Creator Nomura Hopes to Add Star Wars, Marvel in Kingdom Hearts III

[wahdangun]

With Disney's acquisition of Marvel and Lucas Films, Kingdom Hearts creator Tetsuya Nomura stated in an interview at Japan Expo that he is hoping to add Star Wars and Marvel Comics characters in its third installment, Kingdom Hearts III.

Nomura stated, “Of course it would be great if we could add those licenses as well, but there are lots of rules and restrictions by Disney so we can't actually put in everything people want. So it's a quite difficult decision but we're gonna prepare some surprises for you so, just wait for the information.”

Final Fantasy developer Yoshinori Kitase commented on the topic, “We're not going to decide it whether Kitase-san likes Star Wars or not but we've been talking about Star Wars itself since it became Disney's content recently. When I heard the news I was like wow! Obviously it's gonna be great if we could add it.”

Kingdom Hearts III was recently announced at E3 2013, and is currently in development for the PlayStation 4.

wow, can't wait for it.

 

[smackababy]

Well, if they do get the license to add Star Wars and Marvel to KH3, I might just pick it up.

 

[Aikouka]

At first, I was wondering how they could really do it, but then I recalled some of the current Star Wars cartoons. They could easily use that to help define the associated "world". There are tons of Marvel cartoons, so that's not really a problem. The only question is... does Disney have the rights to all video game appearances of Marvel characters or are there licenses like with the movies?

 

[exdeath]

As long as it stays Kingdom Hearts first and doesn't turn into a dudebro wank fest.

 

[smackababy]

As long as it stays Kingdom Hearts first and doesn't turn into a dudebro wank fest.

Because Star Wars and Marvel was what "dudebros" like... Talk about out of touch with reality.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Because Star Wars and Marvel was what "dudebros" like... Talk about out of touch with reality.

Marvel? Yeah...every idiot went to see Avengers man. So yeah it's dudebro.

The comic side? Not so much but Disney owns the movies not the comics.

 

[Dumac]

Because Star Wars and Marvel was what "dudebros" like... Talk about out of touch with reality.

Marvel, yes.

Star wars, I don't know.

 

[smackababy]

Guess I didn't think of the Avengers movie. Marvel to me is still comics and fighters. =( Definitely not what I'd consider mainstream.

 

[Bryf50]

Marvel? Yeah...every idiot went to see Avengers man. So yeah it's dudebro.

The comic side? Not so much but Disney owns the movies not the comics.

Just according to wiki, Disney owns Marvel Entertainment which is the parent company of Marvel Comics. So I'd think Disney owns the whole thing.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Just according to wiki, Disney owns Marvel Entertainment which is the parent company of Marvel Comics. So I'd think Disney owns the whole thing.

I'm not familiar with that. Dunno

 

[Tweak155]

Just started the first kingdom hearts.

 

[TecHNooB]

Just started the first kingdom hearts.

It's a great game IMO. Hope you enjoy it

 

[exdeath]

Yup one of the most iconic games on PS2 for me.

Can't wait for the PS3 HD remake in 2 months.

 

[Tweak155]

It's a great game IMO. Hope you enjoy it

It was seriously pissing me off with all this "hunt down these items" crap. But of course I attributed that to being early on and kept pushin'.

Only about 2hrs in though right now.

 

[CrackRabbit]

I thought it would be cooler if they added the Muppets (also owned by Disney) to the KH universe (note I only played KH 1 if they added it in one of the other games I don't remember it).

 

[QuikWgn]

Of course the quoted article says in dev for the PS4 even though as of E3 per Square its fully multi-platform...(at least X-Bone & PS4 anyway).

 

[Tweak155]

Can someone explain all the current Kingdom Hearts releases to me? I'm very confused as to the order and which are sequels vs remakes (not even sure if there are remakes).

 

[exdeath]

One then two.

