News ► Project Xehanort official title revealed: KINGDOM HEARTS Dark Road

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Square Enix has pushed the title reveal for Project Xehanort hours ahead of schedule. This new game from the Kingdom Hearts Union X team has officially been revealed as KINGDOM HEARTS Dark Road!

More information will be released after mid-February.

The official title for Project Xehanort is KINGDOM HEARTS DARK ROAD

Additional info will be released after mid-February.

For the winners of our #KHNameContest, we will begin sending direct messages through this account soon. Thank you for your patience. #KHDR pic.twitter.com/gkwr2podgv

— KINGDOM HEARTS DARK ROAD (@kh_dr_na) January 31, 2020

 

[luuizhenriquem]

excited to see how it will be

 

[rokudamia2]

Surprisingly simple for this series if a bit boring.

 

[Sign]

What are these other announcements they speak of?

Edit: never mind apparently it's just the contest winners

 

[GreyouTT]

I've seen people guess Dark Road, so good to know there's winners.

Also I'm a bit sad we didn't get at least a reveal of the that blurred artwork to go with this.

 

[Noivern]

Yay for my birthday present!

Unfortunately, this is a pretty shitty name considering all other games had really cool titles. But ehh, the nod towards Riku taking the middle road during CoM is kinda cool I guess. Wonder if we'll have a Eraqus side of the story called Light Road.

 

[Venitas]

This is so dumb. Another X is literally an anagram of Xehanort, and the x (chi) could relate to the other mobile games, and "another key" could mean like "the key to Xehanort's past/downfall".

I'm not salty I didnt win, I'm salty at just how boring and generic the name is. But I should have known, it is a mobile game after all and not the.full fledged Xehanort game we should have gotten.

 

[:::A Hex Torn:::]

God help me, but I'm disappointed it's not something more convoluted. Also real worried with how much they've been using the term "experience".

And the lack of at least a logo is pretty underwhelming. I threw one together in 20 minutes to go with my guess.

 

[GreyouTT]

This is so dumb. Another X is literally an anagram of Xehanort, and the x (chi) could relate to the other mobile games, and "another key" could mean like "the key to Xehanort's past/downfall".

I'm not salty I didnt win, I'm salty at just how boring and generic the name is. But I should have known, it is a mobile game after all and not the.full fledged Xehanort game we should have gotten.

Probably because it's not a continuation of that storyline and follows a different protagonist. Also it's going to be running alongside UX (for at least a year), so having it be called Another X would no doubt lead to some confusion.

 

[Absent]

Color me surprised. This is easily the most normal name for a KH entry. I would've replaced road with path as YMX uses it to describe his fate. I am guessing this will shows us his descent into...Baldness.

 

[Noivern]

Man, the more I stare at this official title the weirder it becomes. Why not Road to Darkness? Dark Road sounds more like the name of a Command Link or a Command Style rather than a game title.

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To rub even more salt in the wound, we have "An Oath to Return" as the most likely title for one of the new console games which sounds really good, and then by comparison.. Kingdom Hearts: Dark Road. Talk about dropping the quality over there. lol

 

[AleMustDie]

Project Xehanort was better

 

[GreyouTT]

Coded was a pretty normal name, so it's not like this is the first.

 

[AR829038]

Coded was a pretty normal name, so it's not like this is the first.

Off the bat, it's not a good sign that we're already comparing this game to the one that Nomura came up with when he was drunk.

 

[Wallflower3582]

It's ok… I would have preferred Dark Path at the very least. I didn't even participate because my reaction to a guess the name contest was "we have to guess the name of a game in a series where the name of one game is a literally just a fraction and complete gibberish like Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance passes as ok?" But then they picked something so… normal haha. Oh well. We complain about the complicated titles, now we complain about the simple ones. Will this fandom ever be happy? lol

 

[GreyouTT]

Off the bat, it's not a good sign that we're already comparing this game to the one that Nomura came up with when he was drunk.

That's not actually true.

 

[MATGSY]

Xehanorigins would've been better.

 

[ZeVaine]

It's such an average title, I never would've guessed they'd go with it lol

Well - I look forward to the story, even if the gameplay ends up being just UX style or worse.

 

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Off the bat, it's not a good sign that we're already comparing this game to the one that Nomura came up with when he was drunk.

To clarify, the whole drunk thing was a mistranslation, one that goldpanner herself had made in her earlier days xD

 

[destiny seeker]

Ha. My unofficial guess was "Dark Oath", half way there.