In your mind, is FFVII closer to home?

[MKusanagi]

I kept the question vague. It's a good lure. Question: Would you say that FFVII is modelled after our Earth but in the future? Or would you say it is just a completely fantastical world in another dimension that hopefully we can visit in the next life but remains separated from this one? This has been killing me lately. See, I like to think it's more futuristic! With a touch of fantastical. < yeah, I'm still cool. Don't look at me like some nerd with no concept of reality!

[Goldenboko]

Fantasy. And I will insist that for every FF.

[Omni-Odin]

You know people always ask me why VII is my favorite FF. I think you've finally just opened a new door for explanation. It does remind me of our Earth in the future. Hell, there's a shutdown church in it.

Good point.

[MKusanagi]

You know people always ask me why VII is my favorite FF. I think you've finally just opened a new door for explanation. It does remind me of our Earth in the future. Hell, there's a shutdown church in it.

Good point.

Exactly, it almost makes me want to say FFVII is the one exception! I mean FFX is definately fantasy! But with the church and cell phones (heehee) it does bring up curiosity! I'm staying with the stance that it is futuristic yet fantastical. You are my new best friend.

[cloud21zidane16]

Ive also always kinda thought VIIs world was a little like ours. Probably one of the reasons why it is one of my Favourites as well, because it gives you a break from castles and kings etc

[Bolivar]

Calling any of the games "medieval" is kinda inaccurate because there has never been magic, dwarves, or monsters at any point on earth. If you play the first Final Fantasy the whole thing seems really mystical until you get to the last Elemental Shrine and there's robots running around operating computers.

Every Final Fantasy mixes different elements from different times and such. VII's does it really blatantly, as your 2 characters in the beginning has one with a sword and the other with a gun. Final Fantasy shows that cultures move in different directions, not forward or backward in terms of how advanced they are. For example, Shinra's space program would be considered very out of date by our standards, but some of their weaponry is probably more advanced. The whole game is fantasy fiction, it's not supposed to be based on any reality, really, so forget those notions.

[Necronopticous]

Every Final Fantasy world is purely fantastical.

Ignore Supernova, it's arguably the dumbest idea and oversight that Square ever had.

[ReloadPsi]

By the time the continents collide in order for the world to be laid out anything like that, the sun may well have gotten so hot that all the water on earth will have evaporated. Actually I forget how that timeline went.

No, I don't think this game is set on our earth. It's implied in Seph's Super Nova that it's supposed to be earth though, but seeing as that's just a fancy Stock Footage Attack it can't really be viewed as canon.

Hasn't some "official" source said that it's "Gaia" or something?

[MKusanagi]

Exactly, it almost makes me want to say FFVII is the one exception! I mean FFX is definately fantasy! But with the church and cell phones (heehee) it does bring up curiosity! I'm staying with the stance that it is futuristic yet fantastical. You are my new best friend.

Yeah, I'm still sticking with my beliefs.

[BG-57]

I don't even think our sun is even hot enough to go supernova anyways.

To be sure, it is a substitute for our Earth. I consider it an alternate reality, a sort of Earth that could have been under different circumstances.

[theundeadhero]

A whole big earth with one city and about ten communities? No, it doesn't resemble anything like reality.

[Heath]

I think certain aspects of our world were borrowed as a sort of inspiration for FFVII. For instance, the whole new technology and urbanisation ruining the natural order of the world, genetically modified life and so on are issues faced by both our world and FFVII. I don't think it was specifically copied, but there are certainly similarities if you look for them.

[The Lich]

I don't even think our sun is even hot enough to go supernova anyways.

To be sure, it is a substitute for our Earth. I consider it an alternate reality, a sort of Earth that could have been under different circumstances.

I agree it would probably be a parallel universe. I think the point of Final Fantasy is that it is different from reality that's part of the charm of being a fantasy even if it isn't high fantasy in VII.

[MKusanagi]

I don't even think our sun is even hot enough to go supernova anyways.

To be sure, it is a substitute for our Earth. I consider it an alternate reality, a sort of Earth that could have been under different circumstances.

Yeah, the star has to be in the blue to violet range. My astronomy skills are kinda rusty. If I'm not mistaken our sun will most likely expand, destroying everything all the way to neptune and then it will shrivel into a neutron star. However, while supernovas may be explosively awesome a neutron star is known to be the precedent to a black hole. We still score a 10 on the frickin' sweet scale. Allllright. I'll amend my opinion a bit. It's an alternate earth. You win. Damn it.

[The Ceej]

Whatever it is, it's definitely not the future.