Typical excuse people do to ignore the obvious.Even in the PS3 age, video game designers use repeat mappings for things used before to make the enironment process go faster.
All you need is a basic mapping, in this case the bosses, then color them differently or press a few buttons to give them different skins, it's alot easier than having to make new skeletons or skeleton sets for the area.
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GSL is the terrain of Edea´s house on the future.
This place was flooded and the holes we see on it represent the actual sea before the flood.
And Serapy,you don´t understood my theory.
The time compression we see on the end of the game is an holographic illusion generated by Lunatic Pandora´s walls.
The Pandora is a time machine.It taked our characters to the past.In fact the events happening on the castle are happening near the Trabia Crater(original place of the castle) but it is concealed by the Pandora´s walls.It happened when Laguna made his movie.
That is the symbolic meaning of the "dragon and sorceress" thingy and the "this dragon isn´t fake" thing.
Square is trying to tell us that while Laguna is making this movie similar real events are happening inside the pandora.
In fact the three portals are the three elevators of the Pandora.The elevators path converges to each other as they go up.
That answers the argument about the portals seeming to be closer than the elevators.
These elevators are also Time machines.
