![]() While the movie was a bit of a box office flop and the “quality-animation” genre of film may be tied to its legacy, the film is a sight to behold at least once. The fact that it took four years and $137 million to accomplish this 106 minute long “extended modern video game cut scene” is amazing. She runs across a former lover on her quest, who assists in her safety along her mission, and they all have to deal with a general on Earth who is determined to use a powerful Zeus cannon to merely blow them all away instead of repelling them back to their home planet.Īt face value, the quality of the character’s animation and graphical CGI rendered capabilities is a marvel in movie-making. They have a mission to gather eight signature spirits that combine with each other to defeat the Phantoms within her and collectively send the dead spirits out of the Earth for good. A doctor experimenting with the “phantoms, ” named Aki Ross (played by Street Fighter‘s Chun-Li herself, Ming-Na), becomes infected with a phantom herself, yet remains alive by her mentor’s research on her. The plot of this completely animated film is simple yet grandiose at the same time: ghosts of dead aliens hitchhike on a meteor bound for Earth, killing every living thing simply by touching it (sort of like stealing everything’s essence). From what I know, the story and characters in this movie do not exist in a game form, which makes reviewing this so much easier to compare to the series. Please note, I’m not a fan of RPG games, and my combined time of playing only FFVII and FFIX is about 10 total hours (to get a taste of what these games are). evil” will always be among us from the past into the future were always the subject of the games. The characters changed in each game, but the themes of the existence of dualism and cycles of “good vs. The Final Fantasy series of role-playing games (developed by Square Enix) rose to such popularity that it became Square Enix’s most popular franchise and the eighth best-selling game franchise worldwide (as of 2012). If any video game series needed a big-screen adaptation, arguably, it was Final Fantasy. ![]() Directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi and Motonori Sakakibara
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