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Well we got threads for the general story/timeline, one for playable characters & one for the worlds so how about one for potential bosses? Particularly on the all-important final bosses which I've been thinking about lately. Of course what kind of bosses there can be depends heavily on the overall structure of the game, I'm going with 3 scenarios set in RoD: AX, Aqua & Mickey. V2 could just as well be a smattering of short stories with a bunch of playable characters across the timeline (in which case I'm utterly lost on ideas) or other kind of game, but for now this is what I'm leaning towards.
Heartless
Darkside-Well gee, it's kinda inevitable, isn't it?
Destiny's Force
Guard Armor-Encountered by Mickey during the visit to Transverse Town.
Shrouding Dark Cloud
Red Eyes-not the same one fought in SE but of the same breed.
Hunter of the Dark
Heartless of the apprentices-Now we're getting to the good stuff. I'm foreseeing most of these being in AX's story. One by one the apprentices fall, forcing AX to deal with the spawned heartless. While the bosses are different, there would be a shared visual aesthetic to drive home the fact that are indeed the organization's heartless. Each boss would of course use it's somebody's particular element.
Destiny's Force
Heartless of the other org members-These would more likely to appear in Aqua's & Mickey's stories.
Shrouding Dark Cloud
Disney Bosses
Yes, I'm including these. It would be awfully boring to not have any NPCs at all in the RoD. I'm thinking that the ravaged remains of the destroyed worlds contain physical memories of those world's former inhabitants. So basically it's like CoM again. Aqua & Mickey interact with these sentiments to learn more about the heartless outbreak. Naturally even the memories of the local villains still get in the way.
AX's bosses
-Prince Phillip (backed up by the fairies). AX doesn't interact as much with the NPCs but the severe case of Deja Vu he gets around Maleficent leads him trying to learn more of his past from her. She exploits AX for her own purposes which leads to him ticking off Phillip.
Vim & Vigor
-Spirit of the Mirror. Oh look, him again. -_- AX is again motivated by vague memories to gleam more information off of the mirror, leading to yet another fight with it.I can picture a couple of new attacks for it: spinning like a top & shooting lasers from it's eyes but that's about it.
Vim & Vigor
-Beast. Hell I don't why they're fighting anymore. I'm just throwing this in to fill a slot.
Vim & Vigor
Aqua's bosses
-Lady Tremaine (with Godmother's wand). While Tremaine wasn't much of a direct threat in the 1st Cinderella movie, however in the 3rd movie she stole the fairy godmother's wand & became quite powerful with it. Her main method of attack is transformation.
The Encounter
-Scar. Kinda of a given for Pride Lands. BTW, I keep picturing Aqua as an ostrich for that world. Does that make any sense?
The Encounter
-Witch form Maleficent, because she already fought the dragon form.
The Encounter
-Queen Grimhilde (that's the one from Snow White). Uses a number of potions to inflict status or explode.
Vim & Vigor
-Monstro. To make up for no FM release over here.
The Encounter
-Gaston. Nobody takes too long to finally show up like Gaston!
Vim & Vigor
Mickey's bosses
-Human form Lucifer. Yeah that happened in the 3rd film.
Rowdy Rumble
-Hyenas.
Rowdy Rumble
-Dragon Maleficent. *Sigh* Whereas witch form can always have new magic tricks up her sleave, the dragon form is pretty depleted on new gameplay variations. Maybe it can like the gold Bahamut from Crisis Core that's always flying just off the edge of a rooftop.
The Encounter
-Grimhilde (old hag form). Throws poisoned apples to inflict poison status. The weather is a big factor with random lightning bolts & a QTE of getting blown over the cliff & having to climb back up.
The Encounter
-Shun Yu. This time riding on horseback.
Vim & Vigor
-Cruella De Vil. Attempts to run Mickey over with her car.
Vim & Vigor
-Coachman from Pinocchio world. Similar to Cruella & Shun Yu in that he uses a mode of transportation as a deadly weapon. This is getting kind of redundant.
Vim & Vigor
Final Bosses
AX-Ansem. AX was the toughest to figure out a conclusion for. Slaying apprentice's heartless is all well & good but how to have a suitable finale & why he willing gives in darkness if he spends a whole game fighting heartless? AtW attempts revenge on AX, forcibly using the darkness as a weapon. AX surrenders to darkness partially to defeat AtW & partially because AX is trying to prove he's more willing to learn more about darkness & the heart than AtW is.
new tune
Aqua-Xenmas. Going with the theory of her meeting up with him, this is as appropriate a final boss as any. Maybe he wrecks her memory afterwards, causing her to forget about meeting Mickey & that there's a crisis in RoL.
