Extended KH3 World Speculation

Thanks to Kiero, the main guy I wanted to read the last blog, I came up with a brilliant idea based off the forgotten city world.

He said it should probably be the Planet's Core world, so let's pretend I called it that.

So, Cloud is a part of the HBRC and working hard. Shinra comes along all up in their business, but generally just being the Russia to Leon's America and not doing anything too drastic. Bla bla, storyline, bla, big mid game Radient Garden climax.

During this section, Sora and Leon meet three individuals on the town defences, all with Silvery hair. Each one of them just pointedly asks them where their brother is, refusing to believe Sora's ever astounding ignorance. Leon, however, is having none of these punks coming into his town and telling him that they're all gonna just lounge around and hunt down one of its citizens!

Cue epic fight scene! Leon manages to do a lot better than you'd typically assume a side character to do, proving that they need the 3 on 1 advantage to take him down. They do, however, state that they're for brother to defeat, not Leonheart. With this, they take off and the plot continues.

While Cloud is helping fight, guess who show up? The remnants! They have a confrontation, Cloud shouting about why their not sending the big guy any more and generally taunting the trio. The trio then tell him to follow them to the place where mother lies, Cloud yelling he's never going there. Sora catches up to Cloud, but Cloud just says he needs to be alone and jumps world.

Once you're done on Radient Garden, you're headed off to Disney Worlds like normal. Difference is there's one of the Remnants standing in a battlefield-ready area in a section of the map not used by the story. They each have a set place, so only three worlds need to be visited. Once you confront the character, they talk about the area, and ask you where "Brother" is. They then take the "beat it out of them" approach and you get to fight them.

Once all three are defeated, there's a small cutscene in the Olympus Colosseum with Cloud talking about an old friend he knew, and deciding he will confront his darkness. He then gives Sora a nav gummi, in case he wants to blunder in.

This gummi leads to an optional world, called "Planet Core". It's entirely what you'd expect. There's a triple fight against the remnants, there's a duel with Sephiroth, there's even a truck load of cameos.

Kingdom Hearts 3 Worlds Speculation

It was bound to happen. When Kingdom Hearts 3 was announced with a small tech demo, every Kingdom Hearts fan immediately jumped to a thought of "I wonder what they're gonna do this time!" Well, it was less what they think will happen and what they want to happen, regardless of whether or not it's a viable idea.

I'm not going to do that. I'm going to do my best to list the worlds that are likely to appear, and will justify myself at every turn. If I suggest a new world, I will admit that I am being a slight fanboy for it, but I genuinely believe it would fit into the KH universe.

As an assumption, I believe the game to take place 1 year after KH2.

Returning Worlds

Radiant Garden

This is one that's become a staple of the series, and it's unlikely to stop now. There will be Merlin's ever moving house, a market square, some section of castle that holds the computer, and there is even a chance of Maleficent's castle turning up.

Something amazing would be if the Restoration Committee was being usurped by a small gang called "The Turks", lead by Shinra. Unlikely that Reno would be there, given Lea's pivotal role in the story, but it would still kick arse! You introduce a new threat to RG's stability, and bring in more FF characters. Chances are they'll just bring in Snow, which is better than some alternative FF13 characters.

Castle Oblivion

Sora picked up Master Keeper, the only thing capable of navigating Castle Oblivion. Combining this with the hints that Ven's gonna wake up again, you can only assume they will go and pick him up.

Twilight Town

They included it in the tech demo. You do the math.

Plus, they have a fairly good environment for Shaz to turn up and finally have a black guy in the series that doesn't represent the darkness. Suddenly, we have Chocobos in the series.

The Mysterious Tower

Yen Sid is still the master, so they'll check in when he gives them the obvious exposition at the start of the game. I would love if he magic'd another structure that is normally next to him but wasn't because magic.

Agrabah

It's a staple of the series, and they've just done the sequel so it's unlikely they'd stop now. The story is right there, and you know they'll work the cave of wonders in there for SOME reason.

