Kingdom Hearts 4 director rears his head 1,085 days after the JRPG’s reveal to share a potentially crucial piece of fruit lore that baffles even Square Enix

Kingdom Hearts 4 was announced 1,084 days ago, the once annual series hasn’t seen a new release in years, and this is easily the longest news drought Kingdom Hearts stans have ever lived through. But the ever-cryptic series director Tetsuya Nomura has just popped his head out of the shadows to reveal a bit of new, potentially crucial, fruit-themed lore that even has publisher Square Enix baffled.

To celebrate the first Kingdom Hearts game’s 23rd anniversary, publisher Square Enix decided to try and wrangle some new info out of Nomura’s head, specifically in regards to the star-shaped paopu fruit that appears in protagonist Sora’s home island. “In the game, it’s said if two people share a paopu fruit, their destinies become intertwined,” a new social media post explains. “We asked director Tetsuya Nomura to tell us more.”