2009-04-30, 00:58 | Link #741 | |
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let's keep hoping!! Wachowscy brothers? i thought that they mainly made action movies?.. seeing Ever17 turned into a straightout survival/action flick will break my heart ;_;
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2009-04-30, 05:58 | Link #743 | |
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I repeat, just in case: the movie would have to be done in first person view (kinda like Blair Witch Project).
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2009-04-30, 06:21 | Link #744 |
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i still think a series would be better though, eg an anime or a drama. movies tend to have to hafta cut out a load of things, like GTO; it can ruin developments and just rush things. tho yeah its a long shot..
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2009-04-30, 06:52 | Link #745 |
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Speaking of the possibility of anime or movie, I'm just wondering how well Ever 17 was sold in japan? I know it wasn't such a big success (sale-wise) in the west, but how well it was received by the japanese people? I can't find info on that on the wiki page.
Because despite how much I would like to watch it as an anime (or even movie whatever), it's unlikely they ever going to make one, if it was sold poorly in moonland too (regardless of the difficulties to animate it now). (In my own opinion, It's a shame, but most anime these days -with a few exceptions- aren't story-centric as much as I'd prefer, so I seriously doubt they ever go through the trouble and animate such a fascinating story as Ever 17 is, especially if they didn't sold much of the game to the japanese audience.) |
2009-04-30, 08:38 | Link #746 |
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The only VN I can think of that made the transition to live action movie is higu, and that's after it made the transition to anime and manga. The game did well enough to warrant the creation of a few drama CD's of what happened afterwards, but I don't have any numbers for you, sorry
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2009-04-30, 11:44 | Link #747 | |
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If you're thinking a movie like the Blair Witch Project is a good model for a story like Ever 17, then I honestly don't know what to say. |
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2009-04-30, 15:18 | Link #748 | ||
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And you dont really have to say anything, we already know that Ever17's story is hard to adopt. Being skeptic is easy but it doesnt help, so instead try to exercise that brain muscle of yours and come up with better ideas.
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2009-04-30, 16:20 | Link #749 |
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The Blair Witch Project, REC, Cloverfield, and many other FPV movies like these have got something that wouldn't be possible to emulate in Ever17: the character behind the POV usually owns a camera and that's why the stories are told that way (example: someone found the tape blabla), and as far as we know using a camera all the time inside Lemu wouldn't make much sense...
Anyway, it'd be pretty much impossible, but then again Spoiler:
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2009-04-30, 17:58 | Link #750 |
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[QUOTE=SaraFilipa;2370708]The Blair Witch Project, REC, Cloverfield, and many other FPV movies like these have got something that wouldn't be possible to emulate in Ever17: the character behind the POV usually owns a camera and that's why the stories are told that way (example: someone found the tape blabla), and as far as we know using a camera all the time inside Lemu wouldn't make much sense...
they don't have to be holding a camera at all times, just have the POV be in first person (like a fps or something.) whichever way this is done there tho would still be some things which are impossible to correct such as presence/absence of sara/coco etcetc
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2009-04-30, 19:23 | Link #751 | |
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Personally, when I've tried to visualize Ever 17 as an anime, I've ended up taking a lot of cues from the anime adaptations of Higurashi and EF. Found this picture of grown-up Coco recently. It's actually by the original artist for the game too: Last edited by 0utf0xZer0; 2009-04-30 at 20:35. |
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2009-04-30, 19:56 | Link #752 |
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the infinity series was pretty popular, although if the company had to declare bankruptancy then obviously it wasn't exactly a major commercial success either. either that or they released way too many crappy titles and not enough good ones
higurashi was good, but the two have different formats- what happened with higurashi i just can't see being applied to ever17. EF is interesting, hadn't considered that
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2009-04-30, 20:34 | Link #753 |
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I actually think the Higurashi formula could work... basically, cover all five plot arcs, and kick each off with an interesting "hook" scene from the middle of the arc. For example:
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Ever 17 also has a number of scenes where I feel that getting character's private emotions across is important, which is why I suggested studying EF. I felt that series did a good job of bringing me close to the characters. |
2009-05-01, 19:40 | Link #755 |
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that would be.. an interesting way to start a series xD
the problem i think would be that anyone unfamiliar with the story would instantly think *wtf* as even Higurashi starts off normally enough (we'll just ignore the opening scene >_>). the events of Ever17 are such that until you get everything that has been occuring there is no way to understand the intrincities of it and dropping someone into the middle of the story is gonna confuse them no end. (wait actually, that might not be too bad xD) on the other hand having an anime entirely in a first person view is unfeasible i suupose. btw thanks for the pic :P if her voice and personality got changed too she just just got a rank-up on my list
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2009-05-03, 03:14 | Link #756 | |
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Ever17 in particular was also acclaimed in Japan, but it was just one of many visual novels released in 2002, so not everyone knows about it. That it was selected for western localization makes it stand out a lot more clearly among visual novels from our perspective. As for the bankruptcy, I've heard it was partially due to high production costs from character voice fees and I suspect bad business management had something to do with it. That's mostly just speculation, though not totally my own.
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2009-05-03, 17:57 | Link #757 | |
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still, seeing as the IP has been picked up that shows there are other companies who still see potential for the rest of the series. heres to hoping
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2009-05-03, 19:35 | Link #758 |
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SaraFilipa: Lady in the Lake ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039545/ ) was entirely FPV (IIUC, the detective is only seen on one occasion when he passes a mirror).
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2009-05-03, 19:55 | Link #759 | |
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btw where im posting from imdb is banned xD
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2009-05-04, 02:29 | Link #760 | ||
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I was just point out a possible reason as to why there are no anime/manga/OVAs. Because it seems very logical that the trick used in the game doesn't work well through other mediums. |
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