Kingdom Hearts 3 release year confirmed

"If we are ever to strike down Xehanort, we need the individuals King Mickey spoke of in his letter. We must lead them out of sorrow and 
out of sorrow of slumber, and back to our world." - Yen Sid

Bringing that up again, eh Donald? :p

So after a long hiatus on this blog, I have been lacking in motivation to play the games, but now I do:

Kingdom Hearts 3 = Out next year

Yep, at the Disney D23 Expo, which is all things Disney, you had to expect some Kingdom Hearts news(after all, they own the rights to the games) but this is new: There had been summoning code in KH2 for Woody and Buzz Lightyear, the heroes of the Toy Story movies, but progress was cut because of time limits. Now they finally have a more prominent role in their own world. Yep, we will be visiting Andy's house in Toy Story lore.

I have seen some of the original Toy Story movie (mainly the ending - "I wasn't aiming for the truck." ^_^ ) but didn't really like the movies in general as they were a bit too G-rated for my tastes. However, Kingdom Hearts made animated movies that creeped me out(The Little Mermaid and The Lion King) palatable so why not Toy Story? Now that Kingdom Hearts 3 is in ADHD(thanks to the Unreal 4 Engine), Pixar films are no longer sacred cows for the franchise. Will we expect a Finding Nemo world?

HELL NO. Not if those who hate The Little Mermaid now because of Kingdom Hearts' treatment of the underwater genre did to it. :(

But there are a lot of Pixar Films.

So the world we know will be playable are Twilight Town(due to trailers), Hercules' world for the umpteenth time(but it'll be a lot bigger than before and we'll get an actual epic battle with Rock Titan instead of the joke he was in the Hades Cup back in vanilla KH), the Tangled world, Big Hero 6's world, and now Toy Story's world.

Will there be more worlds? Well, considering that every world is now sixty times more explorable than before(after all, Aqua's time in the Realm of Darkness in 0.2 was rumored to be as big as a world in KH3 and that took a long time to complete!), the ratio will be different so there may not be as many worlds as in Kingdom Hearts 2, but there will be a few more worlds, including the "Chain Town" that was supposedly leaked where Sora and his Disney buddies get acquainted with, and hopefully a revisit to Radiant Garden as it gets rebuilt. But I am pleased with what they showed, especially at the end with Sora and Saix facing off. (Or is that Young Xehanort?)

I am going to busy myself getting some of the platinum trophies for the Kingdom Hearts series before New Years. Have a Happy Heartless Hunting! :D