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That's a good point too, how many mobile games can they actually maintain with that reduced scale? My understanding is that EC isn't doing great. I wonder if EoS is heading for some of them. FFBE in particular seems like it's going to die any day.

FF just isn't the name it used to be, and SE has to stop pretending it is. Hopefully if FF8 ever gets remade, it's just a normal ass QoL upgrade that doesn't cost a third of a billion dollars to make.

Yeah, just throwing out ideas. I don't think they'll ever do it. If Disney wants a villains greatest hits, they'll just do that. Why would they bother with the original story stuff?

Oh man, now I'm thinking about DBZ Evolution. Maybe Sora is worried that Kairi doesn't like him, and Ansem is a high school teacher or something!

Almost certainly, because Disney isn't going to approve Ansem torturing people to see what their hearts do, and I ain't watching a KH movie or show that doesn't have Ansem hamming it up. Is the target audience kids that have never played KH, or us, or casual fans? Yeesh. I'm echoing the...

My understanding is that neither FFXVI or FF7R2 met expections. PS5 exclusivity might certainly be a factor, but I'm not sure we have the full knowledge to say that with 100% certainty. Anecdotally, as someone who grew up with FF7, Remake bored me, and I never even bothered to try Rebirth. Too...

I'm glad so many people enjoyed FF7R, but man, I never asked for an action rpg sequel remake. I just wanted a normal remake, just in the one game. FFR2 did much worse than its prequel. How much money are they spending on the third one? Is it going to do even worse? The silver lining for me...

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/square-enix-shares-tumble-by-most-in-13-years-on-weak-outlook-1.2072502 Specifically: ML is probably too far along for cancellation, but I wonder if it's going to change how they manage the game.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I think a KH movie is an awful idea, period. I can think of few IPs that would lend themselves worse to a feature length film. The uniqueness of KH is the juxtaposition of the crossover with the mystery and melancholy of the original story. KH1 does this job...

I know this is the opinion of someone who's formative gaming years were spent on this series, but nothing has ever been able to top KH2 combat for me. It wasn't so flashy that it was a cinematic light show, but magical enough that the fantasy felt great. It felt like every mistake was my own...

I think that's my point. I don't think Aladin and Hercules being in the same frame is the meat of the series. Sure, KH got people into the game by seeing, what if Cloud and Tarzan together. But not a single one of us stayed for that. We stayed for "one who knows nothing can understand nothing"...

I don't think you can use the cutscene length as a guideline for how long a movie would be. A compilation of scenes makes for a pretty bad movie. It's not padding or filler to let the characters breathe, grow and interact with one another. It's a different medium. Just... write good dialogue...

It'd kinda require spending time with the trio and letting the characters grow and breathe. Which would be ideal if you're going to make seven movies, but you'd need to be confident you're going to make more than one.

I genuinely don't know how to make a movie out of this. At gunpoint, I'd say make a movie from Destiny Islands until meeting Donald and Goofy and getting on the Gummi Ship. But would that sell? And would Disney approve it?

I'll be frank, I don't really want KH in the public zeitgeist. I've seen Star Wars turn from a simple hero's journey story into Palpatine somehow returning, filled with witty one liners and explosions, with absolutely no soul and nothing to say. I prefer my series popular enough to continue and...