Okay, this is way too hard for me... But I can say that of all the Disney films in the renaissance period (1989-1999) Pocahontas, has such an underrated soundtrack. Most of the two cultures at war with one another and the musical score really does an excellent job at setting an appropriate atmosphere. I don't think there's a track or song on that that wasn't appropriate. "Farewell" I think was my favorite orchestral track as it meshes together songs throughout the film including the removed song "If I never knew you." In a way Farewell is like one final trip down the memory of the film of how sad it is to say goodbye just when you've developed an understanding. (Love how it picks up in tempo during the second half) With Mulan, the track "Short Hair" really does it for me. (The scene where she cuts her hair and goes for the army). It's just so damn uplifting! Like, I could train to that track alone and legitimately feel like I'm getting stronger from all that preserved honor. Part I like is only like a minute, but hell if it doesn't make me feel ready for the world.
^ First thing I thought from the title...
Welcome Back! I'm on the skypes if you ever want to chat. It's been far too long!
Both Xehanorts in one year is truly a sad thing indeed. Especially as he was only featured in 2 of the seven games. I will miss Nimoy. He could play excellent portrayals of antagonists and protagonists. His acting and voice work will surely be missed. And now that both voices are gone, Xehanort's true voice will rise...
fun little mention, Ariel was SUPPOSED to be the 7th princess of heart instead of Alice. Due to a time restraint on planning however, the KH development team could not fit in the rest of Atlantica's story, which meant Ariel could not grow legs to get kidnapped. They instead added the rest of the story in KH2.
With Post hast, Goofy carried on past, the rest of them as fast as he could to try and reach the princess in time. With revved up legs, he dashed around the spiral staircase like a rocket. "Don't worry yer Majesty! We're a comin'!" Mickey blinked in disbelief at how fast he took off. Donald looked back at Mickey. "Can we do that?..." "I dunno Donald... but let's just hurry! the princess needs us. All of us!" Meanwhile... on the 87th floor of the tower... The Beagle Boys were slowly trying to climb the last few floors of the hundred foot tower when the tallest one stopped to pose a question. "Oy! What we gonna do if them Musketeers show up again?" "They's eighty-seven floors up!| The middle one mentioned. "It'll be hours before theys on us." Widening his eyes at the sound fo gasping voices, he turned to find Mickey, Donald and Goofy having rushed up the stairs, and were now out of breath. The Keybladers that followed too, were out of breath from the long distance traveled in such a short time. "Stop (pant_ Right (pant) There (pant) You thieves!" Mickey warned. "Sling that bird in her cage!" He ordered the tallest, as they were prepared to fight. The tallest followed his orders and threw Princess Minnie into a princess sized bird cage that hung from the top of the tower." Now let's have a bit of fun with these blighters, eh?" Though they outnumbered the villains, the Princess's cage did not lock very stable and could break at any moment. "Goofy, we have to rescue the princess! Any bright ideas?" "Just one!" Gooyf whispered back. He allowed the croup to corner them to the highest point in the tower and backed against tower's two parallel windows. "Hot soup!" Goofy charged passed them and crashed through the window, leaving the beagle boys in confusion. "Well that was a bit of a barney, wasn't it?" one mentioned. The three of them looked out the window to find Goofy being todsed all over the land like a virtual pinball machine, before we was launched back up the tower, knocking the beagle boys out the other window and into the river. A very confusing and odd way to get rid of them, but all that was left to do now was rescue the princess and return to the castle! Meanwhile in the river... "Boss ain't gonna like this!" The tallest pointed out. "Oy! Plan can still go off with a hitch! We just need to separate em, see?" "How do we do that?" the shortest question. "Simple,. When the Princess is at the Opera, them musketeers will be on guard duty all night. So we just gotta wait for em all to split up and take em out one by one." "Hehe, yeah.. It's a big castle. Accidents happen..."
