It doesn’t completely ruin the movie as a whole but it definitely ends on a bad note and not because of story elements. It feels like some studio head realized that they had too much inextricable build up and had to end the movie quick or risk the dreaded two-and-a-half-hour runtime and then made it wrap up fast without much time to spare for emotional connections. Any potential emotion from events is prevented by the fact that they never really let you think about what has happened, you jump from event to event of the final battle with little time to reflect on what happened. Obviously, I’m not going to go into the detail but if the first two-thirds of this movie was a live-action manga adaptation, the final third is an Avengers remake taking place in an alternate history Europe. The CGI does fall apart in the third act but then again almost everything does, so why shouldn’t the CGI suffer the same fate as the story. The CGI for Alphonse and the alchemy portions are all really well done and that is coming from someone who will try to nitpick any CGI I find. It helps that they filmed in the beautiful mountaintop Italian town of Volterra so the European inspired roots of the source shine through well. Visually Fullmetal Alchemist is near perfect when it comes to its locations and costumes. The problem here is that the movie has so many characters that are integral to the story that need to be introduced and expanded upon in a two hour and fifteen-minute runtime that outside of the two brothers and one classic Fullmetal Alchemist garbage human, there is never a real connection made to the characters. Unfortunately, there is little initial expansion on them so they never really feel like the antagonists they can be. Choose a character, listen to clips to compare the performances, and then vote for your favorite. Along the way, they will face off against an also truncated band of homunculi, beings that represent the seven deadly sins. The following Fullmetal Alchemist characters have been voiced multiple times by different voice actors. The challenge with this type of adaptation is the knowledge that you can’t shove everything from a 27 issue manga (or a 53 or 62 episode show) into a two-hour movie so there’s bound to be some cuts, but from where do you cut and where do you expand? The story of Fullmetal Alchemist is a truncated story of the Elric’s quest to discover the Philosopher’s Stone, a mystical alchemical item that is said to negate the law of equivalent exchange which states that you must only take from alchemy what you put in. Alchemy battles, comedic pratfalls, Edward getting mad about being called short, state alchemists showing up to fix Edwards problems. Sound familiar? The opening plays out just as you would think a live-action adaptation of Fullmetal Alchemist would. We are then quickly thrown into the present where the Elric brothers are State Alchemists hunting down a prophet who has been seemingly performing miracles. Of course I’m still going to compare the adaptations because I can’t ignore the past but I wasn’t sitting there ticking off boxes of things they missed.įullmetal Alchemist starts out in the past with the brothers Edward (Ryosuke Yamada) and Alphonse Elric (Atomu Mizuishi) committing the ultimate sin of attempting human transmutation to bring back their dead mother and the horrible fate that befalls them for their hubris. Also during Japanese postal holidays (New Year's, Golden Week, Obon) orders will be delayed while the post office is closed.I’ll start this review off that by stating it has been years since I’ve watched the original anime, but in a way, I think that helps the enjoyment of an adaptation because I wasn’t constantly comparing the new to the old. Friends are connected by heart You cant just rinse off something thats stained on your soul The king exists for his people. Please remember, the games will ship from Japan so please allow some additional shipping time. Wii games will be wrapped in a removable plastic sleeve and then placed in a bubble wrapped mailer for shipping. The game will also run on a Japanese WiiU. Ling Yao is the prince of Xing, the country to the east of Amestris, with a great desert separating the two countries. This game will run on a US/PAL Wii if it is modified, but I have no information on how to do that. Make sure that you have the necessary hardware to run Japanese Wii games before buying. The photo uploaded is of the actual game I am selling. The game has been tested on an authentic Japanese Wii and plays great. Great animation from the series and voicework from the original cast. Fullmetal Alchemist: Prince of the Dawn / Akatsuki no Ōji (鋼の錬金術師 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST 暁の王子) is an adventure game with action and quick time events.
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