Kingdom Hearts Trivia: #40
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- Published on October 21, 2013 @ 05:04 am
- Written by Joey
Massive hype erupted last week when a brand new trailer for Kingdom Hearts III was unveiled at D23 Expo Japan 2013. One of the most talked about changes to the gameplay was the addition of famous Disney Theme Park attractions, one of which was a train based off the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad attraction decorated in the style of the Main Street Electrical Parade.
Observant Kingdom Hearts fans found that this was not the first time the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad train had made an appearance in the series. Released over 11 years ago, Kingdom Hearts featured a design of this train in Gepetto's workshop in Traverse Town. It is amazing how things from small little things from years ago are making an appearance in the series as it reaches the end of the Xehanort Saga.
Do you think Nomura had planned on putting Disney Theme Park attractions into Kingdom Hearts before? Maybe there are other hidden easter eggs like this in the game we haven't noticed before?
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interesting theory, but i doubt nomura has been planning this early on.
I'd say it's a coincidence until proven otherwise....
Welp, since you guys asked so nicely:
Tanaka: For example for the tree house in Deep Jungle, we looked at simple designs and blueprints and created a map that was very close to the movie. But if you try to battle in a place of that size, it starts to feel very cramped. That's why the scale of it was made larger than the actual movie, but things that were meant to be kept small stayed that way. By doing that, we were able to recreate it.
Endou: The concept was to have events and battles on the same map. For example, in Disneyland, you look, play, and touch things around the town and they move. From the beginning, we wanted to touch and move things within the game and mimic Disneyland in that respect.
Harata: In the program, there isn't much of a boundary between battles and events. Basically, you can do anything anywhere.
It was a rhetorical question meant to foster discussion about whether or not Nomura has had these plans in his head, as he is often seen having these thoughts in his head early in a games development and shoving those in to later games.
Given the whimsical nature of KH1, Nomura might have indeed wanted to incorporate rides into the game. However, as Master Spockanort said, due to various constraints, the idea ended up being shelved.
I don't dismiss the possibility; even the sea-salt ice cream is there in the game because Nomura himself had some during his visit to Tokyo Disneysea. If something as little as ice cream could make it into the game, I don't think it's a far-fetched idea that he wanted to have many other interesting attractions of Disney Resort in the game. If I were the designer, I would've been interested, too.
And speaking of Easter eggs, is it that Nomura had plans of including chocobos in the game, too? There's a drawing of one in the Secret Place in Destiny Islands.
I've never seen that before. I'll have to look for it in 1.5 when I play it. *u*
Love it when stuff comes full-circle back to the original KH.
xD We just rolled into Trivia #41.
Instead of Hidden Mickeys, Hidden Chocobos. I like it.
But there have been multiple references to Disneyland in the games over the years. Disney Town is probably one of the biggest in the series yet.
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