The hotly anticipated Kingdom Hearts 3 will feature an ‘almost seamless’ game world complemented by infrequent loading times, according to Game Director, Tetsuya Nomura.
Speaking Engadget, Nomura-san revealed that the upcoming Disney-flavoured RPG will feature far bigger environments than any of its predecessors, though isn’t strictly an open-world title. Nonetheless, loading times will be significantly reduced.
“While the world may not be comparable to massively open-world titles, it’s far bigger than previous Kingdom Hearts titles,” Nomura said. “There’s a huge decrease in load times, too.
“In previous games, you’d run to the end of an area and it would go dark before transitioning to the next stage — now it’s become seamless, as you can see in the trailer when Sora jumps off the mountain you’ve just battled up.
“The environments themselves, in Kingdom Hearts III, things will be affected by real-time actions, a tornado spell will swirl the blades of grass surrounding it.”
Elsewhere, he also touched on the game’s graphics and control interface, revealing Kingdom Hearts 3 has seen an improvement in regards to visuals since we last saw the title.
“Compared to the initial first look at the game, in the trailer we’re showing now, the visual aspects have evolved a lot,” Nomura said. “Not only the particle effects within the battles, but also the sheer scale of it.”
“Coming from Kingdom Hearts II, there won’t be a huge difference in battle controls — we’re not going to change how you jump or anything — it’ll be more of an evolution. Depending on how we utilize the touchpanel, we may not need other forms of control [for certain actions].”
Kingdom Hearts 3 received a brand new trailer during Square Enix’s E3 2015 press conference earlier this week. The game is in development for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, though we’re still no closer to finding out a release date at this point.
Despite this, it is believed the game will likely come out after March 31, 2016. Development is said to be progressing smoothly.