Dissidia Kingdom Hearts: A Possibility?

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Is there the potential for a Kingdom Hearts Dissidia game? Would Nomura be willing to approach Disney in order to pitch the idea he once had? Would Disney be willing to accept the idea of Disney characters fighting each other? Read on to find out!

The Final Fantasy franchise has grown a lot since the early days back in 1987. The series has spawned 14 main titles, as well as countless sequels, prequels and spin-offs.

One of the more popular spin-offs came around in 2008 with the release of Dissidia Final Fantasy. The game was a first for the series, bringing together multiple protagonists from their respective games and pitted them against the villains of the franchise. The end result was a success, spawning a prequel and a Nintendo 3DS entry based on the music of the Final Fantasy series.

Earlier this month Siliconera posted an article about the multiple cancelled Mickey Mouse games, which includes games like Spy Mickey and a Rocketeer revival game.

 

The concept art, which was provided by a former Buena Vista Games artist^[1], suggest that these games never got passed concept phase. Whatever the reason, they were still intriguing takes on familiar Disney characters. This seems to be a continuing trend with unrealized concepts for Disney games. Previously it was believed by founder of the Kingdom Hearts series, Tetsuya Nomura, that Disney would disapprove of a game like Dissidia because it would mean Disney characters fighting each other:

Nomura: We made a game where characters from various Final Fantasy games got together to battle, Dissidia, but that was a project we were originally thinking of using for KH. However, deciding it would be a bad idea to make Disney characters fight each other, it never materialized for KH and ended up shifting to FF.^[2]

And that seemed to be the end of that dream. However, Siliconera states “Disney was also kicking around an idea of making a fighting game where different action figures fight each other a la Super Smash Bros.”
Though the idea for a fighting game was dropped, would it had the potential to have been an actual reality had Tetsuya Nomura pitched the idea to Square Enix/Disney?

 

Do you believe that Nomura was too quick to judge Disney, or do you think that Disney made the wrong choice with cancelling the fighting game?
Maybe one day our dream of Captain Hook fighting the Beast while Esmeralda and Axel assist will come true.

 

Source: Siliconera

Disney Villain image: Author Quest

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^[1] altdisneyworld
^[2]  Khinsider

 

[Gexus]

A Kingdom Hearts fighting game would be an insta-buy if this were the cover:

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Anyway. I'm not even sure if a game like this should be in 3D like Dissidia or more like the Smash Bros. games. Either way I'd be very interested...

 

[padlock]

I am on the same page as Gexus. Should it be more like Dissidia or Smash Bros.? I would probably say Smash Bros. for the combat, and Dissidia for the rest. Hmmm. Does KH really need a spin-off like this though? thats the real question.

I think the reasson Dissidia worked so well was that it featured many different developed fan-loved/agonised-over characters from a series thats over twenty years old that has had so many re-inventions of itself that it had oodles of fan-service to deliver. I'm just not sure it would fit, although I am all for experimentation.

I think Sora would fit into a Dissidia style game though definitely. Perhaps if they went Anarchy Reigns/Skylanders style, created a whole new bunch of characters and inserted a couple of keyblade wielders in :3

OOH! inspiration! Imagine if they set it during the Keyblade War Now that would be an interesting way of utilising a story element whilst changing gameplay style. Also a vast variety of new characters and play styles. They could introduce different keyblade types, like a spearblade. or something. I am on a tangent now haha

 

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Anyway. I'm not even sure if a game like this should be in 3D like Dissidia or more like the Smash Bros. games. Either way I'd be very interested...

I am on the same page as Gexus. Should it be more like Dissidia or Smash Bros.? I would probably say Smash Bros. for the combat, and Dissidia for the rest.

I don't think that's quite what they meant.
I believe they just mentioned Smash Bros. because of the way it gets multiple characters from other franchises in a fighting game.

 

[captain]

I want a KH fighting game more than anything. I think they've got plenty of original characters (+ FF & TWEWY) to fill a roster. The only Disney characters that really need to be in it are Mickey, Donald and Goofy and to a lesser extent Pete and Maleficent.
I mean, I'd love to see more of the Disney party characters like Tron or Beast appear, but they aren't a necessity.

 

[Relix]

they'd have to put a lot of work into it imo as far as moves sets and other unique things like that without being outrageously generic

idk, it may be fun for kicks but as an all out game idk

I'd definitely be interested though

 

[Xagzan]

It could give us a chance to play as the Org in a far better capacity than Days allowed.

 

[Lenneth]

I don't know...Dissidia and KH ...nah.. IMO of course ( but I would definitely buy it)

 

[mgmkidkh]

Nomura should make a KH-Dissidia game leaving Disney aside. If Disney doesn't want to see its characters fighting each other, then make a game with just KH character (Sora, Roxas, Riku, Hayner, Axel, Xehanort...). It would be awesome!!

