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We beat Crisis Core! It was... all right. 6/10. I feel like there's some good ideas in there but a botched execution and waaaay too much padding squeezed in-between canon FFVII events. I feel like the finale could have been really great and there's elements I do really, REALLY like about it! But it's all so, SO overwrought. I'm okay with it being different than FFVII's original version, god knows I'm the world's biggest Remakes defender at this point, it's just... man, there's something to be said about the original's quick, brutal, harrowing end of a character compared to a version that just... won't die, and spends so long dying that he has time to tell another important character just everything that character will do in the game's sequel. I like you as a character, but please die quicker!
We also managed to squeeze in a rewatch of Advent Children! It holds up surprisingly better than I expected! Maybe the most enjoyable thing to come out of the compilation project. The story sucks, the voice acting is stiff as hell, dilly dally, shilly shally, BUT it's got some stupidly fun fight scenes and a killer soundtrack that still holds up. We watched the Complete edition which added some more stuff (including that same character from before who takes way too long to die!) and some of it fucks with the movie's pacing a good bit (Reno/Rude crash their helicopter in the middle of this chase, then reappear soon after miles in front of the people they were chasing after), but man... MAN. Even if you know it's gonna happen, Sephiroth's appearance still hits hard. Great movie. Even better Smash Ultimate trailer.
It also included Episode Denzel, a short animated OVA about the baby kid who features prominently in Advent Children. It's okay. Johnny's in it. Reeve is too but Reeve kind of sucks in everything until the Remakes. It's fine. Maybe eventually I'll read all the short stories too, just be a full FFVII completionist. But not today!
That's it for now, though! Thank you so much for your support, and see you on Monday!