Disappeared
Mickey-Vanitas Sentiment. Lately I've been thinking the KKD Mickey picked up is really Vanitas' (& Sora's keyblade is Ven's). The concept of each realm having a singular keyblade is quite frankly, obsolete. Never was this stated in-game & with so many keyblades laying around now it seems pointless to consider that outdated idea as still canon. Instead, the keyblades of Ventus & Vanitas were the 2 halves of the X-Blade so Mickey had to make sure they were in good hands. Naturally, getting a hold of Vanitas' keyblade means defeating his sentiment first.
Enter the Void
Mickey alternate/final episode possibility-Chernabog. I'm really high on this idea of the demon from Fantasia being the "alpha heartless", the most powerful of them all & perhaps even the oldest. Also, I feel it would be disappointing to not actually get to use the KKD, so a whole extra world & boss to fight after VS would be nice. The idea is that after between meeting up with Riku & reaching the door to KH, Mickey is stopped by Chernabog as the last line of defense between them & the door.
Night on Bald Mountain
Overall breakdown:
AX
RoD-Red Eyes
Dalmatians world-Heartless of Ienzo
Pride Lands-Heartless of Aeleus
Land of Dragons-Heartless of Even
Beast's Castle-Beast
Enchanted Domain-Prince Phillip
Castle of Dreams-Heartless of Isa
Dwarf Woodlands-Magic Mirror
Pinocchio world-Heartless of Lea
Bambi world-Heartless of Braig
Final-AtW/Diz
Aqua
RoD-Darkside
CoD-Tremaine
DW-Grimhilde
ED-Maleficent
Bw-Heartless of Marluxia
Pw-Monstro
PL-Scar
LoD-Heartless of Larxene
BC-Gaston
Dw-Heartless of Luxord
Final-Xenmas
Mickey
TT-Guard Armor
CoD-Lucifer
DW-Hag
Bw-Heartless of Demyx
Pw-Coachman
Dw-Cruella De Vil
BC-Heartless of Dilan (Funny thing is Mickey could fight Xaldin in KH2)
PL-Hyenas
LoD-Shun Yu
ED-Dragon
Final-VS
Final Episode-Chernabog and/or Squad of Darksides
Now admittedly, this list has too many Disney bosses on it. Let's face it, it's just easier to pick a baddie out of a film than to brainstorm some new heartless concept. Pretty much only Gaston, Malie, Scar & Shun Yu are likely, the rest are me just picking names out of laziness. So if anyone has any better ideas I like to hear it.
Heartless
Darkside-Well gee, it's kinda inevitable, isn't it?
Destiny's Force
Guard Armor-Encountered by Mickey during the visit to Transverse Town.
Shrouding Dark Cloud
Red Eyes-not the same one fought in SE but of the same breed.
Hunter of the Dark
Heartless of the apprentices-Now we're getting to the good stuff. I'm foreseeing most of these being in AX's story. One by one the apprentices fall, forcing AX to deal with the spawned heartless. While the bosses are different, there would be a shared visual aesthetic to drive home the fact that are indeed the organization's heartless. Each boss would of course use it's somebody's particular element.
Destiny's Force
Heartless of the other org members-These would more likely to appear in Aqua's & Mickey's stories.
Shrouding Dark Cloud
Disney Bosses
Yes, I'm including these. It would be awfully boring to not have any NPCs at all in the RoD. I'm thinking that the ravaged remains of the destroyed worlds contain physical memories of those world's former inhabitants. So basically it's like CoM again. Aqua & Mickey interact with these sentiments to learn more about the heartless outbreak. Naturally even the memories of the local villains still get in the way.
AX's bosses
-Prince Phillip (backed up by the fairies). AX doesn't interact as much with the NPCs but the severe case of Deja Vu he gets around Maleficent leads him trying to learn more of his past from her. She exploits AX for her own purposes which leads to him ticking off Phillip.
Vim & Vigor
-Spirit of the Mirror. Oh look, him again. -_- AX is again motivated by vague memories to gleam more information off of the mirror, leading to yet another fight with it.I can picture a couple of new attacks for it: spinning like a top & shooting lasers from it's eyes but that's about it.
Vim & Vigor
-Beast. Hell I don't why they're fighting anymore. I'm just throwing this in to fill a slot.
Vim & Vigor
Aqua's bosses
-Lady Tremaine (with Godmother's wand). While Tremaine wasn't much of a direct threat in the 1st Cinderella movie, however in the 3rd movie she stole the fairy godmother's wand & became quite powerful with it. Her main method of attack is transformation.
