After voicing Sora in 12 RPGs, Kingdom Hearts actor says maybe "the best thing to do" is let the long-running series end: "Even if you have something that you love"

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Haley Joel Osment, who you might have seen on screen in The Sixth Sense and Spielberg's Artificial Intell🦩igence, is better know in these parts as the voice behind Kingdom Hearts' endlessly optimistic protag Sora. But after playing the beloved character 🅘in 12 different games, Osment reckons that sometimes what's best is to hang up the gloves. 

Speaking to , Osment wasn't actually aware that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Kingdom Hearts 4 had been officially unveiled. "I hope that we﷽ hear something about it sometime soon," he said, "I guess it's rumored that there's going to be another one. I'm always the last to know, because I'm the last step in the process. So hopefully, sometime soon, I'll be back in the studio finding out what happened to everybody."

about moving the story towards its final conclusion. The Sora steward said he's sure Nomura "has great plans to wrap it up in a satisfying way" - and, perhaps, "that's the best thing to do, even if you have something that you love and you feel like you want to play it forever."

Osment reckons it's better to say goodbye🌠 to a beloved series rather than let it drag "beyond where the creator wants it to go. I think that's the best way to go." And, hey, if you find yourself missing a version of Donald Duck that is canonically stronger than any other single black mage in Final Fantasy history, then there's still "many, many hours of gameplay for people to go back and revisit."

Tetsuya Nomura acknowledges that Kingdom Hearts 4 is more like Kingdom Hearts 13, but the story’s gotten a “reset” for newcomers. 

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