Possible Connections...? SH/FFVII

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The characters potrayed in FFVII aren't exactly original, and are fairly cliche. There is no connection except the fact that both games use a base stereotype for each character.

Your opinion is duly noted. I'm not saying it's a rip off, I'm just saying
its cool that all these characters are similar. But the Valentine connection seems to me like they were try to connect to two, possibly let people know where they went...?

Or the two series are completely unrelated and you're just making connections that only hold up as the basis for poorly written fanfiction?

There's no canonical evidence to suggest that the two games share any meaningful connections other than that their characters were based on common stock designs.