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Also, same thing for Jungle Book.
There's a simple question you can ask, which will determine if the movie qualifies as "Best Disney cartoon ever" and that question is this:
Does the movie have a dancing bear?
If you can answer yes to that question, it is the best Disney cartoon. There are two movies that meet this qualification. Robin Hood and Jungle Book.
And they have failed to include both into the Kingdom Hearts series.
An important distinction.
in this one is super short. Unless you go back to it. Like shorter than 1 and 2 by a lot. And Rabbit had a different voice I assume like everyone else because the original actor died.
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Exactly. Pooh does all kinds of things that are unrealistic for a bear, like talking, singing, dancing and wearing clothes.
also just in terms of the intersection between game flavor and gameplay, you can't ask for a much better action RPG party member than motherfucking Fox Robin Hood. Dude is straight DPS.
Plus both he and Little John have a pretty strong drag game... I don't remember the game mechanics all that well but who knows, it might come up.
I'll see your dancing bear and raise you one Prohibition-era Caribbean Cargo Plane Pilot Bear. I've never played Kingdom Hearts but a Talespin world would be an instant sell for me.
I wonder if maybe they should've just made the games "Here's Disney worlds and characters (sometimes Final Fantasy characters, but not really anymore), and oooh here's some badguys what want to do badguy stuff. But it's OK Donald, Goofy, and Magic Boy are here to stop them!"
Like, instead of the long-winded convoluted sorta thing they have now. I mean, people like it so I guess is wasn't a bad call.
I've watched a lot of them, and for me the story is just painful. Like the prozd video is basically how it goes "oh god here's a bunch of info dump shit" and then "oh shit yeah here's a disney movie!"
This one has bigger areas to explore but they feel really empty like just combat arenas and thats it.
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It’s a silly premise, just lean into it
Stop trying to make it some epic, serious thing
But that means Fun and Fancy Free is the best Disney cartoon.
Honestly the "story" drags down the gameplay. Like there have been multiple times in the game where the action stops dead for them to exposition dump on you about things that happened in other games. Jim Sterling included one in his recent impression on KH3 and its just mind boggling that whoever designed the game is ok with literally two characters explaining the plot for 5 to 10 minutes.
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That kind of overly-straightforward writing is so much easier to take when Jafar just wants the damn lamp and the Red Queen just wants to decapitate everyone and Clayton just wants to ventilate some damn gorillas.
I dunno I'd take the lazy disney rehash to the similarly dressed anime hair dudes who talk about darkness and light and oh god my eyes glazed over.
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I nearly cried when Pooh told me what happened to his friends.
Once he was finished explaining, I took a deep breath, wiped the unfallen tears from my eyes, and went on a rage-fueled killing spree--not unlike your Rama's or John Wicks'--massacring those who had dared to hurt my friends from when I was four years old.
...then I never finished Kingdom Hearts II because I honestly had no idea what was going on, and I'll probably just watch a Let's Play of Kingdom Hearts III. Or maybe read the wiki. We'll see.
According to Gamespot's "History of Kingdom Hearts", that was kind of the original plan, with early builds of Kingdom Hearts being more focused on simple gameplay and a kid-friendly story. But then Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Final Fantasy and an executive producer on Kingdom Hearts, told Tetsuya Nomura that his game would be considered a failure if it didn't strive for the same level of storytelling found in Final Fantasy games.
Which is how we wound up with this silly game that takes itself very seriously, and I love that juxtaposition of ideas.
*And they're right, god damn it.
I mean, this is developed by Square-"Miss Cloud goes to Wall Market"-Enix. It's even another Tetsuya Nomura joint like FFVII was.
Right, he was originally called Krilles before he became a Nobody.
I really think there's a lot of that, yeah. Because Kingdom Hearts is seriously not that hard to parse, but people act like it's this hyper-complex maze of complete unintelligibleness. I feel like the basic backdrop of Disney + Good Versus Evil Fight makes people not really engage very much, because it's silly and obviously nothing that has Donald in it could be weird or complicated.
And I mean, it has a hell of a lot of moments that fall flat because the simple fact is that the games may have good ideas but just aren't terribly well told and the pacing is all over the place, so you will not find me arguing that the story is great, but I will continue to insist that it is, really, not that complicated.
Now I'm an adult and I can admit to myself that I unashamedly adore Disney.
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That's normal.
But I also think the story of the franchise across the main games and side games is a good demonstration of why Square is normally not allowed to write more than 2 games worth of continuity in plot lines.
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