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Earlier this year yeah. Have you seen the 20th anniversary video?

I guess not

I've only played the base games 1, 2, 3 and also, chain of memories and bbs so I wouldn't say I'm the most hardcore of kh fans but I do like the game

I'm more into the FF side of KH though

Oh yeah I'm super interested to know what that animal mask organization is and what they have power over, what could be stronger than organization 13 and their power over darkness?

missing link be looking kinda like a tales of game too

Animal mask people are the Foretellers, from the an ancient period in KH history called the Age of Fairy Tales. They are incredibly powerful wielders, and you can get an idea of it from watching their fight scenes in the Backcover movie that was in the 2.8 collection

The Foretellers, and their Master, have time traveled to the present, so we’ll be seeing more of them in the future.

It's worth noting that the FF-Side has never been as relevant to KH as it was in KH2

They weren't even supposed to be that much of a focus of the franchise

Yeah. Besides moogles, the FF part of KH really ended with KH2

Aw

I noticed Squall and them weren't in 3 afaik

I didn't see them and their world isn't in the game either

The FF characters cameo in the ReMind dlc for 3 but that’s it

So only the organization and sora's people are the "final fantasy"ish characters

I was wondering what felt off the entire game and didn't realize it until I was watching some clips of kh2 combat

No cloud and no squall!

NO explanation of where they went huh?

Also, they didn't show Rik in the trailer!

Cloud and Seph went to do their thing in KH2 and haven’t been seen since. Everybody else has just been chilling in Radiant Garden

Oh a garden huh

I never finished ff8 because I couldn't find the white garden

Idk why would they take out the cool final fantasy characters but keep the cheesy disney ones ugh

Squall/Leon, Cid, Yuffie, Aerith, Tifa, Yuna, Rikku and Paine will all be in Hollow Bastion (Radiant Garden) as that's their homeworld. They had no reason to be overly involved in the story

Cloud and Sephiroth disappeared to parts unknown after the Sephiroth battle in KH2. Though the writer of that scenario has said it wasn't really meant to go anywhere

Auron faded away back into pyreflies after KH2 was over

KH was never intended to feature FF characters as a core facet of the franchise

They were added later into the planning stages in places of what would have been original characters made uniquely for the franchise

Oh I thought the entire premise of the original game was Final Fantasy and Disney crossover

Nope

The Final Fantasy characters were only there to help build the franchise up until it had enough of its own characters to stand alone

Huh

Square Enix x Disney

Like

SE making a Disney Game

Well the Square Enix side is the best part

FF characters came later, but were never meant to be a focus

It's why the KH1 FF cast only superficially resemble their namesakes

They were just kinda thrown in with base character traits in place of OCs

Aerith wasn't even meant to be there, she was originally gonna be the girl from Parasite Eve

That would have been pretty cool though

As the series went on they cut back on their presence to highlight the original characters and world more. In KH1 they were pretty much just set-dressing, and KH2 needed to follow up on what they had been up to. But after that it was just kind of whatever

We know that Leon was planned to be in KH3 but he was cut for time, along with the Fairy Godmother. Then they along with Aerith, Yuffie and Cid were added into the Re:Mind DLC for cameos

And odds are they won’t even get that much in KH4

Hopefully they phase more of the disney out over time too. I mean is Mickey going to keep being central to the plot with KH's closed and stuff?

KH is Disney