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18 Nov 2006, 11:07 pm

I believe that perhaphs the final fantasy series may be interconnected in a way. You see, I noticed a similarity between FFVII and FFX. In FFVII Dirge of Cerebrus Cid gets a new air ship which is the exact same as the one that Cid from FFX possesses and the ship is said to be from the ancient past by a crews man in the engine room. Also, according to the original FFVII the ancients were people who could use magic without the use of materia just like in FFX. So I believe that despite the fact that FFX takes place after FFVII, I believe that FFVII is in the distant future of FFX.

Does anyone wanna add to this and see if they can figure out any similarities that are not as noticable as the other similarities (I. E. : similar monsters, chocobos (duh), and stuff like that.)



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18 Nov 2006, 11:29 pm

The similarities aren't so coincidental. The same writer wrote for both FFVII and FFX. In FFX-2, there is a character called Shinra, and he has a bit of (semihidden) dialogue about the energy within the planet, and ways to tap into it. It's perfectly possible that the people of Spira (or perhaps the Al Bhed) became the Ancients of FFVII. Here's a quote from a Wikipedia article on FFVII:

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The game's popularity and open-ended nature also led the director and writer to establish a plot-related connection between Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy X, another popular Final Fantasy title.


and another quote from an article on Spira, specifically a part on pyreflies:

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Aside from the various commonplace technological applications of pyreflies seen in Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2, within the latter game's story these "bundles of life energy" are used as a source of raw energy to empower the giant machina, Vegnagun. Furthermore, Shinra of the Gullwings suggests that the life energy flowing through Spira on the Farplane could possibly be harnessed for the purpose of supplying electricity to a city.[20] This use of spiritual energy to power technology has been used in several other games of the Final Fantasy series, most notably Final Fantasy VII, where the planet's Lifestream (the massive collective of that world's spiritual energy) takes the form of tendrils of flowing green energy. Through both natural and artificial processes, the Lifestream condenses into mako (魔晄, Makō?, lit. "magic light") and is crystallized into a solid form called "materia" (analogous to Spira's spheres[21]). (It should also be noted that the producer of Mako in FF VII is a company called Shinra) Also of note are interviews with scenario writer Kazushige Nojima and producer Yoshinori Kitase in the Final Fantasy X Ultimania Ω and Final Fantasy X-2 Ultimania guidebooks, which revealed that Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy X-2 share a plot-related connection


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