Water and Magic were both good suggestions, but Hikaru held off on thinking about any strategy as the window to the next movie was by the window they entered through. "Looks like we won't have to..." He pointed over to the pull string window that was similar to that of the Mad Doctor memory they watched previously. Looks like all we have to do is watch this one again." ~MISSION START!~ (To complete, everyone must comment) @Ventus PSP Aqua @KHGrl15 @Calxiyn @Knight of Fafnir @Hexin ------------------------------------------------------ The group had reached the tower, just across a rickety bridge. Below the bride, lay a shallow waterfall, as the tower itself was surrounded by the farm-like setting of dead trees, soil, cows, and a windmill. They knew she had been dragged here due to the royal carriage that sat parked outside. The bad guys in question who took her were definitely positive that no one would look for the princess there. Nevertheless, they found it, and Mickey rushed to the Tower entrance to tug and pull at the gate. His efforts, sadly led to no avail. "HNG!!! It won't budge! Must be locked or something... If only we had the KEY!" Mickey thought aloud. "Welp, no key here. we tried," Donald pointed out, dismissing the thought of fighting the assailants who took the princess. "Not so fast Donald... Maybe Goofy can think of something. Waddya say Goof? Any bright ideas?" Goofy pondered for a moment as he looked to the door, and the plains that surrounded them. "Hmm... we need to get in, but got no key... and pullin' on it sure didn't help... So..." Goofy's eyes squinted as he continued to scan for a solution. He stopped at the sight of the wielder's keyblade. Then went back to the door. Then to the keyblade. Then back to the door. "Ahyuck! It's so simple!" Goofy exclaimed as the lightbulb in his head lit up. "I-it is?" Mickey asked in amazement. "You sure?" "Sure am!" Goofy marched proudly forward, around the keybladers and pointed both his hands towards a stone carved sign that read "PUSH." "OOOoh," Donald and Mickey nodded. "Hehe, whoops. Lucky for us they forgot to lock it!" Mickey said, pushing the door opened. "Yeah! Because if they did, we'd be locked out for sure!" "Yup! No key or nuthin'! Sure were lucky this time." Goofy followed his two friends inside before looking back to the wielders. "You fellers comin'?" -------------------------------------------------------- ~MISSION COMPLETE!~ Stratos leveled up! (23) "Way to go everyone!" If you look past the Glen, those dark creatures are headed towards the coliseum where the dancers are! If you protect them, you'll find the next piece. I just know it!" Instead of transporting them back, Mickey gave them a new objective in the same world. Since the horde of heartless were continuing, they were able to get a second music note by protecting more dancing creatures. ~MISSION START!~
Jonting abount his clanking legs, the final skeleton ran like a little child, running from the teacher. It's fingers clenched, and pressed away from his chest, while he took large, horizontal steps in order to avoid them all. It was the last one standing and could be cornered wherever it went. Things were made even more difficult when he noticed he could no longer summon anymore allies. He knocked relentlessly against the ground to see if any of the undead were still napping, but alas, all his friends lay torn asunder around the graveyard battlefield. Hikaru appeared from behind the undead creature, as he menacingly hovered down with Dumbo, staying just a few feet off the ground. He gave two whistles in quick succession, as the skeleton's head perked up and did a full 180 to see Hikaru's eyes squinted like an old western film. It's head still facing, the skeleton's body slowly rose and turned to match the head's direction as it's bones shuttered from lack of anymore options. It looked left to right, as it shivered in place. Hikaru grabbed Dumbo's trunk and cocked it once more before he pointed it, directly at the skeleton's neck region. "That's enough outta the peanut gallery." A quick, but mighty peanut powered buckshot flew from Dumbo's trunk and knocked the skeleton's head flying backwards into a nearby tombstone. The body, still conscious, had it's hands feeling above it's neck to register that it's head was no longer attached. Walking blind, it turned around with it's arms in front of it to try and guide it's way across the cemetery to find it. However it didn't get very far, as it walked right into the deep grave opposite it's head. With the final skeleton defeated, Dumbo gave off a glowing twinkle before disappearing; signaling the battle had ended. Hikaru, now back to normal size, scratched the back of his head having regrouped with the others. They all faced the war zone and sighed with their battle now over. "Guess Mickey wasn't here... Any suggestion on the next window to open?" As their backs were turned however, a familiar mouse snuck off through the door without anyone being the wiser... ~MISSION COMPLETE~ Aden leveled up! (23) Cailyn leveled up! (19) D'daear leveled up! (20) Luna leveled up! (24)
I don't think I was fully clear in my last post. I don't want her to be part of the last battle, but definitely prior to it. Being one of the few surviving Disney baddies from previous games, I'd like an appropriate "end all" Disney Boss that wasn't just a part of the world you visited. (Chernabog made me so happy) After Maleficent was defeated as Final Boss runner up, then Sora could take the fight to Xehanort.
