Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-48285-20161205164344/@comment-26871067-20171116002656

Pigzillion wrote: When the hell was Kingdom Hearts 3 even announced? Seems like a decade's past already. Well, it's been 15 years since KH1 was released so it's actually even worse. There was a huge developmental setback regarding the engine switching from Luminous to Unreal, and next-gen console release meant even more production delays. Assuming the game will launch in 2018 as intended, it'll have been 13 years since KH2's release. From my recollection, the KH3 announcement teaser (which was just a clip of Sora picking up Master Eraqus's Keyblade on the beach of Destiny Islands) was at E3 in... 2013? Nomura was attached to FF for a significant chunk of the time between then and now, so how long the game was actually in development is another matter entirely.

I've read transcripts of interviews that indicate Nomura regrets the 2013 teaser and feels they should have waited to announce the game, because it was in such an early state in development. Apparently he felt like he needed to give fans something after so long, but in the end all he ended up doing was getting people hyped too soon and now we're all going "where the fuck is KH3". The new trailers look wild though, looking forward to finding out whether Nomura has been baiting me on certain character returns via DDD's chronicles feature and the Orchestra World Tour.