Kingdom Hearts Dark Road offline version update delayed

[OrpheusJoshua 126]

The official Japanese Twitter account for Kingdom Hearts Dark Road has announced that the title's planned late September update containing the offline version and the rest of the story content has been delayed. Unfortunately, the tweet does not specify an exact date or timeframe for when to expect this update and instead states that more details will be provided at a later time.

Our team's Ryuji translated the message to the following:

"We regretfully announce that the update of the Kingdom Hearts: Dark Road offline version Ver. 5.0.0, which was scheduled to be released in late September, has been postponed. Further information will be provided at a later date, so we ask players to wait for a while until then. We apologize for the inconvenience."

UPDATE: It was noted that indefinite was an erroneous choice of wording from our translation. We removed it to better reflect the intended meaning of the message and avoid any misconstrued conclusions. Apologies.

UPDATE: The NA account for Kingdom Hearts Dark Road have tweeted the delay message. 

 

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[Inçendyne 31]

They didn't even give us a month to expect the delayed release of V. 5.0.0. for Dark Road.

[King Arthur13 51]

Kingdom Hearts Dark Road. IS GONE.

https://tenor.com/view/crab-dancing-crab-party-rave-cool-moves-gif-15701153

[HuntSD#7607 14]

Watch the patch release on September 30th at 11:59am

just purely out of spite

[Albert 22]

I knew it -_-

[OveliaGirlHaditRight 2]

The whole "delayed indefinitely" thing sort of worries me.

Surely they'll eventually finish it, right?

[HuntSD#7607 14]

Mostly companies saying that is just a out of context way of saying its cancelled, without directly saying it.

[DestinysUnion 23]

For anyone worried the game won't be finished, they're not saying that. They're just telling us the update is delayed until further notice and they're not ready to give an ETA for it.

If the update were actually cancelled, then I'm sure there would've been a message from Nomura apologizing and explaining why. KH games tend to have delays lately, and this is probably just another instance of that.

Admittedly, I think "indefinitely" is a scary word to put in the article's title and I think they should remove it. 

[ocean's rage 772]

ah well, woody was bound to be right on the money about xehanort anyway

[Vèńťúş_wíņđ_⅔ 0]

9 hours ago, OveliaGirlHaditRight said:

The whole "delayed indefinitely" thing sort of worries me.

Surely they'll eventually finish it, right?

I'm scared what if they.....cancel the ending!

[ocean's rage 772]

1 hour ago, Vèńťúş_wíņđ_⅔ said:

I'm scared what if they.....cancel the ending!

we'll all move on as we always do when a game gets cancelled

Edited September 30, 2021 by ocean's rage

[Vèńťúş_wíņđ_⅔ 0]

1 hour ago, ocean's rage said:

we'll all move on as we always do when a game gets cancelled

We won't be able to move on knowing that there was more story to tell.

[Superslash 5]

Tbh if they actually were to straight up cancel the ending I’m sure they’d just release a small book with what they were gonna put in there or something of the sort

[ocean's rage 772]

25 minutes ago, Vèńťúş_wíņđ_⅔ said:

We won't be able to move on knowing that there was more story to tell.

yes we will. gamers do it all the time

[Vèńťúş_wíņđ_⅔ 0]

5 minutes ago, ocean's rage said:

yes we will. gamers do it all the time

I don't think you understand what your saying. Your saying it's OK if they just up and canceled dark road?. 

[ocean's rage 772]

46 minutes ago, Vèńťúş_wíņđ_⅔ said:

I don't think you understand what your saying. Your saying it's OK if they just up and canceled dark road?. 

yes. games get cancelled all the time. stories are left finished all the time. 

[JTD95 1,107]

I honestly doubt they'll cancel it. Never have they cancelled a KH game before and if they did I'm sure they would've just told us in the announcement. Of course there's a first time for everything but I seriously doubt it.

[Inçendyne 31]

The wording (from translation) was postponed and later date. Fansites put indefinitely and it's really just being used as an indicator of uncertainty for an ETA.

[Vèńťúş_wíņđ_⅔ 0]

Yeah the chances of it getting canceled are slim.

[ocean's rage 772]

11 hours ago, JTD95 said:

I honestly doubt they'll cancel it. Never have they cancelled a KH game before and if they did I'm sure they would've just told us in the announcement. Of course there's a first time for everything but I seriously doubt it.

correction: SE have never cancelled a KH game, disney has

[Aqua_Wren 11]

Technically there was a bbs 2 game that got cancelled, I believe. 0.2 is... pretty much a few fragments of what it might have been like, in addition to being a prologue to KH3

[Ursalink 113]

Today officially starts Winter. Now I hope we don't have to wait much for the final upgrade of this game. 

[Vèńťúş_wíņđ_⅔ 0]

Probably in January 

[Ursalink 113]

On 12/23/2021 at 7:54 PM, Vèńťúş_wíņđ_⅔ said:

Probably in January 

I hope so. It would be like a "New Year's present". 

[ienzo628 548]

On 12/20/2021 at 4:08 PM, Ursalink said:

Today officially starts Winter. Now I hope we don't have to wait much for the final upgrade of this game. 

Wait, is Dark Roads out?