Final Fantasy: Advent Children

Final fantasy: Advent children.

Ireland: 8 Euro.

Final fantasy advent children is the movie sequel to the game Final Fantasy 7, a spectacular movie with visuals that are jaw-dropping.

The action and fight scenes are one of a kind, I never thought I could enjoy the sleekness and hmmm, whats the word? absolute coolness! Is the only word I can use to descirbe the action scenes.

The story takes place after Final Fantasy 7, old characters come back into place, including the infamous Sephiroth, but also all the main characters we know and love: Cloud Strife, TIfa, Barrett, Vincent Valentine, Cid, Red XIII, Rufus, Yuffee, and a few others.

The story is pretty good, revealing a nice wee twist near the end.

I'm a major fan of Final Fantasy, even if you havnt played the seventh game, you'll soon grip the story of the game and merge it in with the movie.

Fantastic.

5 out of 5.

Darren.

Advent Children is a really good film, and takes of very nicely from Final Fantasy VII. It starts 2 years after the battle with Shinra, an illness is contaminating children and adults alike. The CGI's in the film are amazing, square and sony have outdone themselves.

If you ever played Final Fantasy: Advent Children on the Playstation, you will have been drawn into the story and become part of it. The opening sequence to this brilliantly animated (CGI) movie are a few simple touching lines, to the effect of saying that the re-union of the characters and the story is for the fans. The realism in this film is sometimes astounding, the level of detail employed in making each shot, each movement, each element is commendable!

If you played the game, you have to watch this, simple, if you played subsequent Final Fantasy games but not 7 you should play 7 and then watch this! If you didn't play the Final Fantasy Series, especially 7 on which this film is based, then you may struggle to appreciate everything, however, there are a few catch ups in the film that might make it a little clearer, not much but a little...!

Perhaps not suited to all tastes, but the battle anime and the often far fetched fighting scenes will suit all those who enjoy anything which has been created and exported from the far east as an anime/battle/combat.

The film itself is based 2 years after the battle for the survival of planet was won by the hero Cloud Strife. He has become a recluse but surfaces from the badlands outside of Midgar (the central city) when the world begins to become infected with geo-stigma, (a disease born of genova, a centre element to the FF7 game) Cloud unites again with his team to fight Sephiroth (the bad guy also of genovas lineage) to once again save the world.

Available new on play.com for little more than £10 I think and from ebay (used and new) from ridiculously low prices!!