I think Maleficent needs to be kept going, yes. And here's why; Kingdom Hearts has always shown a balance between Disney and Square Enix. With Disney, KH has been able to show us exotic worlds, heart-filled moments, and fairy tale fantasy, while Square Enix has shown us the more darker, saddening, and plot twisting side of things. Xehanort has been an excellent villain, carefully planning out each step of the way according to his grande design, while Maleficent; not wishing to be left out of the scheme of things, is also finding new, and undiscovered ways of obtaining the almighty Kingdom Hearts. Both are manipulative, cunning and just love to wield that yummy, yummy darkness. So having her in Kingdom Hearts 3 as another major threat is always welcomed in my book. Her role however, will be taking a bit of a back seat compared to all we've seen thus far though. She could have such a role in the first game because there were only FOUR characters that Nomura developed for the game, (Sora, Riku, Kairi, Ansem) which left her a lot of room to scheme with fellow Disney villains. In CoM and KH2 however, Organization XIII was introduced, and with them, a bigger KH universe and overall plot. So if she is introduced into the game, I want her to have less contact with Sora, but always seen plotting in the shadows. Maybe have a redux version with her more prominently fighting Mickey like it was a side gam- *SHOT* I don't want her to be like the 2014 film version though. I don't want to sympathize her. I want her to be the mistress of all evil and flat out conquer. I want her to seem insignificant to whoever's playing for most of the game, as they travel world to world, fighting off Xehanort's 13 darknesses and whatnot. Heck, maybe she actually helps Sora out here and there as a temporary allegiance. And then. Right as Sora and Xehanort prepare to face off for the final Showdown- BAM! Maleficent shows up with a devilishly coy smirk on her face. Like in Sleeping Beauty, she'll just wander about, bantering about how she was almost left out of this grand occasion... So with 3 factions now in play, she can summon her rebuilt army of darkness and show what she's learned as an even more BAMF boss version of the KH1 battles.
