Kingdom Hearts Collection Switch 2 Local Box Art Reportedly Updated

There was the PS4 version of Kingdom Hearts 1.5 + 2.5, 2.8 and 3 in physical Blu ray disc separetedly since year 2019 with cheaper price on this year so I don't need the Switch 2 version.

Somehow never played any of these, might look into downloading this when I get some time. I know there are some remix titles and other weirdly named games in this series but are these the 3 main games that would potentially get someone ready for Kingdon Hearts 4?

@rvcolem1 I believe the answer to your question is yes also there is a demo you can download for 3 that will give you a general idea on whether you’d like the games or not. They’re great fun though!

Meh still looks fake to me. As good as a collection these are, game key card would never hold these games to their true value. Also considering 3 of the games were just full motion cutscenes that you could just watch for free on YouTube anyways, that already made this collection lost 35% of its value.

How is it still so bad? KH has great visuals but this cover is awful.

@rvcolem1 This collection also includes most of the weirdly named titles, except some are included as cutscenes only.

Despite this name this is a collection of 10 games that tell the entire story of Kingdom Hearts to date. Except a couple of cutscenes in the mobile games and the rhythm game on Switch.

It really is a mess

TBSkyen made a pretty good video about how the characters ARE probably human-made art (with potentially some AI-upscaling or something), but were either incredibly rushed and/or traced (His specific examples for tracing were Goofy and Donald). I recommend checking it out

@BrokenCiv thanks, I went to reddit and saw a bunch of different "the correct order to play KH" articles and didnt want to play 9 or 10 games. Then went on how long to beat and the "main" three games are about 100 total hours, and that seems more reasonable. I will give the demo a go.

@Kiz3000 this is about as messy as where should I start reading batman comics. Silver age, gold age, post crisis, after flash point, new 52, after blackest night, the batman who laughs. Then I get confused and never start reading anything.
I will give it look on the shop soon, as it is close to midnight and storming here

Would love to care, but it's a key -card so ... 🤷🏽‍♂️

As a fan of Kingdom Hearts I wish they would use different cover art. Its too light hearted for the cover. I really like the other Kingdom Hearts covers with a really solid sense of atmosphere and really unique and lovely cover art. Its like looking at an I Spy Book.

This artwork was shown when they first announced the collection which is kind of interesting. No idea why they didn't go with it in the first place.

@rvcolem1
That works if you're only in it for the gameplay, but if you want to understand the story, just playing the numbered games will not get you ready for anything.

It's not too messy tbh. The original experience is playing the games in release order (same as listed in the collections afaik, that was the case in the PS4 collection) and that way you get gradually introduced to the important concepts. But the fact remains that you can't split the series into main games and spin-offs; all of them are part of the main story.

@Anti-Matter Then don't buy the Switch 2 version. Simple. You know there is a website, just like this one, for PlayStation? See the "Push Square" link in the footer.

I can't wait for the inevitable Kingdom Hearts 4+0.75251 dreamsleep teardrop dichotomy Part 2 chapter 3.5.

I like the idea of kingdom hearts but the titles alone feels like I'm having a stroke. Plus the story got too convoluted for its own good.

File size is huge wish these came on a physical game card I would literally pay extra for it as it will take up to much space on my system/SD card.

"Claims" lol.

Facts for those of us with working eyes. Or lets play devils advocate and its not AI (it is), that means they have an artist who manually drew one hand with four fingers and one with five. That dude needs fired. Except that dudes name is AI.

@Doctor-Moo I seriously don't understand.

Square Enix has plenty good artists in-house that could have designed a better cover than this (just look at all the fantastic Final Fantasy art works for example).

There must be some serious mismatch / wall between Marketing and Art departments.

They should have used AI to make the spoken dialogue in KH3 (and the FF7 remake) less robotic and stilted. The voice acting could be the best in the world, but when you have full one second pauses between every hacky, unnatural dialogue line… it’s ruining both games for me and I’m seriously reconsidering picking up full voice acted SE games in the future. How did these get through QC?!

And before anyone snottily says, “you can’t use AI for that…” yes, I know. This comment is more about how bad the cutscenes and voice acting are in modern SE games. I’m finally playing KH3 after all these years and I’m floored by how bad it is.

It's still not good though, is it? And gen-AI was probably still used; they've just gone over it to take out any of the telltale signs.

The artwork is awful, it looks like Sora's have 10 coffees in a row. Those eyes are terrifying.

@KougerKing you care enough to comment 🤣

@ShadLink Common sense isn’t something you can teach unfortunately…

@rvcolem1 this is basically every game in the series in a one whole package, if you have never played the series this is definitely the perfect place to start

I'm really looking forward to finally playing the 2.8 collection, particularly DDD.

