Speaking of which, I love how tough some of these responses are. "I KNEW IT. YEAH. I KNEW THEY WEREN'T GUNNA SHOW UP." Well, yeah. Now you do. It's alright to be sad guys. Don't be scared of your emotions~
Nah, I knew since DDD. Pretty sure somewhere in these forums you can find old comments of mine telling people it was going to be extremely unlikely at best.
It's not like I'm trying to make an achievement out of this nor I want to mock people for being sad, but... y'know, it also wasn't pretty for me way back then when people mocked ME for claiming that.
I took the sass then, some people can take a bit of sass back now.
I also don't particularly care, btw. I'm not sad because I never believed they were going to show up... I guess I'm a little relieved that they aren't trying to put literally EVERYTHING in KH III.
The Drakengard series? I know and played the first two of those and they're definitely completely opposite in tone and atmosphere than the KH series so if Nier is anything like those I agree it wouldn't fit.
Drakengard is much more on the cynical side than KH is.
Especially when one counts all the backstories of the central characters and the "lore" from the different weapons which makes many of Xehanort's vile things seem tame in comparison.
Going by the cover of Nier: Automata the main "connection" with KH would be largely visual as the main characters have a very similar "style" to blindfolded Riku from Days/KH 2.
Yeah, and while the 3rd Drakengard was more slapstick comedy, it was still way too... crass and mature for Kingdom Hearts.
Like yeah, they can tone it down, but there would be so much to do it wouldn't even be the same franchise.
Also I'm not sure I agree with letting kids playing KH III, meeting a watered down version of Drakengard characters and then looking up the original games.
I am a big boy and if I just happen to remember Ending B and D of the first Drakengard I'll sleep with my lights on.
(and yes, I know it was a joke, but it's a fun topic
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