Wreck-It Ralph
You can travel to multiple worlds in each Kingdom Hearts game, but what if you had an entire world that was just a hub for new lands to explore? What if the game itself offered players a low-scale game inside of it, one where they could just fool around with items and characters taken from the places they’ve already traveled to? Think Disney Infinity, but without the need to pay for the figurines and they’re all already on the disc for you to mess around with? Only one setting would be perfect for this: Wreck-It Ralph.
Wreck-It Ralph ended up being surprising in a lot of ways when it released in 2012. For one thing, it showed that Tangled wasn’t just a fluke and that the House of Mouse could still make animated films that would be able to stand alongside Pixar and Dreamworks films. Second, it showed that a video game movie doesn’t need to be about a specific video game and could just focus on the characters of those worlds hanging out like a bunch of kids at the park one day after school. Wreck-It Ralph wasn’t just a great animated film, it’s the best video game movie in over a decade, and it absolutely deserves to be in Kingdom Hearts III.
To expect the game to pull a Wreck-It and bring together classic gaming icons like Sonic, Zangief from Street Fighter, and the Ghosts from Pac-Man may be asking a bit much, as awesome as that would be. Of course, if each platform had their own specific icons in the game, that’d be great. Someone on the internet has to have imagined Sora and crew armed with Keyblades that look like the Energy Swords from Halo or paling around with Ratchet and Clank.
Wreck-It wasn’t a slouch to “original” games in its own universe, and being able to fight alongside Ralph, Fix-It Felix and Calhoun in the latter’s Hero’s Duty video game would be pretty great. As for the mini-Toy Box mode? The characters could warp to an empty arcade system and use that to test items and weapons gained. If you can think of DmC’s solid white training room where you could practice your moves against a single enemy, you wouldn’t be too far off; you could fight adjustable waves of enemies as practice, or build environments and scenarios to test the strength of you and anyone on your friends’ list. If this game is going to go all out and bring an end to the trilogy, you’re going to need to be at your best.
