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3/10. Here's why:

posted 9 years ago by IMDB_Vits
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There are video-games where you go from world to world. In between stages, the game plays a clip that has to do with the story. There are people (I don't know how many) who skip the clip, because they figure out what to do in the next level anyway. In that sense, the plot doesn't necesarily have to be the most important aspect of a video-game. But it is in movies, which is why FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN fails. I was constantly having fantasies because of how generic and boring the plot is. My spirit within can't completely praise the animation. Putting the great design aside, the characters don't feel like people. Most people complain about their soulless eyes. I didn't, because it felt like a mistake too hard to notice... unlike the weird facial expressions and body gestures. Those have nothing to do with the limitations of the budget or of the CGI.

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Any thoughts?

[–] macedoniall 9 years ago

Are you arguing that the plot isn't the main focus of a Final Fantasy game?

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[–] IMDB_Vits 9 years ago

I've never played any of them. That's why I generalized and also why I said it's only a possibility.

[–] jmtoten 8 years ago

...Uh, Final Fantasy and almost every other Japanese RPG RELY HEAVILY on the story. Nobody would play them without the story. Maybe do a little research before writing a review.

[–] IMDB_Vits 8 years ago

1) I didn't say that a video-game shouldn't have a story. I did say that it may not be the most important aspect but from a certain point of view. I wasn't stating a fact.
2) I said that I don't know how many people do that, but I know there are. I did do research.
3) It's a comment, not a review.

[–] raven1066 8 years ago

10/10.

"Time is the fire in which we burn."

[–] IMDB_Vits 8 years ago

Why did you love it?

[–] karsultimate 8 years ago

You can't skip scenes in VII, and it's the only PSX one I've beaten, so not sure what you mean there, if you can even do that.

I'm not sure boring is the way I'd put it. Everything does seem vague as hell, like we're only told half of the story, or less. (It probably would have worked better as two movies.)

Although it certainly is unique in that it doesn't start at the 'beginning'.

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[–] Volley (3368) 5 years ago

The movie is a little cheesy with the 'gaia' and the earth is alive stuff, the computer graphics were fantastic in 2001 though, watching it again in 2019--it has aged slightly.