That's more of the KH aspect than anything. Almost every world suffers from being watered down and leaving some really great characters out. Hunchback of Notre Dame is just one of those where it can't afford to leave out to much.
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Which this could lead to a nice revenge piece for KH3. Maybe Waternoose gets help from Vanitas or gets from the darkness in some way? He seems more threatening than Randall in my opinion.
This is how I feel, and why retelling the movie plots is bad, because there aren't an hour and half worth of cutscenes per world, it always ends up being watered down. Its better to go with original plots that they can have fit the gameplay and flow of the world, which will be like 60 to 70% of what we do there. Of course, the more characters and references to the original films the better.
KH1 is stil the only game that did that basically perfectly, but KH2 and BBS had some that were handled quite well imo. I really see this game going two ways. Since they have actual Disney writers helping this time, either they are going all in on KH lore and villains and yea having them be the main threats in these worlds but still incorporated in a way that feels right for their films.
Or thats just one aspect of the worlds and we still have Disney villain shenanigans mixed in and hopefully its all tied together well. Hades is the only glimpse of this we have, but I do think that lends itself to this happening more than we know. Like I said, we have seen like 3 cutscenes per world lol. We truly don't know the plot of any of them.
I'm not a fan of the original stories thing.
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It really doesn't, at least not yet. It is possible, sure. Hades and the Rock Titan could be outliers...but then I find it hard to believe Maleficent and Pete won't be showing up more and chatting with some Disney villains. But I mean, what do I know I guess ha.
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So, just to clarify, all worlds from KH1 did fine with 100% original plots and still fighting Disney villains, but in that game the Disney villains were the main threat for a long time, so that doesn't totally count.
CoM was sort of the opposite, yet I believe all the Disney worlds did have Disney bosses even if they were just filler. And all the plots were original.
KH2: all the Disney worlds except Beast's Castle had at least one Disney boss, who was involved in that world's plot. It was a strange outlier in that game. And Aladdin, Tron, Hercules, Nightmare Before Christmas, and Steamboat Willie were definitely original plots. The other worlds had original plots at some points, but that was usually when a Heartless boss happened.
Days: I mean it barely cared about Disney, we got nice surprises in Lock, Shock, and Barrell and Pete but yea, it definitely is the worst game in terms of Disney content. But KH3 really isn't like it at all..
Birth by Sleep: Its sort of like KH2, half the worlds are very similar to the original plot and half are quite original. All have at least one Disney boss, to the point where I am surprised how much they reached with some. Shrinking to fight Lucifer and getting sucked into the Mirror weren't what I would envision when I first here of Cinderella or Snow White worlds.
Coded: Is basically the same as CoM. Like...exactly the same lol. Just filler Disney bosses, but they are there except for Wonderland? I sort of forget if there is a Queen and Cards mini-boss again.
Dream Drop: This is the game that scares me. Its the last of the games they made before this one, minus 0.2 I guess. And yea they completely dropped the ball on Disney bosses while simultaneously still retelling the movies half the time lol. Like literally either one of Sora or Riku's visits was very similar to the movie and the other usually was original. Good marks to the Grid though, as Sora's story was original AND the one where we actually got a Disney boss lol. I also love Ursula being a random tutorial and Julius being the super boss...but yea not good for Disney villains.