What does the Don do?

[Jiro]

VII-X Split is the best name. Also the fact that they connected X(-2) with VII already pissed me off, what's ruining it more gonna do

[VeloZer0]

I like the VII-X concept, but why list it in Roman numerals when you can write it in comprehensively in latin?

[Sephex]

I like the VII-X concept, but why list it in Roman numerals when you can write it in comprehensively in latin?

Because Square-Enix likes to title their games weird at times. See: Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy.

[Jiro]

...latin? I can't read latin.

[Mercen-X]

Dilletante... I don't remember that word in the game.

[Jiro]

Perhaps it's different in the PSX version! SOMEBODY INVESTIGATE.

[Mercen-X]

I like the VII-X concept, but why list it in Roman numerals when you can write it in incomprehensible latin?

Final Fantasy Septem et Decem?

I don't see why people take X-2's supposed connection to VII so seriously. All previous titles took a few ideas from their predecessors and implemented them into the storyline (i.e. the crystals). Basically, it just means that no matter how diverse these worlds may be, they all have a lot in common in the end... or in the sequel as the case may be... lol

[Rostum]

What DOESN'T the Don do? He's a king among thugs.

[VeloZer0]

Final Fantasy Septem et Decem?

Now that is a name worthy of the S-E marketing department.

[xplicit802]

Pimpin ain't easy

[Sephiroth]

Just thought of something else...even though people know this one. But your Corneo Brother connection is valid because there is a character named Shinra on the same airship as Brother, let alone the same game. This obviously proves that FFX-2 and FFVII take place in the same universe, and some characters are reincarnated semi important NPCs.

Yup.

Not the theory but Square's statements in the Ultimania Omega prove that Final Fantasy VII and X have the same universe and that the idea was that Final Fantasy VII could be many, many years after Final Fantasy X. It was spoken of the idea that it could be, not that it really is that way. And yet they have the same universe like they said and I think that is very cool.

And Don Corneo is a playboy.

[maybee]

Isn't Don Italian for the English version of Lord ?

So really he's Lord Corneo of the slums. I remember reading that Corneo means " horny " so really... he's Lord Horny.

[Skyblade]

I don't remember anyone getting upset about the "Rufus Shinra March" showing up in FFIX. Yet a kid named Shinra in X-2 suddenly means a definite connection?

There are only so many names to be had. How many guys in the world are named "Chris"?

I think an identical musical score showing up is far more indicative of a connection than a repeated name.

ZOMG! Biggs and Wedge and Cid are in every Final Fantasy! EVERY GAME MUST BE IN THE SAME UNIVERSE!

They're all FF games. They share stuff. What's the big deal?

How many Masamunes, Murasamas, Ramuhs, Shivas, Bahamuts, Tonberries, Moogles, etcetera have shown up? It's a name. Nothing more.

[Sephiroth]

I don't remember anyone getting upset about the "Rufus Shinra March" showing up in FFIX. Yet a kid named Shinra in X-2 suddenly means a definite connection?

It has a definite connection because they want it to have a definite connection. The pyreflies have are the same substance (just not green) the lifestream is, the whole farplane and afterlife concept is the same, the materia and sphere concept is the same, the concept of using life energy for living is the same, et cetera. And the Final Fantasy X-2 "one day there could be a city which never sleeps, so a new Zanarkand" sentence is about Midgar since Midgar is born out of Mako energy. Final Fantasy IX is a big hommage to all Old School Final Fantasies. Final Fantasy X is made to have real connections. The unsual name of the character Shinra who is interested in the same concept the company ShinRa was made purposely and for a real connection. So just do you not get upset because you don't like the connection. It is fact, Nojima, Watanabe and many others wanted it to be and is not comparable to normal Final Fantasy elements like the ones you have mentioned - or Gilgamesh who already hints in Final Fantasy XII that all Final Fantasys are connected dimensionally in general. Like I have already said, it was not said that is really happens after Final Fantasy VII but that it could happen since he had the idea of it and intentionally made some of those connections while writing the concept (definitely not from the beginning but still) and that it is the same universe was stated.

[Jiro]

Word of God confirms it, actually. It came from an interview somewhere with someone. I forget the member of Square Enix, but it is confirmed that the two exist in the same universe.