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Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children Revealed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the long-time-coming dept.

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.

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  1. Another movie? by meanfriend · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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...

    1. Re:Another movie? by JFMulder · · Score: 3, Informative

      FF : The spirits within, made 62 millions according to IMDB. Don't forget those worldwide sales. Sites like Yahoo only mention domestic sales. Movies that seem like a failure because they generated only a couple of millions (Like Johnny English) in the US sometimes are big successes overseas, making over one hundred million. Still, they didn't make enough money to cover the cost of the movie, they still made a whopping 79 million dollars on the DVD sales of FF:TSW, and then you have 149 million, so the movie must not have lost that much money.

  2. Cloud by Txurlo · · Score: 2, Funny

    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 =).

    --
    Txurlo
    1. Re:Cloud by jx100 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I gave all my characters their last names (or their real names, as with Red XIII and Cait Sith). All the "Mr. Cloud"s turned into "Mr. Strife"s, which made a lot more sense. And I just found "so nanaki's name is nanaki" really funny.

  3. Final? Fantasy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does it strike anyone odd that a game named Final Fantasy has so many sequels.

  4. Re:And if it is a game... by Firehawke · · Score: 2, Informative

    You might be surprised to note that was only in the US release; the Japanese version uses the name Link.

  5. A game? by Jack+Comics · · Score: 4, Funny

    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
  6. Re:DVD does not a movie make by dmayle · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, it doesn't stand for a damn thing. After all the arguing back and forth, DVD is not a TLA.

  7. Re:Sweet! by May+Kasahara · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I wasn't.

    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...

  8. Re:Final? Fantasy by JFMulder · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  9. Best character designs by demonic-halo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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

  10. Re:Sephiroth by Dsal · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think the red japanese text around that Sephiroth pic says "about Sephiroth... does he live?!?".. or something to that dramatic effect. The stuff at the top left says "Cloud vs Sephiroth... AGAIN?!?"

    The screen at the bottom left is just talking about FF7 when it first came out, and how it sold like over 3 million copies worldwide blah blah blah. It's just a screen from FF7 and not an gameplay screen or anything.

    The other text on there seriously implies it's a movie and not a game.

  11. Re:boo by r_benchley · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

  12. Aeris by hackwrench · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Alright, it appears no one has asked the question, so "Will they resurrect Aeris?"