{"id":137198,"date":"2025-09-06T13:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T13:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/137198\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T13:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T13:54:06","slug":"tetsuya-nomura-has-good-news-about-kingdom-hearts-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/137198\/","title":{"rendered":"Tetsuya Nomura Has Good News About Kingdom Hearts 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many, many RPG fans are patiently awaiting the next installment in the Kingdom Hearts franchise<\/a>. And a lot of those people are waiting for Final Fantasy VII Remake\u2018s third and final installment, too. As you might expect, some are worried about how development is proceeding on these two massive Square Enix RPGs, and to help calm those players down, FF7 and KH4 director Tetsuya Nomura has attempted to reassure us all that things are going \u201csmoothly.\u201d<\/p>\n

As reported by Gematsu<\/a>, during Friday\u2019s Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis 2nd Anniversary broadcast, Nomura hopped in toward the end after seemingly spotting comments in the chat asking about FF7 Remake\u2019s third installment. While he didn\u2019t have a release date to share, he wanted everyone to relax. The game is on schedule, okay?<\/p>\n

\u201cRight, so, looking at the comments, I\u2019m seeing people ask every so often about the third entry in the [FF7]\u00a0Remake series,\u201d said Nomura. \u201cApparently, [FF7 co-director Motomu] Toriyama mentioned in an interview that something might be released around the second anniversary [of Ever Crisis]. So that\u2019s probably where those expectations are coming from. Right, so things are progressing really smoothly. I can\u2019t really say more\u2014if I suddenly went, \u2018Well, actually\u2026,\u2019 everyone would be really surprised!\u201d<\/p>\n

He then added: \u201cSo yeah, things are moving along really smoothly, and the release timing has already been decided. We\u2019re moving forward according to that schedule right now, so please rest assured and be patient.\u201d<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t worry, fans of Kingdom Hearts, Nomura also had a small update about the Disney RPG, which was first announced back in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd this has also come up in the comments here and there, but Kingdom Hearts IV\u00a0is likewise steadily moving forward according to schedule, so please look forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

While this is good to hear, I imagine a lot of folks want a release window for one or both of these RPGs. FF7 Remake\u2019s third entry will be its last, as confirmed by Square Enix in 2022<\/a>. We still don\u2019t know when it\u2019s coming, what it will be named, and what platforms it will launch on, though I expect PS5 players will be able to play it day one. Meanwhile, we\u2019ve heard very little about Kingdom Hearts 4, though we did get a new, very low-res screenshot earlier this year of Mickey Mouse in a library.<\/a> Hopefully, that and Nomura\u2019s assurance that everything is progressing as planned will be enough for folks until the next update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many, many RPG fans are patiently awaiting the next installment in the Kingdom Hearts franchise. And a lot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[85870,29755,44704,74,85871],"class_list":{"0":"post-137198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ff7-remake","9":"tag-final-fantasy","10":"tag-kingdom-hearts","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-tetsuya-nomura"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}