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how the Kingdom Hearts series was made

(with full apologies to Tetsuya Nomura who I’m sure is a lovely person)

KINGDOM HEARTS 1

Nomura: thank you so much for meeting me, I know how valuable your time is

Disney lawyers: the pleasure’s all ours, sir. you said you had a business proposal about how to profitably combine some of our intellectual properties with your Final Fantasy series?

Nomura: yes [pulls out laptop] ok so I wrote this crossover fic

CHAIN OF MEMORIES

Nomura: okay team that first game was pretty good but we’re gonna have to step it up. how about we make like, a card-based battle system in this one?

Staff: sir is that a yugioh card falling out of your sleeve

Nomura: also for the storyline I want to introduce a bunch of new characters who are all plotting amongst each other for mysterious reasons and then have them all die violent deaths

Staff: sir have you been reading Game of Thrones

Staff: sir

KINGDOM HEARTS 2

Nomura: ok let’s do everything we did in the first game but EVEN MORE BETTER

Staff: sir are you sure you sent this through QC? the plot is kind of…I mean the tutorial mode stars a different character and is 3 hours long?

Nomura: also use the triangle button a lot, that one’s my fave

Staff: this doesn’t really wrap up the story very well?

Nomura: triangle button

358/2 DAYS

Nomura: look it’s really not THAT weird

Staff: sir we’re just not sure you can make a game about existential angst that ends with a child goading her best friend into assisting with her suicide? we’re working with disney here

Nomura: legal said it was ok as long as I never do it again

BIRTH BY SLEEP

Staff: sir I thought you said we couldn’t make any more games about dead children

Nomura: none of them die. one becomes a comatose vegetable, one is damned to wander hell for eternity, and one is possessed by a sociopath and loses his mind

Staff: how did you—

Nomura: none of them die, legal couldn’t touch it

RE:CODED

Nomura: remake the cell phone thing as a game

Staff: what? why? I thought we were supposed to—

Nomura: [scribbling furiously] make the phone game. stall for time. I am Planning

DREAM DROP DISTANCE

Nomura: [sets posterboard down] and THAT’S the whole plot so far

Staff: but that doesn’t even…make any…oh god. Oh god. there are hints about these things in the past FOUR games. how many drugs are you on??

Nomura: yes

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KH CHI

Nomura: you know, I’ve always wanted to make a KH MMO…

Staff: what?? but that would be so much work to update and maintain

Nomura: don’t worry, we’ll keep it really simple, it’ll be a piece of cake. we won’t even release it outside of japan

UNCHAINED X

Staff: YOU SAID WE WOULDN’T RELEASE CHI OUTSIDE OF JAPAN

Nomura: we’re not. we’re remaking it as a cell phone game–

Staff: WE ALREADY MADE AND THEN REMADE A CELL PHONE GAME

Nomura: –and releasing that outside of japan. also we’re gonna keep updating it concurrently with the original browser game, because of reasons.

Staff: you promised…..you’d keep it simple….

Nomura: well i accidentally a lot of plot so

2.8 PROLOGUE FINAL CHAPTER

Staff: sir this is. this is literally not even a real game. it’s a game remake and a random movie and a half-game you wanted to make like five years ago. how did you get this approved when we’re supposed to be making kh3

Nomura: oh it was pretty easy, i just explained the idea to the president the same way I just did to you guys

Staff: and he said yes???

Nomura: well he signed the budget request while crying and saying ‘please just go away’

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Staff: oh my god Nomura-san we thought you were dead, you’ve been locked in your office working on the KH3 script for two weeks

Nomura: it’s fine, I didn’t sleep or anything. now check it out, I’ve got everything ready! KH3 is gonna give everybody just what they’ve always wanted

Staff: more Disney worlds than ever before? tightly-crafted, well-balanced gameplay? kairi finally getting to do something?

Nomura: lmao no none of that, it’s all minigames and shit. but it does have…..THIS.

[holds up last page of script]

Staff: mother of god……the legends were true…..

Staff: you CAN write a satisfying conclusion to a story where all the characters wind up happy and most of the plot threads are tied up?!?!

