It was being promoted as some monumental landmark thing that was going to change both gaming and movie industries forever. Nearly every American news media was raving about its FeMC as this new icon of the era, even fucking Maxim magazine had her as a Top100 model. This was at a time when Square had dropped FF9 and FFX was dropping like two weeks after, so the franchise was its generally unquestioned peak.
So having this completely mid movie drop, with every one of those media sycophants turning on it immediately after, it just dropped every ball it could.
You had to be there.
It was being promoted as some monumental landmark thing that was going to change both gaming and movie industries forever. Nearly every American news media was raving about its FeMC as this new icon of the era, even fucking Maxim magazine had her as a Top100 model. This was at a time when Square had dropped FF9 and FFX was dropping like two weeks after, so the franchise was its generally unquestioned peak.
So having this completely mid movie drop, with every one of those media sycophants turning on it immediately after, it just dropped every ball it could.
I guess as a non-American, it probably wasn't pushed as hard here and the hype didn't carry it up as high, making that fall much less dramatic.