We really trusted that they were keeping all the juicy secret close to the chest with those kh3 trailers… I was so disappointed when I realized how much they really showed us ahead of turn

I think Square Enix needs to adopt a more restrictive "less is more" kind of policy. They have already sold Kingdom Hearts 4 to many of us fans. Showing off Disney Worlds is fine because that can entice more of Disney's broad audience. Gameplay by itself is also fine because that is the core video games in general. But when it comes to the story, test our patience until the game releases, add a few teasers that won't spoil anything out of context, and don't give us answers we desperately want until the game comes out.

I want a continuation of tron being alive, they didn't do justice for tron.

Back in the 90's and early 00's video games as well as movies were limited to two trailers. It's time to go back to that formula.

I'm okay with them revealing Disney worlds, as, again, that's normal. What I'm not okay with is them showing off every world boss like they did in whatever trailer it was. I got a few worlds into that trailer, realized what was happening, and stopped.

I feel this way about every game, but especially Kingdom Hearts: a 'spoiler' isn't just the plot twist, and it's not even necessarily the story. The characters or locations shown can themselves be spoilers, especially in a long-running franchise like Kingdom Hearts. They showed the back of Roxas at the end of a trailer. That practically confirmed, itself, that both Roxas and Xion would be saved by the end of the game. Just like... when you know the character arcs and significant locations, seeing characters and places teased in a trailer can give you a decent expectation of what they're doing there, too.

Like honestly they shouldn't have showed Dark Aqua during the trailers, it really ruined that moment for me

I agree. A lot of the major points that were revealed in the trailer lowered the impact they had for me when I played the game. I personally don't mind world reveals, as long as they're not original worlds since a lot of the plot for things like Pirates of the Carribean we kinda already know, or those who were old enough to watch the movies. And you know what... I might just not watch the rest of the trailers. Maybe one or two when it's gameplay, but other than that, nah.

Avoid any story elements/visuals, keep everything a mystery

They should keep some of the worlds as a surprise this time.

Maybe if we didn't have to wait so damn long we wouldn't have had 16 trailers I'm guessing they wanted to keep us updated

Imo rule of thumb with japanese media is to avoid trailers if you don't want spoilers. This isn't just a square thing, you can see this done with anime and film as well. Seems to be a cultural difference more than anything

It’s a trade off between having super hype trailers that surprise us, or waiting longer to experience that excitement and surprise. The long time waiting for KH3 release didn’t help with this decision. I think in order to keep people excited for the game Square Enix felt like they had to have those surprises in the trailer. We won’t be waiting as long for KH4, so hopefully Square Enix trusts that we will stay excited without them giving away so many surprises in the trailers.

I feel like kh3 would have been a bit more liked if the whole game wasn't spoiled.

For me, no amount of trailers seen or unseen would've helped in regards to my personal experience of it. I just hope that more thought and care is put into the *actual* story of KH.

With everything they showed in the trailers, I had this idea in my mind: “If they showed this much, I can’t wait to see what they DIDN’T show.” Come to find out when I finished the game that they showed EVERYTHING. Even after the Xehanort fight, I thought there was more to the game with Sora still having to save Kairi just to find out that that was the end!

im glad i skipped most trailers and my bad memory makes up for anything i did see, kingdom hearts 3 was a surprise to me

Can we please just get a non-mobile remake or cinematic before KH4 that summarizes the plot of all the mobile games??

...... I never knew I dodged a trailer bullet this whole time😂.

Nomura said "well...those trailers only show a minimum dont worry...we didnt show the best parts" - aha...

dont forget they showed Roxas taking off his hood in the Keyblade Graveyard in the BIG HERO 6 TRAILER

8:18 when you stabbed your toe but everyone is alseep 🤣

i watched no trailer and was disappointed about the story. cant imagine how bad it must have been for someone who watched all the trailers

Bro I saw the title talk to my guys about what you might mentioned and we had questions that you legitimately answered throughout the video, top tier content right here. 👌🏾👌🏾

My ideal promotion for KHIV is they reveal every world except for 3-4 and they only show everything up to the mid point of the game story wise. I think they'll keep things secret as this is a beginning of a new arc, but I want them to keep certain things quiet like Ava and Subject X. What I'm saying is a promotional cycle similar to Stranger Things 4 would be enough for me.

