Kingdom Hearts III Gameplay with Sora and Riku

So I was thinking about how the game would be played in the next Kingdom Hearts. So far we've had Kingdom Hearts games that have you just play as Sora, but then we've also had a fair number of them that have you play multiple characters through different stories. I mean, we've gotten Chain of Memories, Birth By Sleep, and Dream Drop Distance. Doesn't the plot for KH3 seem like it's large enough and kind of split enough that it would be done the same way again? Especially because it kind of sounds like that with the description of the game on the Newegg page.

 

It should almost be a necessity by now. Sora, Riku, and Kairi should be playable, maybe Lea as well.

 

You know, I'd almost say it'd be cool having each of them saving one of the former keybladers, like Sora at the end saving Ventus, Riku saving Terra, and Kairi saving Aqua, and when you do that you get like a final chapter like in Birth By Sleep where you have the final battle somewhere with the thirteen darknesses. Never going to happen that way, I'm sure, but it sure sounds like fun

 

Well I enjoyed what they did with Birth by Sleep, so I would like to think that there'd be different playable campaigns in this. It would be cool if we have the main story and then upon completion you unlock side-stories for the others.

Something tells me it will just be Sora, though, and the others would just be party members who you could maybe control but it wouldn't necessarily change the story elements. It's hard to say.

 

They could do the individuals saving them for sure but they'd throw in the 13 darkness fights in it maybe? I'm just trying to think how they're going to get their seven lights and when they will all fight and stuff.

 

I actually, really really like this idea. it would be rather unique IMO...
Or maybe separate stories for each of the lights?

 

I like the idea of having 3 separate stories (or even 7 would be amazing to go with each Light) where they all save someone.

Another idea that I posted in another thread that I would love was that say if you are playing as Sora you have Riku in your party if you choose throughout the entire game- so basically those two go around together, you could either choose to play that campaign as Sora or Riku and, if you wanted, could have a multiplayer aspect where someone else can play as the keyblader that you aren't playing as. And there could be 3 separate campaigns with all the keybladers but that depends on when in the game Aqua and Ven are saved (most likely near the end though).

 

Please just Sora
Each time you split it to another character you get half the depth, half the quality
I just want a game where can use more than the same six attacks

 

I wouldn't mind playing as Riku in KH3 I feel like this is something they need to include especially with what they did with KH3DS but that got annoying to a point I'd rather have it the way they did it with BBS or RE:COM finish one story line then the other not dropping in one then the other it gets really annoying.

 

Actually that's kinda right. I'd rather have more depth than repeatedly go to the same world multiple times.

 

this as well but they're making this for PS4. past ones which diverge the character usage have been on handheld consoles or on the PS2 Now working with a good graphics engine and putting in effort and with the amount of time they've set for themselves which right now is unknown but speculated to be another 4 years at max. They should be able to make a quality action rpg with more the one playable character if square put the effort into it. If they did it with FFXV with making noctis ignis and prompto playable at certain times I'm sure if they atleast focus on sora and riku movesets aside from everyone else they can pull it off efficiently.

 

The whole different character campaigns was good for Birth by Sleep, but I'd rather that not become the normal formula. It seems like the story suffers for the Disney Worlds. Instead of one character going to a very rich world and helping everyone, they have to split parts of the story and areas between each character that visits it.

I dunno, I mean I'm sure I'll be satisfied with what they do, but I'd rather it be just Sora or switching party members. Makes better gameplay when replaying IMHO.

 

Better graphics means less variety. The higher quality something is the harder it'll be to actually make something new. Splitting that between more stuff than it needs to will just raw it out

 

I didn't mean in the sense of graphics I meant in the sense of quality game play. I could care less about graphics but they can keep a certain level of that to a point they shouldn't be developing on a next-generation console if they can't make it unique to the others along with giving it variety and not being able to keep a standard quality of graphics.

 

It doesn't matter if you don't care about graphics. The fact is, on a next gen console it takes longer to make something, so splitting that among multiple characters would further hamper that

 

Kingdom hearts 3 IS going to take long enough to make either way. Making multiple characters playable in the process with unique move sets and more than the basic combo's to the other games won't be something that's impossible or will take over 5-6 years to complete. I'd only prefer it if Riku was playable I like the fact that they've been focusing on him a little more now even though that means nothing it still doesn't mean it'll ruin any quality of KH3 if they make a short side story or quest for him after completing the main storyline with Sora. E.G they way they did it with RE:com.

 

But time spent on another character is time that could be spent making Sora better. With each character added you're going to lose more than HALF the potential that could have been used on just one character. You need to make new animations, rig a model FOR those animations, you need to balance it, you also need to make sure it's different enough from Sora.
All that time and effort could go int more stuff for Sora.

 

But you have to realize, they can't just do everything with Sora. I mean, if they only focused on Sora, we'd just get another KH or KHII, and I personally felt like I got a bit more story and character development with Riku, and even Aqua, Terra, and Ven when we saw their stories with them as the main characters, and not just people in separate cutscenes. Yes it's a bit more work to do, but you'll never know if it works or not unless you actually try it, and the same is to be said whether they keep it with just Sora. Both ways could be completely fine, it just depends if it works out in the end.

 

I WANT another KH1 or 2. We only had two of those. We've had plenty of other games to play as other characters, I want them to focus back on Sora for once

 

What about Re:Coded? Plus, while it technically wasn't Sora, we did only play as one character in Days. So in a count, we've had 4 games where we've played as 1 character, and 3 where we've played as separate people. I don't see why we can't have another with more than 1 character to play as.