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Why Must You Destroy The Industry, PSP?
Because I know you haven't had your fill of the surreal today, Grand Text Auto has up a link to a Flash movie which depicts a climactic battle between the consoles of old and the PSP...using the end of Final Fantasy VI. Commentary available at Game Girl Advance. My favorite part is where the GBA, GameBoy, GameCube, and N64 team up to defeat the Master Famicom and Rob. Actually pretty cool, if long.
Ok i have seen this flash file a few times and enyjoy it but this story makes no sense , are you trying to say the PSP is destroying the games industry( i never got that from the cartoon , well anymore than any of the old consoles) or just advertising the cool little bit of animation .
.Nice to ahve the mirror but we should give credit to the origional author(if this is the origional then i appoligise i just havnt come acros that yet)
this flash animation is origionaly from another site iirc . i cant remember who made it though origionaly
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
To save it locally, you need to download: http://www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/cabic508/rsf/SF6-2.swf http://www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/cabic508/rsf/SF6-2i.swf http://www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/cabic508/rsf/SF6-3i.swf http://www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/cabic508/rsf/SF6-4i.swf http://www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/cabic508/rsf/SF6-5i.swf http://www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/cabic508/rsf/SF6-6i.swf http://www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/cabic508/rsf/SF6-7i.swf http://www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/cabic508/rsf/SF6-8i.swf http://www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/cabic508/rsf/SF6-9i.swf
and "The Man in Green" is the best. attack. ever.
Somebody meticulously and lovingly reconstructed the ending scene to a classic 16 bit RPG in flash, substituting game systems for all of the characters and a constant barrage of jokes and references for attacks, and all you can do is complain that the PSP is being misrepresented? You totally missed the point. Am I the only one that died laughing when the Master System joined with the Sega CD and 32X to create the Ultimate Sega boss? Or the Famicom summoning ROB, who gets a low battery warning, only to be squished by "the man in green"? Or the Jaguar trying to push a statue onto the Naomi's head? Or the poketstation going powermad and becoming the PSP? Naomi feeding batteries to a dying Game Gear? The SP's taking care of a family of brightly colored Game Boy Pockets, only to give birth to the DS? All of the assorted PC-Engine kit combining to form the Engine Buster, but whose "multitap" attack has no effect on the Xbox? The little Beatmania bar attack that hits for a "great?" The Playstation shifting forms to become the PSOne? The 3D0 crying out for the dead M2? ("Real2? Real2 Wake up!") The SNES being the father of the Playstation? The puny "100 MegaShock" attack?
It's the ending to Final Fantasy 6 redone. Meticulously, painstakingly, lovingly. Somebody probably spent months making this thing. This is a wonderful, massive series of jokes and memories for people in the gaming industry and the hardcore gamers who obsess over it... in other words, gaming geeks. The amount of effort and love that went into this thing is awe inspiring. They even got the crumbling effect on the PSP just about right (though it was missing a few of the cracks-of-lightning sound effects), something which unless there is a programatic shortcut for flash must have taken a ridiculous amount of time to get right. Even the battle-driven menu system is right, the level layouts are right, the original tiles are used. The visual effects are reconstructed, the audio timing is basically impeccable.
And this thing goes on for half an hour, just like the original ending. Every cinematic, every line, every in-joke from the game remade. Even in spots in the original ending where a character's hat or glove would be the only thing that appeared, here just a cartridge is left behind. This is a tremendous, if pointless, achievement.
I'm sorry if you didn't "get" it. All I can say is that there is 20 years of gaming history represented here. If you didn't find any of it funny, start hitting some yardsales and getting caught up. It's not like they were making fun of the ColecoVision or anything.
And the PSP gets to represent Kafka, who happened to be by far the coolest character in FF6/3. It's just too bad the PSP never gets Kafka's trademark laugh.
P.S. if you want to emphasize something, use the italic tag. It looks much better than SCREAMING IN ALL CAPS.
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