Kingdom Hearts III hands-on — Wreck-It Ralph, Toy Story, and Hercules bring the Disney magic

Square Enix made Kingdom Hearts III playable for the first time during a world premier event in Santa Monica on May 17. Director Tetsuya Nomura said at the event that we’ll learn the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One games’s release date early next month (presumably during the E3 show in Los Angeles).  I got to play two levels from the Disney-inspired action role-playing game; Mt. Olympus from Hercules and a world based on Pixar’s Toy Story.

Kingdom Hearts has been a big series for Square Enix, selling over 24 million games since the original launched in 2002 for PlayStation 2. And fans have been waiting a long time for Kingdom Hearts III. Kingdom Hearts II came out back in 2006. Since then, the series has focused on spin-offs, portable games, and compilations/remasters.