If you have 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 fully know what was coming subsequent, and from its sequel Chain of Reminiscences onwards the vibes had been utterly completely different. I nonetheless like it so much, it is as equally charming as it’s irritating, and since it is so completely different from the remainder of them it feels particular.
Sq. Enix is clearly all aboard the remake practice as of late, with Last Fantasy 7 being the prime instance of mentioned strategy, and whereas I discover it unlikely to occur anytime quickly, a Kingdom Hearts remake would seemingly print a wholesome sum of money even when it did find yourself being principally nostalgia bait. But when it did ever resolve to remake the traditional RPG, I feel it ought to give it the total Last Fantasy 7 Rebirth remedy,
When Sq. first introduced Last Fantasy 7 Remake, clearly nobody however the devs themselves knew that it was technically extra of a sequel, or not 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 assume efficiently or not) grappling with the unique’s legacy, coping with concepts over what a remake of Last Fantasy 7, a sport that accommodates the Darth Vader of spoilers, can appear like, and the burden of realizing what is unquestionably meant to be inevitable?
I feel Kingdom Hearts is prepped even higher for such a twist given… nicely, all the things about it. All through the sequence 22 years value of video games, it is handled altered reminiscences altering your very actuality, whether or not the soul can exist with no coronary heart, if strains of code may be alive, desires being worlds in and of themselves, and time travelling to save lots of your entire buddies lives. Protected to say, it has been a little bit of a wild journey, so a remake of the 2002 unique may actually go some locations if it needed to.
And I feel it ought to, too! Actually, I do not assume I desire a remake all that a lot, however I do know in an age of corporations putting supposedly protected bets with established IP it’s fully potential. So in a hypothetical situation 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 Last Fantasy 7 Rebirth, a gaggle of people who do exist within the unique, however have been made really vital within the second a part of the remake trilogy in a means that makes a lot sense you may 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 a variety of untapped potential. That is typically the case with a variety of first video games, and a few of that potential was explored in later titles, however totally on the gameplay entrance. A remake would permit Kingdom Hearts to actually get bizarre with it (not that it isn’t an odd one already), and actually faucet into the entire genuinely batshit stuff it does in a while.
Proper now, although, sequence creator Tetsuya Nomura and author Kazushige Nojima seemingly have their palms full with the subsequent era of Kingdom Hearts video games. There’s Lacking Hyperlink, a model new cell sport due out this yr, in addition to Kingdom Hearts 4, finally – to not point out the third and closing instalment of the Last 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.