Thread: Kingdom Hearts 3 With NO(!) Disney Involvement!

can you please cite the source of this official news thread, and what do you mean by production rights?

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Here's a link to a French site with some information, though if you want it in English, below the small info is an option to translate it with Babelfish. It does the job well with a few exceptions, but the translated text shows well what's explained in French.

Disney veut un Kingdom Hearts III

relax, i am sure square wouldn't change too much, i know that some Disney char is in it.the KH2 ending king mickey calls them back again. so i should think that you should watch the KH2 ending, before taking this too harsh let say.

I am not being harsh, just from the look of it, it doesn't look real and after reading the article translated which does a good job, all the article says is that Disney would like SE to handle the development of KHIII again since they had so much success with the first 2 however, it doesn't say anything about Disney not being involved AND it says that SE is not interested at this time mainly because of current ongoing projects however, SE will be interested if Disney can provide more details as to what Disney wants SE to do, and by that they mean setting up a meeting with these two guys to interview and discuss business, saying NO Disney involvement is a bit of a stretch.

Personally, I think its just normal business, no reason to make an opinion yet since the project hasn't even been greenlighted, it is only a discussion.

It does sound fake. However, JeuxFrance is a pretty good news site.

Hmm... Well to be honest, it was obvious that KH3 was to be darker. You only needed to watch the secret ending of KH2 to know that...

As for Disney's involvement, they bought Pixar shortly after KH2 was released, and do you really think they'd pass up the opportunity to have a Toy Story world? They probably meant that they wouldn't be forcing the game into the Happy-Go-Lucky template it's usually in...

So don't worry... KH3 will be a great game... You'll only need to wait until after FFXIII is released before they can start work on it... So you won't be seeing the game until the end of the PS3's shelf-life...

Originally Posted by Kokoro_no_Ankoku

Hmm... Well to be honest, it was obvious that KH3 was to be darker. You only needed to watch the secret ending of KH2 to know that...

As for Disney's involvement, they bought Pixar shortly after KH2 was released, and do you really think they'd pass up the opportunity to have a Toy Story world? They probably meant that they wouldn't be forcing the game into the Happy-Go-Lucky template it's usually in...
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I'll have to disagree with this statement, only because the secret ending in Kingdom Hearts 1 also showed its sequel being a "darker" game, and that it was not. Sorry, but from seeing the transition from Kingdom Hearts 1 to Kingdom Hearts 2, we can't really rely too much on the secret ending for part 2, because it could be completely different. It's sort of comparable to when people would make predictions for Metal Gear Solid games, and Hideo Kojima would throw another curveball just to confuse his audience more, until the final game came out. Until we see official gameplay of what and who is being involved, every prediction we claim is just that, a prediction.

The original poster's info seems false, and the link from Soldat of Life doesn't reveal anything we already didn't know. Although I'm not a big fan of Nomura in terms of his involvement with the Final Fantasy series, his Kingdom Hearts work is good, although he still has to think of ways to improve the gameplay so it can be a bit more challenging than pressing 2 buttons continuosly.