>>744622072
Sora is the MoM and he and Xehanort mutually mentored each other to be the White/Black pieces of the board so they can flip the darknesses out of the "real" (disney/fragmented) world and into Quadratum ending the chess game - they will succeed
this is what the Darknesses actually want because being outside of the worlds means they can go everywhere including places that don't exist

>>744622072
Considering this is supposed to be the first entry of the new saga but Nomura wants to retire, I want the game to end setting up someone else can continue and they need to cover dark road and the ending to KHUX without it being an infodump.

Hope: FF characters
Prediction: No FF characters

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gimme bahamut summon like how he was suppose to be in KH1

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Quadratum isn't just a starter world but it's essentially a proper Squeenix hub world with a Parasite Eve scenario, TWEWY scenario, Bouncer scenario, even a Brave Fencer Musashi scenario if you can swing it.
Also last game had a fucking Einhander Gummi Boss so this game give me DynamiTracer Gummi Races
I want my fucking Square cameos Nomura, you coward

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>>744622397
on the topic of summons: luxo jr

>>744622072
Demyx isn't actually a nobody.
Also TWEWY characters in quadratum or I eat my hat

>>744622072
Goofy with 3 dicks

>>744622285
>but Nomura wants to retire
he said that he wants to retire "in a few years" in 2024 and is currently 55
if he aims to retire at 60 he likely won't be part of KH's production past 4

>>744622072
it's going to be retarded

cool FF stuff that isn't exclusively advertising 7R
more SE representation that isnt just FF
marvelslop and Star Wars not being included willy nilly when they can be used as a justifiable parallel to things already in KH
I honestly have no idea what they could include for new disney shit that wasnt already in 3 that wouldnt be completely retarded, maybe Soul and Moana?

>>744622072
hope: FF world, Marvel world, Traverse Town
prediction: Zootopia world, playable Donald and Goofy

>>744622530
>a Brave Fencer Musashi scenario
Based beyond belief.

>>744622072
Star Wars world that's inevitably gonna take place in the era in between RoTJ and TFA because that's all Disney knows to do with SW

>>744622182
This sounds fucking absurd, Nomura has lost it

>>744622072
>hope
It's not made by the Osaka Team.
>prediction
It's made by the Osaka Team.

>>744622072
More slop with more questions being asked than answered

>>744622285
>>744624383
>Nomura
>Japanese
>retirement
wtf you niggers smoking? japs dont hav the luxury of retirement... they're slaves to their job until they drop dead, literally lol. Retirement my ass..
check Shigeru Miyamoto, that old faggot is more than 70 and he's still working at Nintendo and doesnt even plan to stop for another fucking decade. Why would Nomura who's only mid 50s stop now... and do what? smell roses?

I hope for a good game
What I will is nomura shit

>>744622072
Vanitas is in Quadratum for some reason squatting in a random building.

>>744622072
Simpsons world

>>744625341
Vanitas is actually a guy named Darkness

>>744622072
Grahf or Id as a superboss.

>>744626328
Shigeru and Aonuma need to FUCK OFF and retire or die already, they're just holding Nintendo back and they're worthless.
Bring in some fresh brains, it's high time. But yeah sadly thats not how japanese work society goes at all. Your work senpai is here to stay till he dies- or does nothing while collecting paychecks.

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Tomorrowland world

>>744622072
Nomura commissioning absolute dogshit decisions that sink the ship just like Versus and Turd Birthday but this time he isn't able to pin the heat on anyone else and rightfully gets the full blame. Game gets universally panned as a 6/10, retirement announcement shortly after

Here's my prediction for worlds:
Star Wars
Marvel
Coco
Moana
Zootopia
Plus 3 rehashed worlds from the older games

I think Inside Out is impossible to make because it's literally just the real world, it doesn't have interesting characters or worlds

>>744628940
>Moana world
pleaaaase it's all i fuckin wanted out of KH3 and instead got that cocksuckin Carribean stuff yet agaaaaain.
>Marvel world
how the heck is this even gonna work? isnt it way too broad of a concept?