The portables are side chapters that cover the time in between those two games, story backfilling, origins of various characters and organizations, etc

Quite a bit of time passes between KH1 ending and KH2, all the PSP and DS games are to fill in the gaps: what happened that Sora was put into status, things that happen during that time such as birth of Roxas, etc.

AKA retroactively trying to explain everything they pulled out of their ass in KH2 by pretending they had a coherent timeline planned all along when really they just made up shit on the go. The PSP/DS games fill in the gaps and try to unite everything, you know how it is when entire complex universes and sequels aren't planned and divided up in advance from the beginning and they have to cover their asses later after making things up beyond their original story arc.

The only remakes are PS2 port of the GBA Chain of Memories and KH1 on PS3 which also includes another remake of CoM.

 

[Tweak155]

One then two.

The portables are side chapters that cover the time in between those two games, story backfilling, origins of various characters and organizations, etc

Quite a bit of time passes between KH1 ending and KH2, all the PSP and DS games are to fill in the gaps: what happened that Sora was put into status, things that happen during that time such as birth of Roxas, etc.

AKA retroactively trying to explain everything they pulled out of their ass in KH2 by pretending they had a coherent timeline planned all along when really they just made up shit on the go. The PSP/DS games fill in the gaps and try to unite everything, you know how it is when entire complex universes and sequels aren't planned and divided up in advance from the beginning and they have to cover their asses later after making things up beyond their original story arc.

The only remakes are PS2 port of the GBA Chain of Memories and KH1 on PS3 which also includes another remake of CoM.

Good to know...

I thought I would have at least a slightly rough time picking up a PS2 game at this point, but it surprisingly plays fairly well. And the graphics are fine. If they made quality games with PS2 level graphics I'd be down.

 

[exdeath]

I'm eagerly awaiting the PS3 HD remaster of KH1.

Been a while since I've played so its foggy and should be fun and magical again to some extent.

Biggest downfall to JRPGs: hard to play again after you know what happens and already completed everything 100%. Really have to wait a few years before playing again.

 

[Dumac]

I wonder if they'll release a PS4/XBone KH1/2 collection before the release of KH3.

 

[NWilliam]

I played Kingdom Hearts 3DS and 358/2 days and I can't wait for the PS3 remake of I and II so I can finally play those too, I don't own a PS2.. The gameplay video from KHIII looked amazing but I dunno if I can really expect it look like that in the end.

As for Star Wars/Marvel I can't imagine how they'll fit in, but I also thought Tron had nothing to do in KH and it turned out alright in KH3DS

 

[Wreckem]

At first, I was wondering how they could really do it, but then I recalled some of the current Star Wars cartoons. They could easily use that to help define the associated "world". There are tons of Marvel cartoons, so that's not really a problem. The only question is... does Disney have the rights to all video game appearances of Marvel characters or are there licenses like with the movies?

Disney owns Marvel and everything Marvel owns(including the comics). There are some rights(mostly film) that are licensed out to other companies indefinitely, such as Spiderman, but Disney still owns Spiderman they just can't make a Spider-man film, use Spider-man in a film, or anything else they licensed out. In the case of video games, a Spider-man video game based on the movies has to be okay-ed by Disney and Sony, but Spider-man for any other type of game just has to go through Disney. I am sure all their licensed characters for film(Xmen, Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, Daredevil) are the same.

Disney will never get the film rights back to Spider-man unless they fork over more than they paid for Marvel itself. Sony will just keep rebooting the Spider-man series/releasing Spider-man movies every five years indefinitely. Same goes for Xmen, and probably Fantastic Four. I see the film licenses for Ghost Rider and Daredevil lapsing back to Disney/Marvel like Punisher did. It sucks that there will be no Xmen in any Avengers movies or no Spiderman crossing over into Captain America, but I just don't see Disney paying several billion(probably $3-4billion for Spiderman and Xmen and $1-2billion for Fantastic Four) to Sony and Fox to get back the film rights for those characters.