If Kingdom Hearts Scales Back on Final Fantasy Characters, Sora Should Travel Instead

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From the beginning, Kingdom Hearts was built on a crossover between Disney and Square Enix. Final Fantasy and animated Disney characters were interwoven throughout the game, appearing in all manner of locations. Final Fantasy 7's Cloud Strife and Sephiroth showed up in Hercules' Olympus Coliseum, while Squall from Final Fantasy 8 and part of the FF7 party appeared alongside Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Merlin, and the Fairy Godmother in Traverse Town. It was a strange concept, but somehow worked, and propelled Kingdom Hearts to massive success.

However, as the series continued, what these two components brought to the crossover changed. On Disney's end, live-action and Pixar movies also integrated into the series much like their 2D predecessors. Square Enix provided the occasional new crossover like The World Ends With You in Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance, but its existing properties took a back seat. With the ever-growing number of original Kingdom Hearts characters, it was deemed that Final Fantasy was no longer an essential part of Kingdom Hearts crossover nature, and the old FF cast was marginalized. There’s no sign that this will change, but there may be other ways to bring Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy together.

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