A Star Wars Kingdom Hearts World Should Focus on the Original Trilogy

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After becoming an icon of pop culture in the late 1970s and 1980s, Star Wars made a grand return at the end of the 20th Century through Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. This led to the franchise getting the spotlight once more in the 2000s, but often at its expense given how much mockery was thrown at the prequel trilogy. Less than a decade after the Episode 3’s release, George Lucas sold his franchise to the Walt Disney Company, which would go on to produce a sequel trilogy for Star Wars that has arguably provoked more vitriol and debate from fans than the prequels.

In addition to the controversial reception of the prequels and sequels, the toxic history of the Star Wars fandom is often part of the reason why the original trilogy is the only consistently honored part of the series. As it is now owned by Disney, Star Wars could potentially make it into Kingdom Hearts 4, and it is one of the most requested worlds among fans. That being said, if Kingdom Hearts wants to make a Star Wars world work, it is better off relying on the original trilogy for the time being.

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Kingdom Hearts has become a memorable series over its two decades of existence, and it owes a lot of that recognition to its absurd premise. The Disney-themed worlds might polarize many Kingdom Hearts fans, but it is hard to find a person who claims that the series would better without them. One reason why the Disney worlds are often criticized is their lack of importance in Kingdom Hearts’ already ambitious and strange plot. Additionally, in-game questlines usually amount to nothing more than diluted retellings of the original films.

With these problems being evident in primarily self-contained Disney