In 2002, Sq. Enix debuted the primary recreation within the Kingdom Hearts franchise, which featured unique characters blended with Disney heroes and cameo appearances from Ultimate Fantasy’s fan favorites. Japanese pop star Hikaru Utada carried out the principle theme for the sport, Hikari, which was rearranged for the American launch as Easy and Clear. Now, 24 years later, Utada has debuted a brand new recording of Easy and Clear from her best hits album, Science Fiction.
Each variations of Utada’s music have turn into synonymous with the sport. Utada additionally supplied the theme songs for each Kingdom Hearts 2 and Kingdom Hearts 3. Presumably, Utada shall be invited to do the identical for Kingdom Hearts 4, which can be launched as quickly as 2025 in response to a latest rumor. Within the meantime, Utada has debuted an up to date recording of the Japanese language model of Hikari.
Whereas followers await information about the way forward for the franchise, Sq. Enix just lately introduced that the entire beforehand launched Kingdom Hearts video games are coming to Steam on June 13. Previous to that information, Kingdom Hearts and its sequels had been unique unique on PC to the Epic Video games Retailer. This made it a lot much less simple to get them working on the Steam Deck.