It's no secret that Disney's Mickey Mouse has been shafting Donald Duck for decades. I never understood the rodent's motivation, but time and time again he's swerved his fowl friend. In a recent interview with Famitsu (translated by 1Up), Square Enix director Tetsuya Nomura revealed that Disney wanted to cast Donald Duck as the leading character for the project that eventually became Kingdom Hearts.
"Square wanted to make a game starring Mickey Mouse, and Disney wanted a Donald Duck title. Meanwhile, I wanted neither. So I built a project plan for KH and began negotiating with both sides. That plan was largely what you see now; a game featuring lots of characters without focusing on any particular one."
After being regulated to second-string status in movies and television, video games could have been the medium that allowed Donald to have the spotlight all to himself. Instead, Mr. Mouse shafted him once again. What a rat bastard.
In your mind, would Donald Duck have worked as a lead in a Square Enix action RPG? Any other Disney characters work in that role?
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Titanguy654
"Actually," he continues, "the first weapon I showed Disney was a chainsaw. It was this chainsaw-like weapon that I had a rough sketch of when I first showed my concepts to Disney. Everyone got this scrunched-up look on their face and nobody said a word in the entire room. Dead silence. And I thought 'No, I guess this wouldn't work, huh?'"
I found this 10 times more epic and newsworthy.
BrutalViolence70
Donald Duck would have been cool, but im still waiting for World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck part 2? lol anyone else remember how cool that game was?
Synthro
Would it have worked? Maybe. But from a personal view point, even when playing Kingdom Hearts I always felt Donald Duck was the number one person I wanted to beat to death with a bag of kittens when playing those games(Sorry to the Donald Duck fans out there), he just irritated me.
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