Kingsglaive FAN review

[Wolf Kanno]

Just watched it, not bad, not great. Better than AC but it has many of the same issues such as flashy visuals over a cohesive and well paced story. I kind of feel some of the fight scenes should have been shorter to give more time to get to know the characters. Nyx probably should have given a narration at the beginning about who he was and everything instead of his cryptic backstory we actually got, and there were several interesting characters that got very little screentime which was a shame.

Most of the new characters for the film were kind of blah, but I did like the core characters from XV itself like Regis and the Nifilheim Chancellor. The cameos of famous monsters in the film were a nice treat like (SPOILER)Diamond Weapon and (SPOILER)Ultros. The fight scenes were interesting at first but get a bit difficult to follow after awhile. Most of the cast was good but I'll echo the sentiment about Lena Headey as Lunafreya. Not so much because I felt she was awful, as much as I feel she was miscast. Which is a shame cause I love her acting for the most part and she seemed really intrigued by the whole story in the cast interviews.

Overall, I feel that Brotherhood has done much more to really sell the world and characters than this film did and I kind of feel the staff should have not bothered with the film and just throw it into the main game instead as originally planned. This wasn't bad, but I would agree with Psy that it will probably be forgotten eventually.

EDITGA: After thinking about it more, I realize now that Kingsglaive is pretty much what would have happened had SE chose to take the prologue of FFXII and make a movie about it, upgrading the unit Basch commands into a throw away cast of characters to all die when the peace negotiations go south. Thinking of it that way, I kind of feel Kingsglaive really should have just been a short prologue cutscene with a possible tutorial aspect like XII instead of being stretched out into a two-hour film.