As "The Spirits Within" became a hit, players online began discussing the content of "Final Fantasy."
The things it presented were quite strange from a content perspective.
If it were merely a movie, that would have been one thing. But because of the information Nebula Games had released earlier, many people knew one thing: the world shown in "The Spirits Within" was the worldview of the game "Final Fantasy."
Yet the background of that world in the movie was simply far too complex.
There was the massive mechanical beauty of Steampunk, magical fantasy-style sorcery, cold-weapon swordsmanship, and the so-called Materia setting. It seemed like science fiction, yet also like fantasy, leaving people completely confused.
Amid the players' anticipation and curiosity, the official promotional video for "Final Fantasy" finally arrived.
In fact, during this period, players could sense Chen Xu's dedication. It was not just "The Spirits Within," a CG Movie that clearly looked like a money-burning project.
After the movie became a hit, subway billboards and giant screens in commercial plazas across some of China's first- and second-tier cities
were all displaying advertisements related to "Final Fantasy" and "The Spirits Within."
Although "The Spirits Within" was generating more buzz than "Final Fantasy,"
the two were like conjoined twins. Whenever people talked about the "The Spirits Within" movie, they could not avoid mentioning "Final Fantasy."
On top of that, it was produced by Chen Xu, and the game had remained shrouded in mystery until now. Aside from some background information about its worldview, nothing else had been revealed.
Players who had been following the game all along, along with viewers who had become curious because of the movie, naturally clicked in eagerly as soon as they learned that the promotional video had been released.
They desperately wanted to know whether Chen