Kingdom Hearts NEW Graphics Update Comparison - Old vs New Version

The new Kingdom Hearts update for the PC versions on both Epic Games Store & Steam has arrived and with it, Enhanced Textures! How much does this improve upon KH's graphics? Let's see!

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[JavierGonzalezBlueFalcon]

The Radiant Gardens restoration committee has been working hard to restore all the of KH graphics to 4k.

[akumaking]

Apparently one of the most popular mods involves putting Aqua in a bunny suit.
Edit: OurTube won’t let me post the link.

[tubguinace]

Some of the textures look better but others seem to sand down some of the roughness that was clearly meant to be there, I'm not sure how I feel about it.

[Jimmblet]

Personally, I feel like a lot of the textures actually lose their "texture" if that makes sense. Like for example, a lot of the stone textures don't really seem rough or bumpy anymore. But instead, a lot of things seem super smoothed out.

[danquaza]

I feel like this will help Birth By Sleep more than KH1 and 2. They were more stylized, with a chosen look. Where as BBS had a ton of low res textures becuase it was originally on a handheld console, and then when it was brought to console it was just given a resolution bump, but never corrected some of the frankly shitty looking textures. This will hopefully correct them there.

[naruhearts]

Hoping the steam releases will encourage more mods to be made or made more quickly. The randomizer is one of my favorites and would love to play the Nobody may cry mod

[Allblaster]

They just threw everything into the AI and called it a day. Some of these textures and especially the world map destination images look a lot worse.

[FrostedZaibatsu]

I work on 3D models right. You can tell the AI (which im okay with for higher resolution, since i use it myself) hasnt been touched afterwards. AI does not mean its going to always look great. Examples, the bricks dont have much depth, the stars look wonky and the crown in AnW couldve been fixed to look straight. You have to go back a touch things up yourself. Its just lazy man

[WednesdayMan]

the AI textures lose too much detail on certain areas and aren't consistent.
I absolutely see a reason for people to make a mod that reverts the change.

[gillboy]

I personally don't like the ai upscaled textures. I hope there's an option to not have enhanced textures

[leedelacruz]

Can't wait till we get modded game modes like Nobody May Cry and more in the near future for steam.

[Arke_PG]

I don't mind the use of AI for such tasks, but the finished work does need to be properly assessed.

Not just to make sure that it's came out as intended, but also whether the intended result is even an improvement!

Like the shot in KH2, in hollow bastion(?), the upscaling on the floor textures, in my opinion, took away from the feel.

The floor was just too smooth, it made more sense for it to have that somewhat rough look to it.

Unfortunately, until developers catch on that what AI (at least currently) is able to produce, still need to be checked by part of the creative development team, there's going to be these elements which detract from the style

[liamperkins]

"Microblading" for dewys eyebrows sent me lol. Good shit man

[GAGPalia]

I think whatever AI model they used was way too strong with noise reduction. Just like you pointed out with world images many of the new textures look too smooth and worse now.

[Andi_Thy_Is]

I'm a little mixed as I think some of this instances look a fair amount worse despite being more clear, but I'm willing to take it of it means I finally get Kingdom Hearts on the go the way I've always wished.

[JerryFlowersIII]

Some of them look like their gainy texture, which I think added to the look, got smoothed away, but generally it looks good; especially at normal distance it's just going to look sharper. But at least in these close ups sometimes you can REALLY tell it was AI upscaled. I've gotten a pretty good upscaling model that I love to use on images and I'd be curious if it'd fair better, which is why I hope the original textures can be preserved, so that better models can further update them later.

[Shadow-vdss]

I can see why some would like the older stuff better, but I've always been a fan of sharp and clean lines

[TollusRollus]

fuck, did they give this to James Cameron to up-res? all the detail gone - SMOOTH SMOOTH SMOOTH - absolutely, yes, the wood and the stone on this building should look like the same material

[PrimeTrooper]

There needs to be a depth buffer so we can use post processing effects with RESHADE

[KBlade]

This means that Soras "robot eyes" will look less blurry. 🔥