ZACK FAIR

 

One of the many selling points of the PSP was how much many companies like SquareEnix supported it releasing many big budget games on the system and one of them was Crisis Core, the long awaited prequel of Final Fantasy VII. I got pretty good memories of it and is one of the games i want to play again, but aside of that, Play Arts also take care of the game.

Sadly, the action figure serires consisted on Zack, Cloud and Aerith and ignores completelly Angeal and Genesis, wich was totally shocking considering theres lots of Cloud and Aerith figures already, soo i only got Zack Fair, not only was the only relevant figure, but i always liked him much more than Cloud.

Zack is taller than Cloud and Tifa but shorter than Vincent and Sephiroth and can stand perfectly but he comes with the standar black base from the old Play Arts days. He is articulated on the neck, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, legs, half legs, knes, ankles and half of his feet bit he also have articulations on his shoulder pads, soo they can move around along side his arms. All of his articulations works really good and are strong enough, tough his legs articulations are kind of ugly looking and a little limited since they only move up and down.

Sculpt is good on hir hair and have enough detail on his face, like his scar. The shoulder pads have a nice metalic texture on them and his vest and front velts are really good looking. The flow of his pants are also good looking and help him to not look too stiff.

Paint is good too, on his face basically the big blue eyes, rest of the paint comes for the details like bucklets, the brown straps and boots, and of course, his earring, no detail was spared in here. Rest of the figure comes cast on the basic color tough i have to say, i dont like his skin color. Looks kinda...yellow to me while the other figures have a more normal tone.

He comes with a holding extra hand as well as, of course, his huge sword that later would be Cloud´s  main weapon. The sculpt and different colors of the metal are really nice and Zack can actually use his muscles and hold the sword himself, unlike weak and scrawny Cloud.

He also have a small bolt that can be put on a hle on his back to hold the huge sword, this way he can carry it on his back. Pretty handy for the display and works perfect, i wish Clod was smart enough to use this system.

many years later Square upgraded him with a Play Arts Kai, with ball joints, a bigger scale and better details, pretty close looking to the CG Zack from Crisis Core, tough this character is extremelly simple looking, soo i wasnt very excited to get this upgrade.

I actually felt very nostalgic about this particular line. Sadlly i didnt buy any other characters from the other games...i trully regret not getting Auron. I am feeling really nostalgic too about the older games but i wont go back in time for now, since my FF X figures needs some repairs before appeare in this blog.