The director of theKingdom Heartsseries, Tetsuya Nomura, has revealed thattwo new development teamshave been brought on board for futureKingdom Hearts titles.
This brings the total number of development teams up to four. The two teams that existed prior were the Osaka Team (Kingdom Hearts 3,Birth By Sleep, and3D), and the team handlingKHUX, (the mobile game). A personal Square Enix development team from Toyko worked onKingdom Hearts 1andKingdom Hearts 2, but unless they’re the team behindKHUX, Nomura doesn’t mention them in the interview.
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Nomura disclosed the new information in a QA titled “7 Lights and 13 Darknesses.” The QA was broken into two parts with Tai Yasue,Kingdom Hearts 3’s co-director, handlingthe “7 Lights” portion, and Nomura handling the “13 Darknesses.” The interview as a whole divulged a lot of information, but arguably the most exciting bits dealt with the future of theKingdom Heartsseries. According to two Nomura, not only doesKingdom Heartshave two new development teams, but these teams are already working on the nextKingdom Heartstitle, which, according to Nomura, “will be coming surprisingly soon.”
Eight years passed afterKingdom Hearts 2beforeKingdom Hearts 3finally found itself announced. It then took the game another six years of development before it finally released early last year. The idea that a newKingdom Heartstitle will be arriving “surprisingly soon,” comes off as a bit of a surprise then. To be fair, though, the development ofKingdom Hearts 3had to deal with jumping to a next-generation console and changing development engines while it was in the works. Also, Nomura has stated in the past that another “bridge title” will need to happen beforeKingdom Hearts 4releases, so it’s probably not the game currently in development.
The addition of two new teams seems to explain the job listing posted by Square Enix in the past. The company was looking for new members for the development of futureKingdom Heartstitles, and from the sound of things, they’ve completed their search. Who these new developments teams are and what they’ve worked on before hasn’t been disclosed yet. Its probable further information will come out for them in the future, but for now, they remain a mystery. The exact release of the newKingdom Heartstitle also remains a mystery, but Nomura has promised to give future updates about it.
Kingdom Hearts 3is out now for PS4 and Xbox One.
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