You know that aint gonna happen. Square knows the saying: "There is a sucker born every minute" very well.

I think they should show trailers of only Disney stuff, no endgame stuff. Hard core fans are always buying the game guaranteed because of the endgame, so you don’t have to show it in trailers and risk spoiling it.

PLEASE JUST DON’T MAKE THE COMBAT FLOATY! 😩

This is just gonna be me, but I actually want Square Enix to hide as much of the main plot of Kingdom Hearts IV and any of the possible Guardians of Light who appear in the game as much as possible: It would be make experiencing Sora going against the Foretellers and his reunions with other characters much more impactful if we came in with the mindset of them possibly not appearing

Since Me and my Brother only watched like Rapunzel, and the ´general Trailer, we went in almost completely fresh. I hope KH4 doesnt do like Cyberpunk with revealing the whole story and its side missions lol... Tho we have to say, the leak of those illegal copies of KH3 were mainly at fault for its "promotion" so early...

Square Enix please take your time to make kingdom hearts 4 don’t rush and don’t release the trailer until kingdom hearts 4 about to be release.

I never got spoiled for KH3 because I was too busy playing and finishing the other games in the series for the first time, even after receiving the KH3 in the mail. So all the beats that the game was trying to give actually left an impact on me.

You heard the man, DONT do it Square Enix. We’re watching you…

Ok I'm gonna be honest, I was excited every time we got a kh3 trailer and when it got leaked, I watched a lot of the gameplay before my copy came, but I agree with this. I watched Dr. Strange a few days ago without seeing a single trailer (other than the after credits scenes from No Way Home) and it made the experience so much better for me.

Aqua is a character that only Kingdom Hearts fans actually know. The casual gamer knows Sora and maybe the rest of the Destiny Island trio, but that's probably it. Showing Anti-Aqua definitely got loads of attention, memes, and "she's been Norted!!", but I agree that it might not have been the best move because the people most invested in Aqua's story, or even know who she is, were gonna buy the game anyway.

As someone who never watched the KH3 trailers... HOLY SHIT thats bad. Thank god I didnt watch it and absolutely ruin my first experience with the game.

They really messed up with the PR of KH3. I'm fine with them revealing all of the disney worlds, but showing anti-Aqua and the three final worlds was too much.

That commercial break at around 8:20 something lol

I'll probably watch one more trailer just to see what the game looks like in unreal 5. Other than that, I'll try to avoid them, but the problem is avoiding trailer spoilers is almost impossible online. Even if you don't actually watch the trailers, you'll inevitably run into thumbnails or headlines that throw the biggest juiciest spoilers right in your face, and you won't realize what you're reading until you've already read it. I don't know if just trying to avoid them is a tenable option. We really just need to hope that they won't release as many trailers as they did for KH3. I really hope they've learned their lesson from that debacle. My ideal is just 2 trailers-one as a beta teaser focusing on setting up tone and story, and a second, fuller trailer elaborating on story content while also showing a decent amount of gameplay and level design. That's it. Keep in mind, for KH1 and 2 we only got I think one main trailer for each game and a couple of TV spots. That's the right way to go about it. Maintain the mystery.

I went completely into media blackout *for years* and the Toy Story world blew my mind. I did the same for FF7R.

I know something that's worse. NFT Keyblades in KH4.

Time to watch this thanks for the content as always

We all got our ups and down with KH3. For me it was no arena/coliseum and hardly any FF characters for Base game. Kimahri in Arendelle was a missed opportunity. Still enjoyed the game. It was at the end of the day a very fun game. But it could of felt a little bit more like a "Kingdom Hearts" game. It suppose to be a crossover. However I gotta admit....the "Donald Duck" moment was a very VERY Final Fantsy thing to do. Cheers and hopes for the best!

"You can get a rather good idea of what was happening in Kingdom Hearts 3 just based on the trailers" Nomura: Really? Time to make the plot even more confusing.

