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News on Advent Children and Kingdom Hearts 2

Posted by Zonk on from the square-speaks dept.

GamesIndustry.biz has commentary from Square producer Shinji Hashimoto about the upcoming FFVII movie Advent Children, and the second Kingdom Hearts game. From the interview: "To be honest, all of the staff was burnt out after we made the original Final Fantasy VII! But as you know, Final Fantasy has both a game part and a movie part - and as we made the movie part, we decided to make it longer, because it's so connected to the game part. We don't really think of it as a feature film. It's more like a collection of clips; it's become quite long, but we don't take that too seriously in terms of having a massive concept behind it or anything like that. It's just naturally come about."

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  1. Square by superpulpsicle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    SquareEnix is putting way too many eggs into the Final Fantasy series.

    They need to bring back the Chronotrigger series. The new FrontMission game for PS2 that came out was so half assed compared to the old PS1 version. Can this company actually allocate budget to anything non-Final Fantasy related.

  2. "Just a collection of clips?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Translation: We couldn't come up with a story, so here's a bunch of cool CGI clips. Sorry if it sucks.

  3. You mean there was a *game* in FFVII? by Alzheimers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There was actually a game, somewhere in between the FMV and scripted cinematic sequences? Damn, I know I saw it from start to finish, but I didn't realize there was anything in between.

    1. Re:You mean there was a *game* in FFVII? by Mitijea · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Yeah, it was called "Random Encounter".