Can you imagine Sora carving up enemies with a chainsaw while Donald and Goofy tote shotguns and throw Minnie Mouse on the floor before giving her the taste of arealman? Okay, well things wouldn’t have gonethatfar, but the chainsaw part was almost real, as confirmed by series creator Tetsuya Nomura inFamitsu.
“The first weapon I showed Disney was a chainsaw,”he explains. “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?'”
Another interesting revelation is the fact that Noura didn’t even want to makeKingdom Heartsat first: “Square wanted to make a game starring Mickey Mouse, and Disney wanted a Donald Duck title. Meanwhile, I wanted neither.”
The end result of Nomura’s apathy wasKingdom Hearts, a game designed to focus on no one particular character. Considering Kingdom Hearts is one of my most fondly remembered games of the last generation, I think this is one situation where everything turned out nicely.
