Kingdom Hearts 4 Trailer: Who is Donald and Goofy Looking For?

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The Kingdom Hearts 20th Anniversary Event has come and gone, and fans are still mulling over the trailers revealed by the end of the event. Kingdom Hearts Dark Road, the singleplayer campaign added to Kingdom Hearts Union Cross near the end of its life, will be wrapping up this summer. It will swiftly be replaced by a new mobile project called Kingdom Hearts Missing Link, bridging the gap between Union Cross and Dark Road with a modified form of Kingdom Hearts 3’s gameplay. And of course, Kingdom Hearts 4 looms on the horizon, promising to bring the series into its second major story arc.

That doesn’t mean the leftover elements from the prior titles are gone, however. Like its predecessors, Kingdom Hearts 4 is performing a complicated juggling act to balance pushing the series’ plot forward while also incorporating Disney worlds and past elements. Just because Sora has found himself among strangers in Quadratum doesn’t mean his old friends have stopped looking for him in the wider KH universe. The KH4 reveal trailer demonstrates this with a stinger featuring Donald and Goofy searching for someone. However, that someone may not be the first suspect presented, and there are a few identities they could have.

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The trailer shows Donald and Goofy walking through a dark location. After a moment, Donald wonders where “he” is, and Goofy notes he hopes that “he can help.” A stylized blue flame appears in the darkness behind them, and as its glow fills the darkness, Donald freezes up. As a gruff voice demands to know what the duo is doing, the blue flames turn red offscreen, and the two scream. These are the trademark signs of Hades from Hercules, who has been an active