Reddit "gamers" complaining again. Their good at that but never play games

A box art on a video game isn't that important but the chosen art is honestly pretty ugly. There are so many other ways they could have made this box art better but instead they chose a weird chibi style art that isn't indicative of the games themselves. I am glad I own these games elsewhere.

Kind of agree that I preferred the previous collection cover art, where he sits on the chair/throne. Ah well. I always love Nomura's art, so this is a must-buy regardless!

I've been waiting years and years to play Kingdom Hearts properly on a Nintendo console! Super excited for this. I grew up with action RPG's, so between this, Granblue Fantasy Relink and FF7RRR, I'm an ecstatic gamer.

@Serpenterror Did you read the article? The ai was used to touch up donald's hand. The original art was by Tetsuya Nomura, nothing was fake here.

They were not “claims” they were definitively using AI they couldn’t even bother paying the guy that works for them to do the full art they pieced it together.

I could see the artist assuming that Donald Duck has 5 fingers but I’m surprised no one caught this before they revealed the box art. But I can also see why the internet would believe that the box art was created using Gen AI.

Pardon my ignorance, but in the original article that person that posted that they thought that Donald used AI said the beak “absorbs into itself.” Can someone point out to me what he means? Like maybe a similar pose for Donald’s beak that doesn’t “absorb into itself”?

I don’t think it was generated by AI, but those backgrounds had to have been upscaled using AI or some really wonky software.

I’ve never played Kingdom Hearts (it’s on my bucket list) but why are there 3 Sora’s? Is it to represent all 3 games? It just looks silly.

“It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error.” - HAL 9000

"Human error" my ass.

Yeah, the human error is that someone decided to use AI to change the positions of characters in someone's artwork!

The PR representative's has NO idea how to handle this lol

• Clearly there was use of AI, but if you are not allowed to say, don't make it a lie
• Development teams usually don't create assets for box art
• "Quality is extremely important to us" is a bit of an eye roller when all they did is rearrange existing art on in the most distasteful way

Don't believe them for a second. Nevermind the fact the cover is generic and boring as hell.

I wonder which AI model wrote that PR statement 👀

I feel like we need a new Hanlon razor but instead of malice it's AI. To describe that art mistakes aren't always because of AI but could just be straight up humans with a short deadline quickly drawing something.

"Never attribute to 𝗔𝗜 that which is adequately explained by stupidity" - Me, paraphrased from presumbly Hanlon

The human error was plugging it into generative ai.

@Kiz3000 they must have realized it themselves. As KH stopped getting side games and spinoff completely.

Very little reason not to trust them that it was human error, and if someone believed they were outright liars I hope that convinces them to absolutely never again buy and support a SE product.

So is the plagiarized Goofy also a human error? That "human artist" should get sued then.

The cynicism is strong in this thread.

Really bizarre that they have 25 years of available artwork and assets to draw from and this is the best cover they can come up with?

I used to work for a pop culture home décor company in licensing approvals. We did a LOT of work with Disney, and they were super hardcore about every single little detail being right. We seriously had a Winnie the Pooh design rejected because the legal line on the tag didn't have a period at the end.

Obviously Square-Enix is in a very different relationship with Disney than the company I worked for, and obviously they don't have to get every single design approved first. But this is exactly the kind of crud that Disney would've hammered us for. If we had submitted a Donald Duck design with the wrong number of fingers? A basic mistake like that would've really damaged our reputation with the licensing approval people on their side, and they would be much less likely to approve more non-standard or creative designs because of it.

It's just so crazy to me that the BEST case scenario in this little debacle is some artist messed up so badly on basic elements that people just naturally assumed a machine had made the mistake. Wow.

Oh crap, I left the angry mobs on at home. Ugh, my angry mob bill is going to be astronomical this month.

Shoker a mistake was noticed and rectified because of likely either junior artist screwed up and their supervisor didn't do the required corrections or the a piece just slipped quality control due to staff being likely overworked.

Surprise it had nothing to do with AI as this ***** happens all the time. See the Okami Wii cover art scandal or the 3DS Version of Resident Evil Revelations being misspelled on the spine. This ***** happened before Gen AI was ever a thing.

AI was definitely used.

But I could care less about it, because Game key card, so this thing will never get in my collection

Not getting into the nitty-and-gritty of whether or not AI was used in either version, the new box-art is a lot more appealing to see.

The previous had an off-looking black background and some sky scenery represented in Squares (haha, get it?).

The new one has a more colorful look to it, due to the scenery being filled throughout the whole cover.

Not enough people know about Phooey Duck it seems.

@mouseclicker

I did work for Disney and everything use to have to go through legal for checking. So find it strange this was missed. That said Square Enix handled the kingdom hearts games and we only did a little localisation on then and minor checks. I suspect they showed this cover early before it had legal clearance.