LogFAQs > #979623896

There's huge thematic and tonal overlap between Kingdom Hearts and FF7R, but also FF14/16, and even Like A Dragon. They are all MUCH closer to KH than they are to Disco Elysium or FromSoft. I think you're mostly just reacting to content and writing quality, as well as cutscene style and direction - FF7R scenes look very similar to KH and those other games do not, probably because Nomura himself is around. But Ichiban Kasuga is what happens if you put a character like Sora into an M-rated crime drama. He is a guy that is literally all about the power of friendship and inherently trusting in the goodness in people to the point of stupidity, and that somehow becomes a strength. Clive metaphysically fights his own inner darkness and comes out of it as a good person who loves his friends and dog. Kingdom Hearts ass motherfucker, if Sora could say fuck he'd act like this. Like, honestly the biggest difference to me between Nomura's team and Yoshi-P's is that the latter are obviously really into Game of Thrones and the dialogue style reflects that.

Overall I agree there's a wider net being cast for the audience, but if you look at the fandoms there's surprisingly big overlap for a reason. And I also agree there's more juice in the writing than in KH, but FF7R also has that juice because so did the original. It's just a lot more interested in meta-reflecting on itself and being much more blatant about it.