The Encounter
-Scar. Kinda of a given for Pride Lands. BTW, I keep picturing Aqua as an ostrich for that world. Does that make any sense?
The Encounter
-Witch form Maleficent, because she already fought the dragon form.
The Encounter
-Queen Grimhilde (that's the one from Snow White). Uses a number of potions to inflict status or explode.
Vim & Vigor
-Monstro. To make up for no FM release over here.
The Encounter
-Gaston. Nobody takes too long to finally show up like Gaston!
Vim & Vigor
Mickey's bosses
-Human form Lucifer. Yeah that happened in the 3rd film.
Rowdy Rumble
-Hyenas.
Rowdy Rumble
-Dragon Maleficent. *Sigh* Whereas witch form can always have new magic tricks up her sleave, the dragon form is pretty depleted on new gameplay variations. Maybe it can like the gold Bahamut from Crisis Core that's always flying just off the edge of a rooftop.
The Encounter
-Grimhilde (old hag form). Throws poisoned apples to inflict poison status. The weather is a big factor with random lightning bolts & a QTE of getting blown over the cliff & having to climb back up.
The Encounter
-Shun Yu. This time riding on horseback.
Vim & Vigor
-Cruella De Vil. Attempts to run Mickey over with her car.
Vim & Vigor
-Coachman from Pinocchio world. Similar to Cruella & Shun Yu in that he uses a mode of transportation as a deadly weapon. This is getting kind of redundant.
Vim & Vigor
Final Bosses
AX-Ansem. AX was the toughest to figure out a conclusion for. Slaying apprentice's heartless is all well & good but how to have a suitable finale & why he willing gives in darkness if he spends a whole game fighting heartless? AtW attempts revenge on AX, forcibly using the darkness as a weapon. AX surrenders to darkness partially to defeat AtW & partially because AX is trying to prove he's more willing to learn more about darkness & the heart than AtW is.
new tune
Aqua-Xenmas. Going with the theory of her meeting up with him, this is as appropriate a final boss as any. Maybe he wrecks her memory afterwards, causing her to forget about meeting Mickey & that there's a crisis in RoL.
Disappeared
Mickey-Vanitas Sentiment. Lately I've been thinking the KKD Mickey picked up is really Vanitas' (& Sora's keyblade is Ven's). The concept of each realm having a singular keyblade is quite frankly, obsolete. Never was this stated in-game & with so many keyblades laying around now it seems pointless to consider that outdated idea as still canon. Instead, the keyblades of Ventus & Vanitas were the 2 halves of the X-Blade so Mickey had to make sure they were in good hands. Naturally, getting a hold of Vanitas' keyblade means defeating his sentiment first.
Enter the Void
Mickey alternate/final episode possibility-Chernabog. I'm really high on this idea of the demon from Fantasia being the "alpha heartless", the most powerful of them all & perhaps even the oldest. Also, I feel it would be disappointing to not actually get to use the KKD, so a whole extra world & boss to fight after VS would be nice. The idea is that after between meeting up with Riku & reaching the door to KH, Mickey is stopped by Chernabog as the last line of defense between them & the door.
Night on Bald Mountain
Overall breakdown:
AX
RoD-Red Eyes
Dalmatians world-Heartless of Ienzo
Pride Lands-Heartless of Aeleus
Land of Dragons-Heartless of Even
Beast's Castle-Beast
Enchanted Domain-Prince Phillip
Castle of Dreams-Heartless of Isa
Dwarf Woodlands-Magic Mirror
Pinocchio world-Heartless of Lea
Bambi world-Heartless of Braig
Final-AtW/Diz
Aqua
RoD-Darkside
CoD-Tremaine
DW-Grimhilde
ED-Maleficent
Bw-Heartless of Marluxia
Pw-Monstro
PL-Scar
LoD-Heartless of Larxene
BC-Gaston
Dw-Heartless of Luxord
Final-Xenmas
Mickey
TT-Guard Armor
CoD-Lucifer
DW-Hag
Bw-Heartless of Demyx
Pw-Coachman
Dw-Cruella De Vil
BC-Heartless of Dilan (Funny thing is Mickey could fight Xaldin in KH2)
PL-Hyenas
LoD-Shun Yu
ED-Dragon
Final-VS
Final Episode-Chernabog and/or Squad of Darksides
Now admittedly, this list has too many Disney bosses on it. Let's face it, it's just easier to pick a baddie out of a film than to brainstorm some new heartless concept. Pretty much only Gaston, Malie, Scar & Shun Yu are likely, the rest are me just picking names out of laziness. So if anyone has any better ideas I like to hear it.