{"id":86875,"date":"2026-07-30T15:14:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86875"},"modified":"2026-07-30T15:36:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:36:55","slug":"exclusive-disney-insists-that-cursed-kingdom-hearts-art-was-not-ai-generated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86875","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Disney Insists That Cursed Kingdom Hearts Art Was Not AI-Generated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/nintendo-direct-june-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-and-games\/\">Nintendo Direct<\/a> was full of all types of treats for Kingdom Hearts fans, including the announcement that native versions of the entire Kingdom Hearts trilogy will be coming to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/all-the-new-switch-2-ports-confirmed-in-nintendo-direct-june-2026\/\">Switch 2<\/a> via the release of The Kingdom Hearts Collection [I-III]. Unfortunately, players did not respond well to the trilogy&#8217;s key art, which <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KINGDOMHEARTS\/status\/2064362651036369250\">Square Enix shared on X<\/a> shortly after the announcement. Players quickly noticed several strange details in the image, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/players-think-kingdom-hearts-new-art-is-ai-generated\/\">accused Square Enix of using generative AI<\/a> to create it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GameSpot immediately reached out for comment, and over a month later, Square Enix and Disney decided to clear things up. According to a statement shared exclusively with GameSpot, The Kingdom Hearts Collection [I-III] art is not the result of AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We&#8217;re aware of feedback regarding recent Kingdom Hearts visuals,&#8221; reads the statement, which was shared via phone call with a Square Enix PR rep. &#8220;These assets were created by our development team without the use of generative AI, and the issues resulted from human error.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the &#8220;issues&#8221; being referenced here include Donald Duck having 4 fingers on one hand and 5 on the other, the hands on the clocktower appearing warped, the Keyblade&#8217;s keychain links<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month&#8217;s Nintendo Direct was full of all types of treats for Kingdom Hearts fans, including the announcement that native versions of the entire Kingdom Hearts trilogy will be coming to Switch 2 via the release of The Kingdom Hearts Collection [I-III]. Unfortunately, players did not respond well to the trilogy&#8217;s key art, which Square&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":86877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86878,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86875\/revisions\/86878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}