KINGDOM HEARTS III - Development beta footage! [4K]

[@windy4566]

Somewhere deep in squares hq there are concept drawings for car sora and im not sure the world is ready for it 💀

[@lucylu3342]

Imagine pressing triangle to activate a team attack and hearing "Kachow!"

[@UndertakerU2ber]

@@lucylu3342 And then all of these race cars come outta nowhere and just steamroll Xehanort 🏎️ 🏁

[@KingdomHearts4KHML]

Wow can't believe i get to watch this again after this vid being taken down

[@coreysg9]

This isn't beta footage guys! This is just KH3 running natively on the Nintendo Switch!

[@jayevans6146]

Daym you right

[@SammEater]

Mortal Kombat 1 flashbacks...

[@blackheartaesthetic4432]

Lol

[@Jinsei24]

Literally the models for Noctis, Prompto, Lunafreya and Gladiolus 💀

[@NemesisSP]

Stella, not Luna. She's wearing Stella's dress, for one.

[@bazztek]

​@@NemesisSP It's Lunafreya's model, their clothes are swapped out and Luna wore the Roen dress in early versions of FFXV.

[@montyl.8232]

Well, these are Nomura’s Versus 13 characters, so yes lol. Besides Luna but she is pretty much same face and model as Stella.

[@ia7072]

​@@montyl.8232 Lunafreya is not from Nomura, Nomura was against the decision of deleting Stella and didn't create Luna.

[@montyl.8232]

@@ia7072 exactly why I said “besides Luna” duh

[@Mr.Silence.]

Beta yazora is literally using noctis engine blade

[@cxg732]

So Yozora is Noctis!!!

[@TRVPHAUS]

@@cxg732 -_____-

[@Chibi_Rikka]

@@cxg732 Yozora is the *original* Noctis, from before Square replaced his identity with the current Noctis in XV.

[@traversetowndistrict4922]

Its literally beta noctis just reused

[@NerdGeekTalk]

No he isn’t

[@Razzzzzi]

You are the G of the KH Fandom, Vessel. Keep on!

[@Xerzene]

The fact they still used Versus XIII characters when the date of the Verum Rex beta cinematic is 2017 is crazy to me. Like FF15 was released 1 year before the cinematic was being work on and they STILL decided to use Prompto, Gladiolus, Stella and the Engine Blade for Yozora? Idk bro but I'm amazed. Shout out to the man who leaked all this fr

[@TheDarkFuryKnight]

The verum rex beta animation was amazing

[@alternate720]

Too bad there’s no story board sketches for the camera animations :(

[@ultimate8948]

So Arnold is the master of masters! he's been in the shadows all along!

[@edoardopalmer2379]

i dont understand

[@soku330]

lol for those who don’t understand. Arnold is a render engine used in autodesk maya to pre render the cinematics. Funny thing square couldn’t borrow Disney’s Hyperion render engine. The one square is using is a free trial of Arnold

[@cxg732]

So Yozora is Noctis' nobody

[@enzobraik4401]

Somekind, Noctis'heart was put in somebody else that is Yozora

[@Fannintendociccio1]

That's literally prompto, noctis but blonde and with Riku's clothes, Stella herself for real, and gladiolus. Lmfao.

[@pablo5425]

scene was so early they were still using their FF15/v13 equivalents

[@pascalfernandes6957]

​@@pablo5425 yes.I asume mayby that early one Nomura hoped to still use Noctis? He did hint at them Meeting in a 2007i terview so maybythatwastje Initial ideaandff 15 made it so thathe canusehis Versus 13plot points as a Base for Yozoras Backstory with somenew ideas to fit it into kh Overall plot of Sora and Riku growing up

[@thezx5795]

@@pascalfernandes6957 I'm guessing you fell in the pool halfway through typing this comment? 🤣

[@HeartlessSeph]

That's Lunafreya, not Stella. It's the same model used after her ponytail comes loose.

