Kingdom Hearts 3 featuring Star Wars characters a maybe, says game director

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Donald Duck, Cloud Strife and Han Solo walk into a cantina. Sounds like the set-up to the dorkiest joke never told, but this particular scene could well be a virtual reality if Kingdom Hearts 3 director (and series creator) Tetsuya Nomura has his way. Speaking during an interview at the Japan Expo with French gaming site Finaland (via Kotaku), Nomura was keen on the idea of Star Wars characters appearing alongside Disney and Final Fantasy figures in Kingdom Hearts 3 - but declined to give a definitive yes or no as to whether it would happen."Of course it would be great if we could add those licenses as well," Nomura said. "But there are lots of rules and restrictions by Disney, so it's a quite difficult decision but we're gonna prepare some surprises for you so, just wait for the information.

"We've been talking about Star Wars itself since it became Disney's content recently," he continued. "When I [heard] the news I was like, 'Wow! Wow!' Yeah obviously it's gonna be great if we could add it, but like I said there are a lot of restrictions and rules by Disney so we don't know what's gonna happen but yeah, we'll see."
In an earlier interview with IGN at E3, Nomura was equally ambiguous about the prospect of a more Star Warsy Kingdom Hearts, but was again careful not to shut the idea down entirely. "Disney's companies are all very different," he said. "Sometimes the answer is 'absolutely no,' and sometimes the answer is, '...hmm, we don't know.' Disney's pretty honest. If the situation is really difficult, they'll say, it's really difficult. If it's impossible, they'll say it's impossible."
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