Olympus Collesium

There is no reason for this to be here, other than that it's a staple of the series and the tournaments are extremely popular. I have no idea of the story, but presumably Hades uses a dead FF character to finally topple Hercules while Sora's trio try to prove themselves heroes.

Halloween/Christmas Town

I don't think there's a lot of potential for this one, since they've already killed Oogie twice. (Admittedly, with a lot more explanation of how it happened than Ursula being killed three times!)


I kind of hope that this doesn't return, but I must sadly admit it very well could.

New Worlds

Wild Jungle

A Jungle Book world, something they intended for BBS but couldn't quite make in time.Some Aztec Temples, a wasteland, a riverside, a wolfden, and the riverside by the man village. And the return of the Deep Jungle heartless.

I struggled with the name, I have to say. It has to involve the world Jungle, but Deep Jungle was taken. And given they can't use Tarzan, they're unable to use the name without controversy about his absence.

Game Terminal

Having sorted out the computer, Tron sets the teleporter nearby to lead to Ansem's recreation software, filled with old arcade games. Tron is setting up his Space Paranoids game, and invites Sora in to see how things are going. Given he's gonna see Tron again, he jumps right in.

Sora gets his Space Paranoids get up, and decides to explore the other areas Tron brought back online. The three he got working again are Fit It Felix Jr., Hero's Duty and Sugar Rush. There's only two rooms in the former two, but Sugar Rush takes up most of the level.

Heartless based on Haribo. Heartless Gummy Bear. It's just so easy to include in the story, you'd be mad not to.

Nomanisan Island

I'm cribbing this idea from somewhere else, but it's all public domain speculation. Meet the Incredibles who wonder why you're so strong, despite not being supers. Chased down by Syndrome... There's a lot of potential here, more than most Pixar films I can think up. People love toy story, but it's always a challenge saying why the character has to shrink.

Blue Island

Stitch lands, meets Lilo, fends off Gantu with Sora's help. There might even be a little cutscene before Sora heads there where stitch sneaks on board while Sora is leaving Radiant Garden. He pops out and has to learn how to cope without a large city like Radiant Garden to cause havoc in.

Corona

This one's a little bit more unlikely, but the world of Rapunzel. You have the city square and prison, the forest, the tower, the dam, the snugly duckling... You fight alongside Flynn, which is the character you'd follow closest.

The Forgotten City

I have no idea how likely this is, but they need SOMEWHERE to have the next Cloud/Sephiroth fight. Why not have a world Cloud went to in order to fight the darkness inside him, represented in this case by the Remnants of Mother. Kadaaj, Loz and Yazoo, plus a small army of enemies, against Cloud and Sora's gang.

Ooh! Vincent shows up, showing what happens if you live with the darkness but don't let it consume you! Heck, let's just bring in Barrett too.

How to Make Maleficent Sympathetic(-ish)

I cracked it. I know how to give Maleficent a realistic, relatable motivation without destroying her villainy.

I know Maleficent is a character that should not have a pure and honest motivation for sentencing a child to death, but it all depends on what sort of character you are trying to portray. She does NOT work as a hero, but that's not the only change.

You could make her insane, as I previously have, and set her on her path of violent destruction because she was obsessive over a certain man while in Aurora's area.

Another one that resonates with me strongly is that Maleficent is perfectly aware of the story she is in, and simply is doing what so many modern story tellers are doing poorly: making a perfect fairy tale grim. She tries to set up a version where Aurora dies, with the fairies then choosing to twist it to a love awakening story.

She tries to suggest a more reasonable compromise, but Aurora goes missing for years. Therefore, she tries to set up a bittersweet ending where Aurora does awaken, but her love is an elderly man who was kept in a dungeon for 100 years. The fairies then get active in subverting this story and even turn her bird to stone after he makes the guards subdue Phillip.

