Kingdom Hearts: Champions of the Heart

Kingdom Hearts: Champion of the Heart is a fighting game based off the Kingdom Hearts franchise developed by Square-Enix, released in 2022 to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Announced at E3 2021, the game involves many characters from across the Kingdom Hearts series ranging from Sora & friends, the Organization and some characters from Disney & Final Fantasy.

Gameplay
Champions of the Heart plays similarly to the Dissidia Final Fantasy games, as a reference to how that series came to fruition when Tetsuya Nomura was initially reluctant to make Disney characters fight each other.

Characters move around in a fully three-dimensional map that they can interact using the Triangle button (Playstation)/X button (Switch)/Y button (Xbox). Using their special weapons and abilities, they can unleash special moves called Limit Breaks once their AP gauge is full that can be activated with the X button (Playstation)/B button (Switch)/A button (Xbox).

Stages

 * Dive to the Heart
 * Destiny Islands
 * Traverse Town
 * Hollow Bastion
 * Radiant Garden
 * Twilight Town
 * The World That Never Was
 * Land of Departure
 * Keyblade Graveyard
 * The Final World
 * Scala ad Caelum
 * Daybreak Town
 * Agrabah
 * Olympus Coliseum
 * Neverland
 * Beast's Castle
 * Land of Dragons
 * Toy Box
 * Disney Castle

Arcade Mode
Arcade Mode is a series of fights recreating key moments from the Kingdom Hearts series along with scenes from Disney films and Final Fantasy games. The battles vary between each character; for example Sora's Arcade Mode starts with a fight against Riku on Destiny Islands as a reference to Kingdom Hearts, and ends against Master Xehanort at Scala ad Caelum as one to Kingdom Hearts III.

Trivia

 * Many characters were planned to appear in the game, but were cut for reasons varying from being barely seen fighting in the series or not fighting at all at the time the game was released. These include Vexen, Zexion, Demyx, Merlin, Yen Sid, the Master of Masters, Tifa, Aerith, Cid, Seifer and Namine.
 * The Realm of Darkness was planned to be a stage, but was also cut because the developers wanted thirteen stages based off original worlds and seven based on Disney worlds, though there is a chance it could become DLC.
 * With the exception of Yozora, all DLC characters share the same Limit Break due to all of them originating from Kingdom Hearts χ.
 * Skuld is voiced in the English version of the game by Sarah Nicole Robles (Luz Noceda from The Owl House) and in the Japanese version by Miyuki Sawashiro.