Fortnite has formally confirmed its long-awaited Kingdom Hearts collaboration, with teases for not less than 4 skins.
A short teaser trailer posted to Fortnite’s social channels reveals Kingdom Hearts poster boy Sora selecting up the sequence’ iconic keyblade and posing for the digital camera. Yep, there isn’t any doubt right here — Sora is certainly changing into a Fortnite pores and skin.
Textual content-based teasers additionally launched by developer Epic Video games counsel three different Kingdom Hearts characters are additionally coming alongside for the journey, together with Riku, Kairi and Roxas. (Sadly, there isn’t any signal of Mickey but — although the thought of him cranking 90’s whereas holding a shotgun appears unlikely.)
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Kingdom Hearts would be the newest gaming franchise to affix Fortnite throughout Override, its present video game-themed season, which has already added Sonic the Hedgehog, Shadow the Hedgehog, Dr. Robotnik, Crash Bandicoot and Mega Man, amongst others. Different upcoming additions have additionally been rumoured, with followers crossing their fingers for illustration from Persona and Ultimate Fantasy 7.
Override is at the moment having one thing of a cooler reception amongst followers than Runners, Fortnite’s earlier final season which went down as one of many recreation’s greatest. The playerbase appears cut up over whether or not Fortnite’s Pokémon-like Sprites have to be retired or revamped to nonetheless really feel contemporary, and participant numbers have dipped barely from this summer season’s latest highs.
As ever, Fortnite is already gearing itself up for its annual end-of-year festivities, with the Halloween-themed Fortnitemares set to reach subsequent month. One work-in-progress constructing on the present battle royale Island seems suspiciously like a 5 Nights at Freddy’s reference, which could be a tie-in for that. After which there are already whispers that the sport will transition into one other month-long mini-season in November, with One Piece now being tipped as a part of the enjoyable.
Kingdom Hearts 4, in the meantime, is in improvement at Sq. Enix for PC and consoles and is due out subsequent 12 months.