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The long-awaited Final Fantasy VII Remake is finally available! To celebrate, we decided to look back on the last time Square-Enix decided to revisit their 1997 cash cow. 15 years ago, the publisher launched Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, a multimedia project mostly focused on their Japanese audience. Of course, since millions of fans were wondering what happened after the game's ambiguous ending, Square-Enix decided to answer this lingering question with a full-length movie headed up by the same creative leads of Final Fantasy VII. And the results were... mixed at best. On this episode, join Bob Mackey, Jeremy Parish, Henry Gilbert, and Kat Bailey as the crew does their best to come to terms with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. No dilly-dallying or shilly-shallying allowed!

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Normallyretro

You know, this is one of those items where your eyes tell your brain that what you're seeing is good. Then your brain, being a brain, processes it and realizes that is not good. Nice ep

Michael Lacerna

The nicest thing I can say about Advent Children is that, even with as bad as it is, it's still better than the FF15 tie-in CG movie

Large Mammal Enthusiast

I was so excited for this and so disappointed. However, I do have 2 friends who think it is a great movie. They were not familiar with rpgs when ff7 was released and they never made it past the infamous scorpion sentinels "ATTACK WHILE THE TAILS UP". They became fans of rpgs later with ff10 and kh1 but I could never convince them that ff7 was worth playing as those graphics were a tough sell once the ps2 arrived. Perhaps having that limited knowledge of the game is what is required to enjoy the movie?

James Couche

In a lot of ways, Advent Children was ahead of its time. The whole, fan-servicey narratives with no sense of danger or real stakes is the same thing driving all modern blockbuster franchises. The key difference is that Disney is way better at packaging it so that most audiences don't notice that there's nothing REALLY at stake in their movies (because merchandising).

Jeff Peterson

I loved this movie with my rose-colored glasses back when I torrented it many moons ago (I was 23 years old at the time it came out). I had the Kingdom Hearts itch and was fully engrossed in everything that Tetsuya Nomura was throwing at us. I was passionate about wanting to know more about the world of Final Fantasy 7 so I was very excited to see more by getting this movie as soon as possible. I eventually purchased the film on DVD and the Complete version on BluRay. I hadn't seen the movie since the Complete version's release. Over the years, I realized that FF7 wasn't as good as FF6, the movie was not as great as it could have been, and the other games in the Compilation weren't as satisfying (Crisis Core's story about Zack was enjoyable, the rest was not as much). I agreed with a lot of the arguments stated in the podcast about the movie and I probably won't play FF7R (I'm too engrossed in FF14 since I recently started playing that), but I'll continue to enjoy my nostalgic memories of the adventures of Cloud, Tifa, and the rest of the gang rather than see reimaginings.

GameBoyJames

I will never tire of TNG references.

stephen finn

There's a fan translation of the PC version which is the only way to play it now. Story makes a lot more sense. Also makes it a lot more disappointing as you realise it's very simple and most of the interesting ambiguity is from the bad translation

Aaron

I swear, Advent Children is the whole reason I never got into FF7. Well, OK, I didn't have a PS1 at the time -- by that point our family had switched over to gaming almost exclusively on PC (and, hey, they put Sonic CD on PC at that point so I had what *I* needed at the time) and so missed out on FF7. By the time I was in a place to revisit FF7, stuff like this was what was getting the attention and it turned me off from the original. Everything I know about FF7 (Don Corneo, Aerith's fate, the cat's a robot piloting another robot) comes from a tips section in some gaming mag I had at the time, which I think was Next Generation's Sonic R cover issue.

Guillermo Jiménez

I had fun with this movie when it came out. I thought the action was fine eye candy, even though I felt nothing for the characters and story. Then again, I never got far in the game so if I had I'd probably be as disappointed as everyone here is. (This happened to me with Dragon Quest: Your Story.)