Ah Joe Kopitiam: More info for FF VII ACC

Monday, April 13, 2009

More info for FF VII ACC

US Coverart

Square Enix have revealed the first glimpse at the US box art for Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete on BluRay, set to be released in the West in June, with a Japanese release just around the corner.

The box art is distinctly different to the Japanese version and focuses more on the combat between Cloud and Sephiroth, a central point of the story. They're shown fighting against the backdrop of Edge, the city on the outskirts of Midgar where much of the movie takes place.

This boxart is probably placeholder and will be tweaked and changed some before the final release, but this is most likely also set to be the final art with only small changes left to be made.

Japanese Coverart

Some Changes from the Originial Advent Children movie

- Nozue and the others changed parts they were bothered by, but there’s a lot of really detailed bits and you might not realize all of them if you don’t watch closely. As an example, some facial expressions are different such as when Cloud wakes up after being carried home by Reno and Rude.

- In addition to the climactic scene from the original 20 minute version, they’ve also added some direction linking the children with the phones from it.

- Omnislash ver. 5 has become ver. 6, including elements they originally wanted to have.

- Like the blood during battles, they wanted to portray Geostigma more realistically. They weren’t sure what to do with it for a long time, but from around the time of CC started to think it should be more realistic. With that ‘painfulness’ it just seems false, and you don’t get the sense that it is a horrible disease.

- They wanted to have Case of Denzel from On the Way to a Smile as a bonus feature in some form for a long time. It was decided at it would be animated from the start, and there were ideas such as having voice overs with still images, etc. before finally settling on animation.

- Episode Denzel being an animated extra has no connection with Last Order having being include on the previous DVD.

- Episode Denzel is about 26 minutes long. Nomura was in charge of character design for Johnny and Ruvie, and attended the voice recordings, and final supervising work. The OVA features chocobos; this is because the director is a big fan of FFVII, and wanted to add that to show that chocobos are alive and well after the disasters in FFVII.

- For the limited edition package, they asked the person who designed FFVIIAC’s limited edition package again.

- The regular edition is in a black plastic case. The PS3 bundle and FFXIII demo set have different package designs, but they have the same kind of case as the AC limited edition. Except for the regular edition, they are both limited edition version and there’s no plans at present for another pressing of them.

- The overseas release date hasn’t been announced (lol yes it has), but is planned to be released soon. The image of Cloud and Sephiroth facing each other is the cover for the overseas version.