Beuce leveled up! (25) Glen leveled up! (24) Kaida leveled up! (22) ~MISSION COMPLETE!~ With the mighty beast fallen, a bright light shined that opened up a new portal to take the six wielders back to Mickey. "Wow, you guys are really good at this. Your teamwork must be something you really worked hard on!" He took the third musical note and added it to the spell book. "Almost halfway done!" He flipped to the next page where he would continue to wave his hand and open up their next destination. The portal turned to mist before revealing a glen of centaur being scared off by heartless. "Hey... w-what are those things?" he asked as the Creeper Plants and Tornado steps inched in towards the frolicking creatures. "Hey look, that one's hiding the next note!" Mickey pointed towards the Poison Plant that was hiding the fourth note. "Good luck fellas!" His gloves hands glowed before sending them off into the world. ~MISSION START!~ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~MISSION COMPLETE!~ Raisor leveled up! (22) "Hey Mick, over here! Ahyuck! I found em!" Goofy yelled back as he and Donald approached the party. All three of them waltz over covered in mud with looks of disappointment. "You fellers okay?" Goofy asked looking around. "I saw you take down whatever was left of those bad guys and came soon as we could!" he reassured. Mickey slumped in the back with a most distraught expression. "We were ambushed by bad guys too!" Donald interjected. "Now how are we gonna protect the princess?" Mickey asked in sadness. "Protect the princess? Are you kidding? It's hopeless! We failed!" Donald rubbed the mud off his clothes and pouted at their failed attempts. He wasn't aware that Goofy took it to heart and began to blubber. "Hopeless... Failed?..." His eyes watered as he blurted out in loud tears. "BoooHoooHoooHooooo!!!" "Ahh, there there pal..." Donald looked around for something he could wipe with when he spotted Goofy's own uniform and gave it to him. "Here... blow." As Goofy took he cloth and blew loudly on it, Mickey tried to keep things together. He hated failing, but if they were going to be musketeers, then they needed a better attitude. "Well I don't think we're hopeless! Listen... Captain Pete has faith in all of us." "He does?... I mean- he does!" Goofy confirmed. "Pete made us muskteers, remember?" "Yeah! We're Musketeers!" Mickey had a very often habbit of picking his friends up from hopelessness when all seemed lost and as long as he kept reminding Donald of that, things would look up. "That's right! Just like we dreamed when we were kids!" Wiping off the excess dirt and grime from his clothes, he picked up everyone's spirits to keep moving forward. He looked to Donald, Goofy, and the other five wielders with optimism. "So whadya say, are we a team?" "Count me in Mickey!" Goofy answered immediately. "Mee too! Me too!" Donald added with a renewed spirit. Looking back on his friends, he nodded and looked to the keyblade wielders. "Then we're off to save the princess! And I hope you're all still with us... Because there's no obstacle too big! No Danger too great! And together we'll save the princess, or DIE trying!" Mickey and Goofy ran down the road on foot, leaving a hysterical Donald. "Die?..." The two ran back to grabs his arms and force him along, having him repeat the word blantly as he was dragged off. "Die?..." ~MISSION START!~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hikaru dashed at the chance to destroy another skeleton. The same one that was prepared to attack him before backed up against a tombstone and gave an evil grin as he looked to the grave and back to Hikaru. He didn't like the look of his boney grin. "What?..." he questioned as it gave a small and haunting chuckle. With it's hands, it dug into the grave and moved around the dirt so it would slide in like a hand in a glove. Hikaru simply stood there confused and bewildered at what the skeleton's end game was for doing that. "You want me to come in there after you?!" he yelled onto the grave. "Or do you think you can stay down there forever?!" he called out. A hand popped out from the ground after a brief moment of silence, where Hikaru spun and let out his keyblade, ready to pounce on the revealed skeleton. "Gotcha..." Before he could act, another hand popped out from a few feet away. Followed by another, and another in a rhythm that almost sounded like a drum beating against the dirt itself. Before he knew it, sixteen hands were now out on the ground surrounding him and the hands rose themselves up, as they bent their lanky arms and picked up their skeleton bodies through the soil revealing eight of them snapping their fingers and circling Hikaru like they were something out of a gang of broadway performers. The skeleton didn't run off, he merely called in reinforcements! Hikaru smirked before lighting his keyblade high. "I've got friends too you know." The keyblade glowed before out came a spout of water along with the small baby elephant Dumbo! Shrinking in size and mounting up, he petted the kind pachyderms head and hovered on his back as Dumbo turned to see what they were facing. "Much obliged for coming when I called!" Hikaru kindly thanked. The elephant was a bit hesitant at their scary demeanor though. "I won't let them hurt you," he reassured. "They just need a good wash down." He reached for dumbo's trunk and cocked it like a shotgun. Making sure his trunk was filled to the tip with liquid, he squinted and whispered out. "Time to water the garden," before letting loose massive blasts in all directions, spinning the elephant around in a stationary position. The water knocked down all skeletons as if they were bowling pins and by the time Hikaru realized this, he tapped Dumbo on the head for him to stop, as they were now both dizzy from the spinning. "Okay... side note. Let's not do that again." With his eyes still in spirals, Dumbo nodded lazily, trying to get his head together. Words: 450+ Skeletons remaining: 41/100 Total EXP gained: 57
Creepy? :O Oh Bueno, you make me laugh.
