If you take a look at all the things that got here after it, the unique Kingdom Hearts sits in a little bit of a bizarre place in comparison with the remainder of the sequence. It is the primary sport in a long-running sequence that did not totally know what was coming subsequent, and from its sequel Chain of Recollections onwards the vibes have been utterly totally different. I nonetheless find it irresistible quite a bit, it is as equally charming as it’s irritating, and since it is so totally different from the remainder of them it feels particular.
Sq. Enix is clearly all aboard the remake prepare nowadays, with Closing Fantasy 7 being the prime instance of stated method, and whereas I discover it unlikely to occur anytime quickly, a Kingdom Hearts remake would possible print a wholesome sum of money even when it did find yourself being largely nostalgia bait. But when it did ever resolve to remake the basic RPG, I feel it ought to give it the total Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth therapy,
When Sq. first introduced Closing Fantasy 7 Remake, clearly nobody however the devs themselves knew that it was technically extra of a sequel, or no less than reimagining, than it was your commonplace remake. There’s some nice meta stuff to be discovered there, because the video games are (whether or not you suppose efficiently or not) grappling with the unique’s legacy, coping with concepts over what a remake of Closing Fantasy 7, a sport that accommodates the Darth Vader of spoilers, can appear like, and the load of understanding what is definitely meant to be inevitable?
I feel Kingdom Hearts is prepped even higher for such a twist given… effectively, all the things about it. All through the sequence 22 years price of video games, it is handled altered recollections altering your very actuality, whether or not the soul can exist and not using a coronary heart, if strains of code might be alive, desires being worlds in and of themselves, and time travelling to avoid wasting all your mates lives. Protected to say, it has been a little bit of a wild experience, so a remake of the 2002 authentic may actually go some locations if it wished to.
And I feel it ought to, too! Truthfully, I do not suppose I need a remake all that a lot, however I do know in an age of corporations inserting supposedly protected bets with established IP it’s totally doable. So in a hypothetical state of affairs as a Kingdom Hearts remake, it ought to look forward of itself to doubtlessly higher tie a few of its concepts collectively. Consider The Gi in Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth, a bunch of those that do exist within the authentic, however have been made truly essential within the second a part of the remake trilogy in a approach that makes a lot sense you would possibly surprise it wasn’t the case within the OG.
I am not gonna sit right here and inform Sq. Enix all of the issues I feel it ought to do with a Kingdom Hearts remake, extra what I need to make of is that I feel that the unique has quite a lot of untapped potential. That is typically the case with quite a lot of first video games, and a few of that potential was explored in later titles, however totally on the gameplay entrance. A remake would enable Kingdom Hearts to really get bizarre with it (not that it is not an odd one already), and actually faucet into the entire genuinely batshit stuff it does afterward.
Proper now, although, sequence creator Tetsuya Nomura and author Kazushige Nojima possible have their fingers full with the subsequent technology of Kingdom Hearts video games. There’s Lacking Hyperlink, a model new cellular sport due out this yr, in addition to Kingdom Hearts 4, ultimately – to not point out the third and last instalment of the Closing Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy. In the event that they ever do make time for one, although, I hope they honestly go as wild as everybody thinks Kingdom Hearts is.