[@Fannintendociccio1]

@@HeartlessSeph Luna and Stella look quite different, especially in the face, hair and clothes, and that is the Stella model from the vs13 final trailers. It's not Luna (and this continues into kh3, where the girl is called "nameless star" and has a star necklace, since stella means star.

[@Dr_Hax]

i think the use of 15's models mean they were just placeholders and were the inspiration for the final designs

[@mr.moonlight7810]

Yozora is Noctis is confirmed at this point, that engine blade looks so good.

[@retroman5432]

It's so obvious that both Yozora and Noctis are both gonna be in Kingdom Hearts 4.

[@Sanimatez7865]

I completely forgot in the intro to 0.2 they changed Fused Vanitas form where he has the chin part of his helmet and has blue eyes instead of yellow.

[@kermitwithamustache3885]

The Verum Rex behind the scenes is INSANE

[@Dylamn]

Always cool to see pre-rendered scenes as WIPs. I'll never forget seeing it for Sonic Heroes.

[@liljon042]

No freaking way it's literally the XV/VS XIII crew. Like we knew it was supposed to be them but now it's all but confirmed that verum rex is Nomura's hate fuck with VS XIII and KH. I can't wait to see what the hell is going to happen in 4

[@gamergod7434]

Nothing to do with hate. Its Nomuras dream to make VS XIII

[@iggyp4390]

@@gamergod7434 He didn’t have to shit all over Kingdom Hearts 3 to do it after making Kingdom Hearts fans wait for KH3 for 13 years because he wanted to work on Versus XIII first… It’s crystal clear by now that he did make KH3 out of anger and self-pity for himself not love and gratitude for his KH fans, and a lot of KH fans could feel that resentment even while playing the game. Of course he was devastated by Versus XIII, but he should have put that aside for a just a few years to focus on giving KH fans his best. KH fans just didn’t deserve to be so obviously sidelined from the person they called “Papa” Nomura. Hope he’s happy he finally made his “dream” come true, though.

[@liljon042]

@@gamergod7434 That's exactly why it's a hate fuck. Versus XIII was taken away from him, it was HIS project and HIS alone. And it was forcibly ripped out of his hands. And by now it's extremely clear that Nomura wants to tell the story of his VS XIII than Kingdom Hearts. It's not a knock on nomura or anyone/thing involved. It's just simply the facts

[@HydraTower]

I think he said their plans for KH4 have changed and there’s word that Versus XIII may become a reality after all. This could be why.

[@JKSmith-qs2ii]

@@iggyp4390 I would consider myself a fan of the KH games, and I quite liked III.

[@nachtflugel3947]

The music they used for the Verum Rex scene is what you would usually hear in trailers for movies/games irl, which is interesting.

[@donalddiehl2912]

does the premium showcase have the Toy Box demo with the deleted scene of Rex thinking that Donald and Goofy are Magia and Aegis?

[@orxenborexstudios42]

Hearing Let It Go in Japanese when I was fully bracing myself for English was so strange I had to do a double-take

[@pookyslickvoodoo9933]

Lmao same

[@xeienar]

@@Hugsloth where did you get this info? UE4 (KH3 engine) does not have any major problems with hair textures. the final product looks so close to the movie, honestly. perhaps this is from when KH3 used the luminous engine (before unreal's migration)?

[@ceejaytwoyoshi8536]

11:54 audiojungle ‼🗣

[@Fodimin]

Ah ee oooh

[@skyward157]

12:05 audiojungle

[@havocadvent2]

I’d be down to play versus audiojungle

[@ukemi-]

@@Fodimin i wish jerma was real 💔

[@adrianresa4179]

3:23 I actually prefer that Terranort smiles menacingly in the beta version and that both he and Ven-Vanitas walk up to Aqua right before Mickey shows up.

[@YopAlonso]

Everyone is (rightfully) surprised at the Verum Rex / VS XIII pseudo-confirmation, but can we take a moment to recognize the sheer respect for Frozen these previews show? That amount of care to recreate those scenes as close to source as possible can’t really be overlooked.