Well that's just ridiculous. Like they could plan that far ahead... Spoiler: NOT THE PLAN TO ASSIMILATE YOU PHASE 1 - They begin with a kind, but unsettling friendly demeanor. PHASE 2 - Slowly they will begin to adapt to your communities and climb it's ladder of social life. Edging their way into inner circles. PHASE 3 - Gaining your trust and more social power, they will have achieved eventual dominion over more and more of the community. PHASE 4 - They have reached their final form. Assimilation is imminent...
Base leveled up! (23) With the musical piece finished and the note retrieved by Base, all seven of them were returned back to where the sorcerer's apprentice; Mickey awaited them. Still twiddling away to keep the portal open, a bright light flashed as they all appeared before him. "Way to go fellas! You found the second note! Only five more to go!" Still casting with one hand, he used the other to flip through pages of the book until he found the page he needed. "Aha! Part 3!" He closed his eyes and focused hard for the portal to change. And before their eyes, the portal shifted from a lake of lilypads, to a field of desolate mountain and earth where dinosaurs roamed about. Mickey opened his eyes in time to see the monstrous beast walk by the portal on the other side. "Whoa!! Better be careful with this one guys... I don't think all of them are herbivores..." Another bright light flashed as they were sucked back in and came across the sight of a deceased dinosaur and a T-Rex standing over it's kill. The light that shined as they entered caught the dinosaur's attention as he roared at them in the pouring rain. He left the dead carcass and went towards the seven of them with a hungry glare in his eyes. Along with another musical note! ~MISSION START!~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "This is going surprisingly well, don't you think?" Aden mentioned back to Hikaru. Looking back at his ally, he nodded and replied back; "Couldn't have gotten much worse!" With the six of them, they had managed to take down roughly a quarter of the total skeletons. But things had to progress more quickly. He looked back to Aden and lifted his keyblade high to cast a healing spell on him. "So let's make sure they stay down!" with his cure spell healing Aden, he ran off to find more targets to destroy. As he was not exactly the slash and dash type, he looked to his more magical arsenal for ideas. Dumbo and Bambi were often fairly reliable, but the Cheshire Cat was always unpredictable, With those options in mind, he chose to save Dumbo for a later time and conserve his magic by just slashing away at more enemies to build up his halfway depleted MP bar. Spotting five more targets for him to take down, he slashed away at them as per fighting fashion and gained a bit of MP back to go on the offensive again. He looked around and found a few more of them hidden behind tombstones as he went on to exterminate them. Total EXP gained: 35 Skeletons: 70/100 left.
