by Alundra » Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:20 am
Last night, thanks to a friend of mine, I had the luck of catching Final fantasy VII - Last Order...
An anime version of the manion incident and the 'secret' scene that you unlock by going back to the nibelheim mansion's basment and 'talk' to the tubes which once contained both Zack and Cloud.
The anime is very well done, resembling both the quality of Last exile's fantastic blend (and not annoying) of 3D and 2D traditional animation and it's got the 'hyper frame rate' of fast moving fight sequences featured previously in series such as samurai champloo or cowboy bebop.
Those that were yapping about the too realistic visuals of ff 7 advent children will be treated to non-realistic more anime versions of their heroes.
The story is very short, about 21 minutes, but it is really worth the download though. It's an inside look into the ff 7 continuim that doesn't reveal much we didn't knew already (i'm talking about both fanboys and those that actually played the game from beginning to end) but it's nice to see the story NOT trough cloud's clouded memories.
The music is nice and features both upbeat new tracks (with more then enough guitar solo's :-p) and the golden oldies from mister Nobuo.
Voice casting is really well done, specially the original version don't know about the dub. The same cast from advent children resume their exact roles here too, which they do outstandingly (yeah i'm a fanboy, but you gotta admit there are anime's out there with a really crappy cast of really crappy actor's...)
Why they picked this specific event of all that's ff7, I don't know, it will probably tie in with the cellphone game before crisis and crisis core (whatever that might be) but that's only a guess. it's a shame really that they didn't do more then just this tiny piece. Consider the whole of the game remade in an anime like this...
If you've got the time, check it out, that friend of mine downloaded the 175mb thingy in a very short time using torrent ... so should be peace of cake for those of you still trying to get their hands on the much larger ff7 advent children.
Ken~ says: I'll be a cop by then...
~Alundra~ says:All right, grand tour of china! drivin' around in a cop car!
Ken~says:You'll be wearing the uniform too?
~Alundra~ says:no u'll wear the uniform
~Alundra~ says:i'll just be sitting next to you going woeh woeh woeh ¨-^