The gap between Final Fantasy VII and Advent Children

Advent Children is based two years after FF7, right? Well, I for one have been wondering what had happened in between those two years...luckily I don't have to wonder anymore!
On the official AC website, a series of short stories called "On the Way to a Smile" are being written to fill in the two year gap. The first episode has been posted, but it's in japanese...Don't worry, I found a translated version of it.
All FF7 fans owe it to themselves to read it, it's pretty cool. Here's a link to the first episode...apparently more will be posted soon enough.

http://www.adventchildren.net/fullst...from=&ucat=35&

I heard in the Japan-exclusive 300 dollar box set thing, it includes some kind of anime DVD that talks about the 2 years in between, I'm sure. It will probably be covered in Advent Children, I'd hope.

My guess would be that the first so many minutes (like 5 or 10) of Advent Children would be a prologue with subtitles or some kind of text and pictures or video clips that explained what happened is the time gap between the game and the movie.

You point can be countered just like the "Is Advent Children draining FFVII" thread. All the company cares about is money, and most likely, people will go crazy buying the finished Advent Children product. It's all about the profit. The point is, this will sell well, and that's all that matters to those who made it.

My sentiments exactly.

I was the one who started that thread.

Yeah, but FFVII rocks. It may be true that Square are just cashing in, but this is the sort of thing that I've wanted to see for eight years. They're expanding the FFVII universe, bringing back all the characters and places that I love. I think the compilation is a great idea and I for one would like to see even more FFVII spinoffs.

Square isn't cashing in. This was what the fans wanted, a sequel, so as the old saying goes "Watch what you wish for." Because they asked, now there are an overabundance of FF7 spin-offs. Advent Children alone may have sufficed...I'm not one to complain.

Originally Posted by Mythos Anon

My guess would be that the first so many minutes (like 5 or 10) of Advent Children would be a prologue with subtitles or some kind of text and pictures or video clips that explained what happened is the time gap between the game and the movie.

There isn't one. The finished version of Advent Children was shown at the Venice film festival. There wasn't a prologue in it that talked about what happened in between FF7 and Advent Children. There are however, several games that are coming out. I don't know when they take place but one or two could take place in between FF7 and AC.

There are no games announced so far that are based between the two. Dirge of Cerburus is based one year after Advent Children. The PSP game, Crisis Core and the phone game, Before Crisis are both prequels and the anime short Last Order is also a prequel.
So far "On the Way to a Smile", the official series of short stories that I posted with this thread, are the only thing based between FFVII and AC.

I will have to agree though that the movie and Dirge of Cereburus game will most likely be a little too different from the original FFVII.

Do the games merely exploit FFVII though, or just prove how great it is?

Originally Posted by aeternus_aura

I will have to agree though that the movie and Dirge of Cereburus game will most likely be a little too different from the original FFVII.

Do the games merely exploit FFVII though, or just prove how great it is?

What do you mean by "too different"? In my opinion, both capture the look and feel of the orginal pretty well (granted, I haven't actually seen AC or played DoC yet...)

Isn't there anyone who thinks the compilation is great? I think Square are pleasing the fans more than anything. Geez, this isn't the reason I made this thread....

EDIT: If anyone care, episode 1-2 of "On the Way to a Smile" has been posted on the Advent Children site.

Originally Posted by Re-Dead

What do you mean by "too different"? In my opinion, both capture the look and feel of the orginal pretty well (granted, I haven't actually seen AC or played DoC yet...)

Isn't there anyone who thinks the compilation is great? I think Square are pleasing the fans more than anything. Geez, this isn't the reason I made this thread....

EDIT: If anyone care, episode 1-2 of "On the Way to a Smile" has been posted on the Advent Children site.

Maybe the look and feel is there, but the story might not make since. It's not a purely motivated story by pure ambition to make a good story, but in fact, try to make a plot that fits another quest in front of the original FFVII. I'm just saying it might not make sense.

/\ Yeah...let's hope not though. I hear the developers are calling Dirge of Cerberus the true ending to FFVII. Interesting...

I'm reading the second one right now, it's Denzel's story. Meaning they've both been translated. And that Anime with the Special Edition AC is before FFVII and about Sephiroth, Cloud and Zack at the reactor.

Also Dirge of Cerberus is not the "true ending"to FFVII, in the new EGM there's a interview with the director, Yoshinori Ktiase and he said "DC isn't a direct sequal to FFVII, AC is. So we can't view DC as the ending to the whole big FFVII saga."

And my last thought, I think they should of made Before Crisis (the CELL PHONE!! game where you play a Turk) an RPG for PS2, that would have been cool, I always liked the turks. It's seems to have a lot of depth for a cell phone game as well.

It is going to be a PSP game too. Thank God I have one. Well, I don't know who is crazy enough to buy the 300 dollar DVD to watch Before Crisis. It isn't even getting an American release. I have some friends that are willing to pay that much.

Hey, here's an idea.

Since Square Enix is giving every little facet of the FF7 universe its own game and/or movie, I have an idea for yet another FF7 game.

FINAL FANTASY VII: THE CHEST OF LOCKHEART

That's right, folks. Square Enix should devote an entire game or movie to Tifa's boobs. Everything about them. Heck, we could do three games: one about their size, another about their shape, and yet another about their mystical powers. It will be a big trilogy, each game being at least 70 hours long. If it's successful, even more spinoffs could (and probably would) result.

Square Enix looooooves that cash.

I've read that story and it sounds crap! Who's this Denzel and anyway, it says that this new city was built next to Midgar 4 years late, but at the end of FF7 you see a movie with Red 13 and his kids years later where you see Midgar covered in Moss and there's no Edge city there! Just Midgar covered in a load of moss! Why don't they just make a movie of the actual game! How Cloud defeats Sephiroth and everything! Now that would be good!