Kingdom Hearts 4 is an opportunity to win back lapsed fans
by Ash Parrish from The Verge - All Posts on (#5Y2HE)
Kingdom Hearts 4 needs to be a reset.
There was a time when news of a new Kingdom Hearts entry would have sent me into paroxysms of joy. But the announcement that Kingdom Hearts 4 is in the works barely inspired a huh, that's neat." I've been a faithful devotee of the Church of the Keyblade from the moment I heard Hikaru Utada's Simple and Clean." Kingdom Hearts and KH2 were my games, one of the foundational texts at the core of my identity as a gamer. But the spinoffs began to fragment across consoles I didn't own, and the story devolved into a quagmire of characters and plot points (Aqua got norted!) that even I, with my years of training in the gladiator pits of weird-ass World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy lore, could not...