I would honestly REALLY dig a "Kingdom Hearts" crossover event

[Terin]

To me, this just seems like SUCH a perfect fit for a potential crossover event, I feel like I barely even have to justify it.

Well, the series just reached its 20th Anniversary -- another reminder that we are all marching towards our inevitable mortal end -- and honestly, I think people would accept almost ANY excuse to do something with Kingdom Hearts.

Personally, while I certainly don't claim to be any kind of an expert on KH lore, I would probably pick something along the lines of having a "crossover" with the Keyblade wielders during the Union Cross (or whatever it's called) mobile game. Maybe a portal of some kind opens up, transcending both time and space, where we deal with some Heartless, and interact with some friendly Keyblade wielders.

I suggest this route, because I feel like interacting with Sora or the gang feels like it would maybe be TOO big of a crossover. Plus, I think it's important that there are a LOT of Keyblades floating around, because I would imagine Keyblades would make some VERY enticing rewards!

My thinking is, give each Job in FFXIV a different styled "Keyblade" of their own to pursue.

However, this obviously leaves some highly questionable choices, as not all jobs are clearly even CAPABLE of wielding anything remotely resembling a Keyblade.

Similarly, I think some Keyblades are simply "too important/iconic" to be usable by anyone OTHER than Sora or the crew, and I'm going to avoid using any "franchise-specific keyblades", instead sticking to only those designs born from the KH world specifically (or a few Final Fantasy references).

Of course, you COULD get away with simply having the classic "Kingdom Key" as an option, but I feel like that's very much an all-or-nothing thing. It's clearly the most iconic, so it would have to be like Edda Blackbosom's scythe, where you have the same weapon available to multiple jobs, but not EVERY job has access to it (PLD, DRK, GNB, and SAM are the only ones that strike me as easily being able to pull off wielding the standard Keyblade).

With all that in mind, here are the weapons *I* think would suit each job...

* = Not a keyblade

PLD - Oathkeeper w/ Save the King (KH2 design)
WAR - Fatal Crest (alternatively, Saix's claymore)
DRK - Oblivion
GNB - Sleeping Lion

* WHM - Save the Queen (KH2 or KH3 design)
* SCH - Namine's sketchbook
AST - Two Become One w/ Luxord's cards floating around (the Organization XIII logo in place of a "globe" floating in the middle?)
* SGE - Gummy Ships

* MNK - I dunno, man. Xemnas' hand-lightsabers?
* DRG - Xaldin's lance
* NIN - Larxene's kunai
SAM - Guardian Soul or One-Winged Angel
* RPR - Marluxia's scythe

* BRD - DANCE, WATER, DANCE
* MCH - Xigbar's gun
* DNC - Axel's weapons from KH2

* BLM - Mage's Staff
* SMN - Zexion's book
RDM - Spellbinder
* BLU - Dream Rod

...holy crap, that actually took a lot of time to look up and think of fitting examples.

Anyway, for a collectible Minion, you absolutely, 100% MUST have a little Heartless minion for us to get. Those little guys are just adorable.

I'd personally also really dig an Orchestration for the Gummy Ship music from KH1. Or Traverse Town, but that might be getting carried away (KH is full of amazing music, so hardly an issue finding great songs, assuming they were ALLOWED to have them in FFXIV).

Of course, it would also be very cool to be able to acquire a Mount of some kind as well, but honestly not quite sure what you would go with. I feel like a Gummy Ship would just look "bad" to anyone who ISN'T a Kingdom Hearts fan... but then, we got the Whisper-a-go-go mount, and that things looks real dumb to me (not even remotely familiar with Yokai stuff). Can't really think of any alternatives, though.

Anyways, for the actual CONTENT of the crossover, as much thought as I put into the possible REWARDS for it, I think you could actually go quite simple. I think you just add some FATEs all over the place, with Heartless pouring in, and maybe a chance to a Darkside Heartless to appear at the end. A little quest-chain in which you help out a Keyblade wielder, enough they deem fit to make you an "honorary Keyblade wielder", permitting access to unlocking said rewards.

Of course, if it's a crossover event with NO rewards (or at least no Keyblades), you could just make it as simple as "thanks a ton for helping with the Heartless situation in this world, who knows, maybe one day you might even be chosen to become a Keyblade master", just to keep the dream alive.

...this is obviously all HIGHLY unlikely. But man, it would be SUPER satisfying!

[Renalt]

Frankly I'm sick of KHs. The dropped the FF characters in the 3rd one so they should never be in FF.

[Jettinson]

KH has enemies\characters that would have looked great on a trial\raid as well as some armors.
And you do not even need disney characters\themes, the simple concept of Light and Darkness fit with XIV in general.

Although in reality i just wanted an excuse to fight a cool kingdom hearts boss or get keyblade warrior armors and put some music in it (Rage Awakened *cough*)

[gotaname1]

Everything after KH2 FM does not exist. I hate the way the franchise has been milked but I would certainly love a crossover IF DONE WELL (which I sadly know it wont) or atleast some weapons for glam

[HeyMcFly]

I'd prefer a cross over from an older final fantasy game like ff8, ff4-5-6 & ff9 (a full cross over and not just similar music & names like what ShB had)
Even octopath traveler (that beautiful music tho)
kingdom hearts is kind of overrated like ff7- I'd end up ignoring the crossover

[Vav2021]

Given what Disney has been up to over the past few months, I think it would be a good idea for Square to distance themselves from them for a while.

[Alpheus]

Nomura would have to push for it, hard. KH has done a a few SE mobile game crossovers, but only one of them allowed the mobile game fanfic MC to get a Org XIII coat costume and that was FFRK which Nomura is involved with quite a bit compared to SE's other mobile titles (they even gave the gacha MC a Dive into the Heart sequence to be used in place of Sora's for one of Sora's Limit Breaks) The gacha MC also can use any weapon type and any ability but most notably he couldn't use any of the keyblades Sora, Riku, Roxas or Axel could even though the gacha MC is able to use Red XIII's hairpins or Barret's Gun Arms or Setzer's Gambling weapons or Lulu's Dolls or the gender locked Witch abilities (unique to characters like Matoya Rinoa Terra Edea and Shantotto and similar characters).

Even if it does go through Disney will copyright all of the items individually (all the gacha gear from the KH banners in FFRK have the Disney copyright on the item's menu graphic itself). I'm not saying any of this is indicative of anything predictable but rather, to illustrate that even with Nomura's involvement Disney will be calling A LOT of the shots should something like this even happen.

[SeverianLyonesse]

I'm sorry but if you think KH is anything but a garbage franchise your media experience is extremely limited.

[Picker]

Keep Nomura as far from 14 as possible

[Vahlnir]

I'm sorry but if you think KH is anything but a garbage franchise your media experience is extremely limited.

I'd say just about everything up through Birth By Sleep was actually very well done. After that Nomura made it way more complicated than it needed to be. I doubt even he is or was able to follow the entire thing without getting a headache. What ruined it for me was KH3 though. They could have just released the final boss as a standalone download and that would have sufficed. Everything leading up to the final showdown Xehanort was inconsequential. KH3 was very bare bones to begin with ss well. It's clear that Disney wore the pants in that relationship, since there was very little content provided by SE itself in the game. Just a small line of Disney characters and very little else.