One thing that always bothered me about the whole of the series was the clumsy way that the KH plot and the Disney plot seemed always at odds with each other. Take for example KH2. In any given world, you would initially play through the plot of the film and then later on a second visiting play through the KH2 storyline. Often times, they barely if at all intersected. IIRC, Organization XIII really only made its presence felt in the back half of KH2, a shame as those were some pretty fun characters. I mean, imagine how much cooler "Silence, traitor." would have been if we had seen Demyx bungling things up for the last 20 hours instead of the one world. I would like to note that I think KH1 works a bit better in this regard. Once we get to games like BBS and 3D, the KH Plot has become the A plot and the Disney movie stories are there only as a set piece. As example I offer La Cité des Cloches. Virtually nothing from Hunchback of Notre Dame makes it into 3D, a shame as that movie not only had a great story, but it was one tied indelibly to the darkness and passions of the heart. Of all the worlds where KH integration would work, I can scarcely think of ones better that this one. And in games like coded, Days, and CoM, Disney is hardly there at all. So there's the problem. How does it get solved? Honestly, I'm at a loss. I know what I want: I want the impetus for the KH3 plot to be handled via the Disney plot. By example, I want Hans to be working with Xehanort to turn people against Elsa, I want Sora and Elsa to be companions and he help her escape after her ice goes wild, and I want Riku to travel with Anna to meet her sister. I also want all of this to directly tie into whatever the KH3 macguffin* will be.
*As a side note, we've never had it confirmed that the seven lights have to be keyblade wielders. I think the confusion is a line from 3D from Mickey.
Seven guardians of light? Well, for Keyblade wielders, there's me and Riku and Sora. And my three missing friends, that's six. Then the seventh would be...
That doesn't necessarily mean that the guardians have to be keyblade wielders, only that it's more likely. Plus if they aren't, finding the other lights would be a great plot contrivance to justify visiting the Disney worlds.
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The other thing that bothers me is way the Square-Enix characters are handled in the plot. I understand that they are guests, but they can be handled far better. The high point for me is the way Auron was handled in KH2 and Cloud in KH1. Both of them had logical reasons for doing what they did and both of them were directly tied and interwoven into the Disney plot. This is what I want. Stop treating the FF characters as a side note and shove them right into the Disney plot. Going back to Agrabah for a King of Thieves plot: put Zidane and Locke there. Going to the Jungle Book world: how about Red XIII? Since she's well versed in being an outcast, how about having Elsa meet Terra/Tina when she flees Arendelle? A tormented, genetically altered soldier who strives to remember his past? That's Cloud and Wolverine. How about Balthier showing up as a rival to Han Solo? Hell, the whole light/dark side aspect of Star Wars** is practically tailored to fit the story. So on and so forth. In fact, I would go so far as to suggest fully making the SE characters into Disney versions. We can agree that Leon =! Squall, so why stop there? Use the original version as a template and spin a new thread from it. The other option is the do more subplots a la Cloud and Co. in KH2. It's a side thing you can choose to see or not to, but it doesn't effect things in the long scheme.
So there's two points to discuss. First, how would you like to see the KH story integration handled in KH going forward? Is there a particular game that you think would serve as a good template?
Second, how do you want them to use SE characters: full integration, side stories, or something else? If they were to put them directly into Disney worlds, who would go where and why?
**Taking that a step further, imagine Riku in the Star Wars verse. There's zero chance that a character wielding the powers of dark as he does would be classified as anything other than a Sith, meaning the SW heroes would immediately be against the KH heroes. Could that mean that we would be allied with the Empire?
