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I'm a Disney fan.I recognize that, but any issues I personally have with the series have nothing to do with anything Disney-related. And I'm saying that as someone who's not THAT big of a Disney fan! That is to say, since KH1 already repped most of my fav Disney movies (Alice, Dumbo, Little Mermaid), I haven't particularly cared about whatever Disney-related aspect the series has offered since.
You take Disney out of it, I can easily see a hypothetical KH4 just...spending twenty hours with Sora Donald Goofy sitting on a clocktower eating ice cream before suddenly remembering 'oh, right, Kairi exists!'.
That's the issue, there's no balance. it's 90% disney and 10% OC. if it was 50-50 i would be ok with that. heck, even 60-40.What about a balance between Disney and Final Fantasy? In the next Kingdom Hearts game, they really need to regain that balance.
I see it more like "giving up toys you made so you can play with the toys that don't belong to you"When you look at it, KH is basically Nomura and friends playing with toys that don't belong to them.
This was only because Disney was hesitant about a game series at all, especially with another company in charge at that. Mickey is the main symbol of the company. I'm actually surprised they weren't restrictive of Snow White, too. That's not quite the same as when Lasseter was in charge and he wouldn't even allow the films he worked on to be used at all without people at the company becoming involved. Hopefully that was a temporary overreach and it's over now he's gone. I take all the new video game series involving Disney characters in anime settings as a good sign that it is.Disney has been just as restrictive with KH since KH1, where Nomura had to harshly negotiate Mickey Mouse's appearance in the game.
Where the Disney company did not allow Nomura to use Mickey as he would like.
They conditioned Nomura to use ONLY Mickey's silhouette, during a very limited time of footage, even conditioning the shot distance at which he should appear, also conditioned not to show Mickey's face at any time in KH1.
This is why Nomura will never make a new installment that matches KH1. Disney or Final Fantasy didn't have to be essential in that game either--he could've made enough original characters backthen to background the Disney content the same way they are now. No, it's just in that game there was actually a reverence for the Disney and Final Fantasy content, a desire to involve them and utilize them in tandem with the original content. These days he treats Disney / FF as being a burden instead of part of the recipe for what this series was and should be as much as the fanbase does, and it shows.Despite that. In a recent nomura interview, he says that he no longer considers Disney or Final Fantasy characters necessary to develop the story.
PreachThese days he treats Disney / FF as being a burden instead of part of the recipe for what this series was and should be as much as the fanbase does, and it shows.
Kingdom Hearts without Disney isn't Kingdom Hearts, but they need to find the balance between Disney, KH original content and Final Fantasy which was lost in KH3. Fans have higher expectations for a numbered title than a "spinoff" title