Kingdom Hearts 3: 10 Hands-On Details You Need To Know

1. The Keyblade Transforms (And It's Magnificent!)

The biggest change would be the transformations for the keyblade, a feature also seen in Birth By Sleep. Each keyblade has different transformations and strategies that go with them. The Toy Story keyblade can transform into a heavy hammer, or a powerful drill. Each have situational advantages. One of the best quality of life improvements is switching keyblades on the fly, during combat, by simply pressing the left and right directional buttons. Make use of the Monsters Inc claws and yo-yos before switching to the Tangled staff for some beautiful magical attacks.

Sora’s keyblade won’t just be used in battle, it’ll also become a key aspect in the story.

Closing the worlds’ hearts was a feature in Kingdom Hearts 1, but the way you use the keyblade is different in each game, and as for KH3, it will be more used for opening new worlds, as in KH2.

The panels closed with messages from Nomura-san and Yasue-san. They were very pleased to be showing off their precious game for the first time in America because the area had given them a lot of inspiration for various aspects in the game, such as a mountain range in Yosemite inspiring the Olympus mountains. Kingdom Hearts 3 has been the culmination of years of hard work from a very passionate, very talented team.

We’re very excited to hear more about it next month, and we hope you are too.