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Far-fetched? You mean like the major continental upheavals that have already taken place on our planet over its vast history? In a way, that would contribute to a connection making sense, as this takes thousands of years to occur, and all catastrophic events in FF seem to take place thousands of years apart within each game, so I would imagine it would be even longer between games. Not to mention that the denizens of the FF world have been drastically changing the geology of their planets since FFI (Gnomes using TNT, the Ancients raising castles).

For continental drift to explain the map changes, you'd have to allow for millions of years, not thousands. And although catastrophic rearrangement of the world map did occur in FFVI, it'd have to happen about 11 or 12 more times to account for every world map of every FF being different. Mind you, I didn't say it was impossible, just very unlikely.

Back on topic, I would like to ask, if you feel the X & VII connection is far-fetched, why do you think so? One poster claimed that a whole connection being based on two characters sharing the same name is rediculous. I would agree, as that's occured in many FF's, and blatantly as references.

However, when that said character starts talking about extracting life force of those that passed from the planet, and refining it into energy, a red flag goes up.

I would also say that using space technology as the bridge between the two games is not far-fetched either, as space exploration has played a part in a number of games, and there has been in every game a group or ancient civilization obsessed with making objects fly. Space is the logical end of that line of thinking, as epitomized in Cid Highwind.

Furthermore, races traveling to other planets does not sound like bad fan fiction - it sounds like what has already happened in Final Fantasy IV, V, VII, and IX.

My idea of there being a possibility of the series being related is not that they happen one after the other, or that the story of one impacts the story of the other. I would believe that the games are still not related, but that they take place either thousands or tens of thousands of years apart, on different planets, or possibly even in different dimensions/universes. But there are alot of things, other than chocobos, moogles, and Cids that pop up in numerous games. The sky fortress, the Void, Cloud of Darkness, Ancients, dwarves, technology & magic at odds, Meteor & Holy, to name a few are specific things, some of which that are clearly not "trademarks" but staples that the characters expect to be in their world, and have been for a very long time.

I think if the producers want to connect games like FFX and FFVII they should to do it with more than one conversation. The Suikoden series has multiple characters that appear in every game, and multiple references to places and events in previous installments. That would be a better way to do it, instead of these half-hearted measures. The way it was handled makes me feel like the producers were elbowing me in the ribs.

Where are all of you getting that X and VII arte connected? I've never heard of that and it doesn't make sense when the structure of their worlds are totally different and both of them have their own sequels.

Bolivar was referring to a character in FFX-2 named Shinra, and the company in FFVII is named the Shin-Ra corporation. That could have just been a reference not a connection, except there's a scene where he analyzes the life energy of the planet and says it's theoretically possible to extract it and use it for energy, but it's not feasible at the present time. FFX-2 is hinting that the events of FFX and FFX-2 predate FFVII in time (if not necesserily in space).