New Kingdom Hearts trailer will only make sense to hardcore fans, but it's pretty

Merry early Christmas, Kingdom Hearts players! I got you a new trailer from JumpFest 2015 with footage from Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue and even some Kingdom Hearts 3 gameplay.

If you're wanting tons of footage featuring remastered Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance story and gameplay, plus sneak peeks at two new Kingdom Hearts spin-offs (Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep -A Fragmentary Passage-, which is a new game featuring a new character, and Kingdom Hearts χ Back Cover, a collection of cutscenes meant to expand on the series' lore), that's exactly what you'll find here. If you're hoping for a something that won't take three hours of wiki-delving to understand or and explanation as to why Square Enix can't seem to name these things something digestible … well, that I don't have.

Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue is due in 2016 for PS4. I look forward to Kingdom Hearts 3/-III.03: ReANSEMation Project Boogaloo in 2017*.

*Not a real game. Yet.

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