19th September 2005, 8:06 PM
Interesting, but if they didn't do a single thing to the characters, that means Sephiroth is still evil, and nothing at all happened that couldn't just be done without. That's a bit of a shame that...
I was actually sort of hoping this was some tale of Sephiroth's quest for redemption. I saw some trailor some time ago and I think I remember when Sephiroth, or someone that looked sorta like him, happened to show up someone said "I'm just looking for forgiveness". Oh well.
I sure hope they don't drag it on and on and on. I really don't have a problem with characters changing or anything, it's just that they better do it in a good way. For example, if you take a somber and shy summoner on a quest to save the world who eventually has to shirk everything she believed in to do so, and then make her a pop singer, you have made a terrible stanank.
At the other extreme, you have super heroes, that SEEM to change but never really do. For example, Super Man, who every now and again gets all "deep in thought" about whether or not what he's doing is right, but eventually he just snaps out of it one way or another, says "I'm going to do things a little different now" and then does everything exactly the same. So, you end up with comic books storyline arcs that are more like straight lines stretched to the breaking point across decades.
I was actually sort of hoping this was some tale of Sephiroth's quest for redemption. I saw some trailor some time ago and I think I remember when Sephiroth, or someone that looked sorta like him, happened to show up someone said "I'm just looking for forgiveness". Oh well.
I sure hope they don't drag it on and on and on. I really don't have a problem with characters changing or anything, it's just that they better do it in a good way. For example, if you take a somber and shy summoner on a quest to save the world who eventually has to shirk everything she believed in to do so, and then make her a pop singer, you have made a terrible stanank.
At the other extreme, you have super heroes, that SEEM to change but never really do. For example, Super Man, who every now and again gets all "deep in thought" about whether or not what he's doing is right, but eventually he just snaps out of it one way or another, says "I'm going to do things a little different now" and then does everything exactly the same. So, you end up with comic books storyline arcs that are more like straight lines stretched to the breaking point across decades.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)