Last time we talked about what would happen should we replace the Disney in our Kingdom Hearts Reese’s Cup, but now let’s talk about replacing the Square-Enix.

Capcom

Let’s be honest. There’s no company on the planet that loves crossovers more than Capcom. From Cross Edge to Capcom vs SNK to Marvel vs. Capcom to Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker to Super Smash Bros to Namco × Capcom to Project X Zone to Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars to even Capcom Fighting Jam where they crossover with themselves, it’s clear that they love that ish. And when you think about it, they should. I mean, they have enough characters that they can completely forget about one of their major franchises for years at a time and just keep on trucking (yeah I’m bitter). To put that in perspective, imagine if Nintendo just stopped releasing Pokemon and Mario games for years at a time. Or if Square took more than eight years to get a Final Fantasy game out the gate. But I digress. The fact is that Kingdom Hearts would be an amazing platform to revive some of Capcom’s older franchises. Imagine meeting Ryu and Ryu. Imagine a keyblade based on Mega Man. Imagine Strider as a KH character. The possibilities are endless, and considering Capcom’s willingness to put unconventional characters in crossovers, would be much more exciting than having Cloud show up. Again.

Konami

Another storied publisher, Konami also has an interesting, albeit different catalog from which to draw. Notably, Konami’s most interesting franchises have a much more mature rated leaning than Capcom’s. How interesting would it be to have Kingdom Hearts combat mixed in with Metal Gear’s stealth? No seriously. Taking on a Metal Gear with KH combat would be amazeballer. How about a Yoko Shimomura rearrangement of Vampire Killer or better yet Bloody Tears? Imagine Silent Hill integrated into Halloween Town? Zone of the Enders. Aw man, thinking about this is actually making me unhappy. Next company!

Namco Bandai

Second verse, same as the first. Much like my thoughts on Nickelodeon, there is one reason and one reason only that I want Namco in Kingdom Hearts. Soul characters and Tekken character are great, whatever. Tales of is a great franchise, but you’re not why I’m excited.And ILU Wonder Momo and Bravoman, but you’re irrelevant in the face of my second favorite game series of all time: Xenosaga. I could bore you to dust waxing nostalgic about the Xeno games, but I’ll just say this: I care more about the story of Kossy and Shion more than I do ay FF crew. That being said, having Seto and Ren show up would be beyond dope.

Sega

Man, where do you even start? Do you go with the new school Sega and bust out that Valkyria Chronicles and Yakuza? Do you go quirky with Jet Set and Rez? Do you go want back in the day with some Alex Kidd and Sonic? How about blowing the dust off Space Channel 5, Panzer Dragoon, Shenmue, and Skies of Arcadia? Clockwork Knight? NiGHTS? Vectorman? Phantasy Star? Shining? Resonance of Fate? Shinobi? Golden Axe? For real though, who doesn’t want to see a badass 15 year old Tyris Flare (in much, much more modest attire). Especially if she shows up and beats your ass proper as well she should. In fact the only company that could possibly top the potential of replacing SE with Sega would have to be:

Nintendo

You knew this was coming. Basically, take every character and every assist trophy in SSB and make them a stage. Done and done. Not enough? Well let me spam some images to make my point:

(all from arvalis)

Hurts don’t it.