In a utopian, borderless world without subtitles, the arrival of "Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame" would be a global multiplex event, and the work of its director, Tsui Hark, would be at least as well known among American seekers of cinematic thrills as that of Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay.
Without specific training, locating the flames would be challenging and unrealistic, and if a fire happened in flight, odour and fumes could hinder crew, while opening the ceiling panel could fuel and invigorate the fire with oxygen.
Lord Coe added that the details of how the flames would be lit through human endeavour was "still being worked on but there will be a team ethic and there will be the human endeavour angle".
An obvious step to douse the flames would be to recapitalise European banks.
Our cave-person ancestors, finding fire warm, would conclude that curling up to sleep in the middle of the flames would be even warmer.
If they did leap beyond the road, the officials added, the flames would be able to squeeze through the Santa Susana Pass and work their way through the city's western suburbs on their march to the Pacific Ocean.
According to this hypothesis, the self-immolation participants were paid actors, and were presumably assured that the flames would be extinguished before doing real harm.
Both Kelly and Villoria considered the soundtrack essential to the game, and praised the moments where specific songs, such as Dragonforce's "Through the Fire and Flames" would be used as background music during specific game sequences.
So, under normal circumstances, the Flames' decision would be a no-brainer.
The converse would mean if it went down in flames, it would be a huge blow.
