how the Kingdom Hearts series was made

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skypillar:

(with full apologies to Tetsuya Nomura who I’m sure is a lovely person)

KINGDOM HEARTS 1

Nomura: thank you so much for meeting me, I know how valuable your time is

Disney lawyers: the pleasure’s all ours, sir. you said you had a business proposal about how to profitably combine some of our intellectual properties with your Final Fantasy series?

Nomura: yes [pulls out laptop] ok so I wrote this crossover fic

CHAIN OF MEMORIES

Nomura: okay team that first game was pretty good but we’re gonna have to step it up. how about we make like, a card-based battle system in this one?

Staff: sir is that a yugioh card falling out of your sleeve

Nomura: also for the storyline I want to introduce a bunch of new characters who are all plotting amongst each other for mysterious reasons and then have them all die violent deaths

Staff: sir have you been reading Game of Thrones

Staff: sir

KINGDOM HEARTS 2

Nomura: ok let’s do everything we did in the first game but EVEN MORE BETTER

Staff: sir are you sure you sent this through QC? the plot is kind of…I mean the tutorial mode stars a different character and is 3 hours long?

Nomura: also use the triangle button a lot, that one’s my fave

Staff: this doesn’t really wrap up the story very well?

Nomura: triangle button

358/2 DAYS

Nomura: look it’s really not THAT weird

Staff: sir we’re just not sure you can make a game about existential angst that ends with a child goading her best friend into assisting with her suicide? we’re working with disney here

Nomura: legal said it was ok as long as I never do it again

BIRTH BY SLEEP

Staff: sir I thought you said we couldn’t make any more games about dead children

Nomura: none of them die. one becomes a comatose vegetable, one is damned to wander hell for eternity, and one is possessed by a sociopath and loses his mind

Staff: how did you—

Nomura: none of them die, legal couldn’t touch it

RE:CODED

Nomura: remake the cell phone thing as a game

Staff: what? why? I thought we were supposed to—

Nomura: [scribbling furiously] make the phone game. stall for time. I am Planning

DREAM DROP DISTANCE

Nomura: [sets posterboard down] and THAT’S the whole plot so far

Staff: but that doesn’t even…make any…oh god. Oh god. there are hints about these things in the past FOUR games. how many drugs are you on??

Nomura: yes

KH CHI

Nomura: you know, I’ve always wanted to make a KH MMO…

Staff: what?? but that would be so much work to update and maintain

Nomura: don’t worry, we’ll keep it really simple, it’ll be a piece of cake. we won’t even release it outside of japan

UNCHAINED X

Staff: YOU SAID WE WOULDN’T RELEASE CHI OUTSIDE OF JAPAN

Nomura: we’re not. we’re remaking it as a cell phone game–

Staff: WE ALREADY MADE AND THEN REMADE A CELL PHONE GAME

Nomura: –and releasing that outside of japan. also we’re gonna keep updating it concurrently with the original browser game, because of reasons.

Staff: you promised…..you’d keep it simple….

Nomura: well i accidentally a lot of plot so

2.8 PROLOGUE FINAL CHAPTER

Staff: sir this is. this is literally not even a real game. it’s a game remake and a random movie and a half-game you wanted to make like five years ago. how did you get this approved when we’re supposed to be making kh3

Nomura: oh it was pretty easy, i just explained the idea to the president the same way I just did to you guys

Staff: and he said yes???

Nomura: well he signed the budget request while crying and saying ‘please just go away’

My sideblogs!

I have four side blogs that are all roleplay blogs. One is attached to my main blog, one to the-tempting-rose, and the other two theangelicduelist blog. I figured I should advertise them since I don’t know how easily people can find them not to mention I’m still learning about how they work. Here are the links:

http://thepartyninjas.tumblr.com/: Oc roleplay blog for my three ninja characters, Midori, Naoko, and Kiyumi. The three can be used for original fantasy roleplays, modern day (as I’m developing a modern day version of them), or even Naruto (since they are ninjas. lol). A team of three friends, the three are rather silly together and Kiyumi, the head of the team, decided to call them the party ninjas, using their ninja skills to entertain or help people with random tasks.

http://thegirlofsteel.tumblr.com/: Yugioh OC roleplay blog for my character Rin Marion. A tough girl with a soft heart, Rin doesn’t like people to see her more nicer side and gets embarrassed easily if she shows it or if people compliment her. She has trouble showing her true feelings and tends to act out or have a bit of a temper. Rin is an orphan who grew up on the streets of Domino City because no one could handle taking care of her, and that’s where she learned how to duel. Her deck is a machine deck with Gattling Dragon and Jinzo.

http://theridingwarrior.tumblr.com/ Yugioh OC Roleplay side blog for my OC Kristen Till. Kristen was one of the lucky ones who lived in Neo Domino when the split happened. She had seen what it had done on tv and became furious at how the citizens of Satellite were being treated. She fights against the injustice despite where she is from and has rattled a few higher up people she probably shouldn’t have. Kristen is a strong duelist who duels with a warrior deck with her favorite synchro Colossal Fighter and her catch phrase whenever she synchro summons is “When Warriors battle, it is with honor.” Alternate Verse: Kristen Atlas (Sister to Jack Atlas. Request only! See About Page for details)

http://balanceroflightanddarkness.tumblr.com/ Side roleplay blog for my Kingdom Hearts OC, Diana Fotieni. I have a fantasy verse of her as well so I’m ok with following and roleplaying with non-Kingdom Hearts roleplay blogs.

Diana is the resident of a world called Eclipse’s Embrace that was taken over by darkness years ago and is unknown to anyone but those who lived there. At a young age her parents decided to have Vico, a Moogle butler/guardian, accompany Diana wherever she went to keep her safe and also gave her a keychain with a crown pendant. When the heartless invaded her home world, a very young Diana with Vico was sent alone on a gummi ship set to anywhere safe by autopilot. Her parents said they were going to join her in another one, making sure she was safe first, but never made it. Their whereabouts to her are unknown.