>>744629216
>how the heck is this even gonna work?
The same way literally every single other world works in this series

>hopes
Princess and the Frog
Atlantis
Treasure Island
Muppets
Coco
Incredibles
Lilo & Stitch
Aristocats

>predictions
Star Wars (Death Star world)
Frozen (specifically Frozen 2)
Moana
Zootopia
Cars
Toy Story (based on 4 or 5)
Encanto
Inside Out

>>744622072
Keyblade masters being ambiguous assholes who do their own shit without moral fframework.

Also Sora needs to learn to stand on his own two feet without relying on other people being his power, the fucking mooch.

All in all, I want something slightly more mature, something that feels like it was written by a person 20+ years of age.

>>744629845
>Aristocats
Only if Cait Sith shows up like Auron in Hercules

>>744625545
Darkness is the name of a girl who likes BDSM.

>>744629845
Literally why any of those besides incredible?
>treasure island
You mean Treasure Planet?

>>744622397
You're only going to see it in the FFX remake.

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I hope it's the last one.

>>744624706
I loathe that the osaka team got full control of KH now

>>744622072
They finally show what's inside the fucking box, and it's disappointing and retarded

I don't really have any hope for it, honestly. I think it's going to be bloated, confusing, and mostly lacking in charm kind of like kh3

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I do not want KH4 and I do not understand the [Deleted] meme in KH threads

>Hope
Quadratum is just a world and we get different art styles, and that it has different Square properties mixed in.

>Prediction
The emotional weight of Sora reuniting with Donald and Goofy gets stuffed because it happens fairly early in the game.

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>>744632545
Putting effort into an art style instead of making an Unreal Engine plastic dollhouse

>>744632671
Both of those are neither hopes or predictions because we already know they are true. Donald and Goofy will get reunited with Sora before the first Dinsey wolrd because the whole point of these games is that it's about Sora Donald and Goofy exploring worlds.

>quadratum
clearly ive been away for too long cuz i have no fucking clue what this is

>>744632805
The afterlife in KH is a world like ours called Quadratum. Sora died in 3 so he's now there

>>744632805
It's what happens when you literally shitpost too hard and yeet the universes python script. Sora did that in KH3 and paid the price.

>>744632929
More or less he's trying to make Versus13 through KH, Noctis is just the blueprint now.

>>744622182
After playing Remind and knowing that Sora can time travel with the power of waking, I don't doubt a twist like him being MoM

>>744622072
>hope
Hot coffee minigame where Sora fucks hoes in Quadratum
>prediction
game is a 8/10

>>744632929
The CGI version looks a lot more Asian, moreso in 2 than in 1.

>>744633530
They are not following 3 up with an 8/10 game

>>744633828
>retconned Tifa into being an Asian
Stopped reading there.
All the more reason to love Tifa. You never see beautiful Asian women with big knockers anymore and I'm glad Nomura made her. Wonder when the Aoyama Misao cuck will hop in to post lmao

>>744634329
Anon, why did you reply to yanderefag? He doesn't like that Tifa's Asian, because it makes her unattractive. He also doesn't like KH2 because Kairi is not only Asian and brought back to human form, but because Nomura made Sora attracted to Kairi and even more Asian and a teenager which makes him too old for yanderefag to rape

>>744633828
One of the key features of most "anime" art styles is racial ambiguity, blends of features that make it easy for people to imprint on characters. Despite this, Japan is still in Asia, so Asian features are still their baseline. Just because you don't like ir, doesn't mean it's not true.

As a side note, I didn't mind Tifa in Advent Children, but I hate her weird plastic surgery face in the remake. Also, I will grant you that having a Chinatown in your game implys that not everyone is Asian.

>>744632671
They wont have the balls to seperate the main trio for that long and have Sora explore worlds on his own or with a new trio so it should go without saying that they reunite pretty early on

>>744634406
Is he the same No Deaths and Time Travel!!!!! guy? He's never even argued why no deaths and time travel don't do anything for a story just because it bores him. He only talks about what's boring and what gets him aroused and doesn't even walk us through his fetishes. No wonder he wants Nomura dead, Nomura's games force him to think lmao

it will be a great game and the square enix derangement syndrome fags will continue to seethe at it

>>744639743
I'm pretty sure Stellafag likes KH, anon.

