Final Fantasy VII Advent Children (DVD) [Review]

Saturday, July 5th, 2008 @ 6:34 pm | Movies, Reviews, Video Games

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The first time I watched this was October 2006. I’d received a copy of the Japanese version with English subtitles from Mike, and I’d just had surgery to repair my torn ACL.

My impressions back then were that the visuals were really good, very action heavy, no real plot.

At the time I was drugged up with vicodin, could not walk, and not so able to focus. I also hadn’t played the game in a very long time and didn’t remember much about it other than the general plot.

When I decided to replay FFVII, I felt I should revisit Advent Children as well, and it was a much better experience this time around, no doubt helped by my recent memory of the game as well as the very good English language dubbing.

The general story is, well taken from Wikipedia:

Two years after the events of Final Fantasy VII, the Planet is recovering from the devastating attack by Meteor, while the survivors of Midgar have begun to build a new city, aptly named “Edge”, on the outskirts of the old metropolis. However, a strange disease known as “geostigma” has arisen. After his showdown with Sephiroth, Cloud Strife established the “Strife Delivery Service”, with the aid of Tifa Lockhart, whom he has been living with in Edge. Marlene Wallace and an orphaned boy named Denzel have been entrusted to their care.

And then…some problems occur. Some old enemies show up. Conflict. Battle.

The story, while not deep by any means, provides a good supplement to the game, and again, the CG visuals are outstanding. From a distance, things do look fairly “real”.

The action is fast paced and exciting, and it’s a little thrill when you get to the moment where all the characters from the game finally show up, and it’s time for a video game style “boss battle”.

It is, a “cool” action movie, the type of movie where the characters do all these things you want to do, the kind of things that in the middle of the movie, you say to yourself, I wish this were a videogame.

My Rating: 8/10 on IMDB, a rating definitely affected by my affinity for/interest in the characters.

The Trailer: