by Kingdom Hearts 4 was announced over two years ago, but apparently no one took the time to tell Sora’s English voice Haley Joel Osment.
In April 2022, in celebration of Kingdom Hearts’ 20th anniversary, Square Enix finally revealed that Kingdom Hearts 4 was in the works. It was no surprise that a new game is in the works, Kingdom Hearts 3 ended on quite a cliffhanger and Melody of Memory upped that even further, but in a recent interview with IGN, Sora’s voice actor Haley Joel Osment revealed that he actually knew not that the game was in development. ‘I hope we hear something about it [Kingdom Hearts 4] I think there are rumors of another one coming soon,” the actor told IGN.
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“I’m always the last to know because I’m the last step in the process. So hopefully I’ll be back in the studio soon to find out what happened to everyone.” As Osment notes, English voices are usually one of the last things done for Japanese games, so don’t take him as a reason to worry (he’s also more of a live-action actor these days, so it’s understandable if he not keeping up with every latest update like the rest of us).
IGN informed him that the fourth game was on the way, and that director Tetsuya Nomura recently shared that it will bring the story to its conclusion. In turn, Osment replied, “You know, I’m sure [Nomura] has big plans to complete it in a satisfying way. And I think sometimes that’s the best thing to do, even if you have something that you love and you feel like you want to play it forever, to capture it in a fun way and not let it go any further then drag where the creator wants it. it to go. I think this is the right way. And obviously there are many, many hours of gameplay for people to come back to.”
There hasn’t been any news about it since Kingdom Hearts 4, and a new mobile game called Missing Link is coming out this year, but it’s also MIA. And with a very important older mobile game also being delisted in August, it’s a bit unclear what’s next for the series.