>>744622072
>Hopes
Tons of CGI porn
>Predictions
Tons of CGI porn

>>744622072
A simpsons world which opening cutscene is MoM casually revealing all his plan to Homer and friends in Moe's bar, Homer is too drunk to listen and Moe comments about MoM's coat "making his face a black void", then Moe gets phone trolled and MoM laughs his ass off.

>>744622182
I like the idea that MoM is Sora but I would make that only Riku gets to know this and only after he defeats MoM (Sora gets to fight the final manifestation of Darkness as his final boss), MoM last words are congratulating Riku for fulfilling his part saying "you were always the best", during the ending everyone is all celebrating except Riku, haunted by the fucked up truth he knows and the next game is about him investigating what the fuck happened.

The final Gummi mission will have you fight the literal Death Star.
The DLC will had one extra hard Gummi mission where you fight the Xenogears.

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>>744622072
Boss fight with Walt in the actual realistic Disney World.

The wildest and yet realistic thing is Jack Garland as Superboss

>>744622072
The game to be fun

>>744643201
I would cum unbelievably hard if Jack Garland was even in KH4 in any way

>>744643201
>>744643903
I get it. Jack was Nomura's self-insert. SoP was him raging against Square and they found out which is why it got zero marketing (and it also wasn't the normie friendly game they wanted).

>>744643201
>not as a party member

>>744644608
SoP is in my top five games of all times along with Outer Wilds, Magicka 1 and Ender Lillies.

>>744644721
Would be the lamest thing ever. He should be a superboss with 1000 phases and more difficult than anything in the series

>>744644871
While I'd love to fight Jack at his maximum power as Sora, he'd never willingly challenge a warrior of Light without provocation.

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>>744644608
>Jack was Nomura's self-insert
A message from Jack
https://voca.ro/16gF9iX3ufvd

>>744622072
Somehow
Xehanort Returned
but hes good now

>>744646925
And he's a hot teenage girl who seduces Sora

>>744622072
I hope we get the post-renaissance Disney hates (except Lilo and Stich).
Give me Treasure Planet, Emperor's New Groove, Atlantis.
We will probably get Star Wars and Marvel. Probably RotJ and they teased before and an Avengers world or simply just a reworked Shibuya and call it New York

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TWEWY party members
Mary Poppins world
Coco world
Simpsons World
Asgard world with Thor party member that ties into all the Norse names from Dark Road
Sam Raimi Spider-Man world
W.I.T.C.H. world
Chrono Trigger world
Fullmetal Alchemist world
Soul Eater world
Captain EO summon

>>744647186
imagine if Kairi got norted haha

I want sora to meet lightning so bad. She would be a perfect superboss

>>744622072
I'm only just realizing that Sora appearing in Avengers Secret Wars with an assumed superhero persona he gets in KH IV is a real possibility

>>744622530
This has been my hope too
i was also thinking they might use the Game Central Station thing from Wreck-It Ralph in a similar manner, its a pretty central location to the end of khux as the grave of the player character

>>744647519
>it's just HJO trying to convince everyone he's really a young boy searching for his friends
I'd literally pay money to see that

>>744647421
Imagine if Sora got Norted and Ventus and Roxas and Riku had to triple team him to cure him haha..

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>>744647932
You mean in a fight, right?

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>>744648054
No, son. No I don't.

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>>744622072
Indiana Jones world

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>>744647503
>She would be a perfect wife
ftfy

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>>744622072

>>744622910
based

>>744650308
Never gonna happen. Disney only acknowledges Max once every decade or so, and they're never going to allow it in something that has it's own gravitational pull like KH. More than that, they seem to regret the implications of having proof that one of their staple characters fucks.

>>744622072

indiana jones world

>>744622910
Unironically mental how this has never been present in the kh games

>>744653119
>gravitational pull like KH
lmao disney doesnt give a shit about KH

How Sora being MoM will work? They made clear that time travel in KH is bullshit to pull and if you cheat then reality fuck you up.

>>744622072
Well I already predicted that sora would party up with young xehanort and eraqus in quadratum. That ones already true.
I'm still predicting that they will reveal that after player raised xehanort, player next reincarnated as sora.

>>744656817
MoM "lost everything to the darkness" so maybe Sora managed to recreate the universe and started to prepare everything so the "new" Sora that will rise will defeat the darkness once for all. Basically he is pulling a "Missile/Ray" from ghost trick.

