Final Fantasy VII - Last Order

[FrostyTheSnowman]

Has anyone seen this new anime movie made by SquareEnix? It's awesome, and is intended to be a prequel to the video game. It only came out within the last year I think, but I really enjoyed it and it answered alot of questions about the game for me.

For example:
Vincent is actually what is left of Zack after Shinra screwed with him.

EDIT: I have just learned that this was bundled with Advent Children in special editions.

[Yeloazndevil]

I've seen it I it was with the FF7 AC Advent Pieces: Limited :p and technically most of it was seen in the game :p


ummm

Zack :
One who made for a positive-minded cheerful comrade in SOLDIER. Coming from
the remote region of Gongaga, he went to Midgar about 10 years ago. He was
recognized as having the capabilities of a 1st Class SOLDIER, but when he was
dispatched to the Mt. Nibel mako reactor, destiny would take a sudden turn.
While trying to stop Sephiroth's reckless activities, he was seriously
injured, and afterward became an experimental subject for Hojo; then, after
escaping, he was killed. At the beginning of the story, Cloud plays Zack's
role in his memories.

Vincent :
Gast and Hojo start experimenting on Jenova. These are conducted in the
basement laboratory of Nibelheim Mansion. A young female scientist called
Lucrecia and a young Turk called Vincent (sent to keep an eye on things) are
also present.

As the experiments progress, Vincent falls in love with Lucrecia. However she
is in love with Hojo and declines Vincent's proposal of marriage. Lucrecia
becomes pregnant by Hojo. Hojo, having no luck using full-grown humans and
creatures in his Jenova experiments, decides to use his unborn child instead.
He injects Lucrecia and the baby with Jenova cells. Lucrecia becomes very sick
and upon delivering the baby, finally becomes altered beyond recovery.

Vincent in a rage confronts Hojo. But he is incapacitated by Hojo and subject
to more Jenova treatments. He becomes another twisted monster like the rejects
being stored in pods at the Nibelheim Mako Plant.

I wonder how u can even come to that conclusion

[Exodus]

I wonder how u can even come to that conclusion
It makes perfect sense to me now!

[hushypushy]

i was really, really bored by Last Order. it didn't excite me at all. oh well...

[FrostyTheSnowman]

LOL, my bad. I haven't played the game in a long time, and when Hojo said 'Take him to the basement' I guess for some reason I assumed that was the case. I guess Final Fantasy VII is one of those games you can't fully understand without playing it over 4-5 times...

[K.I.L.E.R]

I'm glad that I'm not the only one.
I literally had to play it 6 times before I understood everything but it's been so long that I have forgotten a lot.

Complex storyline it has.

LOL, my bad. I haven't played the game in a long time, and when Hojo said 'Take him to the basement' I guess for some reason I assumed that was the case. I guess Final Fantasy VII is one of those games you can't fully understand without playing it over 4-5 times...

[cloudvii]

4-5 times? 6 times? What will happen when you play games with more complicated storyline, like Chrono cross or Xenogears? It's no sarcasm btw ;) .

And I liked the anime kinda because it replayed a very good part of the game (in a kinda bad way though). I was sad that they didn't follow the exact storyline though :(

Sephiroth jumping by himself into mako and more stuff

[Random-hero]

You can see the same story in the game on Disk 3. So nothing new about Last Order. But it's cool anyway.

[Splatt]

It's the same as manga becoming anime,except in this case we have part of the game becoming an anime which main purpose is to milk more money from unsuspecting citizenz of ff7fanboysville.

[hushypushy]

i dont see how Last Order milked any more money from anyone, since it was included as a bonus to the FF7AC video. it's not like they packaged it and sold it as an additional thing.

[Splatt]

i dont see how Last Order milked any more money from anyone, since it was included as a bonus to the FF7AC video. it's not like they packaged it and sold it as an additional thing.
Exactly.
It was an add-on which gives you "extra motivation" to buy FF7AC.
Let the milkage of t3h money begin.

[Quatro]

well I like the last order since I'm a FF fan so learning mnore about the FFVII is a welcome for me...

[Coolsvilleman]

Nothing wrong with being interested in FFVII. Though some take it too far (fanboys/girls) I personally liked the short movie. Though I'm beginning to suspect that some things don't fit together the way they should. Like continuity errors in a film but over multiple films. They should make a book called "The Chronicles of FFVII"

[hushypushy]

Exactly.
It was an add-on which gives you "extra motivation" to buy FF7AC.
Let the milkage of t3h money begin.

uhhhhhh.......you agreed with me and then presented a disagreeing point.

i think that Last Order was just like a "special features" type of thing. it was not made to "milk" money out of the public. you're completely missing the point.

it's just a DVD special feature. so do you believe that every DVD company is trying to milk money out of us by making 2 disc sets? oO

IF Last Order was released seperately for sale, then yes, it would be out there just to suck money from people, because you'd have to pay for it. but due to the fact that you get it for FREE when you're buying Advent Children (and you have no choice whether or not to get it), it's not a cash cow.

do you get it...?

[Splatt]

uhhhhhh.......you agreed with me and then presented a disagreeing point.

i think that Last Order was just like a "special features" type of thing. it was not made to "milk" money out of the public. you're completely missing the point.

it's just a DVD special feature. so do you believe that every DVD company is trying to milk money out of us by making 2 disc sets? oO

IF Last Order was released seperately for sale, then yes, it would be out there just to suck money from people, because you'd have to pay for it. but due to the fact that you get it for FREE when you're buying Advent Children (and you have no choice whether or not to get it), it's not a cash cow.

do you get it...?
Technically...you still have to pay for it(getting AC isn't free)

[hushypushy]

here's how i look at it:

i think FF7:AC is a good movie. i decide that i want to own the DVD. i drive down to Fry's, whip out my credit card, and pay the 20 bucks that it costs to buy the DVD. when i get home, i discover that there is a bonus disc of extra crap. hey, i only wanted the movie! but look at all this stuff i got for free! including a really crappy anime, aka Last Order.

or here's another way:

people are going to buy AC whether or not LO comes with it. no one is going out to buy Last Order and discovering that Advent Children comes with it.

any way that you look at it, it's impossible to call Last Order a cash cow. that's like calling the deleted scenes or blooper reels or trailers on any DVD a cash cow just because they are on the DVD. you are completely missing the point.