Kingdom Hearts 4’s first new world is inspired by Pixar’s Coco
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Disney has confirmed that Kingdom Hearts 4 will feature a world inspired by Pixar’s Coco, unveiled during its D23 Entertainment Showcase. The reveal matters because it is the game’s most substantial gameplay showing since its 2022 announcement, and accompanied confirmation of a release window and a Kingdom Hearts anime series.
The trailer visits Coco’s Land of the Dead, where Sora wears Día de los Muertos-style face paint and joins Miguel and Héctor to fight Heartless enemies, gaining a Coco-themed Keyblade. Donald and Goofy appear separately while searching for Sora in the Underworld and Quadratum, the game’s realistic, Tokyo-inspired hub city.
- Kingdom Hearts 4 will include a Coco-inspired world.
- Sora teams up with Miguel and Héctor.
- The trailer is the game’s biggest gameplay reveal yet.
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Kingdom Hearts is a series of action role-playing games made by Square Enix in partnership with Disney. Its main character, Sora, travels between worlds based on Disney films with his companions Donald Duck and Goofy, fighting creatures known as the Heartless with a weapon called a Keyblade.
Coco is a Pixar film set around Mexico’s Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, and follows a boy called Miguel who enters the Land of the Dead. Its characters and setting are therefore being adapted as one of the places Sora can visit in the new game.
Kingdom Hearts 4 was announced in 2022 and is the next main instalment in the long-running series. It is expected to continue Sora’s story after he became separated from Donald and Goofy, including in a new city called Quadratum.