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Final Fantasy : The Spirits Within would had been a great movie had they done it like Final Fantasy VII Advent Children. In Spirits Within, the lead female character Aki Ross is the damsel in distress type character. That is where they made their biggest mistake. In the whole movie, Aki Ross hardly does any fighting, in fact if I remember correctly, she didn’t even fight at all. Like I said, she is the damsel in distress type. Squaresoft should have make her a hero type. Imagine this : If they have make Aki Ross pull out a specially modified gun or sword from hammerspace and fight like Tifa or Yuffie (from Final Fantasy VII Advent Children), would the fans like me had complained about the movie at all?

Aki Ross being damsel in distress type is the reason why the movie did not make it big. Although no one is going to admit that’s the reason, but I assure you, the Final Fantasy fan base would have loved a fighting Aki Ross equipped with a huge sword or special gun(s). It doesn’t matter if the whole storyline for Spirits Within was dull. All they needed to do was make Aki Ross into someone like Warrior Princess Xena with gun(s) or sword(s) just like the heroines in the Final Fantasy franchise and you got a winner of a movie. It was just that simple.

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Would you have liked Aki Ross fighting like Tifa Lockhart? (See above wallpaper)

Or would you have accepted that Aki Ross needs to be a damsel in distress?

For me, I would have loved Aki Ross pulling out a pair of modified guns just like the picture below. Aki Ross would be one kick arse chick and even rivalling Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft. If she had pulled out a sword that is double her size, it would also be cool, but in a modern setting like Spirits Within pulling out a pair of guns would have more meaning in the movie.

Imagine Aki Ross with her dual guns kicking the enemies arse. Would that had make Final Fantasy The Spirits Within a better movie? You Bet it will!!!!