EVERY Final Fantasy (that I've played) is Star Wars! (spoilers)

[Jentleness]

Star Wars came out in 1977. I remember my parents taking me to see it at the Vine Theatre in Livermore, CA. I also remember sitting on my father's lap and burying my head in his shoulder during the dog fight at the end of movie, because I didn't like to watch the people being blown up.

I should mention that I was 7 years old at the time.

[Jiro]

They did explode pretty spectacularly.

[Mercen-X]

In case you're still trying to figure it out, but even if you're not, Nanaki does make for an anagram of Anakin and not just because of the letters. It also works as an anagram in Romaji since the order of the "k-i" doesn't change and the "a" and "n" are treat as stand-alone syllables. In other words "na"-"na"-"ki" becomes "a"-"na"-"ki"-"n".

[Jessweeee♪]

Star Wars is still Flash Gordon

[Elpizo]

Final Fantasy II IS Star Wars. Without the stars.

[Christmas]

http://wn.com/Angeal,_Genesis,_Sephi...htsaber_Battle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFMgO...embedded#at=14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sFQy...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weg3U...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1iF9qSmupg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f7OA...eature=related

[Rase]

There's always at least one character who has some kind of supernatural skill, this is the force, in a sense.

I wasn't aware all it took was any weird power to be ripping off the Force.

Thorn (as in Zorn and Thorn) in FFIX spoke in strangley constructed sentances. So did Yoda.

Meh, I just figured it was the usual antimetabole speech pattern that people love giving wacky folks.

FFVII has a character called "Cait SITH" - I have heard somewhere that this is a mistranslation of "Cat She", but seeing as "Stray" was a mistranslation of "Cait Sith" this is ver doubtful.

Cat Sith is a Celtic fairy.

FFIV's "Red Rings" are the Red Squadren.

Because I'm anal, it's "Red Wings". I hereby claim they are based on Detroit's hockey team.

The music played at the start of FFIV is somewhat similar to Star Wars music.

Music from the 1990 game Actraiser is also Star Wars-esque. I think people just loved the SNES's sound chip when it came out.

"Aren't you a little short for an Imperial Soldier?" in FFVI, very similar to a line in Star Wars.

Isn't that just a Woolseyism? If so I'm not sure it falls into this since you seem to want examples from the original intent, not the localization by some American who saw a little scene similarity to something he liked and made it more prominent.

There is a place in FFX ten called "Luca" - that's just one letter away from "Lucas".

There's a dwarfish princess in FFIV called Luca. I prefer to think it's alluding to that, since it makes more direct sense.

[Mercen-X]

SEIFER:
My family is obsessed with Star Wars. I had to strike that word because we are no longer worthy of it. You, my friend, are far more Star Wars geek than we shall ever be.

The reason so many things in the Fantasy-verse seem to possess elements of Star Wars is because of the sheer amount of familiar elements used in Star Wars from other media. The game/manga/anime/comic/movie that I'm working on is loosely based on Kingdom Hearts and BLEACH. Yet you would most likely say the entire thing was somehow inspired by Star Wars. Let's face it. You're giving an awful lot of credit to Star Wars and George Lucas in general, whether seriously or sarcastically. GL was not the progenitor of Space sagas nor even science fiction nor the myriad of tropes and plot elements found within his films. A midget named C4 isn't instantly a reference to R2D2 though I'm sure a lot of people would make that comparison if he waddled like the astrodroid. Practically every villain in the Final Fantasy franchise is supposedly inspired by Darth Vader because their wearing spooky masks and caped armor. But that's simply because most of them are based in worlds built to resemble the British region and the medieval period. Hell, if Darth Vader is a riff on the dark knight character.

[MJN SEIFER]

Because I'm anal, it's "Red Wings".

I acctually knew that! I must have been really out of it that day - I really don't know where "Red RINGS" came from...