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Electric Challenge #9 wants us to describe our dream crossover game.
Which, actually, I kind of know what my dream crossover game is, and it's Kingdom Hearts, but not the series that actually came into existence. It's good as it is, even if the plot threads get a little convoluted. It started on a good idea of "Square characters exist and visit various Disney worlds, since their own worlds have fallen to various forms of darkness and the Heartless," but things got away from that idea fairly quickly as the focus moved to Sora's trio, Ventus's trio, and the Foretellers and the Organization and there wasn't nearly as much time or effort devoted to the Square characters' stories as the narrative progressed.
So what I'd like to see, and maybe it will be more possible in the next narrative of Kingdom Hearts, is to have and see more of the Square characters appear, and maybe even visit some Square worlds, instead of strictly being about the Disney worlds and their settings. Pop into Balamb Garden, say hello to Quistis, fight some Heartless, do a quest line about Leon and why he left. Stop off in Spira and have the YuRiPa fairies guide you through a treasure hunt, along with busting up some enemies along the way. There can still be Disney worlds, too, because there's more than enough Disney canon to mine as worlds for the visiting, and a lot of the Disney villain fights are properly epic, but I'd want to see some amount of the rich history of worlds that Square has brought into existence as well. Imagine Sora fighting Garland in the Temple. (Or, for that matter, Warmech as an optional boss battle.) Or a Four Fiends Boss Rush where all of them still have their signature disruption mechanic (Rubicante would be a delight, and also really frustrating at the higher difficulties with quick switching back and forth between being healed and damaged by ice magic.)
And, as new Square canon comes into existence, it could be incorporated into these spaces. I would enjoy, for example, having the Farron sisters as guest star party members and see them work together to defeat opponents. We're getting a little more blend of the Square properties back in, if the end of Re:Mind is to be believed, but I'd love for them to take a game arc and go to Square worlds and meet the characters and opponents there.
So yeah, I want to see more of the original plan for Kingdom Hearts, now that we've covered the Xehanort Saga and are on to a potentially deeper mystery involving trying to avert the end of the world.
Which, actually, I kind of know what my dream crossover game is, and it's Kingdom Hearts, but not the series that actually came into existence. It's good as it is, even if the plot threads get a little convoluted. It started on a good idea of "Square characters exist and visit various Disney worlds, since their own worlds have fallen to various forms of darkness and the Heartless," but things got away from that idea fairly quickly as the focus moved to Sora's trio, Ventus's trio, and the Foretellers and the Organization and there wasn't nearly as much time or effort devoted to the Square characters' stories as the narrative progressed.
So what I'd like to see, and maybe it will be more possible in the next narrative of Kingdom Hearts, is to have and see more of the Square characters appear, and maybe even visit some Square worlds, instead of strictly being about the Disney worlds and their settings. Pop into Balamb Garden, say hello to Quistis, fight some Heartless, do a quest line about Leon and why he left. Stop off in Spira and have the YuRiPa fairies guide you through a treasure hunt, along with busting up some enemies along the way. There can still be Disney worlds, too, because there's more than enough Disney canon to mine as worlds for the visiting, and a lot of the Disney villain fights are properly epic, but I'd want to see some amount of the rich history of worlds that Square has brought into existence as well. Imagine Sora fighting Garland in the Temple. (Or, for that matter, Warmech as an optional boss battle.) Or a Four Fiends Boss Rush where all of them still have their signature disruption mechanic (Rubicante would be a delight, and also really frustrating at the higher difficulties with quick switching back and forth between being healed and damaged by ice magic.)
And, as new Square canon comes into existence, it could be incorporated into these spaces. I would enjoy, for example, having the Farron sisters as guest star party members and see them work together to defeat opponents. We're getting a little more blend of the Square properties back in, if the end of Re:Mind is to be believed, but I'd love for them to take a game arc and go to Square worlds and meet the characters and opponents there.
So yeah, I want to see more of the original plan for Kingdom Hearts, now that we've covered the Xehanort Saga and are on to a potentially deeper mystery involving trying to avert the end of the world.
