Too much of a coincidence?

[Carl the Llama]

by Ivalice/Tactics franchise I took it to mean Tactics/advance and WotL not once did you mention XII... a reasonable assumption >.>

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

I think that the developers for the games take some stylistic inspiration from previous titles. Final Fantasy IX was the biggest example of this because it drew from concepts from all of the previous Final Fantasy games.

*Nods*

Really the only FF that has any REAL connection is X and X-2, and the whole Ivalice/tactics franchise. The rest are separate worlds and any references to others are just nothing more then just nods to the past.

[Carl the Llama]

I think that the developers for the games take some stylistic inspiration from previous titles. Final Fantasy IX was the biggest example of this because it drew from concepts from all of the previous Final Fantasy games.

*Nods*

Really the only FF that has any REAL connection is X and X-2, and the whole Ivalice/tactics franchise. The rest are separate worlds and any references to others are just nothing more then just nods to the past.

erm... did you not even read my previous post? yes he said Ivalice that does not mean to say he meant XII like I said before I thought he meant Final Fantasy Tactic's/Advance and War of the Lions

[Roogle]

The Ivalice Alliance includes the following games:

• Final Fantasy Tactics
• Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions
• Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
• Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift
• Final Fantasy XII
• Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
• Vagrant Story

As you can see, mentioning Ivalice includes all of the above titles as a part of the marketing campaign of the Ivalice Alliance.

At the topic at hand, I am certain that the developers only sought to provide references to previous Final Fantasy games rather than interconnecting the worlds or else this would have been addressed in one of the Ultimania guides or it would have been marketed when Final Fantasy III was released on the Nintendo DS because of the affinity that Square Enix has for franchises, lately.