I wonder how many blogs have used this pic for a KH3 topic...
Greetings Ladies an Gents! It is I, the Shaman of Animation with a new topic discussion. To those uninformed, I am a HUGE fan of the Kingdom Hearts Franchise. I remember watching that very first cutscene from the first game as a kid and being completely hooked on it. Its strange combination of Final Fantasy and Disney along with awesome game play and...an admittedly convoluted story turned me into a fan of it to this day.
So when Kingdom Hearts 3 was finally announced, you can bet that I was STOKED. My exact reaction was something along the lines of this:
Of course when the game was announced, myself, along with the rest of the KH fanbase, were going wild just thinking of what movies from the Disney Library could be made into worlds for the newest KH game. This in turn caused a certain topic to rise among fans: Should Marvel and Star Wars be in KH3?
To those who don't know, back in December of 2009 Disney bought the rights to the comic book and Movie making company Marvel. Then, in 2012, they bought Star Wars; meaning that Iron Man and Darth Vader all live in the same house as Mickey Mouse (Sadly not Spider-Man...one day webhead...one day...)
The majority of Kingdom Hearts Fans felt very opposed to the idea of seeing something like this in the third (except not really third) installment of the KH franchise, thinking it would ruin the feel of Kingdom Hearts:
I wonder how many blogs have used THIS pic for a KH3 topic...
But, I'm going to be the one guy in the minority to say that yes, Marvel and Star Wars CAN indeed fit in Kingdom Hearts 3. When people here think of this notion of Marvel and Star Wars, they think about Sora, Donald, and Goofy going into actual Marvel and Star Wars Themed Worlds dressed as Superheroes/Jedi and having one of The Avengers/Luke Skywalker in your party. My ideas are MUCH smaller than that, and they can be easily weaved without being jarring at all.
For my first idea, If you go on Youtube and search for D23 Expo Japan 2013 (try saying that three times fast) footage shown for Kingdom Hearts 3, you'll see a small clip of Sora, Donald, and Goofy on a roller coaster battling the Rock Titan from Disney's Hercules.
CHOO CHOO MUTHAFUCKA!!!
Now fans of the franchise will know that this isn't the Rock Titan's first appearance in Kingdom Hearts. He first appeared as the final boss for the Hades Cup in the first game. This leaves me to my first idea for Marvel and Star Wars in KH3: Have a few characters from Marvel and Star Wars as optional bosses. Just picture it, you're in the Hades Cup, you've gone through 49 of the 50 battles, you've beaten Hades, Cerberus, and whatever Final Fantasy characters that show up for a paycheck. And now, for the last boss, a giant pillar of light appears from the sky, the light dissipates, the final enemy appears, and then this fight is happening...
Man, the awesome things you can do with Photoshop...
It's very easy to do; Much like Sephiroth in the first Kingdom Hearts, have a few mystery cups to do at Olympus Colosseum, when selected, you're fighting Loki or whatever Star Wars villains there are (Sorry, haven't seen a Star Wars movie, I'll hand in my nerd badge at the end of this...) Or if you don't want to go for the Olympus Colosseum route, you can go for this:
Say, for example, in KH3, they have a world based on the Buzz Lightyear cartoon. After you battle and defeat Zurg, you come back to the world for an extra mission or something like that. Then, you discover a secret area that was previously locked. Once you go in that area, you discover an enemy that hasn't been seen before by Buzz and you must battle him. That enemy...Ronan the conqueror from Guardians of the Galaxy!!
A hidden boss in a world you've traveled in before is nothing new to the series. Time and time again, it's created great Shock Value for fans and what better way to do that than with a character from Marvel or Star Wars.
Another option to go with are weapons!! With this, you have the influence of these two big companies without any of the characters. You could go to your hub world, go to your weapons shop and on sale you see Captain America's shield as a weapon for Goofy and Thor's hammer as a weapon for Donald. To once again go with my Olympus Colosseum option, say after you beat the entire Hades Cup with just Sora. What do you get as an award? A light-saber styled keyblade!
Say, for example, in KH3, they have a world based on the Buzz Lightyear cartoon. After you battle and defeat Zurg, you come back to the world for an extra mission or something like that. Then, you discover a secret area that was previously locked. Once you go in that area, you discover an enemy that hasn't been seen before by Buzz and you must battle him. That enemy...Ronan the conqueror from Guardians of the Galaxy!!
A hidden boss in a world you've traveled in before is nothing new to the series. Time and time again, it's created great Shock Value for fans and what better way to do that than with a character from Marvel or Star Wars.
Another option to go with are weapons!! With this, you have the influence of these two big companies without any of the characters. You could go to your hub world, go to your weapons shop and on sale you see Captain America's shield as a weapon for Goofy and Thor's hammer as a weapon for Donald. To once again go with my Olympus Colosseum option, say after you beat the entire Hades Cup with just Sora. What do you get as an award? A light-saber styled keyblade!
The ability to use The Force Not included...
My third and final option is a very simple and easy one: The Gummi Ship. How easy would it be to have a gummi based on the Millennium Falcon or Star-Lord's ship from GOTG? Not to mention, you can have a gummi ship mission based on Star Wars where you can blow up the Death Star by the end of it.
These are all the options I have for implementing Star Wars and Marvel into Kingdom Hearts 3. My idea for the game is to stick mainly to pure Disney related content and not go all out with the two properties, but just have small sprinkles here and there that won't have the Kingdom Hearts fanbase up in arms ready to strangle someone. Now whether Tetsuya Nomura and the rest of Square Enix go through with this idea, it's all up to them. All I know is I better see a Sora and Kairi kiss in KH3...
Make it happen Nomura. MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!
Until next time Everyone, I'm the Shaman of Animation handing in his nerd badge for never seeing a Star Wars movie...
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