They could use the guardians of light (Sora, Riku, Aqua...) and the seekers of darkness (Xemnas, Ansem, Xigbar...) as the good and evil characters.

 

[TepidShark]

I personally would be more interested in Theatrhythm: Kingdom Hearts then Dissidia frankly.

 

[roxaven]

I personally would be more interested in Theatrhythm: Kingdom Hearts then Dissidia frankly.

I agree. Kingdom Hearts has such beautiful and memorable music.
I think Kingdom Hearts is already like a smash bros. The only difference is that we can't really attack fellow team members. (Well actually you can throw a box at your teammate and hurt them) You get to fight all the villains.

 

[Martin364]

Which system should the game be for?

 

[roxaven]

Actually now that I think about it, didn't KH: BBS have something similar where you can other player's but if it was like Smash Bros. you would you have more characters to fight with.
If it comes out for the PS3 it'll be the same except that you can play with other's online and more characters to choose from. It'll b better than the PSP since you don't have to play with people you know, but from around the country or world.

 

[AdrianXXII]

I'd love a KH fighting game, though I don't know if a Dissidia approach would work for Kingdom Hearts. It would depend on the story they tell.

It would definitly be a good opportunity to let us play as all the main characters, the Org members and our favorite Disney characters. If they can make each character's fighting style truly feel unique it might be quite successful.

 

[curlychuck]

I can't see this going through. I highly doubt Disney would say yes to a game where the sole purpose was for their characters to fight each other. However I think Epic Mickey has shown that Disney is ok moving towards darker uses of their characters, so who knows?

As for the KH exclusive characters, I think it would make more sense for one or two of those characters to show up in the next Dissidia.

 

[Sephiroth0812]

As for the KH exclusive characters, I think it would make more sense for one or two of those characters to show up in the next Dissidia.

That wouldn't sit well with a wide bunch of the Dissidia fanbase though and also murk up things since the FF characters in Dissidia are the original ones from their respective FF Universes, not the alternate Versions from the KH-Universe.

 

[Oracle Spockanort]

Which system should the game be for?

A home console. So like PS3/PS4, Wii U.

 

[AdrianXXII]

That wouldn't sit well with a wide bunch of the Dissidia fanbase though and also murk up things since the FF characters in Dissidia are the original ones from their respective FF Universes, not the alternate Versions from the KH-Universe.

The fact that Sora would get to interact with the original FF version, while knowing them from his own universe might actually be quite interesting. I'd be interested to see how that would play out.

 

[Chaser]

Nomura should make a KH-Dissidia game leaving Disney aside. If Disney doesn't want to see its characters fighting each other, then make a game with just KH character

Disney actually seems comfortable enough with the idea to have drawn up a few sketches for a fighting game before it was canned, so I can't see the "Disney doesn't want their characters fighting each other" idea still applicable now.

 

[kupo1121]

I personally would be more interested in Theatrhythm: Kingdom Hearts then Dissidia frankly.

I think Thearhythm would fit the KH style more since the style of the characters originated with KH, the music is great, and it is much more friendly to all ages, something Disney would never say no to. However, if they were to do so, it shouldn't be for a while because the thing about Thearhythms is that they are similar to like Rock Band and stuff where the game doesn't really change, just gets updated so we wouldn't want to make it too soon.

Actually now that I think about it, didn't KH: BBS have something similar where you can other player's but if it was like Smash Bros. you would you have more characters to fight with.

I didn't really like the BbS one, it was great in theory, but didn't pan out well. It is a great basis though for multiplayer in terms of battle modes. You could work together or fight one another, but in BbS, there was little different between the people you could play as since besides their animations, they pretty much had the same attacks lol (since there were only a few character-specific commands).

It would definitly be a good opportunity to let us play as all the main characters, the Org members and our favorite Disney characters. If they can make each character's fighting style truly feel unique it might be quite successful.

If Disney doesn't want their character directly fighting and would rather them act as summons, they could easily do that now. Between SRK, TAV, SRX, the rest of the org. members, and others like Eraqus, they have more than enough characters. However, I think a KH fighting game would be great on its own, I could also see SE doing a more general "SE Fighting game" where they have characters from many of their popular titles duking it out. Kind of like SSB-esque with the mashup of franchises, but it would be great for all types of people and it could develop it's own sort of battle system. Knowing SE it would also have a great story mode ^_^

A home console. So like PS3/PS4, Wii U.

Preferably a console that has great online capabilities, I can't deal with anymore of that ad-hoc crap where you can only play locally x(