But if you can live with the fact that a huge "chunk" of plot is continued with a no-brainer action flick, you should give the Blu-Ray a chance. Whoever expects a new movie or new scenes with his old favorite character will be disappointed. Whether the complete edition is worth the eventual re-buy it is a decision everyone has to make for himself. As usual, the Japanese Blu-Ray is quite expensive and will contain the same content as the US release. A North-America release has been anounced for June the 2nd 2009. It is also region-free and can be played on any Blu-Ray player. And for some parts it was just impossible to say if the scene had been altered of if it was just the excellent quality of the Blu-Ray.īy the way: the Japanese Blu-Ray contains a completly English dubbed version of the movie, but no English subtitles. Those details are without any relevance to the movie itself, but they make it look nicer and less sterile. Yet there are differences which one wouldn't notice if you don't watch both versions at the same time - like the added traces of dirt. New scenes with the original characters are rare and there is not really much more depth at all.Īlthough one can say that the Complete Edition is the better version, because Square-Enix showed off what they are good at and what they were good at ten yeras ago: Eye-Candy! The picture of the Blu-Ray is a dream in HD and whoever thought the graphics of the DVD couldn't look any better would see: it can! Of course this doesn't make the DVD any less good looking, but the comparisons in the footer should show the difference to anyone. But those who expected more "Final Fantasy VII" in the movie now were disappointed: the changes focus strongly on the boy Denzel. Old scenes were overhauled or made anew partially, Details and new scenes were added. The Complete Edition is really 25 minutes longer than the original version. On April the 16th in 2009 the Blu-Ray was released in Japan. Next to the new version an Anime-OVA should be on the disc, called "On the way to a smile". Although no details about the changes were given, it was stated that the Complete-Version should be 25 minutes longer with new footage and that the old footage should be overhauled. In 2006 Square-Enix annoucned a prolonged version of the movie on Blu-Ray on the TGS, called "Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete". This has also been taken with mixed reactions. The plot is confusing and doesn't seem to be well-thought-out, the characters are two dimensional or have been altered completly (the best example is Reno, who is a pure comedic relieve in the movie, while being a coldblooded muderer of hundreds in the game). They are done nicely without a doubt, but they are just action scenes nonetheless. But on the other hand Square was accused that they turned Final Fantasy VII down to a simple action flick without that what the game had been famous for - character development and plot, and rightly so.Īnd really: large parts of the film are action sequences. Of course everyone praised the visuals, and rightly so. One year later Square-Enix stated that over 1,4 Million copies have been sold.īut the movie was received with mixed reactions. 420.000 copies of the Direct-to-DVD CGI movie were sold in the first week. Although the movie had been leaked two weeks earlier, it was a success like expected. On September the 14th in 2005 the day had come - the official release in Japan. Everyone was hoping for his favorite to show and "sound up" - the original game hat no voice acting at all, even not in the rendered videos. The amazing looking trailer seemed to promise what many were hoping for: Final Fantasy VII with up to date graphics. New spin-offs as games were released, but the first step was made by a movie in the year 2005: Advent Children.Īs Advent Children, or short AC, has been anounced for the first time, a twitch went through the fans. Yet the franchise has been "relaunched" a few yeras ago. Final Fantasy VII is one of the most popular parts and accordingly has a large fanbase.īut although Square-Enix released a Final Fantasy VII themed techdemo for the PS 3, it's said until today that there won't be a Remake with updated graphics and sounds. The surely most famous part is "Final Fantasy VII", which was released on Playstation back then and ported to PC later on.įor the time back then Final Fantasy VII had very nice graphics, an unbelievable amount of plot and depth (the game had three discs on the Playstation, four discs were needed for the PC version) and last but not least the thing Square, today known as Square-Enix, is pretty famous for: beautiful rendervideos. Things which are known and taken for granted these days, like elemental attacks, were invented by this series. What Tolkien did for the Fantasy Genre, Final Fantasy did for the RPG Genre near the end of the 80's. Final Fantasy is a videogame series everyone should know by now.
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