Advent Children
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is the much anticipated continuation of the immensely popular Playstation game; Final Fantasy VII.
The movie takes places two years after the Final Fantasy VII story and many of your favourite characters return in Advent Children including Cloud, Tifa, Vincent, Barrett, Yuffie, Cid and Red XIII.
Advent Children is not a playable game to the dissapointment of many. Instead it takes the form of a CG movie sequence which you would be familar with if you have played any recent Final Fantasy games. The movie has been produced in conjunction with Visual Works with a running time of 101 minutes and will only be available on DVD.
The story takes place two years after the events in Final Fantasy VII, a disease called Geostigma is spreading through the planet. This disease is believed to have been caused by the body fighting off foreign material that invaded the body two years earlier, at the end of Final Fantasy VII. Guilt-ridden and haunted by his past, ex-SOLDIER Cloud Strife has decided to live a secluded, solitary life away from his friends while maintaining "Strife's Delivery Service", whose headquarters is located in Tifa Lockheart's bar, the Seventh Heaven. Tifa's bar serves as an orphanage for children stricken with Geostigma. Here, Tifa keeps an eye on Barret's six-year-old daughter, Marlene, while Barret searches the planet for an alternative energy source to the fossil fuel, Mako. One day, Cloud receives a phone call from the former Shinra, Inc. president, Rufus, asking him for protection from a mysterious man named Kadaj. Kadaj, in the meantime, along with his brothers Loz and Yazoo, are searching for their "mother", and seem to believe that Cloud knows where to find her. Meanwhile, Vincent Valentine has been wandering the planet gathering information on Kadaj's scheme, and Cloud and his friends must come together again to fight these new enemies.