[@FluffyBirb]

I wasn't prepared for Japanese Donald

[@Im_Behind_You]

It says "GAME TITLE" at the end of the Verum Rex beta cutscene lmao

[@Chocc_Ice]

KH3 beta content leaked 😲 Its mostly Frozen cutscenes 😔

[@princessdawn982]

I hope Square doesn't make you take ot down. We as fans of games don't see stuff like this and it makes me appreciate it even more. The work they did, the progress they made to make kh3 what it ended up being. It's awesome!

[@nack1996nc]

We’ve finally seen Elsa unwrapping her braid without camera cuts 😂

[@JackAtlasDuelLinks]

After seeing that Varum Rex I imagine programmers making cinematics for the PSOne first then updating to PS2 and so.

[@rodnadur]

10:08 I'm getting nightmares from this 💀💀💀

[@coockabura8685]

The sound Donald makes 😨

[@AchicoXion]

I guess they still didn't have Donald's lines ahah

[@HupCapNinja]

So it’s basically confirmed that Verum Rex is clearly FFXV/VSXIII

[@Chibi_Rikka]

As if the secret ending in ReMind being a near shot for shot recreation of the VSXIII trailer didn't already confirm that. Nomura also stated that he's re-tooling certain unused concepts he had for VSXIII that got scrapped once it was eventually converted over to XV. Though the fact that this confirms the Nameless Star is in fact meant to be Stella is amazing.

[@HupCapNinja]

@@Chibi_Rikka Also don’t forget FFVII Remake and Rebirth had A LOT of Versus XIII Concepts even the opera with Jessie was a clear reference to FFXV with her doing the Logo.

[@Chibi_Rikka]

@@HupCapNinja Still haven't played them so no idea. Makes sense that he'd still want to use stuff that he couldn't fit into KH though.

[@UltimaSpark50]

Uh, yes? It's always been obvious that Verum Rex was born from Nomura's hangups over the VsXIII/XV development fiasco.

[@BackSlashJvb125]

the music for the verum rex GOT ME HYPED

[@trogkantusraam]

if this DOES get taken down by square (which hopefully it doesnt) just gunna say this was really interesting to watch, thanks for sharing with us 13th Vessel

[@FluffyBirb]

Honestly, I'd love to see a comparison video of the beta and finalized 2.8 openings. It'd be cool to see

[@degenerategamingCi]

0:10 Holy shit, Donald’s distorted Japanese voice caught me off guard 💀

[@KamyKam]

????

[@OhKayEl]

He probably means 10:09.

[@C4DNerd]

Yeah, the likely explanation for that is that Donald's official japanese voice actor didn't record their lines yet, so that was just someone in the dev team filling in as a temp VA. It's pretty commonplace in the industry, especially for stuff as early as this.

[@arturoayala1004]

1:47 no matter how many time passes, the 0.2 opening will always be a banger. (The 0.5 op as well too.) I think i like the japanese versión as well too.

[@specialpuncher-id]

That was magical like putting true love and delicate care into all that you are creating. So much attention to every details and meaning.

[@slobertooth1358]

It's bothering me that in the Kh3 beta for let it go, Elsa still has one of her gloves on the entire time 💀

[@millionshadesofdarkness2165]

So the original idea was for versusXIII to be directly connected to Kingdom Hearts. In a very old interview in the early 2000s, nomura said Versus13 was always meant to connect to Kingdom Hearts

[@argent790]

Do you have a link to the interview?

[@lightyearpig12]

Source?

[@Shadowtheflowhog]

I remember this.

[@Lucira]

@ProphetYodaWell to be fair, Versus wasn’t a mainline entry. Not until it was shifted to XV anyways

[@bazztek]

Those are clearly the FFXV models of the face/hair of Noctis, Lunafreya, Prompto and Gladio, not Versus XIII.

