After playing KH1FM again for the PS4, I remain baffled at just how good the story is compared to the rest of the series. The story is easy to follow, yet compelling. The Disney characters and worlds are integral to the plot.
Like, what happened?
KH1 seems to be the needle in a haystack of convolution. So I decided to go through the series' writing staff to see if there were any points of interest.
To my surprise, the writing staff has remained mostly the same. Besides Nomura, there's Daisuke Watanabe (which actually explains a lot), Kazushige Nojima, and as of BBS, Masaru Oka. However, I noticed an outlier in KH1's credits. A Jun Akiyama. And not only did he work exclusively on KH1, but it seems that he was the head writer as well, second to Nomura.
Now from what I've read about this guy, he's apparently held in high regard by a famous writer that worked on FFXII. And while I haven't experienced any of his other works, I've heard good things about them. Vagrant Story, FF Tactics and so on.
While Nomura was undoubtedly the head honcho and dictated the direction of the overall story, he seemed to respect Akiyama enough to let him handle what was actually happening in the worlds. Now, the only world we know for sure he was in charge of was Deep Jungle, which I personally really liked despite not having the plot relevance as, say, Agrabah. The conflict between Sora and Donald, the foreshadowing to Kairi being in Sora's heart, as an introductory world it was very well done.
It leads me to believe he may have been keeping Nomura in line. Kind of like the relationship Hideo Kojima and the head MGS writer had.
I know some of you here are more knowledgeable about Square and it's staff than I, so maybe you could enlighten me.
Do you agree that this Akiyama guy was responsible? Or was it just some freak accident?
Like, what happened?
KH1 seems to be the needle in a haystack of convolution. So I decided to go through the series' writing staff to see if there were any points of interest.
To my surprise, the writing staff has remained mostly the same. Besides Nomura, there's Daisuke Watanabe (which actually explains a lot), Kazushige Nojima, and as of BBS, Masaru Oka. However, I noticed an outlier in KH1's credits. A Jun Akiyama. And not only did he work exclusively on KH1, but it seems that he was the head writer as well, second to Nomura.
Now from what I've read about this guy, he's apparently held in high regard by a famous writer that worked on FFXII. And while I haven't experienced any of his other works, I've heard good things about them. Vagrant Story, FF Tactics and so on.
While Nomura was undoubtedly the head honcho and dictated the direction of the overall story, he seemed to respect Akiyama enough to let him handle what was actually happening in the worlds. Now, the only world we know for sure he was in charge of was Deep Jungle, which I personally really liked despite not having the plot relevance as, say, Agrabah. The conflict between Sora and Donald, the foreshadowing to Kairi being in Sora's heart, as an introductory world it was very well done.
It leads me to believe he may have been keeping Nomura in line. Kind of like the relationship Hideo Kojima and the head MGS writer had.
I know some of you here are more knowledgeable about Square and it's staff than I, so maybe you could enlighten me.
Do you agree that this Akiyama guy was responsible? Or was it just some freak accident?