Please for the love of God, don't give us another Pirates of the Caribbean world

I agree don’t drip feed the plot please. Maybe 1 trailer per e3 period. And maybe one at games award per year so that makes 6 if a 2024 becomes a reality

They didn't really do anyone any favors as it got closer to the release date we've got so many trailers, sometimes between 2 or 3 in one session.

I had the exact same experience with the new Dr Strange movie. The trailers pretty much revealed all key points of the movie. Really hope this does not happen with KH 4.

When I saw the thumbnail, I thought this was going to be about NFTs for Kingdom Hearts IV.

Thank you for being back full fledge on KZfaq I appreciate you taking time to fuel our nerdy addiction to kingdomhearts and obviously crazy chicken shooter shit slaps

I feel like they've learned how much they fucked up for KH3 when it comes to trailers. I expect at most 6 trailers atm for kh4 especially considering that game development won't take as much to finish. But still if they show any of the end game sequences .. i'll be malding hard xD

6:41 ROLLIN' AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND!

Square showed off a lot for FF7R too, even tho many know the story. I understand profit is important, but it seems they care little to nothing about surprising us through our personal experience. God of War 2018 is a good example of how to market. They concealed many surprises and that game scored 10 across the board and won GOTY. Take note Square, take note.

I'd love to be in the camp of "I'm ONLY watching the first trailer," but I know for a fact my KZfaq will be full of news, my Instagram will be full of news, my Twitter will be full of news, and even if I somehow avoided all of that, my friend would probably send me the news.

I will say that I couldn't stand when the trailer for possesed/dark aqua being revealed how much people would say; " aqua got norted guys! omg, aqua got norted!" me: "yeah? oh no...." inside it was like well, now for another trailer to reveal the ending of the game now at this point.

The worst part about the anti-aqua reveal was that it actually lead us to think she got norted, which would have been 1000 times more interesting, just to find out she was just angry cause she got pushed into the darkness pool and needed some slaps

At least we got a bunch of reaction videos from ya boy jared. That was a lot of fun.

Bacon, lettuce, cheese and goddamn tomato on a small ciabatta with relish! Square Enix needs to chill with their marketing

I definitely want to see the box art though cause as soon as that drops I’m making it my phone wallpaper

I've also assumed the concept of Watch the initial reveal trailer. watch the first proper gameplay trailer. then just wait until game releases. so as to go into the game as blind as possible.

Yeah I remember they were making trailers for each world you visit as the release date was nearing.

So far, Final Fantasy XVI is exactly what I want out of KH4's promotion cycle. It was announced, we get mini tidbits of detail every so often, no trailer, no news or anything for about a year. And then BOOM: within the coming weeks, we're set to have a final trailer and the release date at some point this year or early next at the latest. It's wonderful we know very little about FF16, and considering we're diving into so much unknown with fictional worlds and Quadratum, I want the exact same for KH4

We’re not getting 16 trailers for KH4. We’re likely getting a third of that, so long as work continues to go smoothly.

While Square DID show off way too much of the game before release, this was also in part due because of the need to start from scratch when they swapped from their engine to Unreal Engine. That caused a much longer delay hence why they probably felt the need to consistently show off more, so that way they wouldn't just show off nothing for all those years of delayment

Boutta just stay off social media the day trailers drop. If it’s Disney worlds, I’ll be okay with it, but I don’t wanna be spoiled with the KH story aspect.

I avoided all of the KH3 trailers and I am so glad I did.

Yeah this is something that Square must not do for KH4 (I know MoM dodged the bullet tho that was a smaller entry and the plot was mostly at the end of the game) and I would also say the same for FF7R Part 2. As they did spoil a bit of endgame with FF7R Part 1 with the final trailer, especially with Sephiroth stabbing Barret. But man, aside from the KH3 final battle trailer: Demon Tower sucking the guardians to death, Sephiroth stabbing Barret in FF7R Part 1’s Final Trailer and lastly FUCKING THE SPECIAL NOISE KILLING PRETTY MUCH THE ENTIRE CAST IN NEO TWEWY WHICH WAS SHOWN IN NEO TWEWY’S FINAL TRAILER. Square has an annoying habit of thinking that a good way of marketing is to have main characters hurt or dead during the endgame section to really really want players to buy their game. When it really loses that impact and shock value when people do see it from the trailer first and then the game.