[@RaXZerGamingZ]

Nice, always amazed with what you find! Also "game title" at the end caught me off-guard lol 🙏🤟

[@kampetkeychain680]

I was unprepared for Japanese Donald and his voice 💀

[@FluffyBirb]

Around 11:55 I can hear it say audio jungle lmaoooo Infact, it says it again but super quietly at 12:06

[@barsabe]

so Ishimoto probably built his composition based on that weird stock trailer music

[@alchemike6346]

3:21 i am confused i remember Ven eyes being patched because they were blue at release but if this is the beta and has yellow eyes then what happened? Lol

[@SSlash]

yeah that is weird, I guess the only explanation is that it was some last minute screw up on someones part, like I'm pretty sure they outsource the final visual effects or most of the work on the CG stuff so somebody must've looked at a ven model for reference and thought the yellow was what was wrong, dunno how nobody woulda picked up on that or corrected it in time if it wasn't some batshit wild mistake like that

[@UserName-yh2jo]

If you're talking about this exact scene. The reason why Ven has yellow eyes, that's because in kingdom hearts : birth by sleep, the character vanitas went to Ven's heart and somehow got control of his body, that's why his eyes changed, you just need to play the game (or watch it on KZbin if you're lazy idk) to understand well.

[@alchemike6346]

@@UserName-yh2jo oh no i don't mean it like that i've done my homework long ago for that matter,i meant that back when 0.2 released the opening showcased Ven with blue eyes pretty much everyone were confused by that choice,then they patched it and made his eyes yellow like they were supposed to. The weird thing here is that they gave him the yellow eyes in a beta which is technically before 0.2's release.

[@cwooddirector]

Therapist: Uncanny valley puppet Elsa isn't real; it can't hurt you. 5:14

[@SammEater]

Oh damn, I didn't know this was leaked.

[@MarioTrioNumber1]

Elsa's mouth was moving like a dang puppet.

[@martysos5213]

Imagina que 0.2 estubiera pensado como el nivel tutorial de KH3 algo como Roxas en kh2 pero era tan largo que lo sacaron aparte

[@simosa.sokariz]

ARGH we could've had FFXV x KHIII but it changed to Yozora and the others

[@stevemclovin1566]

3:25 ooh my. I see where this is going.

[@tsumetai_kaze]

I find it way too funny the 2.8 opening has next to no physics applied to hair, clothing, chains, etc.

[@BioAlpha5]

Thank you for showing us these! i wonder if this build got leaked from the 1TB of data disney hack?

[@MichaelCarter1967347053]

I wonder if the premium showcase leak has the original rock titan boss music.

[@copythatdude6738]

What is the name of the song in the beginning?

[@Peepeepopox]

Thank You so much for all the footage!

[@anacheckingin]

Noctis, Prompto and Gladio. Oh my gawd. No freaking way. But iggy wasn't there sooo ...Im ok they went a different track 💀😂😭

[@Rocket_PC]

not the fucking audio jungle 😭😭😭

[@graduator14]

Great find!

[@AxeIVonDerlnfo]

I like this opening more, than the finished... And all the other things, too 🤔 Because they are more "simple"? But all in all I like both of them ^^

[@LadyTrollutena]

I wonder why they didnt keep ven-vanitas and terra-xehanort walking towards aqua in the opening? Them standing around looks so awkward

[@Ky_Grey95]

The Arnold watermarks are part of Autodesk

[@xeienar]

lmfao this futherly pushes the narrative that almost all of KH3 budget went into disney worlds. I don't want to imagine how much of a hassle they had to suffer. waiting for disney's confirmation for every single scene. no wonder nomura said KH3 stayed in development hell for a while.

