals or even the music... it is the story. The story got bloated and Xehanort makes no sense at all as a villain and one who gets less interesting the more you know about him. The lore about Heartless and Nobodies breaks as soon as you start thinking about it too hard and the twist at the end of KHIII makes me want to facepalm. That and gosh has Sora and Riku been milked dry of any interesting character traits and conflict... sigh I sometimes hate being a fan of this franchise.

Will I play KHIV? Oh probably I'm a sucker for this series and Nomura knows how to MAKE ME FEEL!!! But, do I like the fact I had to brush up on a mobile game to figure out what the absolute F the Master of Masters and Luxu were?! Oh my blood is boiling!

Nomura has been on a roll recently between Re:Mind, FF7R and Stranger of Paradise.

All in on KH4

I am really excited for Kingdom Hearts 4 honestly. I adored Kingdom Hearts 3 as I have for most of the games on the franchise, and I have no doubt that this will be good too. Hopefully it brings something new to the formula since it is about time the series gets a shakeup. I want it to still feel like old Kingdom Hearts games with the whimsy and innocence. Maybe with just more dark foreboding storytelling.