I’ve been having these bizarre ideas recently… like, ought to I’m going again and replay the Kingdom Hearts collection or not? Fortuitously, Sq. Enix has made this choice trivial with the announcement that it’s releasing the collection on Steam on June thirteenth. To have fun, and maybe destabilize a complete technology of adults for whom the first Kingdom Hearts trailer was a transformative expertise (aka, me), a trailer was launched with a brand-new recording of Hikaru Utada’s “Easy and Clear.”
Those that buy Kingdom Hearts III + Re Thoughts DLC may also get a particular keyblade, “Useless of Night time,” which appears to be like fairly slick in Steam Brand blue and gray. Every of the three video games is itself a bundle of a bunch of KH video games spanning platforms and console generations. You will discover a full breakdown of which recreation is in what bundle right here or on every recreation’s Steam web page.
There’s additionally the truth that these video games are releasing per week earlier than Summer season Recreation Fest with Geoff Keighley posting in regards to the recreation probably suggesting Kingdom Hearts IV would possibly make an look. Getting a brand new crop of gamers into the collection proper earlier than sharing extra data on the following entry looks as if a shrewd thought.
It’s exceedingly hilarious that regardless that this Steam trailer lists the video games in chronological order, the video games themselves will not be bundled that means. If you wish to play the way in which the trailer lays all of it out, you’ll have to begin by watching (as a result of it’s a film, not a recreation) Again Cowl on Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8, then leap to Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 to play Start By Sleep earlier than leaping again to KH2.8 to play Start by Sleep – A Fragmentary Passage. Easy proper?
Talking of easy, Hikaru Utada’s new model of “Easy and Clear” moved me to tears. I used to be a type of youngsters who wasn’t the most important Disney fan however was into Japanese pop, visible kei (consider a Japanese model of glam steel), and Japanese rock. Listening to that new tackle such a beloved track made me really feel each 16 years outdated and 36 years outdated however in a great way. This factor that I’ve cherished, which has impressed the sorts of feelings that led me to my job at present, has grown up with me, however not a lot that it’s unrecognizable to my youthful self. And after I return and play these easy and clear video games — a few of them once more and a few of them for the primary time — I hope I can face my fears from earlier disappointment and be reminded of the sanctuary I cherished a lot.