Kingdom Hearts director Tetsuya Nomura has said his team is “trying to find a good balance” of Final Fantasy characters in Kingdom Hearts 4.
Speaking to Game Informer, Nomura discussed a number of details about the forthcoming entry in the long-running series.
Yet asked if Kingdom Hearts 4 will bring back cameos of Final Fantasy characters, Nomura gave some interesting insight into balancing the game’s franchises.
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“One thing I want to clear up is that a lot of fans are saying that Kingdom Hearts is this collaboration between Disney characters and Final Fantasy characters. But I really feel like that’s not the basic concept of Kingdom Hearts; that’s not exactly what Kingdom Hearts is,” he said.
With the first Kingdom Hearts game on PS2, its original characters were unknown so the team added Final Fantasy cameos to flesh out the cast.
“Now, there are so many original characters from Kingdom Hearts that are so well-loved, and people want to see more of those characters. With Kingdom Hearts 3, since we did have so many original Kingdom Hearts characters, it was hard to find room for including more Final Fantasy characters,” he said.