Summary
As you might expect,Kingdom Heartsfans aren’t doing so well afterKingdom Hearts 4failed to show atThe Game Awardslike so many of us hoped it would.
Just a few days ago,The Game Awards 2024 gave us a bunch of surprising game revealsand stand-out moments,from Ninja Gaiden finally getting a new gameafter far too long toNaughty Dog announcing what it’s been quietly working on over the past four years. While it was a great show in all, there were alotof expectations for what might show up.
Bloodborne, Half-Life 3, GTA 6, and Sony Santa Monica’s mysterious game have all been thrown around over the past weekand none of them ended up making an appearance. While those were fairly unrealistic, there’s one title that had every chance and reason to show up and then was completely absent - Kingdom Hearts 4.
Kingdom Hearts Fans Aren’t Taking The Game Awards No-Show Well
Originally announced at the series' 20th-anniversary event nearly three years ago, Kingdom Hearts 4 has been in the dark ever since its reveal. With Square Enix finally done with Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth andso many rumours about big “holy s**t” announcements at The Game Awards, it’s fair to say that Kingdom Hearts fans were pretty set on it being shown off a few days ago.
One popular post says that Kingdom Hearts 4 isn’t real and thatthe subreddit is all about Devil May Cry moving forward. Another post worryinglypoints out that a recent Square Enix investor report said that the studio doesn’t have a big title coming outin the next “couple of years” that will help with its bottom line.
To make matters worse, we haven’t even heard anything concrete about the next mobile game,Kingdom Hearts: Missing Link, in nearly half a year.
And, of course, there are thetypical clown posts for anyone who was hoping to see the game, which are about as common as inthe similarly suffering Silksong community. My favourite of the bunch hasSora standing in a padded room repeating “Kingdom Hearts 4 is real"to himself over and over again, which captures my exact thoughts as well.
This is far from the first time that Kingdom Hearts 4 hasn’t shown up when it was expected to, but it is getting a little bit much now, especially as some fans hoped to see it release in 2025 after Rebirth took up this year. Here’s hoping we at leat get some kind of news over the next 12 months.
