ZerbanDaGreat
Daemon Noble of D E M O G R A P H I C S
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- They/them
Damn I've heard of distant prequels but this is something elseBut before that...
Let's Play Every Final Fantasy Game In Order Of Release [Now Finished: Final Fantasy Tactics]
- Thread starter Omicron
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- Let's Play
- Location
- Canada, probably
Never played it. I only know it from Spoony's, uh… not review… retrospective? Hit piece that he regrets making? So, um, kind of biased.
Also, Advent Children is a thing. That's… I'm gonna say I think that's a movie?
Egleris
Vagrant Dragon
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- Italy
Taking it easy, I see. How about a real challenge? Try completing the Triple Triad collection without ever once using a card ranked 8, 9 or 10 (only exception allowed if you get it during a Sudden Death round, and only for that round). It will give you a new appreciation for the minigame when you can't just breeze through it with overpowered cards on your side and have to actually engage with the rules. It's fun!
- Location
- Singapore
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- Singular They
I've played it a few times, and finished it a couple of times. My second-most recent run was using my original FFVIII PC discs, and died somewhere in the middle (just before some Big Revelations) due to consistently crashing when trying to enter a city.
My most-recent run, on the non-remastered Steam version, is still in literally the first area of the game, because I wanted to collect all the Triple Triad cards I could. Then I lost interest, which is my own fault.
I haven't picked up the remastered version on Steam yet.
MiskWisk
Hoot
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- Somewhere devoid of wit
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- He
I managed to brute force my way despite not fully understanding the mechanics for most of it up to the start of disc 4. I then ran into a certain boss that finally broke me and I just lost all desire to finish the game at that point.
somewhatLazy
Serial Procrastinator
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- lurking
I finished a playthrough a few years ago—including the first superboss—without bothering to break the game. Though that still required a fair amount of spell grinding to get 100 copies of the high-level spells.
daniel_gudman
KING (in land of blind)
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So FF8 I played the first few hours at a friend's house when I was like, 12; but then I ended up completely playing through all of FF7, then getting my own copy of FF8, so my "real" playthrough of FF8 I kinda knew what I was doing from the get-go, and I remember FF8 being almost comically easy. But I played it in a very strange way; I genuinely don't think I ever cast a spell or summoned a GF the entire time, outside of maybe mandatory events?
But before that...
Oil! Oil! Oil!
- Location
- Texas
Completely blind here, not even any cultural osmosis like I had with FFVII.
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- Amman, Jordan
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- He/Him/His
Same here. Never played VIII, knew about it mainly from articles and mostly from Spoony's retrospective/hit piece. I'm guessing that this is going to be much kinder to the material, given Omi's fonder memories, though I'm wondering if it'll still remain so well-regarded once he's played it again.
And Advent Children is basically a CGI OVA set a couple years after FF7 wraps up (but way before that epilogue scene with Nanaki and his offspring(?).
We're going there, huh? Are we doing a scene-by-scene review, or just a general synopsis and analysis?But before that...
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- Brittany, France
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- He/Him
While the idea of doing a full scene-by-scene review of the movie is fun, I haven't done that kind of thing before, so I went to look at the closest equivalent I can think of - Leila's review of Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa, which is similarly a standalone OVA follow up to an already finished story. Her review is 12 parts long and seems to count about 50k words, which is not what I'm realistically willing to invest into this (that would essentially make the next month or two "The Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Review" instead of a one-update side project). So expect something shorter.
If that's what it takes to give the movie justice, then you spending a month on it is a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
(But, more seriously, yeah. This is an amusing aside rather than really a part of the main project, so a broad review would fit better. It's not like you're here for detailed analysis of every FFVII spin-off. Plus, given that it's a relatively short self-contained movie, the holistic approach is likely to produce more insightful commentary, even if it doesn't convey the experience of watching it.)
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Tier chart of how badly they butchered the cast. A graph of approximate Kingdom Hearts per minute. A well travelled pigeon's take of the film's events.
You COULD write an essay's worth on AC's place as a culmination of FF7's status as a cultural juggernaut, the hollow vindication of SE's CG division that once nearly doomed the company, a distortion reflected endlessly upon itself in a hall of mirrors darkly, etc. and still just be skimming the surface.
You could also just write "Kinda pretty, but mid af." and frankly be just as, if not even more correct.
Egleris
Vagrant Dragon
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- Italy
Yeah, a quick summary of the plot, maybe pointing out the highlights, and then your opinion on the movie as itself as well as how it relates to FFVII itself, all one update (perhaps a double one?) would be more than satisfactory, as far as I'm concerned.
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Godzillaslayer10
I am ready for this quest!
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- Somewhere
Oh no.
So, like, what I remember of this movie is that there were two fights that Sephiroth was in, and I considered both of them fairly decent? But also I watched it before I'd seen any anime other than occasional episodes of DBZ, not even properly following it, so I wasn't even that educated on how animated fight scenes can work. Meanwhile, the plot... I'm pretty sure actually gets even worse than the "forgettable" rating I gave it when you have context from the game that I didn't?
There are lots of things I *could* say about Advent Children, but one of my New Years' Resolutions is to stop waxing verbose on things I don't like.
Suffice it to say that it's pretty, and some of the action sequences are fun, but it took Cloud's hard fought character development from the game out behind the chemical shed so I pretty strongly dislike it.
Suffice it to say that it's pretty, and some of the action sequences are fun, but it took Cloud's hard fought character development from the game out behind the chemical shed so I pretty strongly dislike it.
I will only say : when you reach 3 digits on your game time, the clocks resets and becomes red.
Genuinely curious what happens if the red clock hits 3 digits now.
Not going to find out for myself though. But curious.
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- Brittany, France
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Alright, I've watched it.
I set out to write about the movie and figured I should at least give a summary of the plot.
It's already 6 pages long with pictures and 900 words covering just the first 9 minutes of the movie, like a third of it a tangent just about what the movie does with Midgar.
It turns out when something is really mediocre in a way that is both frustrating and interesting I have to actively fight the urge to not rant at length about it.
I set out to write about the movie and figured I should at least give a summary of the plot.
It's already 6 pages long with pictures and 900 words covering just the first 9 minutes of the movie, like a third of it a tangent just about what the movie does with Midgar.
It turns out when something is really mediocre in a way that is both frustrating and interesting I have to actively fight the urge to not rant at length about it.