We already expected Kingdom Hearts III to be a „meaty” game content-wise. Now, we can add a completion timeframe to Square Enix‘ JRPG, too.
A Square Enix representative told Geek in an interview the length of Kingdom Hearts III: „In addition to the main story, players can look forward to several mini-games. One is a cooking game with Remy from Ratatouille. You must find ingredients hidden across several of the worlds and use them to create new recipes. There are 20 different old-school Tiger Toys/Game & Watch style 2D side-scrolling games based on Mickey cartoons from the 1930s and 40s. Building your Gummi ship (used for traveling to each world) is pretty much a mini-game of its own. Kingdom Hearts 3 is around 40-50 hours if you stay on the critical path. Including the mini-games, players can expect 80+ hours of content.” So that’s at least 40-50 hours to just run through the game! That length is rare nowadays (bar The Witcher 3), but it is respectable.
The representative also discussed the Keyblades, one of the classic weapons of the series: „Players can now equip up to three different keyblades at once. They can also level up each keyblade to make them stronger. Before, there was no incentive to continue using keyblades obtained from previous worlds since the newer keyblades were more powerful. Now, keyblades you have a fondness for are viable even later in the game since you can level them up.”
Kingdom Hearts III is out on January 29 in the West (just four days after the Japanese debut) on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Source: WCCFTech