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The Game Was Better: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

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Leisure, Video Games, Comedy

4.72.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Heather, Nick and Matt discuss the Sega document leak, Dave the Diver and some more light Final Fantasy XVI impressions before diving into the 2001 CGI box office bomb Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. This month's We Play, You Play: Final Fantasy XVI! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @getplayedpod. Check out our premium series Get Anime'd on patreon.com/getplayed or on Stitcher Premium. Join us on our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/getplayed Wanna leave us a voicemail? Call 616-2-PLAYED (616-275-2933) or write us an email at [email protected]

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0:00.0

Alright, Final Fantasy movie. This is such an exciting opportunity, you know, where we're

0:06.4

huge fans of the game and just to bring that to the big screen. Yeah, we're coming off

0:11.4

with Final Fantasy 7, 8 and 9. This is going to be, this is going to be ginormous.

0:16.0

Yeah, and I think we'll touch on these like major, major hallmarks of the genre, hallmarks

0:23.1

of the games. Like we'll pack this movie full of the things that the fans love about Final

0:28.9

Fantasy and it'll also work as a gateway to introduce new people like cinema audiences to the

0:35.8

worlds and concepts and tropes of Final Fantasy games. And not, you know, I'm just, uh,

0:41.6

I'm not a gamer, right? I don't really know the world of video games. I'm just an executive,

0:46.9

right? So why don't you guys tell me what things you want in the movie from the game? Cool.

0:53.1

Cool. Cool. And you know, I'll see what we can make happen. Cool.

0:55.7

I think of Final Fantasy, I think a one word, airship. We got to have an airship in the bad boy.

1:02.1

Okay. Uh, fair. Okay. Uh, fine. You know, like you did change, you got to bend some rules,

1:09.0

you got to break some rules in order. Okay. How about, um, one of the hallmarks of Final Fantasy

1:14.9

is these, uh, birds that people ride called chocobos. And I think that if we have our characters

1:21.6

riding chocobos in this movie, uh, then we're guaranteed box office success. No. Okay. Well,

1:28.4

hey, here's a smaller thing. The killing item that's always in these games is a potion.

1:36.0

So, you know, we could have a character just swing in a motion kind of a little. Okay.

1:41.2

All right. How about, how about, uh, if you take a magic systems, right? No. They have this,

1:46.0

uh, well, okay, but like it could be a magic system that's kinds of some technological basis,

1:51.7

like material, you know, no. Okay. What about, okay. What if you, what if there's like degrees of

1:59.9

magic system, like blizzara, blizzaga, like you, like you increasing magic systems, like that,

2:06.2

the show off, like power levels of the characters. No. Okay. Um, I changed my mind about chocobos.

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