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[Blykus]

First off, sorry if this has been mentioned before.

I've heard rumors that FFX is tied in with FFVII. Something about X being a sequel to VII or whatnot. It kind of made sense to me when the character aptly named "Shinra" in X-2 was speaking of a way to draw energy from the planet. ::cough:: Mako ::cough:: But, I was actually surprised about the somewhat subtle references to X throught Dirge of Cerberus.

Shalua. The first thing I thought when I saw her was Auron. Her arm was hanging out of one sleeve and one of her eyes was closed shut. The physical resemblance was uncanny. Not that her personality matched his, but the exterior qualities were just eerie.

Nero. He reminded me of Anima so much. The arms crossed over each other and his face being wrapped in bandages, or whatever it is his face is covered in. Plus, him making people disappear with the darkness made me think of Anima blinking people out of existance.

Now, those two I doubt have an actual connection between the two games. I just thought that they were both interesting. The one other thing I noticed, however, does seem like it would connect VII and X.

When you are on the Shera, you can speak to different crew members. One of the crew members tells you that the Shera was actually some old technology that they salvaged. This technology doesn't run on Mako, but some unknown source. Automatically, I thought about the airships in FFX. I haven't played that game in a while, but I know that the airships in that game did not run off of Mako. So, maybe the airship was some pre-catastrophic machine (or machina, in this case) that was present during X era.


These are all things that I have been think about, as of late. Anybody have anything they would like to comment on or add?

[Übel]

Haven't SE actually confirmed that all the games are based in totally different worlds? (with exceptions like the VII series of games) Although I did come across something simmiliar to this once, and I've got to be honest it made me go hmm. I don't know if this would be considered advertising but there's the link.

http://www.trap17.com/index.php/fina...ne_t39980.html

[Blykus]

Nobody else has anything to say? Though I did read what was said in that link, it didn't hit anything that I mentioned. So, I'm wondering if anybody thinks that this may actually mean anything or if they are simply coincidences.

Thoughts?

[Cid's_Lady_Erin]

FF7AC beginning of ff8?!

I know it says FF8, but it turned into a FFX is FF7 thing after a bit.

[Blykus]

And the mome rath Cid's_Lady_Erin outgrabe:

FF7AC beginning of ff8?!

I know it says FF8, but it turned into a FFX is FF7 thing after a bit.

It kind of touched on that, but more about VIII. I personally don't think that VIII and VII are connected, but what do I know?

[Cid's_Lady_Erin]

I saw a post somewhere, I thought it was in that topic, I don't know. Anyways, this post by someone I can't remember who it was, had parts of interviews with Nomura and some other Square people along with bits of parts in the X-2 game that alluded to 7 (ex. ShinRa's infamous comment about harnessing the planet's energy). Anyways, in these interviews, Nomura said that yes, 7 and X were connected, with X being a prequel to 7. Rin teamed up with ShinRa to attempt to harness the planet's energy (though this did, as ShinRa said, take many generations). Eventually (after space travel was acquired) ShinRa's descendents went to another planet (the Planet in 7) and set up the ShinRa company there. That was the gist of it I think. So yes, according to Nomura and some other people (Kitase I think and the Ultimania guides), 7 and X are connected. If I remembered where I saw that post I'd give you the link, but I can't, sorry, I could have sworn it was in that topic.

[Blykus]

And the mome rath Cid's_Lady_Erin outgrabe:

I saw a post somewhere, I thought it was in that topic, I don't know. Anyways, this post by someone I can't remember who it was, had parts of interviews with Nomura and some other Square people along with bits of parts in the X-2 game that alluded to 7 (ex. ShinRa's infamous comment about harnessing the planet's energy). Anyways, in these interviews, Nomura said that yes, 7 and X were connected, with X being a prequel to 7. Rin teamed up with ShinRa to attempt to harness the planet's energy (though this did, as ShinRa said, take many generations). Eventually (after space travel was acquired) ShinRa's descendents went to another planet (the Planet in 7) and set up the ShinRa company there. That was the gist of it I think. So yes, according to Nomura and some other people (Kitase I think and the Ultimania guides), 7 and X are connected. If I remembered where I saw that post I'd give you the link, but I can't, sorry, I could have sworn it was in that topic.

Hmmm, interesting. Thank you for posting this information. That is all very interesting, and I wonder which parts of it are fully true. The references within DoC make sense now.

[DLLS]

I posted this somewhere on this site before but heres a link to the Nojima Interview about this subject..............it's a really cool site about the theorys of FFX and FFVII being connected
http://www.willamette.edu/~ejohnson/nojima.htm
I think that FFVII and FFX are connected but are on different planets or something
Heres the homepage
http://www.willamette.edu/~ejohnson/intro.htm