>>744643201
>Jack shows up in the Garland armor and does his monologue
>fights Sora with the power of darkness
>halfway through starts wielding all the powers of chaos with the original four elements
>by the end, the helmet has come off, he's smiling that the light was able to create a champion strong enough to fight him and tells him to be ready to take on the true darkness or whatever as he fades out
I'd love it, even if Jack wouldn't be able to swear his mouth off. Alternatively he at least gets to say damn.

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>>744622072
treasure planet

>all these people thinking there's going to be a ton of worlds
An interview implied they're really cutting down on worlds, which probably means each individual one is bigger but you're only maybe getting 5-6.

>>744622072
I want to go to The Rescuers world

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i just want a world based on donalds comic universe, man

>>744657541
>An interview implied they're really cutting down on worlds
Source?

>>744656568
What I meant by that is the last four times they've acknowledged it have been:
>a d23 panel
>a blink and you'll miss it cameo in the ducktales reboot
>a bit role in a show they don't even have on disney+
>a straight to dvd Christmas special
They aren't going to include Max in a series that has its own fanbase and baggage, especially one where Goofy plays a central role and they can't just gloss over the fact he suddenly has a kid. That aside, they care a lot about something that makes money every time it rears its head, they just don't like sharing credit.

>>744656817
>How Sora being MoM will work?
It won't because it's literally a shitpost
>DOOD WHAT IF THE VILLAIN WAS ACTUALLY THE MC ALL ALONG????

>>744658987
Putting Max into KH doesn't work because it's completely ridiculous that Goofy had a kid all this time and didn't mention it once

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>>744622072
>Give a super specific Kingdom Hearts IV hope
Give me a Jack cameo.
Better yet fuck a third sephiroth fight make Jack the FF superboss.

>>744659248
Goofy's just that kind of friend who doesn't tell you all about his private life.

>>744647503
The ideal female super boss from Final Fantasy despite Nomura not designing her is Beatrix. That annoying arrogant Mary Sue cunt, being able to brutally beat her up would be karmic. Bonus, include her boss fight in Great Mouse Detective with Freya being the cameo so that Freya roots for Sora defeating that bitch. You can have it that its Sora who injured Beatrix's eye forcing her to wear the patch.

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>>744622072
I'd say Gilgamesh but after the utter miss of not having him in KH3 on BH6's big fucking bridge I'm just not sure.
Still, any excuse for a new Battle at the Big Bridge arrangement is good enough for me. Plus, tonally, I can't believe he hasn't already been in since he's a perfect match.

>>744622072
I just want yozora to have a lot of screen time and have multiple boss fights against him. the gameplay im not even worried about

>>744632347
its just going to be the heart or a memory of MoMs world, which he wants to recreate, and he is using quadratum as the catalyst to terraform it

>>744656568
recently someone asked the current Disney CEO what he thought about Kingdom Hearts and he didn't even know what it was. Never even heard of it. lol

>>744663079
Anon, Great Mouse Detective? Disney forbade Disney charcaters from interacting with FF characters in that way as far as I can tell.
>That annoying arrogant Mary Sue cunt, being able to brutally beat her up would be karmic
?

>>744665042
>Disney forbade Disney charcaters from interacting with FF characters in that way as far as I can tell.
pretty sure the fairy godmother interacted with the radiant garden crew in KH3

I hope it sells like absolute shit

>>744665212
Wasn't there a rule that didn't let the characters attack Arendell or am I misremembering? I know movie characters can't interact unless they're all in Hollow Bastion.

>>744665368
the entire frozen world was fucked beyond belief because the frozen writer was a retard, its best not to think about it

>>744665456
This is the real reason kingdom hearts is dying. Western corpirations completely refuse the concept of famservice and would never deign to produce a crossover with an eastern brand in the modern day.

>>744665269
lol kill yourself doomer

>>744665368
All the newer movie worlds have to go past the teams who did the movies. All the old shit I want to say follows the old rules of just going through Disney itself and because they don't want to interact with "the filthy japs" they just approve it and move it along.
You can tell who did and didn't play ball just by playing the game.

>>744665718
I can't wrap my head around it being such an issue for people, I'd think it was cool.