Five Skeleton's began to circle Hikaru, dancing around him as if he were a bonfire or ancient idol of some sort, swaying their long boney legs along to the beat of their fellow skeleton's musical styling. As He didn't have full 360 vision, this made him more susceptible to attacks from the back. In order to prevent most of the damage, he summoned his keyblade and put it in front of him to display a true and proper guard. Following their rhythm, he remained stationary as he turned his body along with them so he was no cut off guard. Two of the skeleton's leapt forward at him, only to be parried by his block, but his guard didn't catch the third attacker who got him from the rear. "Ack!" he grunted out as the blunt bones hit his body. He turned quickly and slashed away at the skeleton, who jumped back before being hit. As soon as he made the movement, they returned to their roundabout technique, attacking in whichever direction he wasn't guarding in. This made things especially difficult since he didn't have much of an attack pattern to take out large mobs of enemies. He was more the defensive and an occasion; magical offensive. His health felt low and instead of casting a quick cure on himself, he got agitated and spun his blade around. "That's enough!" Pointing his keyblade high into the sky, the magical weapon began to glow a white hue as he called out; "Faith!" Four pillars of light crashed down on the circling skeletons, causing them to break apart upon impact. Hikaru's eyes remained shut until he heard the cracking and eventual dissolving of the skeleton bones from the undead monsters that were messing around with him. As he opened his eyes to behold what was left of them, he was greeted with charred remains and bone fragments surrounding him. His magic ability was greatly improved since the last time he fought against enemies, and Yen Sid's final gift to them was quite the powerful spell indeed. He still felt grief over losing one of their most powerful allies though. Eraqus, Yen Sid, and members of the order were all taken down. He feared for the safety of Kaida and the rest of the group he fought with. Turning to see where else he could help, he stopped a skeleton dead in it's tracks as it was tippy toeing it's way to attack him before he turned around. The skeleton than focused it's attention on the charred remains of his skeleton brethren before looking back up to the keyblade wielder with an open jaw and unmoving eye sockets. Hikaru responded back with unamused squinting eyes causing the undead skeleton to back up slowly. Hikaru shook his head and pulled back his keyblade as he followed the skeleton step for step. The skeleton eventually bolted off, causing Hikaru to give chase. EXP: 25 Skeletons; 79/100 left
Well tell her that I miss our little talks
So I watched an episode, and find it's definitely... distracting. Bright colors, characters are all over the place and if you can ignore the plot and just enjoy the modern humor, it's an alright show. I think I only genuinely laughed at two moments though. It's target audience remains the same, but seeing as it's a cartoon, I can't be too critical of it. It's at least an improvement, even if not a big one. If more creativity is shown, I might look into it more.
Don't recognize much cast either. Only Amanda Schull and Aaron Stanford (Solely as Pyro from the X-Men films)
~MISSION COMPLETE!~ Hikaru blinked as the cartoon finished, and curtain fell over the window, closing it. He was still unsure if it was meant to be a dram or not as the images of the skeletons and the design of the castle seemed a little too surreal. Mickey had gone through a hellish laboratory, which for all they know, could still exist in the future DisneyTown. Something he would considering if and when they returned back to the present. Aden and others had suggested opening the doors with the skull on it. Something with a poisonous looking symbol wasn't always the kind of thing he would rush to, but seeing as they needed to check every window, Hikaru reluctantly went along. "Well if we gotta check em all." As he opened the pull string, he still shuddered a bit about the skeletons from before, but hopefully this skull themed world had nothing to do with actual skeletons. With a pull of the string, the window opened and curtain unveiled the cartoon. A bright light shined and sucked them all in! Hikaru covered his eyes and twitched his eyes as the light diminished onto a graveyard setting. "Graveyard... That's not too bad, right?" A sudden wind blew in and shook the trees. An owl appeared on a nearby tree, spinning it's head in horror as a wold howled in the back. Other such scary sights included black cats, and shivering tombstones. The enemy in question appeared in the most strangest of ways as four dancing skeletons emerged from the shadows and comedically danced onto the scene. His eye squinted at the odd sight. "... Okay..." He quietly said. A skeleton heard he was not entertained and no fun, which caused him to angrily throw his skull at Hikaru. Quickly ducking his head, he yelled back at them. "Hey! You got some kinda bone to pick or something!" More skeletons emerged and danced their way onto the scene, moving their unexplainable rubber limbs and put up their boney fists to prepare to fight. ~MISSION START!~ -------------------------------------------- ~MISSION COMPLETE!~ Raisor, Ananta, Kross, Kel and Steel spoke and walked along the road, still far behind the carriage, when a soldier heartless appeared to block it's path, followed by several Lance soldiers, which refused to let them get by. A scream by Minnie was heard in the background, followed by various evil chuckles. The princess needed help, but they first had to take care of this threat! ~MISSION START!~
