Kingdom Hearts 4: The Full Game Will Be Made With Unreal Engine 5

Kingdom Hearts 4 was revealed surprise during Square Enix’s 20th anniversary announcement trailer. Square Enix also announced that Kingdom Hearts Missing Link, the new mobile title for the franchise, was in development. 

The reveal of Kingdom Hearts was quite extensive and you can read Game Informer’s full breakdown of it here, but one thing that couldn’t go unnoticed was the new visual style. This sequel has a more natural look than the previous Kingdom Hearts games. 

The trailer, which is shot in Tokyo-like Quadratum shows Sora in his apartment as he wakes up after charging into the inner city to a large heartless. Some shots are of actual gameplay. Thanks to a recent report, we now know that this reveal took place in Unreal Engine 4 live. FamitsuTranslation by Video Games Chronicle. Unreal Engine 4 looks great but after last week’s announcement that Unreal Engine 5 is now available to all, fans were wondering if Kingdom Hearts 4 would be developed in this new engine. 

It turns out it will be, according to Famitsu’s report. 

“The full game will be made with Unreal Engine 5, and the quality of lighting and details will be several levels higher,” according to Famitsu. 

The publication also claims that Kingdom Hearts 4 is being developed by Square Enix’s Osaka studio, which is the same team behind Kingdom Hearts 3, under the lead of co-director Yasushi Yasue, as translated by VGC. 

During the live 20th Anniversary event, which took place in Japan, Kingdom Hearts franchise director Tetsuya Nomura reportedly revealed that he considered making a real Verum Rex video game, which itself is a video game in the Toy Story world of Kingdom Hearts 3, before he decided to make Kingdom Hearts 4. Torn between a Verum Rex game and a new Kingdom Hearts, Nomura chose the latter because he’d be too worried about Sora otherwise. Because it would prove too hard to develop both, he also settled for Kingdom Hearts 4. 

You can read this while you wait to see Kingdom Hearts 4 in Unreal Engine 5. Game Informer’sKingdom Hearts 4: Trailer breakdown and information about Kingdom Hearts Missing Link. Check out this theory about the Forest Moon of Endor. Star WarsYou can see it in the Kingdom Hearts 4 reveal video. 

[Source: Famitsu via Video Games Chronicle]

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