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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Impressions
Tim Butler writes "1UP.com has posted impressions of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children from the premiere screening at the Venice Film Festival. The article also reveals that the film won't be ready until next spring -- but may clock in at more than an hour and a half in running time (is a big screen release a possibility now?)."
http://www.1up.com/do/slideshow?cId=3133458
aren't THOSE the screenshots? looks like you were referencing pictures of the festival itself...
ff:VII small movie
It's a small movie, and jap in background, but still cool.
Cid didn't appear in the series until FFIV, and in VI he was originally working for the bad guys. I'd say a more appropiate subject would be the airships/spaceships(FFVIII) since those appeared from THE beginning of the series (FFI)
How about a preview instead?
.torrent file of a fansubbed version of a preview of the movie...
Head over to http://anime-kraze.org/ and go to their releases page...
http://anime-kraze.org/index.php?page=releases
Then scroll down to find this link this link here which points to a
I, Robot, for instance, wasn't finished until a scant couple weeks before it appeared in wide release. All the effects were still being finished up until then, and the animators were pulling late nights. That's pretty typical.
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Actually, Cid appeared in Japan's FF2.
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Releasing it with a game is unlikely. There aren't any FF games at a point in their production cycle that Square Enix could release FFVII:AC with (FFXI will see its second expansion in a little more than a week, FFXII has already been pushed back, Before Crisis: FFVII is already in a Japanese beta, but that's a cellphone game).
It was already announced as a direct-to-market video (in DVD and PSP UMD format). The question now is whether it sees a theatrical release, which it probably could in the US if it does well in Japan first.
You had to 'camp' the thing that guards the lode stone (basically walk back and forth across that square to keep fighting the monster), then in no time everyone in your party is level 50...
Now that doesn't mean a ton if you go out with a mixed party, but if you manage to struggle through with 4 black-belts then you can take warmech and chaos in one attack per. No problems there...
Besides Warmech was in the castle of air just before tiamat, right? Chaos was really just a transmogrified Garland and was in a different dungeon altogether.
The first FF was definitely my favorite. I even managed to beat the game with four white wizards, and again with four black wizards though those times it was really difficult.
Hail FFI! One of my favorite console games of all time, but then again I still think the Gold Box Adventure series from SSI are great, and still play Zork to pass time... but that's just me.
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This is called FF7 because it is a direct sequel to FF7. This is much the same as FFX-2, which recently came out, and was a sequel to Final Fantasy X. As every Final Fantasy has a different universe and storyline, marketing a release as FF7: Advent Children or FFX-2 denotes that these are direct sequels to games with most of the same characters, taking place in the same universe, and picking up where the storyline of the original games left off. Calling the movie simply "Final Fantasy: Advent Children" would be similar to calling it "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within." People would expect certain Final Fantasy aspects, but they would not expect a sequel to an already existing Final Fantasy. The VII serves to clarify, not confuse.
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The problem with FFTSW was not that it wasn't established, it was that it was a sci-fi futuristic "alien menace" type movie rather than a Fantasy type one. Your typical FF tends to have elements such as:
- A mix of high/low technology. For some reason swords tend to go alongside nuclear reactors.
- Magic. Not special superhuman ability, but magic. Summons are a big thing too in latter FFs.
- Main characters generally seem to have some form of identity crisis and go off at some point.
Of course, there are many others. But really FFTSW was an animated sci-fi movie with some FF named characters, guards that looked Shinra-like, and a FF tag. If you changed the guards, the title, and perhaps renamed Cid nobody would likely associate with the FF game series.As a happy fan of FF games since the original (US) SNES release... I've a strong attachment to them and squaresoft (barring FFX2 which was a fanboy tribute).
Sadly, Final Fantasy VII was the first real FF game us Europeans *could* play! Yeah, we had the original, the game boy titles, and Mystic Quest. One of those wasn't actually a FF game, (Adventure), one was the worst game ever (Mystic Quest), one was relegated to frustrating history lesson (akin to the original Metroid) (the original), and the other three game boy games don't even really bother mentioning.
So you can imagine what European gamers experienced when they finally got their hands on FF7? All the evolution of the other titles, all experienced in one glorious game.
Having said that, Future Play, an old (fantastic) U.K. SNES magazine, still managed to rate FFVI as the 6th best SNES game of all time, and IV in the top 20 (iirc that one), despite the fact that most readers didn't stand a chance of getting hold of a copy! Hell, they even ran an article every issue on the secrets of the Final Fantasy games! I didn't know what they were talking about until I picked up my playstation with VII bundled, of course...
The engine has changed from system to system. Actually from every Square/Square Enix game to Square/Enix game.
Final Fantasy 1: Command Turn based combat(Select commands for your team members first then execute) This system had me praying that I wouldn't waste attacks on a target was destroyed.
Final Fantasy 4: Introduces an Active Battle System. Dual Spell Casting, Blue Magic is introduced. Status effects are now visible by looking at your party.
Final Fantasy 6: Active Battle System with User and Dual User input IN BATTLE! (Yes FF6 is 2 player capable) Also an impressive amount of different characters with all kinds of job classes. Learning spells through summoned creatures.
Final Fantasy 7: Introduces Active Time Battle System(there is a difference). Limit Break System. Spell combination system using Materia. Shell and Protect bars. Multiple spell casting allowed. Multiple summoning allowed. *-- Multiple meaning casting twice by the same character without losing extra mana.
Final Fantasy 10: Attack system based on speed of character. Also you get to see who's turn is next. Swapping in the middle of battle is allowed. Tactics system. Aeons: Summons that stay in battle and fight for you.----- You know you have ego issues when you register a domain in your name.
No muggles.
That's Harry Potter, you want "Moogles"
They seem to be so hot on Amazing CGI Scenes and SUPER HUGE MONDO MONSTER SPELLS that take (I kid you not) 2 minutes a pop to pull off, that they leave the gameplay and the richness behind.
Well, how about that it was the success of FF7 in the first place that set Square on this path? Let's face it, one of the big reasons why FF7 did so well beyond the existing market for RPGs at the time is that it had very pretty graphics (for the time). In some ways, this is a very big problem because since then, Square has focussed on ensuring that the graphics are good before anything else (see games such as The Bouncer or Driving Emotion Type S). It was FF7 in the first place that added super long damned flashy attacks (Limit breaks and summons. My god, Knights of the Round took FOREVER to cast and was necessary to defeat the "Omega Weapon" boss)
The next final fantasy will be a continuation of the FF7 story. That has never happened before (the revisit of an older universe to tell a continuating tale). This alone tells the power it had not only on gamers, but on SquareEnix as well.
Uhhh.... What? The next Final Fantasy (game) would be FF 12, which is NOT based on FF 7. FF7: Advent Children is an animated MOVIE. You could be referring to the Before Crisis game, but that is for cell phones in Japan (no word on North American or Euro release yet), and it is a PREQUEL (using the Turks as the main characters). Also, FFX-2 was a continuation of FFX. So this would be considered the first "sequel" as in a return to one of the universes of the core Final Fantasy games.
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