kingdomhearts3 [Mod Request] Re:Mind Data Fight integration into main story

[untamedthevegetable]

Background on why: I just finished Kingdom Hearts 3 for the first time. I enjoyed it but as I traversed the 18 hours of Disney worlds, I felt a disconnect from the main story antagonists. I was expecting to fight them throughout the worlds like I did in Kingdom Hearts 2, the most memorable portion of that game for me were the organization member fights throughout the worlds. The Kingdom Hearts 3 base game organization fights were much easier than Kingdom Heart's 2's in my opinion, I think they were nerfed because most of the fights were taking place together at the very end of the game in packs. Thankfully, the data fights in Re;Mind were much more of a 1v1 challenge.

 

I would love it if some modder took the data fights from Re;Mind and scattered them intelligently through the base Kingdom Hearts 3 story. Here's an example of where the fights would make some semblance of sense:

 

Xion - This is a tough one as she only ever appears at the near end of the game, perhaps somewhere in the first areas of the Keyblade Graveyard or Twilight Town will be appropriate? Could also put her in the Sky World since there is no boss there.

Young Xehanort - He makes an appearance first in the Toy Story, should be a forced fight somewhere along the world.

Vanitas - Appears in Monstropolis, should be a forced fight near the end of the world.

Dark Riku - Shows up in San Fransokyo, could be an optional fight near the end of the world.

Terranort - Another tough one that only appears near the end, could be somewhere in the Keyblade Graveyard as an optional fight.

Saix - Could be somewhere in Twilight Town or even the Radiant Garden seen during cutscenes (if possible) as an optional fight.

Marluxia - Appears heavily in Kingdom of Corona, should be a forced fight.

Larxene - Appears heavily in Arendelle, should be a forced fight.

Luxord - Appears heavily during the Caribbean, should be a forced fight.

Xigbar - Appears during Olympus Coliseum, should be an optional fight because how early he appears.

Xemnas - Appears first in Twilight Town, should be optional to not overwhelm the player that early into the game

Ansem - Appears first in Twilight Town, should be optional to not overwhelm the player that early into the game

Master Xehanort - Should replace the "final fight" or be left alone.

 

It would be very awesome if a modder could integrate the data fights through the game in somewhat the order described above. Could introduce them as Absent Silhouette similar to KH2 or just force the fights. I think a combination of forced and optional fights will be best, as some fights would appear way too early in the game or pop up at bad times following the locations provided. In my opinion, properly executing this idea in a mod will significantly make the Kingdom Hearts 3 story more fun and enjoyable to replay through. I miss the old organization battles taking place in Disney worlds from Kingdom Hearts 2, a mod taking the Re;Mind data fights and putting them throughout the story will bring back some of that fun. Also would be neat if the clears of the bosses done throughout story with such a mod directly affected the data battle doors in the Re;Mind DLC, so if a player opts to clear all the data battles during story, they can directly go to the secret boss at the end of the game.