Plus, chicks dig long-haired pretty boys
Tiny and crap sound, but you get the gist of it: Final Fantasy VIII: Opening Cinema.
You can also download a copy (as a zipped mpeg), but it's 30 MB. Took me almost three minutes.
There's a sword fight towards the end. Not a duel; it's one of the rare CGI pieces that seems to give actual weight to the characters, and you get the impression that these are people swinging very heavy, very sharp bits of metal with the intent of inflicting damage on each other. Which, as it turns out, they do.
This is why the Japanese will continue to kick our asses as far as videogames goes.
Also, and there are spoilers here for a five-year-old videogame if that matters to anyone, there's this:
Die wohl traurigste Szene in Final Fantasy VII (Aeris stirbt)
I told you, I'm too old-school to link directly to other folks' video files. Especially 18 MB ones. Dru is probably still pissed about the last one I mentioned. . .
I only bring this stuff up because the evil corporate overlords at Squaresoft are remaking Final Fantasy I and II for the Playstation. Or PSOne, if you want to be like that.
Well, that and I can only hope that when I become a world-threatening menace, I look half as cool when I'm skewering defenseless women as Sephiroth does.
It's the cloak. Brings out the color and the psychopathic glint in his eyes.
Update: Looks like AnimeTheme has worked out the issues with Mozilla/Netscape 6+ DHTML. Gorgeous site, but turn off your MIDI plugin or turn down the speakers first (unless you like that sort of thing. . .). The movie files seem to be down, which is why I'd visited in the first place, but it's still so damn pretty. . .
The site design, not the guide ladies. Perverts.