[@Xerzene]

The game being in dev hell wasn't only thanks to Disney, is was also Square Enix fault for making a shitty engine to make games, the amount of different projects they wanted to tackle, and the mismanagement of the entire company. They were creating the white engine alongside FFXIII while also working on FFXIII-2, Lighting Returns, Versus XIII, FF Type-0, FFXIV, KH3 and FF7 Remake. This is the reason why they decided to put Nomura as director for KH3 and FF7 Remake instead of letting him continue working on FF Versus XIII, which ended up being FF15. It was thanks to Nomura and how he was constantly changing the story and characters of Versus XIII that they decided to stop the development of the game, but it's also Square Enix problem for letting him have any wild ideas instead of forcing him to have a clear vision of what Versus XIII should have been

[@sorafan421]

this is so interesting to see! i legit wouldnt care if developers showed stuff like this at game shows just to show that its coming along. obviously not this much but show that its in progress. can we normalize much earlier development snip-its!?

[@pookyslickvoodoo9933]

I'd be so down for that if they started showing early production stuff like this regularly.💯

[@novaspacewitch9963]

I love when Sora amd Donald summon plastic balls

[@SteackDeLamasticot]

Really cool seeing this wip let it go, i'm still surprised how good it looked for UE4

[@sodadogkarbonated]

Summoning...explosive spheres!

[@shepherdstar14]

Wait so does thus confirm that 0.2 was part of Kingdom Hearts III originally all along?

[@Xerzene]

I think is reasonable to think 0.2 was going to be the prologue of KH3 but they decided to cut it out and sell the game (is not a game, is a demo) separately for sum easy $$$

[@EntermateStar]

is Arnold the leaked name of the Master of Masters?

[@frans3090]

No (unfortunately) it's a rendering program made by autodesk.

[@EntermateStar]

@@frans3090 i was making a joke man

[@serena9165]

THIS IS AMAZING

[@KeyMerVin]

Qué tesoro es esto, madre mía. Gracias por traerlo!!!!!! ^^

[@xenothekami888]

Imagine Namine is nameless star’s nobody

[@Chibi_Rikka]

That makes no sense given that she's Kairi's Nobody?

[@xenothekami888]

@@Chibi_Rikka But yozora is sora? Making roxas yozora

[@Chibi_Rikka]

@@xenothekami888 That's.. not accurate at all but okay.

[@Mew_Stor]

I bet this was right before the jump into UE4 looks interesting

[@RaXZerGamingZ]

It's not 👹

[@soku330]

No this is all done in Maya, it hasn’t been exported into unreal yet

[@madamminalost]

Should I go back to see how much got changed from Frozen...

[@greenth-mac2550]

Watching the Let it Go beta footage made me remember that these guys are not alive but simply pixels in a video game 🤣🤣 then again, KH is nto going into the arc of Reality/Unreality with KH4

[@pedroje84]

Está bien saber que la escena de Frozen las hicieron ellos, porque es IDÉNTICA a la de la película.

[@xeienar]

al parecer disney les permitió a square usar assets de la película pero les prohibió cualquier cambio

[@tremere3337]

Where is the Cars footage?

[@xStanyyx]

Hard to imagine how they even improve these ass looking beta cutscenes xD

[@akirstuart]

whats the intro song

[@edgeofultima7483]

Someone explain to me why the beta version of the 0.2 opening looks even better than the final product with the exception of the physics on the wayfinders

[@soku330]

Because it was rendered with Arnold with a unlicensed watermark free trial

[@roger1724]

holy moly

[@SuperCodywebb]

Hey, in the world list with the Cars world, what was the other world in Japanese?

[@darkbidoof]

Radiant Garden

[@SuperCodywebb]

@@darkbidoof OK. Thanks. :)

[@sayyer8808]

12:03 まんまファントムソードだ笑

[@pedroje84]

Y todo esto de dónde ha salido, del hackeo que hubo a Disney seguramente?

[@jnight6488]

This just proves that frozen was drastically changed near the end of development. At that point in time kh3 was still scheduled for 2018, so they had to hurry and get something out. Really hope the original version of the world comes to light and we can see it.

