Over 20 years later since my then teenager self beat Xenogears and that 2nd disc still angers up the blood some.
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Xenogears 2 Didn’t Happen Because of FF: Spirits Within – Monolith Soft President Sugiura [Update: Xenosaga art not drawn by Soraya Saga]
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Spirits Within wasn't that bad of a movie. Generic sci-fi move they stuck the FF name on to sell but instead just pissed people off. Atrocious business idea that nearly killed Square if Enix didn't basically save them. The Aki Ross being an artificial actress idea was ahead of its time though...even though it never happened.
As for Xenogears 2, Square themselves were running on nothing until Enix merged with them and Monolith Soft was already founded and working on Xenosaga before Spirits Within was even released. This seems like a weird thing to say. It feels like it was a management problem at Square going into film and not necessarily Spirits Within since it didn't even have a chance to fail before they left.
As for Xenogears 2, Square themselves were running on nothing until Enix merged with them and Monolith Soft was already founded and working on Xenosaga before Spirits Within was even released. This seems like a weird thing to say. It feels like it was a management problem at Square going into film and not necessarily Spirits Within since it didn't even have a chance to fail before they left.
Given that games were much smaller at the time it didn't have to be that big of a loss to throw a game company into serious trouble.
Good thing Square never made another Videogame movie since.
Cant wait for the article 10 years from now, that shows that Kingsglaive is the reason FF15 was a mess at the start, and never got its full story in the end either.
Cant wait for the article 10 years from now, that shows that Kingsglaive is the reason FF15 was a mess at the start, and never got its full story in the end either.
Good. If Xenogears didn't fail then we wouldn't have gotten Xenoblade Chronicles.
Sometimes, you just need an unintentional sacrificial lamb to get the best reward.
Sometimes, you just need an unintentional sacrificial lamb to get the best reward.
I dunno, when CGI made that leap past uncanny valley and videogames began to use cd's and thus have room for tons of FMV a lot of companies lost their damn minds.
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Just as a reminder, you can take a quick read on the Xenogears story, from an all-encompassing point of view:
Xenogears: A Rope of Robots
A Xenogears summary of questionable accuracy.
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The worst offender with Spirit within is it kinda disowned what was FF (to me at least, with the american, alien setting and no uematsu, even if Goldenthal did an awesome job) yet, as it failed badly, the consequence was "well people don't want a FF movie" while i'm pretty sure something FF worthy would have worked way better, and there is no real fantasy of that sort in movies. There was a real cultural difference to bring something there.
i could never watch this knowing what happened afterwards. Saw parts of it years ago on tv and it's hard to care.
they never stopped making CG movies, eh. FF7 Advent Children and Kingsglaive. They need FF7 to have some form of success here. Did KG do well?
R.I.P us.
they never stopped making CG movies, eh. FF7 Advent Children and Kingsglaive. They need FF7 to have some form of success here. Did KG do well?
R.I.P us.
Reading the article, I like that he doesn't outright say what the headline (and thus this thread title) is saying. It's not hard to read between the lines, but they also had a lot of projects going for a while that were also canceled, most likely.
shake your hand bump elbows. It's fine. It's not super amazing but it's not a bad movie.
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We lost. As much as I love Xenoblade it doesn't compare to Gears and what could have been.
Well it's the worst timeline, Xenosaga is the best of all the Xeno games but Xenogears is better than Xenoblade.
Infinite sadness. Xenosaga and Xenoblade have come nowhere close to satisfy the itch that Xenogears left behind. In a way, Spirits Within killed the most promising era f Square, they were investing in a lot of ideas outside of just Final Fantasy
Eh...I enjoyed Spirits WIthin. Saw it in theaters and have the dvd somewhere. It's probably aged like ass at this point, but at the time, it looked pretty impressive. Advent Children later one-upped it by quite a bit, but at the time...
Also, one of the strange and most memorable bits to me is an extra on the DVD off all the characters doing the thriller dance together. It's bizarre.
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Also, one of the strange and most memorable bits to me is an extra on the DVD off all the characters doing the thriller dance together. It's bizarre.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within -- Thriller Spoof
One of the best features on the bonus DVD.
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what is tragic in the best jrpg in the last decade
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Exactly. Why not get the folks who did Octopath Traveler to remake the game with a playable Part 2?
It's not as if Square Enix has ignored Xenogears existence.
You mean worst
Edit: your own edit makes no sense lol
Edit 2: what is happening... xD
If Squenix was at all interested in Xenogears aside from concerts and limited merch, they would have done something with it by now. Hell, they got Monolithsoft to help develop one of their games prior to Nintendo's purchase, which wound up being a FF7 spinoff. Best hope is that the original game is considered for a remaster, but that's really the only hope.
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Also what is with this animosity and exaggeration towards xenoblade?
