Square Enix published something pretty unexpected today, a 2-minutes long video ofKingdom Hearts 3in stop-motion. The video has Sora, Donald and Goofy fighting a bunch of Heartless and Nobodies in the Toy Story world.
For some reason, the whole scuffle starts are Sora tries to pick up aKingdom Hearts IIIdisc to play the game. There are multiple interpretations which could be made here. Maybe the Heartless are the horde ofKingdom Heartsgames between 2 and 3, trying to make Sora play them first. And the Nobody must be series director Tetsuya Nomura, as he fell into darkness following a lack of sleep by working onKingdom Hearts 3’s DLC. That or him not wanting Sora to play his own game and realize his current master’s writing isn’t perfect, especially when it comes to pacing, always making players go through Disney storylines with no real weight for 80% of the time before getting into the main course.
In any case, stop-motion is an extremely time-consuming animation method, and I wouldn’t be surprised if dozens of hours of work were required to make this 2 minutes video. Regardless of what you thought ofKingdom Hearts IIIand what you think of the series as a whole, you’ve gotta hand it to Square Enix’s promotional team.
Maybe by the time Kingdom Hearts π or something releases, Disney will have bought over Aardman Animations, and the game will be the ultimate crossover betweenFinal Fantasy, Star Wars,andWallace and Gromit.
Kingdom Hearts IIIis available now on PS4 and Xbox One. You can checkour review here. The series also recently got a short “VR Experience” whichyou can try out for free.Tetsuya Nomura andKingdom Hearts 3’s team are currently working on a “big” paid DLC, which should release before the end of the year. Nomura is also pretty happy about how the game performed andthanked the fans. He also shared some hints onKingdom Hearts 3’s mysteries and what kind of story content will be included in the paid DLC.You can read all about that here.