Only after her pet is, for all intents and purposes, killed off does she start getting violent lightning and dragon smacking our hero. She got pretty peeved with how things turned out, understandably, and figures she can still have a tragic ending if the prince dies and Aurora and the kingdom are trapped in an eternal slumber.

This gives her the reason of being a story teller who is simply trying to influence the story she is in to end in a more interesting way than "they lived happily ever after". She is by no means unreasonable, but definitely not a truly sympathetic character.

She is a horrid, horrid woman. But now, you understand why she does what she does.

New blog

Okay, I don't have much business having one blog, let alone two, but I figured I might as well sort out my blog posts more. So, all my blogs about something that should be done will now be posted on susagaideas.blogspot.com, which I am going to call "Why doesn't this exist yet?"

Omegle

Sometimes, I get bored. Sometimes, this boredom will lead me to Omegle. This is a nice place for me to chat with people about pretty much anything. They often want to talk about sex, but you learn how to dodge this.

I use their question feature, as it helps skip to the interesting part of the conversation: having something to talk about that isn't "asl". Someone suggests something for the other two to talk about, and they watch the scene unfold.

Now, I'm getting royally annoyed at something FAR too many users are doing. They have mistaken omegle, a website for people to chat at random, for somewhere for people to post their username for another chat site Kik. I have never used kik. I don't intend to. I did not come to omegle to chat on kik. If I wanted to chat on Kik, can you guess where I'd be? What's that? Kik? Why, I think that sounds about right!

It has gotten to the point where any users who actually want to talk about something interesting have to wade through a sea of kik users trawling along for someone to talk to. I don't know where they could find someone to talk to on a random chatsite!

It may be good for some people who actually want to chat on kik instead of the place they came to. Probably helps them shift through convos so they find someone as braindead as they are. But for the people who want to talk about the given topic, it's less than useless. It's a large obstacle that zerg rushes users relentlessly.

It gives nothing to talk about! What can we say other than "god damn it, get off our site!" or "sure, I'll have a clean chat with you on this other site, totally random but clearly legit stranger!"

Someone probably set up a kik exchange website somewhere. Search kik exchange. It's just an idea. If not, give it time. But one thing for sure is omegle wasn't made to be a username exchange for another website! It was made for random conversations and bolstering some random american politician who claimed he would legalise everything whenever you mentioned Obama or Romney. That annoyed me too.

I can't say omegle should be perfect. I can't say omegle ever will be perfect. Too many penises in the video chat. And no, moderation won't work. It just means there's one group of people who want to see naked men and one group who hope they won't see a naked man but probably will eventually.

But we should at least make an effort with the question section. The questions will still be dumb, but we'll have something more interesting to talk about than posting a seventeen-thousandth kik request. Or the fact that you're sexually aroused of whatever gender and looking for a chat of some form.

I hope you learned something. And if you're someone who posts your kik username on omegle GET THE HECK OFF OMEGLE AND FIND YOUR OWN WEBSITE TO RUIN!!!

P.s., it makes no sense to say your sexual orientation and ask for a clean chat.

Villains

I can't speak for everyone, especially after that court hearing, but it is widely accepted that villains make the story what they are. In a literal sense, they provide the antagonist of the story, driving through the conflict and actually making a story exist. In a figurative sense, they're the most profound and watchable characters with the best lines, songs and overall impact.

My favourite character in Snow White was the Queen. She was just so vile when she walked past a skeleton in her dungeon reaching for a jug that's just too far, then kicked the jug onto his dry remains with a cruel taunt and laugh. The most interesting, or at least popular, character in Batman is the Joker. Heck, my personal favourite portrayal in Wicked, a story about the wicked witch, was the Wizard, who filled the role of antagonist.

And this leads on to my main discussion point. Ever since wicked, people have been trying to humanize the villains into sympathetic characters by showing things from their point of view. People leap at the chance to show why the queen, a woman so vain and petty she lead many murder attempts towards a twelve year old, is secretly tragic.