Thankfully avoided Squares final trailer for FF7 Remake which had spoiled some stuff (around end game too).

i never really knew that many trailers for KHIII even existed. my cousin and i stayed away from as much as possible, and we both had an amazing experience with the game. one event i see everyone disappointed in, was the reveal of Dark Aqua. and not to rub it in people’s faces, but my cousin and I FREAKED when she came on screen.. because we genuinely, no pun intended, stayed in the dark about it. i really hope whoever reads this kinda gets the idea: just dont watch the trailers. they spoil way more than you think. much love :)

It was hilarious remembering people insist "They are still hiding 90% of it" when really we all might as well have played e game before it came out.

This is one of the reasons why I try my best to skip trailers from games or shows like pretty much all trailers do this and kills all the hype and suspense

Im sure when people saw Anti Aqua they thought it was going to play a bigger part in the main game since they went out of their way to show her. But nope. 1 boss fight and we slap the darkness out of her. YouForReal?!

I totally agree with this, I felt the exact same way, kind of sucks cuz I cant help myself when a new trailer comes out but I may have to hold off on watching the trailers after they reveal the release date

I’m aware the topic of this video is they shouldn’t even give the option to watch this stuff in trailers, but I thought it was worth noting that you don’t have to watch them if they do. I never watched the opening movie or the final battle trailer just because I knew I didn’t need to see that stuff before playing.

Y'all remember when they showed the boss of EVERY Dianey world? I don't know about Square, but I've learned my lesson. Thankfully I now have ways to tell if a trailer will be spoilery or not.

Yknow Maybe the reason so many people were saying that kingdom hearts three felt incomplete was because of how much the trailers revealed and it felt like we already knew everything about the game before we even got to the game itself

Are those Keyblade wands in the background? Or maybe quils?

With this new kingdom hearts, I would love it if they had a star wars world. It would fit so well with the themes of light and darkness. Keyblade masters are also kind of parallel to jedi and sith. I also really hope they put in a final fantasy world. Speaking of which, it would be nice if they went the final fantasy route where after a character joins your party, they travel with you to different locations and their character development happens over the course of the game instead of just being limited to a small section or "worlds" In the case of kingdom hearts. For example, if we could swap jack sparrow into the party in any world after we unlocked him and he remained part of the story after his section was completed.

The only one I will say I appreciated going a little over or it was showing the intro, just because it really cemented the idea that the game was almost in my hands

I’ve already made the decision to not watch anymore trailers after the next one

When the Kingdom hearts 3 final trailer came out the reveal of anti aqua and scala ad caelum was unnecessary for those trailers and when new kingdom hearts 4 trailers come out ima be cautious on the wording of the trailers as best as i can especially anything with the word final in it

I’ve been watching your KH3 let’s play videos while I work recently and in every other video, if not every video, you mentioned a story bit that you were anticipating in a trailer. Specifically seeing Young Xehanort in San Fransokyo or all the characters surviving the keyblade war after being decimated by Terranort

It was only snippets of the opening movie. Not the whole thing by any means. But good point.

Really what the issue with Kingdom hearts 3 was people getting it early and then there's a live streaming it so you could already know what happens in the game more so than the commercials and the promotional content

Jared: *grabs the camera and talks directly into it* Me: Ok, but your eyes are really pretty, holy fuck?

Oh, I thought you were worried Square Enix would put NFTs into Kingdom Hearts 4 somehow. Cause fuck that noise too.

Square has to have one of the worst marketing teams in gaming. they either show to much, or show stuff to early that ends up ultimately getting removed. they gave us the kh4 trailer, which gives us a good conceptual idea of what its gonna be. Now they just need to make sure they don't show to much, or only shows us stuff that is to make it in the final gane.

