Kingdom Hearts 4 Gets Extended Gameplay Trailer Featuring Playable Mickey, Donald, and Goofy | D23 2026

Disney and Square Enix showed up for the Deep Dive into Kingdom Hearts sheet astatine D23 2026 to amusement disconnected an extended gameplay trailer for Kingdom Hearts 4 that features a archetypal look astatine a playable King Mickey, Donald, and Goofy.

No 1 expected Sora to amusement up successful the satellite of Pixar's Coco, Keyblade successful hand, erstwhile the legendary crossover franchise made a astonishment quality during yesterday's Disney Entertainment Showcase. That lone made Mickey, Donald, and Goofy showing up arsenic playable characters successful today's caller four-minute trailer adjacent much of a shock.

Gameplay for Goofy and Donald seems to mostly autumn successful enactment with what we've travel to expect from Sora. Outside of 1 conception that saw the 2 Disney icons sledding done the Underworld, they tin beryllium seen utilizing abilities and teaming up to combat disconnected Heartless enemies.

King Mickey, meanwhile, has received immoderate peculiar attention. The archetypal clip shows him walking astir from a third-person constituent of presumption earlier switching to origami-like visuals featuring 2D and 3D gameplay. It looks heavy inspired by Nintendo's Paper Mario, though however agelong each of these sections volition beryllium remains to beryllium seen.

Another astonishment saved for today's lengthier look astatine the crippled is Riku, who shows up successful the video's last moments. He doesn't instrumentality astir for excessively agelong earlier the video comes to an end, but it looks similar he'll beryllium teaming up with Sora for astatine slightest portion of Kingdom Hearts 4's events.

Kingdom Hearts 4 is inactive connected way to motorboat successful its precocious 2027 merchandise model for PC, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S. While we hold for updates, beryllium definite to cheque retired everything announced from the sheet here.

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