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in which we fight many children and learn of Donald Duck’s vast eldritch power
It's 2002. Final Fantasy is at the height of its popularity. What's the next step? Unquestionably, a crossover with every Disney movie. Thus, Square commissioned Kingdom Hearts, and Tetsuya Nomura started penning one of the most impenetatrably complex game narratives out there. In mid-2017 I tried diving in.
in which we fight many children and learn of Donald Duck’s vast eldritch power
in which ducklings can absolutely run a business, thanks
in which we meet a Very Cool Man
in which we cause a diplomatic incident
in which we dodge roll a lot
in which the guy there somehow made friends with every Disney villain
in which a genie lacks imagination and we learn to paint
in which our adventures take a turn for the anatomically improbable
in which we encounter half the fetishes of DeviantArt
in which we help Pooh get his fix
in which we beat up a house
in which we throw ourselves at the ground, and miss
in which we conquer Greece
in which Maleficent steals the show and it’s not nearly the end
in which Sora somehow manages not to die from large keys
in which we’re saved from Donald Duck by the awe-inspiring power of heterosexuality
in which Kurt Zisa kicks my ass and savestates can’t save me
in which heterosexuality fails to detract from how cool my spaceship is now
in which the princesses are in this very castle, actually
in which we abuse savestates for a somewhat hollow revenge, and win the biggest tournament
in which we fail to beat Sephiroth and instead run to the end of the world(s) (but not At World’s End, which is a very different Disney property)
in which we suffer the worst weapon of the Heartless yet: free verse
in which we use quantum immortality to find the one universe where Sephiroth doesn’t utterly destroy us, and erase Christopher Robin from history
in which we break Ansem and his weird phallus boat
the end, in which we know a king by his squeak and otherwise find ourselves very confused