Summary
- Final Fantasy extends beyond games with movies, novels, anime, and music, offering a rich and diverse world to explore.
- Some adaptations like “The Spirits Within” and “Kingsglaive” miss the mark, feeling disconnected from the core game experience.
- “Advent Children Complete” and “Ultimania Archive” offer enhanced experiences connected to the original games, expanding the universe.
Final Fantasy is more than just a franchise; it is an institution. It goes far beyond the numbered entries and their spin-offs. Some main games have sequels and are entire beasts of their own. As the list below shows, Final Fantasy does not stay in the realm of video games.
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While exploring what it offers outside of gaming is a hit-or-miss adventure, it will still reveal some golden moments. These movies, series, and other types of media are mostly connected to a game but some of them can be appreciated even if someone has never played a single entry.
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
One Has To Respect Its Ambition
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
PG-13
Release Date
July 11, 2001
Runtime
106 Minutes
Director
Hironobu Sakaguchi
Writers
Al Reinert, Jeff Vintar, Hironobu Sakaguchi
Cast
Ming-Na Wen
Alec Baldwin
James Woods
Studio(s)
Square Pictures, Columbia Pictures
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It is easy to laugh at The Spirits Within. Just look at its budget versus its box office intake, and anyone will be hard-pressed not to chuckle. Is the movie really that bad, though? It is not great, but one has to appreciate the great leap into the unknown it took by being the first digitally animated feature film with realistic humans.
Of course, Pixar had Toy Story and A Bug’s Life, but humans were not featured as the main characters and were mostly kept off-screen. The Spirits Within is a fun curiosity to revisit even if its tech has not aged gracefully. The biggest downside is its lack of a real identity as a Final Fantasy project.
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Final Fantasy 1*2*3: Memory Of A Hero
Novelization Of The First Three Games
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- Release: October 25, 2012
- Author: Takashi Umemura
Adapting a video game to a novel is always a tricky thing, especially when the games come from the NES era. At least Final Fantasy‘s stories about heroes conquering evil present an outline onto which any writer can add details.
The first game’s Warriors of Light are given names and personalities, but they are hardly canon interpretations of the characters. Final Fantasy 2 has a beefy story for its era and the part of the novel covering that game is faithful to the source material.
Final Fantasy 3, on the other hand, takes quite a few liberties and makes up a large portion of the package. The books are fun whether or not one has already played the games but it does not quite replace the experience of playing them.
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Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy 15
A Prequel That Should Have Been A Part Of The Game
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- Release: July 9, 2016
- Director: Takeshi Nozue
Final Fantasy 15 took forever to come out. So much of the world’s lore is not even in the game. There are books, anime, and even a feature-length animated movie; Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy 15.
The prequel is a standalone story with many characters who are not in the main game, but the invasion of Insomnia is a key event in the first part of the game. Thus lies the ultimate problem with Kingsglaive and a lot of Final Fantasy 15 extended media.
So much of it feels like it should have been a part of the game and not a part of a movie or a novel. It would have been a lot cooler to experience the film’s climax in a gameplay setpiece instead of in a movie.
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Final Fantasy Unlimited
A Final Fantasy Anime
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- Series Run: October 2, 2001 – March 26, 2002
- Director: Mahiro Maeda
This is one of the first pieces of Final Fantasy extended media. This anime is an original Final Fantasy story disconnected from any game. It is about two kids who jump into a different dimension to search for their parents.
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This dimension just so happens to have Chocobo and some other elements of Final Fantasy. A large part of what makes Final Fantasy feel like Final Fantasy is its music, and series composer Nubou Uematsu is one of the three composers who wrote music for the show.
Unfortunately, only 25 of the 52 episodes were produced, but novels, manga, and even an audio drama within the continuity have been produced.
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Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children Complete
The Best Version Of The Sequel Movie
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
PG-13
ActionDramaAnimationAdventure
Runtime
101 minutes
Director
Tetsuya Nomura
Writers
Kazushige Nojima
Cast
Steve Burton
Rachael Leigh Cook
Steve Staley
Main Genre
Action
Studio(s)
Visual Works
Distributor(s)
Square Enix Holdings
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The feature-length animated sequel to Final Fantasy 7 is a little bit of a mess. It just moves too fast for its own good. The 2005 film was re-released in 2009 as Advent Children Complete.
The visuals were improved and more than twenty minutes of much-needed additional footage. These scenes do a miracle to the pacing. It gives a clearer image of how the world has changed in the two years since the end of the game and gives the other party members more screen time.
It is not quite the sequel most fans would have wanted, but the new content in Complete makes it a perfectly adequate addition to the Final Fantasy 7 timeline.
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Final Fantasy 7 Remake: Trace Of Two Pasts
Dive Into Aerith And Tifa’s Past Lives
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- Release: July 2021
- Author: Kazushige Nojima
One of the best things about the Final Fantasy 7 Remake games is how much time players can spend with the party. For anyone who wants even more time with the party, they can read Final Fantasy 7 Remake: Trace of Two Pasts. The book is divided into two parts.
The first part describes Tifa Lockhart’s past while the second details Aerith Gainsborough’s upbringing. These are touched upon in the game, but the book offers a deeper look into these two characters.
It makes sense for these two to share a novel since they develop a close friendship during Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth.
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Distant Worlds: Music From Final Fantasy
Experience The Music
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Final Fantasy would not be what is today without its music. In the age of 8-bit graphics, it was up to the music to give the world a personality versus detailed art design. The great tunes did not stop once the series went 3D, though.
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This is what makes Distant Worlds: Music From Final Fantasy such an incredible experience. The music stands out on its own, but for fans, it is forever connected to some of the most memorable gaming experiences. Hearing the older melodies in an orchestral arrangement also gives them new life.
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Final Fantasy: Ultimania Archive
A Final Fantasy Encyclopedia
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- Translated Into English Starting In 2018
The Ultimania series is the closest there comes to an encyclopedia of Final Fantasy. The Ultamania series goes through each game in great detail, going through all the characters and a clearer explanation of the world and its narrative. There are also insights into the game’s development directly from the developers.
An Ultimania release is done separately for most games, but they are compiled in a compilation series known as Ultimania Archive. They are great coffee table books for any gamer’s home. Even those unfamiliar with the games should be able to appreciate the art.
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