| Miles |
Apr 12, 2006 10:23 PM |
FINAL FANTASY VII: ADVENT CHILDREN NA Premiere Event (Discussion and Speculation)
After much deliberation, I feel this subject deserves its own thread. Has anyone read about this guy's experience at the event http://www.rpgfan.com/features/ff7ac...re/index.html? We all know that on April 4th there was a special showing of FINAL FANTASY VII: ADVENT CHILDREN and a few of us were lucky enough to see it. I would like to quote a few lines from this and share how my own experience was during this mind-blowing event.
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As the only attending member of RPGFan, I arrived at the theater around 1:15. This will give you an idea how many people turned out for the event. They had begun hanging out tickets at noon, and by the time I arrived, they were out. The screening was at 7PM. Part of the reason, as we learned inside, was that the line began forming at 2AM the previous night. There was, however, room for 'stand by' - so if come seven, there were unclaimed tickets, we'd get in. As the fifth non-ticket holder, I felt my chances were good. Unfortunately that meant sitting on the sidewalk of Ivar St. - sometimes in light rain - for almost six hours to find out. I was tempted to simply go in the theater and see another movie to pass time, but I didn't want to lose my place. I was so thankful I had my DS and Tetris DS on hand, otherwise I'd have been staring at the mural on the side of Amoeba Music all day. Of course, being able to truly see the DS screen in the daytime, even while overcast, was a struggle.
Not that I was the only one: I lost count of how many Game Boy Advances and DSes I saw in that line. I didn't, however, lose count of PSPs - there were two, so take that as you will.
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I remember that part. As we all mindlessly waited in line to see the same movie we watched 50 times in Japanese with english titles just so we could be the first to brag about hearing cloud's new English voice. 95% of us pulled out our DS to play one of the many Final Fantasy games ported over to the GBA. Of course they aren't as good as Final Fantasy VII but they did borrow some of the same spell names and summons from the game. I just wish these games had more cloud in them. 3% of the DS owners played tetris DS, including the author of the RPGfan writing. How lame, considering Final Fantasy 7 is way more classic than Tetris. Of course we made fun of the two people with the PSP since it currently has no Final Fantasy games on it. Now, if they handed out free UMD movie samplers with 5 minute footage from the FINAL FANTASY VII: ADVENT CHILDREN movie we all would have walked over to the nearest Target or Gamestop and dropped 250 dollars on a PSP.
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Around 6:30 people were being let in while some of us stood by patiently. By now we were around the front of the building and could see the lights and cameras of the press. I couldn't tell you what celebrities arrived outside of some of the movie's cast and production staff, but there were plenty of limos: one of the last being something that's probably not commonplace outside of California, but something we're used to - A Hummer H2 limo. Each limousine that passed elicited "Who's that!?" from someone in line. When the H2 passed, someone chimed in, "It's Cloud!" and a bunch of people played along and got excited. When the first of us got tickets, a few people sung the FFVII victory theme and held their tickets in the air. It's always refreshing to see fans who aren't afraid to make fun of... themselves, really.
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OH MY GOD when everyone started chanting Cloud I had the largest erection. I came when everyone started singing the Final Fantasy VII victory theme.
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After this, the curtains opened and we were treated with two brand-new Square Enix trailers before the movie.
First was Kingdom Hearts II, which got huge applause at just the first scene, which only escalated as it went on. Like most people, I've yet to finish the game myself, let alone make a significant dent in it, so I was surprised at how freely they revealed things in this trailer for a game that's only been out for about five days. I've thankfully forgotten most of it, but I don't think one could create a more spoiler-laden trailer if they tried. It was beautiful, exciting and moving. Whenever a Final Fantasy character popped up, the crowd cheered - you can imagine which characters got the loudest. Impressive as it was... wow, spoilers.
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Man... who cares about the Disney characters? Kingdom Hearts 2 was all about seeing which Final Fantasy 7 characters were placed in the game. I started tweaking out on the floor as the trailer showed off a single world with Cloud, Tifa, Aeris (how is she alive again? Maybe the game will explain this some time in the future how the gang ended up in a world with that Duck and whats his name. There is a rumor that this takes place after FINAL FANTASY VII: Dirge of Cerberus but we have to wait for the US release for that). They also redesigned Setzer from FINAL FANTASY VI to look more like Sephiroth from FINAL FANTASY VII. SWEET!
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Second was another never-before-seen trailer, this time for Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII. There's still clearly work to be done on the localization, since all the speech was still in Japanese and subtitled. The FMV cutscenes shown impressively matched Advent Children not only in design, but in quality. Gameplay footage was sandwiched between an FMV opening and ending, and while the game looks 'cool', nothing shown has me convinced it can compete with other action-based games, let alone the one we just saw a trailer for, which oozes with so much style, anything pales in comparison. Fun to watch though, and it looks like if not for the gameplay, it will be worth playing for the story.
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Everything about this is correct, except for the localization part. Square-Enix makes no mistakes with their localizations. They probably had the game translated before the Japanese release. They just left the Japanese voices in to give us US fans a chance to hear what the voice acting sounds like. Also, the game tops everything else including that uh... whats it called? Godz of the wars? I wouldn't give that game a try sicne it didn't have a Square-Enix logo on it.
And as for the actual movie itself, it was the most amazing thing I have ever witnessed in my life. No other movie can top this one. It is perfect in every single way possible. Now hopefully they can get started on a remake of this movie. like have it done in anime style and then another Final Fantasy 7 movie with real life actors. Who do you think could play the perfect Cloud and Sephiroth. Hmm... thats another thread idea. I might as well make it since someone else would just make it eventually anyways. |
