Worlds That Deserve to Be in Future Kingdom Hearts Games
Treasure Planet
Yep, Treasure Planet is a Walt Disney movie. I honestly forgot about it before I wrote this list, but there you go.
Anyway, in case you never heard of this movie, it’s basically Treasure Island but (pause for dramatic effect) IN SPACE. Honestly, the movie is 90% gimmick, or to be more specific, it’s mostly about manning sail boats from the 1700s with aliens, shooting the boats into space, and calling them space ships.
To be fair, though, Treasure Planet almost won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, so the movie clearly has some merit.
Kingdom Hearts features a noticeable lack of levels with a sci-fi aesthetic. Sure, the franchise has the Tron-themed Space Paranoids and The Grid levels, Lilo and Stitch’s Deep Space, whatever the heck Mirage Arena is, and maybe San Fransokyo, but that’s it. The rest are either magical or mundane.
A Treasure Planet world would be another check on that underrepresented sci-fi world list, and better yet, since Treasure Planet is based on Treasure Island, the level would include a type of villain never before seen in Kingdom Hearts: a Disney villain with a redemption arc. Sounds intriguing, no?
