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Square and Disney Team Up for Kingdom Hearts
jaredcat writes "Ever wonder what would happen if the incredibly creative talents of Squaresoft and Disney got together? Well I never did, but that didn't seem to stop them. The first joint production of Square and Disney, Kingdom Hearts, was just released in Japan. Its an RPG with a Square CGI, a Square story, a Disney sense of humor, and Square and Disney charectars. If the opening movie is any indication of what's to come when Kingdom Hearts becomes available in the US, its going to be the best thing to hit the PS2 since, well, Final Fantasy X :)." Very positive review. Gotta admit, I'm intrigued.
Update by J :
Check out
this review too, with a ton of screenshots, from
the GIA:
"By all rights [it] should be an awkward, conflated mess... instead, it's an epic piece of crossover fanfiction."
I can't believe it! The main character looks just like every other main Squaresoft game character! Such clever people.
Disney sense of humor
Oh no no no...
So, Disney's NOT evil this week?
This is Sunday. Disney isn't evil on Sundays.
Dummy, this is a WE LOVE DISNEY BECAUSE THEY MAKE SHINY THINGS FOR US article. The "We hate Disney because they take away our hax0ring" article is over there.
Learn the Slashdot doublethink or stop posting. Please.
-- Fuckin' J'raxis. Yeah that's right. Fuck.
Yeah, I especially like the scene where the Seven Dwarves dance around the rotting corpse of Fair Use, gleefully kicking at mouldering bits of flesh, singing:
Ding Dong, consumers are sheep,
Their rights are dead,
They'll eat what they're fed...
It's so life-like it's practically photo-realistic.
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
...a Disney sense of humor...
You mean the sense of humor that says "You vill vatch our product, und you vill like it, or you suffer penalties under federal law."
Is that the sense of humor you mean?
Edith Keeler Must Die
Wrong. We alternate Sundays.
Next Sunday, Disney is the spawn of Satan.
creative talents of ... Disney
So this time they didn't use someone else's story, or make a sequel? Oh, wait, they reused characters originally drawn decades ago.. never mind.
While we're at it, anyone see the McDisney ads at Walt Donald's World? "Disney, 100 Years of Magic"
Now unless they count baby Walter's used diapers as "Disney Magic" I don't see how they can reach back to 1902. But I suppose anything's possible when the Marketing Dept. is involved.
Then again, I suppose the 79 years since 1923 isn't quite good enough for the boredroom "executives" who's only creative contribution is the fragrance in the conference room after the catered lunch of Mexican food.
I still think someone ought to make the following movie:
"REVENGE OF DISNEY"
Starring Jackie Chan as Walt E. Disney
A story about a victim of mistaken identity arriving at the very gates of the "Magic Kingdom." Looking around, he sees his own name and only the outline of his beloved character's disembodied head plastered over every flat surface in a display of wanton greed so profound that the enraged cartoonist vows to carry out a one-man campaign to wrest control of the entertainment behemoth from its corporate masters.
Following scenes of frantic, moving, dubbed speeches, gripping courtroom drama, and an action-packed chase through the back hallways of a cineplex on opening night, the film culminates in a spectacular 45-minute "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"-esque kung-fu fight scene in the Disney Corporation's board room as the screaming, elderly, bandanna-wearing animator defeats the entire company's senior management single-handed.
The film ends with Disney, having liquidated the company, and placing its entire portfolio in the public domain, opening an art school with a record $800 million endowment, then retiring to a life of drawing one of a kind cartoons for children in the park.
Truly an instant classic.
I'm considering modding my PS2 just so I can get a bootleg of the game. I figure if Disney is calling me a theif I might as well make good on it.
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
Did anyone else read that title as "Square and Disney Team up For Klingon Hearts," or am I just too much of a star trek fan?
except when the Sunday happens to be a full moon - you forgot that bit didn't you?
Video Game cheats, hints a
at network hearts.
Oh Kingdom.
I've been coding X *and* win32 in one application today, it has turned my brain to Emmenthal
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