Disney has a wealth of memorable characters and fantasy themed worlds which would be an ideal fit for video games. Without an internal team, the team at Disney say they are open to licensing out their franchises to the right developers in an effort to reimagine them. The comments were made by Disney’s games VP Sean Shoptaw at the 2020 Dice Summit. Mr. Shoptaw openly invited developers to “come and play” with its extensive catalogue of franchises.
Disney wants game developers to ‘reimagine’ its franchises
If only they let Nintendo “reimagine” Sora into Smash
Hey we still got a chance. Also, Nomura has been giving some hints to Sakurai about wanting Sora in smash since the addition of cloud. But it’s up to Nintendo to decide.
Apparently Nintendo did actually reach out but Disney’s Japanese headquarters rejected them, but Smash rumors have been wrong a lot lately so who knows if that’s actually true.
Yeah just like Disney is reimagining its classics into live action remakes
Can’t wait for live action Epic Mickey! /s
In all seriousness though, a remaster of that game would be epic (pun intended).
Epic Mickey definitely deserves an HD Remaster. We’ll pretend the sequel doesn’t exist, though.
At the same time, they put a lot of restrictions in Arendelle (KH3). Don’t believe it.
Out with the old and in with the new…
I want so many things.
I find this really hard to believe since Disney has become increasingly stingy on a lot of things.
A reimagination could actually be quite drastic. In theory, they could take the world of Frozen (2012) and make a legitimate world in which to explore. I’m thinking Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor levels of reimagination.
I’d be pretty down if Disney published a game that “Edgar Allan Poe’s” your everyday romantasized Disney property.
Devs should reimagine Star Wars where the sequel trilogy never happened and make a new Jedi Knight sequel.
Donald Duck would be the one I want, but we know that happening is just luck.
}{ Someone should take a crack at reimagining Kingdom Hearts to have a competent storyline… }{
Now that they’re done with KH, they’re looking for the next big collaboration in the video game world.
Maybe it’s because RPGs are not so popular as they were in the early 2000s they’re looking for another game genre to popularise their franchises in the video game industry. Fortnight is hot rn so maybe release a game like it or Splatoon but with Disney characters.
You forgot to add the 3 to KH since the franchise is far from done.
Give me a dark and gritty Darkwing Duck game pls
I’m down with this. Provided Disney doesn’t insert itself up the asses of the developers like they did with Epic Mickey 2 & Kingdom Hearts III and drag the shit down from being truly great.