[@joshuagaray4330]

I want to know how exactly this video proves that well there's always been those rumors and notions this beta section doesn't really prove anything It's literally a one for one thing that happened in the final version

[@TRVPHAUS]

@@joshuagaray4330 bro you saying that isn't proof either. be quiet when you literally know nothing.

[@barsabe]

this is bs. yozora scene was done in 2017 too. this only proves that this scene was handled after yozora's

[@joshuagaray4330]

@@TRVPHAUS the final version you can buy in the store right now and you probably played isn't proof 😂😂😂 what are you talking about ????

[@DarkOverlord96]

This doesn't prove ANYTHING, what the hell are you talking about?

[@Ho66o6dayz]

🖤✨️Attainable wishes are the best kind and Just me here and before lightning's involvement or have her be involved or which way works?,I'd would love to see a Goddess Etro & Angi story scenario together starting episode witch.✨️🖤

[@SonicXKX]

este estilo que interesante

[@Frostywaffle]

On god

[@DyrbaraGaming]

Versus xiii❤

[@blondfoss]

it's literally Versus 13, I need it!! Also that intro song is way better than what we got, even if it's just a remix. I get why they changed the intro itself though, it focused too much on BBS/Aqua when Sora is the protag of 3, still better, imo.

[@Chibi_Rikka]

That was the beta intro of 0.2, the game where Aqua IS the protagonist.

[@iggyp4390]

Confirms that they didn’t give a flying you-know-what about the Kingdom Hearts original story everyone waited years for. Nomura sold KH fans on dreams he had NO intention of ever fulfilling and now we know he always saw “KH3” as nothing more than a vessel for his childish, petty, unprofessional, immature spite over VS13.

[@Chibi_Rikka]

How does this confirm any of that? Also I'll never understand why so many of you guys view this as 'petty, unprofessional, immature spite' rather than just Nomura wanting to re-use concepts he wasn't able to since he obviously liked them. He just has ideas that he wants to come to fruition. There's no indication that he's doing it out of spite rather than genuine passion for them.

[@Shadowtheflowhog]

Cry more

[@nautilus236]

Based Nomura

[@1996inter]

Ok but where is kh 4?!?!

[@millionshadesofdarkness2165]

Kh4 in 2035😂

[@Somnus_FES]

@@millionshadesofdarkness2165That’s a bit generous

[@Chibi_Rikka]

This is actually beta footage of KH3. KH4 hadn't been conceived when they made this footage so expecting to see any footage of it here is kind of ridiculous.

[@UndertakerU2ber]

Here it is! 🖕😜

[@xeienar]

well, kh4 is in active development, but we won't hear any news until ff7 remake is fully finished. I would not expect news any time soon.

[@saberbladefang250]

Seriously what is up with nomura always making every male protagonist have blue eyes and blond hair no wonder nomura couldn't use a different color design for the main protagonist. Nomura was definitely lacking creativity and most nomura creativity art design went to Xenoblade chronicles 2 and final fantasy 7 remake sequels.

[@DarkOverlord96]

Ah, yes, my favorite blond protagonists designed by Nomura. Sora, Squall and Noctis.

[@UndertakerU2ber]

Maybe it’s because he really likes white people? ✊🏻

[@xeienar]

@@DarkOverlord96 and the original tidus, LMAO!

[@frans3090]

@@DarkOverlord96 what about Rindo from NEO the world ends with you?

[@recusantvessel]

Damn This game could’ve actually been good..

[@velvet_victor]

It is. And there’s zero to nothing in this beta that would make it any better.

[@recusantvessel]

@@velvet_victor game is SHITE barring remind ofc

[@stampoulisrafael5262]

​@@recusantvesselwhatever you say,sheep

[@recusantvessel]

@@stampoulisrafael5262 XDDDDDDD sheep is accepting mediocrity

[@ZazzelTheGamer]

Bruh everything in the development footage was in the game's final release. Tf are you going on about?