Team Four Star - DBZ Parody

[BWYuko]

The FF7 Machinabridged Movie premieres tomorrow after a livestream episode marathon.

[Apelila]

Finally, it’s here. I forgot where they stopped.

[BWYuko]

It's like they fucking knew about the SSBU announcement. What a coincidence.

Edit: where they left off? Right before Northern Crater final dungeon.

Shinra fires the sister ray through diamond weapon and destroys the northern crater barrier. Reeve gets outed, but makes a rousing speech. Hojo goes rogue and wants to fire the ray again. Party parachutes into Midgar and fights proud clod, so they can fight Hojo. They do that, win, and board the highwind bearing for the crater. Cloud makes a rousing speech that ends up being super lame.

[BWYuko]

So ends TFS's last abridged content. It was okay I suppose.

[Apelila]

Rewatching today and I've got no one else who watches this. Spoilering the wall of text

Spoiler: show

Seeing the ending scenes hit weird on the first pass.
The first watch all I could focus on after the fight with Sephiroth was how they where using the ending CGI from FF7 and wondering if they'd get DMCA'd for it.

Yeah, they have voices and changed the sound effects and music, but they literally used most of the CGI from the end of FF7 for about 3 minutes. I then got a good lol when they drew in Vincent and Yuffie.

My point is I was not focused for the very end of the series because I was distracted by bullshit my brain brought into the equation without my desire. I doubt SE will take this down over copyright, not after the other parts of the series have been up for years. Part of it was probably the use of dialogue from the original alongside seeing the use of the visuals. It was feeling like they just retold beat for beat the ending of FF7.

Basically everything after Sephiroth I couldn't focus on until the credits music, which was fanfuckingtastic, kicked in. And then one final, future AVALANCE TIME MOTHER F*CKERS!!! got me and I just went to bed.

Second pass:
The final HD remake joke was great. Smiled both times.
They did not just retell the ending of FF7 1:1. The voice acting seems like it's something SE should have gone back and added ages ago in FF rereleases, given how much extra it adds to scenes even when the visuals are early PS1 level.
TFS added dialogue to be sure, but they sold the lines the original delivered as text. The crews been getting better over the course of the series, everyone here is in their best form. I think it's what was messing with my brain yesterday, it's good and it tracks close to how the original ended in many ways.

Red/Zach sections where damn good. Bugenhagen and Reds goodbye had me choking up. And they fully fleshed out Yuffie and Vincent more than the game ever did.
I've saw comments today from people saying they never knew the Zach or Red scenes were even there. I'm happy FF7A is someone's introduction to either scene.

The Bahamut scene was solid, and the ulitma weapon bit was so good. I wish they'd done just a little more with how they got KoTR but they did enough. That along with Emerald getting a name drop and Ruby getting a short cameo with a continuity error** make me think that some bits got more polish than others, and some stuff got dropped for pacing or lack of zing on the delivery.

**Cloud is looking for the ultimate WEAPON Ultimate Weapon so that he can get his ultimate weapon Ultima weapon. He has the Ultima weapon in the Ruby scene before he gets it in the next scene.

Aerith's added final monologue over Meteor Vs Holy is amazing, and makes the ending so much better. Even knowing everything that's come out in FF7 world since, the ending of FF7A felt like watching the original ending all those years ago but with voice acting.
Mainly because most of the video was, and that has made it very confusing to process that FF7A is over while FF7 Remake is paused at the end of Disc 1.

The top comment last night was "Goodbye TFS", and since then I've seen multiple posts stating this was TFS's swansong/last for abridged content. This group has brought great joy to my life for a long time now. They didn't plan this year but I can't think of a better time for them to pause on than when the world begins to transition to whatever our new future is going to be. I really hope they'll be around for it.

[Eurell]

Tifa's rant about sephiroth killing her dad was fucking gold. Was only half paying attention when I watched, I'll have to throw it back on later

[6souls]

[TummieGaruda]

I remember playing Super Butoden 3 on an SNES emulator a long ass time ago. It was the first Dragonball game I had ever played.

[BWYuko]

Sorry to bump without good news. Last year TFS committed to 2021 being the final time they do a DBcember, so no countdown this year, or ever again.

However, starting late August, Scott and Nick have been sitting to re-watch every DBZA episode together (and a few movies so far) on their FourStarBento channel. They've been providing ample commentary and pausing liberally to inject little factoids or anecdotes. Some things you'll know, some you won't. Anyway, they show no signs of stopping this, and will probably continue well into 2023 until they finish covering the whole series.

If you haven't checked it out, they're currently in the middle of the Goku vs. Freeza fight, with a new vid every 3-4 days or so. It's probably like 7 hours to binge at this point. If you're a longtime fan you might enjoy! Here's the current playlist:

[The Stig]

Highly recommended. Been watching it on release but I didn't think of telling you all here lol

[Apelila]

They're coming up on super saiyan goku soon. It's been fun to watch.

[Melena]

It really has been. Watching Kaiser squirm and cringe at some of their old jokes was hilarious, as him and Lani knew they did not age well and would probably get them cancelled today. I also am glad they thought better of the Casey Anthony joke.

[Xno Kappa]

I had no idea this was happening so I appreciate the bump.

[Souj]

Yeah, watched them go through the first season last night.

I know it would never ever happen, but I would love a remastered Blu-ray set of the entire abridged series. But Toei would absolutely never allow it, even if they took 200% of the profits.

[kuronosan]

Toei wouldn't allow it even if they produced and distributed it.

[Apelila]

End of season 2 dropped today, it's an hour long. I want a shirt with Freza screaming "Filthy wish dragon, grant me immortality".

Season 3 starts in February.

[BWYuko]

We are getting Christmas Tree of Might commentary on xmas day, then they're taking a break from this until February before doing season 3 (hopefully to get Taka or Masako to sit in on some too).

[kuronosan]

Man I bet Buu and Super would be so good from them. Too bad they stopped.

[Lucavi]

They hated the Buu arc, and admitted many times that it would have been terrible since they would have been bashing it the entire time.

The only thing I wanted that they never did was the Bojack movie, since Space Pirate Yarr!

[Drai]

nah, I don't think they hated Buu saga, they just said they couldn't find a good way to Parody it since Mr Satan and Buu are basically joke characters as they are.