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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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It'll show how good the merger is between Enix and Square. I know, as a DQ fan, that I dreaded hearing tha news. After all, look how bad the FF series has gotten.
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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 know about you, but the first thing I did with FF7 was to change Cloud's name.
He will be 'Mondongo' forever in my mind =).
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Or Romancing Sa-Ga 3... OK, there's not much story, but the game rocks.
I've been waiting for one ever scince I finishd FF7! Yeah that was only about a year ago but.... Hey! Its hard to wait!
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"should be released on some form of DVD media (looks like this could this be a movie, not a game?)"
Looking at the bottom picture on that magazine cover, if that's a movie then they should have used voice actors rather than two text boxes.
Here's to hoping it's a game...
Does it strike anyone odd that a game named Final Fantasy has so many sequels.
Wait a minute... I thought all Final Fantasy releases were movies. You mean to tell me they were games? Huh. Weird. I was wondering why Final Fantasy X required a game controller...
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
You do know that most Playstation2 and all Xbox games come on DVDs, right? It doesn't stand for Digital Video Disc, by the way, it stands for Digital Versitile Disc.
Why would they specifically mention that it comes on a DVD? Seems weird to me, but this is from a Japanese magazine.
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If square is smart, they'll publish FF7-2 on not only PS2 but XBOX and GC. They'll make alot of money. I traded in my PS2 last year for an XBOX and i'm not up to shelling out 200 bux to play one of my favorite RPG's of all times sequel.
Okay, now, maybe it was just me, but some of those screenshots are CLEARLY game graphics. I mean, the ones on the bottom left. There is no way that's going to just be a movie. Even if it is, I won't believe it until it comes out.
On a side note, why is it that flamebait directed towards FF is rarely modded as such?
Trust Your Technolust
The reason behind that is simple. When Square released Final Fantasy 1, they were in deep financial troubles and they thought it would be their last game, so they called it Final Fantasy. The rest is history.
Japanese anime (especially OVAs) are often straight to video, so it doesn't mean it's going to suck.
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
Somebody always has to say it, don't they?
Anything you might ever need to say about anything has already been said better by Penny Arcade.
Not that I don't think the whole thing is fake anyways, but like I said no way should that bastard be alive. Thanks for the translations. Of course I openly admit that if it is real I will buy it regardless of how much of a dissapointment it is simply because it says FF on it.
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Gimme gimme gimme. I am a Square fanboi damnit, and FF7 was damn-near perfect as far as their line of games goes. (And contrary to GameSpy's FF7 bashing, no, it was not my first FF game. My username should be sufficient evidence of that.)
I loved that game. The characters, the airship, the story, the minigames (yay snowboarding!) I pretty much liked everything except the silly Materia system, but then I've never been a fan of "equip-to-learn!" systems. It irritated me in FF6 too.
FF4 is how learning magic should work. Mages learn magic. Fighters swing swords. That's how it should be.
Anyway, getting back on topic: I worry that this is simply a concept that Square had which never took off, so I'm not going to get my hopes up. If it's not, though, it would be a sweet sweet thing. Maybe they'll bring Aeris back to life. *grin*
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Well, it sure as hell ain't an ETLA!
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"120 chars should be enough for everyone..."
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.
...the large print in the poster says something to the extent of "More than a game, look at these super-new images!" It seems to imply that it's a game. I'd do a more thorough job of translating, but I'm at work.
Regardless of what people are saying, it's most likely a game. Remember that FFX and FFX-2 were both games that were released on DVD media. There have also been rumors of a direct FFVII sequel floating around for some time. Nomura himself has commented on it. It's a game, it comes out next year, and it's most likely for PS2.
If it is a game... SQUEEEEEEEL!
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Can anybody tell me what the deal is with that psychotic looking pirate in the bottom, right corner in the pink box? He also appears in the top, right of the magazine logo.
Pirates aren't supposed to shoot the bird, they're supposed to wear them on their shoulder.
It seems out of place and makes me think it's a hoax but then I'm not familiar with the Japanese culture. Can anybody translate the box?
Alright, it appears no one has asked the question, so "Will they resurrect Aeris?"
*waits not-so-patiently for a new game to devote my life to... SoulCaliber2 is getting old...*
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I think if it was a game they would have tacked the -2 on it and make a new logo as per tradition. But you never know with square, they are taking more risks more than holding on to traditions lately. :)
I look forward to it, whatever it turns out to be. It'll be nice to see these characters brought to life in today's CG.
Of course if it is a game, you can look forward to your characters not having giant cubes for hands
Has anyone noticed that Cloud and Sephiroth look alike? It's hard to tell from the small picture of Sephiroth but if Square makes them look alike, they may appeal enough to my fanboy-ness to make me forget The Spirits Within.
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You like 6 and 8?
Top 3 reasons why 6 is worse than 7:
1. Battle system is meaningless. In one savegame with under 30 hours total gametime I managed to create a party with an average level of 85, and have beaten Kefka with one character in 5 turns. Vanish-doom kills virtually everything you could possibly want to kill, and is incredibly easy to learn. Ultima does insane damage to all enemies, and it's possible to cast it 4 times in one turn for 5 mp. Cyan can do up to 79998 unblockable damage (ie, not effected by defense) in one turn for 1 mp *WITHOUT* the genji glove, at approximately level 50 (which can be achieved by 20 hours gametime.) You get the general picture - a retarded monkey could beat this game.