Kingdom hearts was all about making fans ask questions and theorize about the many possibilities only to end up being shocked by the actual events, what they did in those trailers sadly was raise some questions and hype only to answer them in the next trailers , for example : we were curious about how they would save aqua or ventus , only for them to not only show anti aqua but then proceed to show a sequence of her AND VEN being chained in the keyblade graveyard Meaning : they end up being saved and something happened for them to get chained Another huge example is Xehanort himself , we were wondering how would he even comeback , we ended up being answered very vaguely in a cutscene (which in itself had to be explained in Re:Mind) only for them to show him and his other selves , showing Xion (i won't dwelve further on this cause we all thought she'd be saved by the gang not brought back by MX), show him SUMMON KINGDOM HEARTS ( i.e : he succeeds in doing so somehow) BUT SHOWING HIM IN SCALA WITH HIS OTHER SELVES CAN BE ONE , why the heck would you even do that ! I reaaaaaaaaaaallly hope they don't end up explaining Luxu's story or MoM's origin , let alone explaining Quadratum and its character's stories/development in the upcoming trailers Square , if you happen to somehow read this comment ! LEAVE US IN THE DARK DON'T HYPE US WITH SPOILERS !

Honestly I can say kh3 was my least favourite out of the trilogy (not including the Nintendo/BBS games). Idk I just felt like something didn’t hit right with me, maybe cause it felt like they crammed everything KH related in the end and focused on Disney. The other games had a strong blend of both by making sora revisiting traverse/hollow bastion to further the main plot and having a organization 13 really be the main antagonist in the Disney worlds (like beast and Xaldins}. And I felt like the bosses in the game were very lacklustre, Final fantasy characters were pretty much non-existent, and have more organization 13 battles in the Disney worlds (idk fighting organization 13 members inside a Disney world just hits different). Before I start ranting I’ll stop.

One thing I do like about the Scala ad cealum as unnecessary as it was, was that I thought sora would be on his own but then in the final game he’s with Donald and goofy. That was the clever move. Best thing about kh3! The dynamic between those 3 was just incredible!

Yeah, I mean, I remember us thinking they wouldn't reveal anything too important but they revealed so much important shit. Like, not only did they reveal Anti-Aqua, but they later showed the fight which made the actual moment where Sora shows up kinda meh. That's one example. Don't get me started on all of the Keyblade Graveyard stuff and ESPECIALLY on the Scala reveal...

I think one of the best things I did for myself and my KH3 experience was to stop watching the trailers. Some trailers were so hype that I couldn't avoid them because they blew up the KH community (looking at the Anti Aqua trailer), but I didn't know all of the Disney world's that would appear, I didn't watch the opening movie, or the final trailer, etc. It took a crap ton of self control, but when I hear about so many people being disappointed in the game, I can't help but think how many of those people's experiences got let down because they essentially knew (or THOUGHT they knew) everything that was gonna happen?

The Anti Aqua take is 10000% correct

The problem here was that to prove that the game was still in development and to maintain the hype train for the game, they had to show stuff. Impacting stuff. Stuff that would be talked about everywhere (the spoilery bits). If they learned, if the game is just 2 to 3 years ahead, I think they'll think twice before showing stuff

To be fair Kh3 didn't have many ACTUAL game story elements until the end. So they didn't have much non disney stuff to put in the trailers. But yeah they definitely reveal too much. Like the whole game pretty much

I mean to be completely fair the majority of the actual KH content separate from the Disney stuff was actually at the endgame and stuffed in at about the last 3-4 hours. The problem was more with the content structure of the game which in turn led to many of the other problems. Lets just hope that Nomura made his point to SE and that Disney doesn't have such a heavy hand in this release. Also if you don't believe me just go back and look at old KH2 trailers where at that point we get the plot and spoilers are spoilers. They show just enough to get the watcher hyped, yet we don't know what's actually going on at all, and the content is spaced out accordingly.

I honestly don't care if they show the disney stuff, the original worlds in other hand... Please don't. :v

Well this time around we're hopefully not going to be waiting 14 years for KH4 like we did for 3 which is probably why we got as many trailers we did for 3.

i agree! showing the reveal of anti-aqua in the frozen trailer took away the suprise awell as scala ad cealum and xehanort :( Edit: forgot to mention Ventus and Vanitas-

They won’t need to reveal everything in the trailers since it’s been 3 years since numbered titles not 13.