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Keyblade is pretty iconic but I'd pay to see those guys with chainsaws. | |
actually,the newest one is gonna have a chainsaw themed keyblade. | |
I just can't picture Sora with a chainsaw. Mickey Mouse onthe other hand, is all to easy to imagine with a chainsaw. | |
You know, Mickey Mouse wielding a magical key would have been perfect Disney symbolism.....in the 80s. Nowadays, a bloody, chainsaw wielding Zac Efron would be more appropriate..... | |
Well, a chainsaw wouldn't have been a bad weapon, would've made some sort of sense at least. Unlike wielding a giant key. | |
I can't wait for the Hannah Montana level in the next one. | |
You always wanted to play as her, didn't you Virgil? ;) | |
Too many slashers or too much Warhammer. | |
shhhh his secret might get out chainsaws would be awesome in that game | |
WOAH WOAH WOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. | |
Kingdom Hearts would've seriously better with chainsaws in it, besides that... those asshole main characters go around killing those guys in the black robes, even though they've defeated them and they could just... arrest them or something? Seriously, Disney has some double standards. | |
Great, we were THAT CLOSE to having "The Disneyland Chainsaw Massacre" game. SO CLOSE! | |
I wish that the chainsaw was an alternative, then Sora would be pictured more as a crazy psychopath, a character I'd rather play as. | |
Chainsaws would have been soooo sweet! Damn you Disney! --Xvito, keeping it excellent. | |
I wanna slice up Zac Effron! Really, though, who doesn't? | |
Im Suprised By the amount of Kingdom Hearts Fans on The escapist Either Way I Much Perfer the Whole Keyblade Gameplay. | |
so lets see... Prevented the use of a bahamut summon in KH1 Well fuck you disney | |
Those idiotic guys down at disney! If there was a chainsaw in kingdom hearts it would instantly be TEH BEST GAEMZ EVURHZ! I dont need logic to prove that statement. Chainsaw + Sora + Disney characters + KH gameplay = Win. | |
I think that there actually were a couple of Heartless that had chainsaw-like weapons. Those grey guys in the background of the picture kinda reminded me of Ash from Army of Darkness. Really though, was he expecting Disney executives to appreciate the idea of CHAINSAWS in one of their games? | |
I could definitely see the Ansem Retort versions of the characters waving chainsaws around. | |
you forgot: Allowing Square Enix to make a game with Disney characters in the first place | |
South park did it. | |
Given the fact that Disney is jerking off with all the money from their teeny bopper shit. Yeah, the people in charge of disney should be hurled out of a plane. | |
It's actually a lot better than it sounds. | |
A chainsaw eh. Would've made a good game a bit better. Or at least less childish. | |
It would be pretty cool, but I think it would be a lot less unique. | |
I hope this will be an optional weapon later on in the games. | |
Mickey Mouse with chainsaw? I don't care if chainsaws are less unique nowadays, Mickey Mouse wielding a chainsaw would be awsome. | |
South park have done everything -.- | |
Donald duck with a chainsaw how awesome. | |
I don't think the game would have been quite the same with a chainsaw, but not a bad idea x] | |
{Insert any of Donal Duck's very annoying speech} Listen to it... And... {Chainsaws} I feel fuzzy inside | |
And they said: you're mad, there's no such thing as a japanese-made pussyfing ray! Bollocks and bullshit i say! THIS IS THE PROOF! | |
They could have made it an unlockable ultimate weapon. Or a moral choice thing game developers love these days. Or even a sequence with you playing a more badass character. The options, even downplaying the usual bloodshed had potential. | |
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Kingdom Hearts Originally Had Chainsaws
Apparently Squeenix team lead Tetsuya Nomura had been watching too many slasher flicks when he originally conceived Kingdom Hearts: The game's iconic keyblade weapon was originally supposed to be a chainsaw.
Speaking with Famitsu magazine about the birth of the quirky Disney / Final Fantasy crossover action RPG Kingdom Hearts, producer Tetsuya Nomura said that rather than starting with a base of storyline and characters, the developer conceived the game with the idea of the "Keyblade" in mind - and the idea of keys became central to the story moving forward.
Yet the Keyblade wasn't the first weapon Nomura proposed to Disney: "[T]the first weapon I showed Disney was a chainsaw. It was this chainsaw-like weapon that I had a rough sketch of when I first showed my concepts to Disney. Everyone got this scrunched-up look on their face and nobody said a word in the entire room. Dead silence. And I thought 'No, I guess this wouldn't work, huh?'"
To be fair to Nomura, the Kingdom Hearts series' Heartless enemies are sort of zombie-esque, and there are few better weapons for slaughtering zombies (or defenseless teenagers). I suppose if you were stretching, you could also make the argument that, much like the Keyblade, a chainsaw has the power to unlock a person's heart... in a manner of speaking, anyway.
Of course, the idea of Mickey Mouse wielding not an oversized, symbolic, magical key, but a brutal and roaring chainsaw, is a very, erm, "interesting" one. One can only wonder why the Disney executives ever turned down the idea.
The world may never know.
(1up, via Kotaku)
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