The magical kingdom of Lucis is home to the world’s last remaining Crystal, and the menacing empire of Niflheim is determined to steal it. King Regis of Lucis commands an elite force of soldiers called the Kingsglaive. Wielding their king’s magic, they fight to protect Lucis. As the overwhelming military might of the empire bears down, King Regis is faced with an impossible ultimatum – to marry his son, Prince Noctis to Princess Lunafreya of Tenebrae, captive of Niflheim, and surrender his lands to Niflheim rule. Although the king concedes, it becomes clear that the empire will stop at nothing to achieve their devious goals, with only the Kingsglaive standing between them and world domination.
One spin-off attached to Final Fantasy XV isn’t enough. Aside from the anime prequel that’s coming out before the release of Square Enix’s long awaited game, the publisher showed off a trailer for a full-length CGI feature film.
Kingsglaive Final Fantasy will tell the story of Noctis’ dad King Regis and the political intrigues that lead to the war that envelops the kingdom of Lucis.
Square Enix is pulling all-star actors who know their way around high-fantasy concepts, too. Lena Headey and Sean Bean—Cersei and Ned Stark from Game of Thrones—will be lending their talents to King Regis and Luna. Aaron Paul of Breaking Bad fame will be playing a character called Nyx.
May the NFOrce be with you always.
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The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.
Kingsglaive is visually spectacular, and while I hope its storytelling isn’t a bad omen for Final Fantasy XV, I found its world and lore absolutely fascinating. The visual effects stun like no other—I don’t think there’s ever been a more beautiful CGI film—and the action scenes are a blast to watch. Unlike Warcraft, which had similar narrative issues, Kingsglaive is never boring. Even the moments that drag are a feast for the eyes. Just don’t feel bad if you need to take a trip to Wikipedia afterwards.
the plot was.. i guess more coherent than the average final fantasy game/movie... it was marginally interesting...
problem was that it was so badly written. the dialog was dumb, the scenarios at times were downright silly, things happen with no explanation, or if they are explained its always in a really dumbshit way that kinda make you want to go
visually its amazing, but again, its the animation that fails - especially the facial stuff, they just cant emote for shit. I assume that this was rendered twice, once for the english cast and once for the japanese one? I wonder if they put more effort into animating the faces for the jap version...
other than that... honestly, kinda dull. The opening.. 11 or so minutes, were great... and the last.. 20-30 were pretty good, but the hour or so in the middle just.. nothing much happening.
so yeah, didnt really rock me like id hoped, and since i love cgi action films, i guess in a way that makes it worse, because im generally ultra forgiving for these kinds of things.
be interesting to see what the FF fanbase think of the film, but for my part... it was OK... just.. ok... nothing more, nothing less.
I enjoyed this way more than I would have expected!
And extra points for
Spoiler:
Ultima Weapon
, that was sick. All in all pretty enjoyable, lipsync was pretty mediocre at points but that's my only real complaint I guess.
But the CGI was fricking insane in this movie, way better than Warcraft ever.
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i dont like the ff franchise so to me its pretty cgi with a poorly written story.
a friend says he 'understood everything' because he'd read the wikis and loves the previous games, but for an outsider, youll be able to follow the core of the plot easily enough, but the film wont do a very good job of explaining a lot of the motivations or reasons behind characters or events or things in the world... and if they do, its usually feel very half-assed.
so youll be able to follow it, but youll probably have to disengage your brain a bit to enjoy it and not try and question why some things are happening.
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