I liked Kingdom Hearts back in the day but the more I think about it the more I'm convinced it just prayed on our nostalgia. I never cared about Sora and really hoped Goofy and Donald would die and let me kill everything alone but then I loved seeing Cloud, Squall and Sephiroth.Blitzwing said:And what about Kingdom Hearts? He was the director of all of those games and they?re one of Squares most popular series.james.sponge said:It is a bad thing because company loses money and resources on badly designed projects that do not bring any profit. Nomura is a good character designer but he is atrocious at directing games, FFverus13 history is a good example of that.Blitzwing said:I don?t see how that?s a bad thing. If the game doesn?t meet his standards why shouldn?t it be torn down and rebuilt? it is his game after-all.KeyMaster45 said:Like letting Nomura shit-can FF13 Versus 85% into production and letting him take so long rebuilding it from the ground up that they were forced to turn it into FF15; or hastily building a shit MMO with an astronmical budget and then deciding after it falls flat on its face to rebuild it from the ground up (I'm sensing a pattern here); or how about making not one but two sequels to FF13 to keep the game alive long enough for Versus to come out; or investing money into so many goddamned Kingdom Hearts spin-off games that you'll either have to ignore 90% of what went on in them come KH3 or bloat KH3 with so much loose end wrapping up that it collapses under the dead weight that's been piled on to the franchise?.investments that are made that should not have been
Like not laughing in Nomura's face when he asked to shit-can all the work already done on FF13 Versus and instead spend the money he wasted rebuilding the damn game to have him work on KH3; or hiring a surgeon to cut out the cancerous tumor in the company called Nomura that has been the root of a majority of your financial woes; or maybe just firing Nomura and using all the money he's wasted to hire someone who's head isn't shoved up their own artistic ass?and things that they didn't invest in but should have," he said.
As for the game itself KH was just a meaningless grind with Disney, Square characters that emphasized spectacle over substance (mentality observed in all of Nomura's games) some people may still like that but personally I regret spending my money on it.
And indeed those games were popular but we will never know how much royalties SE had to pay for all those Disney characters. The truth may be the series was barely profitable, but as I said we will never know.