Nomura: y’all ever done so much cocaine that it changes your whole personality

cheese24k

Corgi only listens to owner when he talks like The Beatles

> I like how the guy in video talked with other accents to give more proof.

robinbenway

I don’t even know where to begin with this!

setheverman

just got a grand piano and you know what that means

finalfandomforever

Seth whyyyyy

its-art-dammit

this is why i can’t fucking introduce kingdom hearts to my friends

nijuukoo

If Lea had directed that scene.

Dalinar: You're the only ardent who isn't calling me a heretic and avoiding me

Warbreaker the Peaceful, called Kalad Strifelover and Peacegiver the Blessed, creator of Nightblood, legendary scholar, worldhopper, chosen of Edgli, Returned of Nalthis, considered a god among men by the tenets of his native faith and technically an alien zombie: ya i guess

tanoraqui

I just think it’s Great that pretty much every character in the Cosmere, when interacting with Hoid, has a tingle in the back of their brain that something is Wrong here. Sometimes explicit, sometimes only shown in that he’s mentioned in the text at all, and therefore noticed more than he should be, but always there. A tiny tingle reminiscent of a prey animal’s fight-or-flight instinct, but it’s not quite that, it’s just…something is Strange. Something is Out of Place, and their tiny lizard brains know it, whether they’re talking with the King’s particularly annoying Wit or some random beggar in some random town.

Every character, that is, except Shallan Davar, who sees him and is like, “OH THANK HERALDS, AN ADULT WHO BOTH UNDERSTANDS AND SUPPORTS ME,” to which Hoid is like, “…I’m sorry, what.”

Summary of Knights Radiant

Windrunners: HONNOOOR!!!!!!!

Skybreakers: I am the law.

Dustbringers: Stop getting us confused with Voidbringers. We're not voidbringers guys.

Edgedancers: Graceful and sophisticated as fuck.

Truthwatchers: I know what you did last summer.

Lightweavers: Good luck! My real personality is behind Seven Proxies!

Elsecallers: fuck this shit I'm out.

Willshapers: we can teleport, but, like, not as well as the Elsecallers I guess.

Stonewards: literally who knows. Wtf is a stoneward.

Bondsmiths: We have god on speed dial.

weenietowne

I’ve made a lot of dumb, poorly drawn comics, and this is one of them

#dark souls

dudewithabow

wow what the actual fuck neopets

pervocracy

Why beehives are hexagons.

bogleech

we tried reading Sandman and as usual I just cannot get invested in anything Neil Gaiman writes. I just can’t ever seem to start caring about his concepts or characters.

bogleech

I really can’t quantify it in detail, it just never grabs me. I like the concepts behind Coraline and haven’t read the Graveyard Book yet, but everything else I’ve tried just felt like a bunch of tropes stacked together. I think the main thing is just that I need “lovable” characters to get invested in a character-driven story and his just don’t hit the right notes for me.

ninetynineno

Tried watching the American Gods series? I found it a lot better than the book.

aphid-kirby

Me in my house welcoming you with excitement

botanyshitposts

1.mood

2.fun fact this bat isnt being eaten; like, its roosting there for the night. this is Nepenthes hemsleyana, a pitcher plant species in a mutualistic relationship with the local tiny bat friends Kerivoula hardwickii (Hardwicke’s woolly bat)!! it works like this:

- the pitchers are shaped to make a special distinctive reflection of the bat’s echolocation. so like, the bats can hear where the pitchers are and go to them for roosting.

-the bats enter the pitchers and sit on this special rim inside that holds them above the water line so they dont get eaten on accident.

-up to two teeny bat friends can fit in an average pitcher at a time lmao

-the bat friends poop when they sleep and the plant eats the poop when it falls into the digestive fluid

-bat friends get a safe place to sleep, pitcher plants get food!

sparklerredpanda

Am i the only one who got pissed by the fact she didn’t got to fight in the tournament and instead did the chearleader? I don’t do fan arts often, but i want to get better at handling japanese model sheets

I may animate her again with less Twices…