The Big Day

14.9.2005
(7th post in a row!)

We've been waiting since January last year, we pulled through too many delays to count, read so many reports of various events, compared the stark difference between last year's Venice and this year's, last year's E3 and this year's, crying over mistakes made in the rendering process, discussed every detail found over and over, got exited over every single magazine scan, watched every trailer at least thirty times or more, got to know so many rabid fans, ran away from spoilers in the recent days... After so much, in fact, one year and nine and a half months, we finally get to see the product!!!

Except that it's not in English.

Well, that aside, it looks brilliant (shall refrain from saying it's "awesome", since that's about all the vocab to the fan group), and its CG animation is completely stunning. I haven't seen much of the plotwise developments, but only the action scenes. But the action scenes... *fangirlitic attack* ... obviously don't obey the laws of physics.

*spoilers below* (whatever little I may have)

I missed a great deal on the Tifa, Yuffie, stuff happening with the group, because I stoned there for a while and had to go in to talk to the shop keeper for a while. Whatever I missed while I was busy inquiring is anyone's guess.

But the first scene I remembered watching is from where Kadaj had just lost a fight with Cloud, and is holding on to dear life (not really) on the edge of a building/platform. Cloud gets the box away from Kadaj, and it falls down down down below. Kadaj, being the insane nut he is, well, went after it. Cloud followed after.

As Cloud reaches Kadaj (somewhere in the far far below) the box opens and Kadaj fuses with the substance assumed to be part of Jenova, and right when Cloud strikes with his sword, Kadaj had been transformed into none other than Sephiroth, who then parries the blow with his Masamune, which was formed out of seemingly nothing.

Crazy fighting ensues, as well as conversation on "why does Seph want to destroy this world; just exactly how insane is he?" and Seph asking what on earth Cloud fins precious. It's here where the answer to the question in the E3 '04 trailer is answered.

hmm... More crazy fighting, but Sephiroth injures Cloud first. Meh, you could actually see how Cloud found fighting more and more difficult: the stiffening, the slowing down, it's clear as day.

And Seph did it again. He stabbed Cloud!

Well, that wasn't exactly no creativity, but he did, technically, do that once before. In fact, that was seven years ago.

Okay, so his craving to stab something came back. Fine with me. But kill him damnit. You have better aim than that right? I mean Cloud was just sitting there waiting for you to do something. Don't forget to get killed as well. [/evil insane fangirl mode]

Well, the next part seemed like a replay of some scene I've seen before.

Cloud pulled the Masamune out of his shoulder -oww- , and foces it into the wall instead.

Deja vu.

At least he didn't try throwing Seph off the building. That would be the exact replay of the events seven years ago.

Then comes the part most people felt was the most "awesome" CG animation in AC. Cloud's new limit break. It was rather cool, but I didn't want to see Seph die yet again. I wanted Seph to kill Cloud, then kill himself. Err... not really. What I'm saying is that he'd probably get killed by someone else anyway. (Especially either the SHM or AVALANCHE, or even ShinRa)

Finally, you see Seph with his trademark one wing! It's like KH , but in much better graphics. Besides, the feathers were really black this time round.

Followed by -by now- trademark sentence:

"Watashi wa, omoide niwa naranai sa"

Folds, his wing over himself, and disappears, leaving Kadaj, back into his original form.

Hmm.. THat was only one scene, but it took so much ranting. Shan't go on to the Bahamut fight scene then; it's more or less like the trailer anyway.



Edit: I've now got the script for the entire length of AC! 1 hour and 30 minutes. And I thought someone told me 100 minutes.