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Kingdom Hearts IV Game Presents 4-Minute Trailer
posted on by Egan Loo
The D23 event's "Deep Dive into Kingdom Hearts" panel presented an extended four-minute trailer for the Kingdom Hearts IV game on Saturday. This trailer expands upon the 90-second version shown at D23 on Friday evening, and it highlights the Coco world, as well as familiar and new faces:
Japanese Version
The trailer introduces a new world in which a paper version of Mickey Mouse is playable. Franchise creator Tetsuya Nomura made a surprise appearance at the panel, and he and co-director Tai Yasue added that the staff is "100%" certain that they will meet the announced late 2027 release window.
Actor Benjamin Bratt confirmed on Friday that he will reprise his role as Ernesto de la Cruz in the game.
The game will launch simultaneously for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC via Microsoft Store, Steam, and Epic Games Store.
D23 announced on Friday that the franchise will have an "anime" series which will run on the Disney Channel and Disney Plus. Disney Games had stated on Thursday that the Kingdom Hearts game series is one of nine billion-dollar game franchises for the company.
Square Enix revealed the Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link and Kingdom Hearts IV games in April 2022, but had not revealed much information about Kingdom Hearts IV since then before releasing a new trailer in June. Square Enix canceled development on Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link in May 2025.
Square Enix had also announced in early June that it will release Kingdom Hearts Collection [I~III] — a collection of Kingdom Hearts - HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, and Kingdom Hearts III + Re Mind (DLC) — for Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Microsoft Store.
Square Enix released the Kingdom Hearts III game in January 2019 in Japan and the West for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game had shipped more than 5 million copies worldwide, including digital sales, as of February 2019, and is the fastest-selling title in the history of the franchise. The "Re Mind" DLC launched in January 2020.
Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts Union χ [Cross] and Kingdom Hearts Dark Road smartphone games were both originally supposed to end service in May 2021, but Kingdom Hearts Union χ [Cross] released its final story in June 2021 instead and both games switched to offline mode in the same month. Both games are available in one app.
Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory, the first rhythm action game in the franchise, launched for the Switch, PS4, and Xbox One in the West and in Japan in November 2020, and was previously the only title in the series available for Switch.
The franchise also includes manga and light novel adaptations of the games. Yen Press released some of these in English.
Sources: D23 event's "Deep Dive into Kingdom Hearts" panel, IGN's YouTube channel
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