>>744658923
>As far as the graphic qualities ... since with each new title, the specs have been really increasing and there's so much more we can do in terms of graphics, it kind of limits the number of worlds that we can create in a sense. At this time we're considering how to approach that, but there will be Disney worlds in Kingdom Hearts IV.


https://www.khinsider.com/news/Gameinformer-Interviews-Tetsuya-Nomura-about-Kingdom-Hearts-4-and-Missing-Link-19452

>>744622530
>Parasite Eve
anon....they lost the rights....

>hopes
>sora's model reflects the art style of each world a little better, making him seem less out of place
>at least one surprising disney world
>at least one instance of an FF character being integrated into a setting
Having recently played BBS, Zack's presence in Olympus Coliseum and his relationship with Herc stands out as one of the better parts of the game, despite being one of the most boring worlds.

>predictions
>sora retains his pseudo-realistic appearance, looking even more out of place
>safe, predictable worlds of properties disney wants to push
>token FF representation, totally segregated from the disney properties. cameos, really
>boring ass minigames that have some feature that makes it a frustrating slog instead of a challenge
I will play it, but I'm not holding my breath for something special.

>>744622072
I hope there is no Marvelslop at all and Star Wars is kept to a minimal level.

>>744622072
Treasure Planet world with Darth Vader as a secret superboss

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Hope: Sora goes to Monster University world and they have a weird running joke about how weird it'd be if Randall kept licking his feet
Fear: The forget to put in more FF characters again

>>744622072
Yes Indiana Jones world

>>744622072
Sora is the MoM and sent his younger self back in time to fix the mistakes his older self made.

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I want the forms from kh2 back so bad, they probably don't have the soul to pull off something like that again

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>>744671913
>KH2
>optional mechanics like forms and reaction commands feel good and serve to make you look cool during combat

>KH3
>optional mechanics like attractions and flow motion feel like shit, look lame, and make you want to turn them off

It's over and we can't go back

>>744673358
>Kh2 fags defending autoplay qtes

>>744622072
I hope there are a lot of slice of life moments and optional interactions between characters.


>Predict
Sora probably sadly won’t interact much with those new characters because all his time is gonna get eaten up by dickald and faggy and Disney filler

>>744673452
>read "optional"
And yes, 90% of them are optional. Sometimes you want your anime boy to do wacky anime shit in the anime video game, not ride a gay ass carousel and tap X to win the fight while being completely invulnerable.

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Maruxia and Larxene (or rather, Elrena and Lauriam) are revealed to have raised Sora or even be his actual parents.
Their timing of arriving into the future and when they became nobodies lines up perfectly and you can not explain this drawing on Sora's rooms wall in KH1 any other way. Their designs would likely already be made for Chain of Memories and the detail of someone with pink hair is too specific to be unintentional, and we only have one pink haired character in Kingdom Hearts who also happens to have a blond haired girl as a companion.

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>>744671913
Technically KH3 had something close but they fucked up and tied them exclusively to the Keyblade Transformations.
Granted, they don't do quite as much as KH2 forms, but at least there's a thought. It's just wasted, unfortunately.

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>>744673916
If you zoom in you can even see Larxene/Elrena's hair things on her left and right in the drawing.
Organization 13 numbers are given based on when they joined. Larxene and Marluxia joined after everyone but Roxas, which lines up since the rest are from Radiant Garden which fell before Destiny Islands. The only two after them are Roxas and Xion, who were created after Destiny Islands fell to darkness so it lines up.
We also already have assets from Kingdom Hearts 1 being used in plot relevant manners, such as the pods in Hollow Bastion.

>>744671913
Speaking of Drive anyone else disappointed that you could not unlock the skin of the Drives so you can use it at any time? Always wanted to have the Brave form as Sora's default during the cut scenes.

Another thing anyone else hate how when leveling Drives you're not allowed to reach maximum level until you find the other Drives with Final Form being a secret? That is terrible because it keeps you crippled throughout most of the game.

>>744644608
>it also wasn't the normie friendly game they wanted
Most people want good game not shit ones so yeah.

>>744674023
forms are still cool and you can do crazy shit with them, even moreso than drives. and the fact you can hold a form on a keyblade is great.

>>744674174
nah it worked well to limit how op you can get

>>744622072
I hope there's nothing Disney related besides Donald goofy and Mickey. kek