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How will they make Rapunzel's hair work in gameplay?



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I've really been wondering so much about this lately whenever discussion about party membera popped up.

Since there are many ways as to how they can use her hair, I felt like this discussion might be fun. Like, what so you guys think? Will they actually make it really long and make her use it to attack? Will they use her braided hair that she had towards the end of the movie in gameplay and keep her long hair in cutscenes, making her use a pan to attack? Will she use magic?

Discuss! :D
 

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You can't have her and NOT use that long hair! I would love for either a hair whip/ frying pan combo or have her start out with using her hair and after she reaches town and gets it braided, she starts using a frying pan.
 

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Since her hair can heal in the film, I could see her as a white mage in gameplay. She could use cure to restore Sora if he is injured
 

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If I had to guess, I'd guess that her hair in battle is going to be rendered as a stretching rope that stretches and skews in real time as opposed to her hair being fully animated like it is in the movie. So she'd use it like a lasso or a whip, like in the movie.

As far as magic goes, I feel like she's a white mage since her hair only has healing powers - and we've never had a white mage party member, aside from escorting Minnie
 
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It does prompt a lot of curiosity.. in the movie, she seemingly used her hair more so as a rope than an offensive weapon (which for her was a frying pan). But I could see this changing in game. Maybe they will have her lugging around her hair and using it as a whip as opposed to her pan. This would eliminate her hair stretching all over the ground into a hot mess as combat is sure to be hectic , but it would also mean no frying pan.. which I think would to be a funny and more endearing way for her to fight.

As far as the magic goes, as the others have stated, she will probably just have healing capabilities.
 

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In the movie she mostly uses her hair as a sort of rope to to grapple onto things, so in combat it'll probably be a lot of using it like a lasso. Maybe restricting enemies for team-up attacks or something?

I had never thought of her being like a white mage to the party but that'd fit really welling with her hair's healing abilities and what not.

I had also never thought about what she would actually look like in the field with all her hair.... I think it'd be pretty cute if she ran around while always carrying it in a giant bundle
 

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Was it confirmed that she'd be a party member? I would like her to be, but what if they just used Flynn as a way to get around having to animate her hair so much?
 

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Was it confirmed that she'd be a party member? I would like her to be, but what if they just used Flynn as a way to get around having to animate her hair so much?
I highly doubt that since she is still the main character of the movie. Using her above Flynn just makes more sense, i guess? And yeah, it's actually been confirmed:

He then explains how the development team usually comes up with suggestions and propose various worlds, but for Tangled, they showed great determination and desire to have it in Kingdom Hearts III. They also liked Rapunzel’s strong personality, and the way she’s able to use her hair like a whip, which they thought would make for some great gameplay.
 

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Speaking of her hair, what will it mean for gameplay purposes once it's cut like in the film? Unless the go for a different ending then the movie.
 

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I highly doubt that since she is still the main character of the movie. Using her above Flynn just makes more sense, i guess? And yeah, it's actually been confirmed:

Technically Will Turner's the main character of PotC & Kevin Flynn's the main character of Tron, neither were party members. Herc got upstaged by Auron, who's not even the main character of the FF he hails from.
 

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I'm hoping her hair stays super long and unbraided! It seems most conducive to being a good party member, if we want her hair to be the weapon as opposed to a frying pan. I have a feeling we might see both, though, and if we get into the actual Kingdom of Corona maybe her hair will get braided there like it did in the movie.
 

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Maybe Rapunzel will use either the power of light or Darkness to allow her to use her hair to fight better.....using it like a whip or other weapons.

....I got the image of her using it like that multi hand JoJo like ability Sora used in the recent trailer -_-'
 

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I imagine she’ll mostly rely on her frying pan because her hair attacks and healing powers would disappear once her hair is cut. It’ll be weird to have the party member downgrade since they mostly upgraded in KH2.

Besides, I don't think she has to be a white mage. I mean, the frying pan would already make her more offensive than a white mage, and it's not like other characters haven't had the ability to cure before (Ariel, Tarzan, Simba).
 
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Rapunzel can fully heal the entire party for no MP, but she has to say the healing incantation for it to work, which takes a lot of startup time.
....it'd be funny if that actually happened.
 

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I could imagine her using a spinning hair attack like aqua's command style finisher for spell weaver although not as OP, also...

SHE WHIPS HER HAIR BACK AND FORTH! SHE WHIPS HER HAIR BACK AND FORTH...
 

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Pretty certain it'll be a mix of her hair and her frying pan. She'll do whip and lasso moves with her hair and more heavy hitting with the pan. Healing won't be her priority because she has to stop, wrap the hair around somebody, and sing to do it. If anything, her healing would be a special skill that can only be used under certain circumstances (i.e. mp gauge full + target party member at > 20% health)

Once her hair is cut, she gets an ultima frying pan and a big spike in HP to make her the heavy offensive tank of the party. And they can just make it possible to switch back to long-haired Rapunzel with less HP but more skills.
 

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I think when they first encounter her, it could be a Mulan situation. Her hair kinda causes issue in the battle and she doesn't want to fling her hair around dangerous enemies (she used her hair as a lasso/rope, not to do anything to the people perusing them). She could share a special attack with Sora where she flings him (like Sora flings Goofy)

But, I can see a transition where her hair gets braided and she's much more capable in a fight. She'll gain new abilities and a new special attack or something.
 

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Was it confirmed that she'd be a party member? I would like her to be, but what if they just used Flynn as a way to get around having to animate her hair so much?

Why not have two Disney party members as opposed to one? After all, we see that you can have three party members in total as opposed to two. Flynn can be your Thief class and Rapunzel can be your White Mage.
 

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Did somebody mention using Rapunzel's hair not as a weapon but as a scenery interaction?
Because that's what I think.

Would also fit the original tale where her hair was mainly used to climb the tower.
 
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