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Wednesday, January 26, 2005

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I've been a little obsessed with Resident Evil 4 for gamecube for a while now, but one of the other things that I'm completely stoked about (had to throw in the surfer lingo) is the Final Fantasy: Advent Children movie from Square-Enix. Final Fantasy 7 was my first Playstation game and the reason I bought the system in the first place. SNES FFII was the last one I had played at that point, and VII was a quantum leap ahead of that. The story and characters were definitely a lot cooler than what they had managed to pull off in 8 and 9 too. Its funny how great I thought the graphics and cutscenes were compared to where they have taken them since.

In pops up Advent Children, which will probably only make sense to people who played the game and liked it enough to remember a lot of it. Its kind of sad that its not an actual videogame, but after seeing three trailers for it I don't mind at all. If by some chance you haven't seen them, you can get them here on the Japanese site: http://www.square-enix.co.jp/dvd/ff7ac/

You don't need to know any Japanese to navigate it. If nothing else, the computer animation blows away any other attempt. I thought the animatrix stuff looked great, but this fits a little better because the characters themselves are sort of an anime style which lends itself better to being animated (go figure). The days of shiny, obvious CG are long gone so it seems, besides the shitty use of it in TV commercials and bad cartoons.

Advent Children looks amazingly cool, but its still frustrating because there is no release date, and we've known about this movie for a long long time. I've heard rumors that it might be released in the US and Japan at the same time, but if its Japan first I'm definitely going to buy it as an import (as long as its subtitled).

I still wish someone would remake FF7, maybe as a gamecube exclusive in the vein of Twin Snakes.

This thread reminds me of Reboot. Anyone ever watch it?
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