2. Too many characters. Too many characters. Too many characters. Seriously, there were a lot of duds in that cast - sure, Locke and Shadow and Celes are cool, but do you really need over a dozen playable characters in a game where you can only have 4 people in your current party?
3. Bugs, bugs bugs galore, many of them showstoppers. Try controlling the wrong enemy with Relm - there goes your save game.
Top 8 reasons why FF8 is worse than FF7:
1. Absolutely retarded battle system. Multiple methods of making your party invincible for no cost, the whole "draw" system, having to sit through boring GF animations every single time you summoned, limit breaks that could kill anything ever concievable dead. At least you can turn the random battles off though - that's a plus.
2. The whole "orphanage" subplot is by far the most retarded thing I've ever seen in a Final Fantasy game - even if you make it so Squall never uses a GF, he still loses his childhood memories regardless. WTF?
3. There's no way of determining whose bitching is more inane - Sephie's, Rinoa's, Quistis's, Zell's, or Irving's. Squall actually is cool in his own way, but the supporting cast SUCKED.
4. Too many unnecessary characters. I mean, Squall has a critical hit rate of 100% if your reflexes are good and can't miss the enemy (to say nothing of his limit break), Rinoa's limit breaks make you invincible, and Zell's limit break damage is incredible. There's no reason to ever use the other characters - even in the (spoiler) end battle, you can just let the useless ones die and have 'em be replaced by the good ones. In FF7, sure, Cloud was a lot better than the other characters, but the difference wasn't so pronounced - you could argue that Cloud, Cid and Tifa's the best party, but you could throw Vincent or Yuffie into the equation and have a big old mess on your hands. There's no argument about the best party in FF8.
5. Utterly dumbassed design decisions - say you (SPOILER) wanted to equip Edea with magic during the brief period she's in your party. Where does that magic go when she leaves? Well, not back to you, that's for sure!
6. How could you waste three perfectly awesome characters - Laguna, Kiros, and Ward? I mean, I'd rather play the game as these characters, yet for whatever reason, you get to be them for perhaps two hours at most during the entire game. Oh, and the mechanism behind the whole Laguna thing is never adequately explained. I mean, it's obvious (spoiler) Laguna is Squall's father, but why the fuck would using GFs cause Squall to collapse and see life through the eyes of his father decades ago?
7. Features the worst first five hours of any Final Fantasy game ever. Totally butchered - many fans couldn't bring themselves to play through it was so boring.
8. I will admit FF8 had the best ending of any of the Final Fantasies. Just seeing a portion of it in the mall once was motivation enough for me to actually play through the entire beast. But why give such a horrible, pointless game such a great ending?
"This is the greatest case of False Advertising I've seen since I sued the movie The Never Ending Story"
"Derp de derp."
"it appears a scan from the upcoming V-Jump magazine"
If those pictures are what the movie looks like, I'll wait for the paperback, thanks.
Are you referring to the upcoming Square-Enix release, or IGN's Flash-heavy pages?
This one and this one That just doesnt look anything like high quality CG to me. I mean, unless someone around here knows Japanese and can give a decent translation, and not the gibberish Babelfish produced, then I don't see any reason to believe that the word DVD assures us that this is just going to be a movie.
Yaaay, my Japanese skills are finally useful for something! A rough translation of the linked image (sorry about the bad grammar and the exclamation marks... the original isn't written very well, either :P) -
Pink text in upper-right: That Final Fantasy VII's story appears on completely new DVD!!
Yellow text near middle: See ultra-new footage that goes beyond the game!!
Pink tox with white text in lower right: (Something something) CG movie lets you enjoy the later story!! In a world 2 years after the previous work, main charachter Cloud once again journeys to battle!! If you watch this, you will understand all the mysteries of the tale... maybe?!
Extreme lower right: Sale date / 2004 scheduled sale
Price / To be decided
Maker / Square-Enix
(Media?) / DVD
Genre / Motion Picture
Upper-left: Cloud VS Sephiros again!?
Red text middle-left: Sephirohs finally resurrected...?!
That's all for now, don't have time to get into the small text, but I think I got all the important parts... Sorry if I misspelled any charachter names, I'm not familiar with the series...
1. Make "Final Fantasy" 2. Create sequels to raise suspicion of true finality. 3. ???? 4. PROFIT! Seriously though, the "dur, if it's final fantasy, why ur dere sekwels?" has been so overdone it's as bad as Jeff Foxworthy's redneck jokes.
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1. Make "Final Fantasy"
2. Create sequels to raise suspicion of true finality.
3. ????
4. PROFIT!
Seriously though, the "dur, if it's final fantasy, why ur dere sekwels?" has been so overdone it's as bad as Jeff Foxworthy's redneck jokes.
Mmmmm.... Pigeons. Sometimes, they come with notes attached...it's like...a fortune cookie with wings.
As far as the rest goes, no facts to dispute. Just your opinion. You should really be less critical.
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