Tetsuya Nomura Offers Promising Update on Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 and Kingdom Hearts 4

Director Tetsuya Nomura has heard the cries for updates connected Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 and Kingdom Hearts 4, and he’s blessed to study that improvement is “progressing truly smoothly.”

It’s a mostly inconsequential but inactive invited update for 2 of Square Enix’s astir anticipated games that arrived during the caller Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis 2nd day broadcast. As reported connected and translated by Gematsu, Nomura took the accidental to code waves of comments from fans hoping to spot the squad marque an announcement.

“Apparently, [co-director Motomu] Toriyama mentioned successful an interrogation that thing mightiness beryllium released astir the 2nd day [of Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis],” Nomura said erstwhile addressing comments specifically related to the Final Fantasy 7 Remake series. “So that’s astir apt wherever those expectations are coming from. Right, truthful things are progressing truly smoothly. I can’t truly accidental much — if I abruptly went, ‘Well, actually...,’ everyone would beryllium truly surprised! [Laughs.]”

Nomura goes arsenic acold arsenic to accidental that the “release timing has already been decided” but stops abbreviated of clarifying erstwhile precisely Square Enix volition stock more. For now, helium asks fans to beryllium patient, adding that enactment connected Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is “moving guardant according to that schedule.”

RPG fans person been connected the hunt for quality astir the adjacent introduction successful the Final Fantasy 7 Remake bid since its past installment, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, launched successful aboriginal 2024. We cognize improvement started arsenic aboriginal arsenic June 2022, with Square Enix saying past twelvemonth that its extremity is to spot it motorboat by 2027. Excitement for the 3rd and last section successful the trilogy grew adjacent much erstwhile the squad revealed that it had completed its communicative earlier this year.

Development for Kingdom Hearts 4, meanwhile, is progressing successful a likewise affirmative direction, though Nomura says adjacent little astir erstwhile immoderate further updates whitethorn get connected this front.

“And this has besides travel up successful the comments present and there,” Nomura added, “but Kingdom Hearts IV is likewise steadily moving guardant according to schedule, truthful delight look guardant to it.”

Kingdom Hearts 4 was announced successful 2022, and updates person been distressingly fewer and acold betwixt since. It wasn’t until May 2025, not adjacent 4 months ago, that Square Enix was consenting to stock a important update, and adjacent then, each fans had to clasp onto was a fistful of caller screenshots and a abbreviated connection from the team.

“We’ve seen however excited you are, and we are genuinely grateful from the bottommost of our hearts," Square Enix said astatine the time. “We are arsenic excited and can’t hold to stock much astir Kingdom Hearts IV erstwhile the clip is right. Until then, we admit your patience.”

There’s nary telling erstwhile precisely we tin expect to perceive immoderate further updates connected Kingdom Hearts 4 oregon Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3. In the meantime, you tin work up connected everything we cognize astir the erstwhile here. You tin besides larn astir wherefore the squad down the second says it “will not cheat” erstwhile it comes to Final Fantasy 7’s iconic airship.

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