In their defence, some villains benefit greatly from the portrayal. Wicked, for one, shows it can be done, and done spectacularly. Most villains need some form of drive to make them characters at all.

But there is a film coming next year called Maleficent. I am not looking forward to it.

Maleficent is a wondrously evil character, deciding at a baby's christening when and how she will die and using the full forces of hell to ensure it will happen. When things are gently nudged astray, she turns this chain of events into a similarly sinister life for the child AND her loved one. Her motive? No invitation.

Let's face it, that's not her motive. Until that christening, she was in a state of cold war, waiting for a reason to attack. The invitation was her "we have found nuclear weapons in Afghanistan".

The movie is going to make her, according to wikipedia, "desperately seeking for acceptance".

Another think I'm not looking forward to is Starkid's upcoming musical Twisted, a Wicked meets Aladdin story. Since Aladdin's sort of arrogant and while the city's full of cut-throats and thieves, the sultan is morbidly obese.

Except the guards follow Jafar's orders. If the city is a violent place where thieves run amok, that is purely because he was too busy manipulating the sultan. The only time the guards actually make any progress in tracking a notorious thief, it's because Jafar is planning on using him to conquer the world.

We like villains for being villains. We may like the villains, but we like them as an opponent more than an ally. The more we support the villains, the more we don't want the heroes to win. They're the conflict of the story and if they're in a good mood, we're not and vice versa. It just sucks to be watching a film and the moment where you once went "F*CK YEAH!", you now go "No, Jonathan!".

Adaptations

I have just today seen Wreck-it Ralph. It was awesome for many different reasons. I do find the time delay from America to England (which speaks the same language) absolutely absurd, but there's not much I can say about that.

What I WILL say is that it has succeeded in a genre that so many films have failed in. I consider it to be the first utterly good adaptation of videogames that the film industry has created.

Films tend to do that. While some studios like to take risks and push the boundaries of what films can accomplish, most like to sit in one place and make safe profits. And it also helps their writers if the story already exists. In order to do this, they disregard originality and adapt a story that already exists.

Books are good for this. They are a medium that can't be seen in motion, so a film is a nice depiction for the people who want the story but can't be bothered with the book. In the case of Da Vinci Code, most people agree this is better.

The same goes for comic books, which helps considering the writers tend to add a little to help translate a small book into a 2 hour movie with often no dramatic narration.

Video games get a little more iffy, since they are already a visual medium where there's not much added. In fact, there's more taken away than added. You will have to lose control over the character, the flexibility in designing the face (if it's not live action, we're just watching a cutscene), 20 hours of gameplay, cool game mechanics, immersion and a large chunk of story. And this will annoy many people.

It's a two way street between video games and films. Films know they can make money with a licenced game, so they make a quick one at minimal cost to replicate the story of the film in a game format. Films tell a more fluid story than a game can portray, and the plot will get interrupted every so often in order to add some padding. We know the story, and the game will likely add nothing new to the film other than padding techniques.

The worst game ever created was a licenced game (either Superman 64 or ET 2600, depending on who you ask), since they're cheep cash-ins on something actually popular.

I would also mention when people try to turn television series into films, but this is just so retarded it's not worth mentioning. I mean, come on! A visual medium being turned into a visual medium that's functionally identical but far shorter? Please... (hint, M Night, hint)

The good adaptations are where they try to be original while still adapting. The Pokemon anime took the basic outline of the pokemon story, but treated it as more an original character in the pokemon world following his own, much more detailed story. We can complain they get the game mechanics wrong, but they're so far away from the story that we can't criticise it for being different.

Wreck-it Ralph just took the characters and concept of arcade videogames, and used it as a jumping point for a story about it being okay to be the bad guy if you're a good guy at heart. The settings are incredibly videogame, and all the characters are nothing but videogame stereotypes, but they go on a story that we can all like for its originality.

Although watching Wreck-it Ralph, I can't help but think a game where it's just SSB with the characters would be fun as friggity friggity froo.