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Posted by CmdrTaco on from the raising-the-golden-chocobo dept.

tenchiken writes: "First the bad news, Square has announced that they are selling off Square Studios. This is the group that was responsible for the FF Movie and also a forthcoming short for The Matrix. Better News. Final Fantasy X, the first FF for the new PS2, is shipping tommorow (in stores Wed). You can find reviews at GameSpot,Gamers, IGN, etc. The reviews are all positive, and I will be waiting in line on Wed morning to pick up my copy. Square's new online game for the PS2 FF11 is also coming along nicely. Playonline Has a 'webcam' up feeding 24x7 images. The pictures look great. The above pages are Japanese." CowboyNeal and I both have our copies of FFX on reserve and are planning on some time off to watch LotR and play FFX this week.

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  1. I, for one. . . by foo+fighter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    . . .look forward to new features from Square Studios from whatever studio buys them. And I'm sure they will be bought.

    I view "The Spirits Within" more as another stepping-stone than the culmination of CG. I start to drool when I think of what an innovative, risk-taking studio like Miramax could do with the tools provided by Square Studios.

    Now that a lot of the development is done and the tools have been created, directors can finally tell their stories exactly as they imagined them.

    This is exciting.

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    obviously no deficiencies vs. no obvious deficiencies
  2. Why did people not like Final Fantasy the movie? by eris_crow · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I very thoroughly enjoyed it, and bought the DVD (my first DVD, at that). The animation was superb, and the story was decent too. Certainly better that the majority of SF movies. Sure the characters were cut from card stock, but again, they were at least as good as the characters in the majority of movies SF, animated, or otherwise.

    Did people not like the movie because of the theological/spiritual concepts involved? That's what a couple of people have told me.

    Maybe people just aren't ready for animation that approaches (but not yet reaches) photographic quality. Seeing such life-like images but knowing that were not actual people may have made a lot of people uncomfortable. I know that I've at least seen a few invectives against "digital actors".

    For the record I have never played any FF games, but I am an animation fan, and I am also a pagan, so the whole "Gaia" concept was quite familiar and comfortable for me.