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Kingdom Hearts 4 "will be ready well before the release date," Tetsuya Nomura says, as the JRPG's development is going smoother than it has "in the history" of the series

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Kingdom Hearts IV
Genres · adventure, hack_and_slash, rpg
Release · Q4 2027
Developer · Square Enix
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