Are Square Enix's new Kingdom Hearts games focusing more on the original characters and less on the Disney crossovers? That's the impression I got from watching the trailers at Tokyo Game Show, and the spreads in this week's Famitsu suggest the same thing.
The three new games -- one each for PSP, DS, and mobile -- has mostly been footage of characters designed by Square Enix, like Sora and Roxas. While Mickey Mouse, with his bad-ass hooded suit, appears in all three games, the only other Disney characters you can see in the trailers are Jiminy Cricket, Goofy, and Pluto -- all of them in the mobile game.
Perhaps they're just holding back this information. But why would they do that when the whole point of the Kingdom Hearts series has been this wild, overlapping crossover of worlds? Wouldn't that be the main sales point? What really appealed to me was this idea that you'd be in Halloween Town one second and riding the Black Pearl the next. Trudging through an angsty adventure with Nomura's zipper-buddies holds a lot less appeal to me without all the Disney worlds, so I hope this isn't fully representative of the content of these games.
