Forget Twisted Wonderland, Forget Kingdom Hearts - Just Make A Good Disney Game

thegamer.com:

My PS1 collection was crammed with Disney tie-in games. Hercules, Tarzan, and A Bug's Life were an essential part of my library. They weren't great games, but they arrived before the sharp decline of movie tie-ins and managed to be pretty serviceable. Later on, Disney games included the likes of Bolt and Up, the latter being "the worst game to speedrun ever". The problem is that games take much longer to develop these days, so tie-in games need a far earlier advance warning if they're going to be up to scratch by the time the movie hits cinemas. Eventually, the declining quality and increasing difficulty led to tie-ins becoming a thing of the past, and now Disney doesn't seem to know how to make a video game.

There are a variety of things to consider here. Firstly, tie-ins are now linked to properties rather than specific movies - Guardians of the Galaxy, for example, is clearly riffing off the MCU but tells an entirely different story. Also, even when tie-ins were bad, some fought against the current - I will defend Brave's honour until my very last breath. Or at least until I finish this article, anyway. Finally though, there is a very large elephant in the room - Disney has been continuously making Kingdom Hearts games in that time, and has just launched a new title, Twisted Wonderland. Here’s the issue though: these are both terrible Disney games.

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Kingdom Hearts fans, I don’t want to get into a fight with you again. I’ve already written about my disappointment with the series, and while I understand that it means a lot to many of you, it’s not a Disney game. It might be fun as what it is, but that’s not Mickey Mouse. That’s not Donald Duck. That’s not Toy