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Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children Revealed
poshul the hyper puppy writes "Is Square Enix planning on doing a follow up to its best-selling game of all time? Nearing press time at this year's Tokyo Game Show 2003 - it appears a scan from the upcoming V-Jump magazine has given away Square's surprise by revealing Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Leaked by Japanese site Quiter the details say it takes two years after the original, should be released on some form of DVD media (looks like this could this be a movie, not a game?), and involves our legendary hero Cloud. So either bust out Babelfish to read the details directly at Quiter or get the news from SquareAMP: Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children." Update: 09/25 18:54 GMT by S : IGN PS2 are pretty sure that this is a direct-to-DVD CG movie, as the poster suggested above, not a videogame.
It certainly looks from the description like a movie... but after the disaster that was Spirits Within, I'd be surprised if they risked that again... especially since they shut down their movie division entirely.
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Obviously not a theatrical release as the article says it will be DVD based.
From the screenshots, it looks like the CGI FMV type graphics that you saw in every cutscene from FFVII to FFX.
Reminds me of those ebay auctions where someone ripped all the CGI out of the FF games, then converted them to VCD. You could practically get the whole storyline without even playing the game...
In any case, it doesnt need to cost $130 million to make yet only bring in $32 million like FINAL FANTASY:THE SPIRITS WITHIN.
Square-Enix should take all the FF remakes (Origins, Anthology, Chronicles), FFVII-FFIX and bundle this movie in some sort of deluxe PS2 edition (all on DVD of course). They'd sell millions of copies...
Don't get me wrong, I love FF7; but I don't see how it would warrant creation of a sequel, be it another game or a DVD. The end of the original game, no matter how ambiguous, wrapped up the plot quite nicely. This new "Advent Children" thingie just looks like a case of Square milking the cash out of its most sucessful game.
Maybe it will be good... who knows? However, at this point, I must remain skeptical...
Wasn't the best story wise, but it definately had some of the best FF character designs I've seen.
Best FF bad ass hero: Cloud
Best FF villian: Sephiroth
Best FF bimbo: Tifa
Best FF Mr. T look alike: Barret
Most annoying FF kid character: Yuffie
Best character no one gives a !@#$ about: Cait Sith
Best mysterious but useless character:Vincent
FF7 wasn't the best FF game. That would be 6 or 8. However, it is probably safe to say that FF7 is the most beloved FF game. There are millions of people whose first experience with FF was FF7 on the PSX. Many of these people have gone on to play the games that came before and after FF7, but the fond memories of playing FF7 remain.