By the way, One Winged Angel, it's FF1, not FF5. Although both had similar ideas. Also, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "eg. majin buu on the final dbz saga" - aren't ALL Dragonball Z villains like that?

Now, Stealth Spider... Well, yeah, that's what I was thinking. But Wolverine IS cool... okay, what the heck. Can't hurt, tho some fans might object to Sephiroth being such a major character. Wolverine is cool, but he's around so much plenty of people get sick of him...

On WEAPONS - VERY interesting. Twists and revelations are certainly necessary for any Final Fantasy game, and this seems like an interesting one. So, some of the Cetra turned into the WEAPONs... but, then, aren't the Cetra the only ones vulnerable to the plague of Jenova? That'd explain why the Cetra, not the humans, were nearly wiped out when Jenova arrived. So it's a bit odd. But cool. And I definetly agree that the WEAPONs should have played more of a major role in FF7. They never really did anything once they were released except float around blowing stuff up Making the FF7 team the 'WEAPONs' is interesting, too, although I assume you don't mean they'd turn into giant rampaging monsters :F Yeah, sure. Why not. WEAPONs are champions of the Planet, so, if we use my ideas for the FF team dieing but being revived (as a mechanism to bring them back to level 1) and being chosen by the Planet as new defenders, WEAPONs are a great title for them, to seperate them from the rest of humanity in some way, even if it might not be obvious visually... Or maybe it will be, maybe the process will change them in some way.

Auron Kotetsu - WOO, FUN!!! I really like most of those ideas. Let's see... of the old cast... Barret is now one of the most important people in the world, eh? I guess that means he's not as much of a fighter anymore, then, so, will his gun-arm be replaced by a normal (robotic) hand, or something along those lines? Anyway, I'm fine with him being tough like that. We all know he's a softy at heart What happened to Reeve, though? He should certainly have been safe, since he was holed up in Kalm with Marlene. Speaking of which, I had no idea what you're talking about with Cloud's death. When did Cloud have to save Marlene from Midgar? It's specifically stated that Reeve took Marlene away from Midgar long before Meteor would have hit. Not to mention that Cloud would have been too busy battling Sephiroth while the Meteor was hitting to enter Midgar and save anyone, no? Confusing. I'm okay with Cloud getting killed, I suppose, tho I'd kinda rather he was still around... He was a cool guy, and we never really got to learn much about him now that he's not so unstable and insane. Oh well. Tifa and Marlene are protecting his tomb now, eh? That works for me, too, though remember that both Tifa and Aeris were very strong-willed in FF7. Don't define them too much as mindless love interests of Cloud with no outside life. :/ Eh. The idea that the geography of the world has been changed a lot due to Meteor's fall is VERY VERY GOOD!!!!! That should make things much more interesting. The changes cuased by Meteor and many other things that have happened since FF7 will make re-exploring the world just as interesting as exploring it the first time around. Though, of course, we'll still need more areas beyond there. Let's see... there's also Sephiroth... he's fine by me, too, although I wonder how he survived. Even if he survived Cloud and co. killing him, wouldn't he have been blasted by Holy? Still, Holy works in mysterious ways, so it's not that unexpected for him to have lived. Also, having him be a good guy now is interesting, because it will mean that a lot of characters who were good guys in FF7 (Tifa, Barret, etc.) will be your biggest enemies! After all, while they're reasonable people, they're not stupid. They're certainly not gonna let a supposedly nice Sephiroth run all over the world, slowly regaining his memories and slowly regaining his old powers. Who knows when he could snap and try his old plan all over again (although when he finally does, the fun will REALLY begin ;D). Now, what other characters are unaccounted for...

You haven't mentioned the Turks. What're they up to? They always were really cool, which is why I didn't object to all the ideas flying around about making them the main charas of the sequel. Likewise, I wonder where Cid's at. Still pursuing his dreams of exploring space? And Vincent should DEFINETLY be an EXTREMELY important character in the sequel - major hero, or major villain. He's an immortal, that makes him special :/ Plus a gun-toting shapeshifting cyborg with a damn good fashion sense. Yuffie, of course, should also return. Yuffie ruled! Seeing her older should be quite fun. And what about Wutai? With Shin-Ra gone, Wutai could begin to regain its power, returning to its former glory at last!! Now THAT could be cool. Wutai playing a major role. Not to mention the WEAPONs returning - those WEAPONets sound like they could work out veeeery well, and we can eventually reveal more stuff about them, like that there are some fully-formed WEAPONs that are still dormant and waiting to explode forth from the ground Ultima WEAPON, Omega WEAPON, Atma WEAPON, whatever... Now, to get back to characters! The only other main ones are Aeris, who you say will be reappearing, and Red XIII... And Hojo and Jenova will return, eh? I suppose it's fine for Hojo to come back, although you're really starting to bring back TOO MANY characters, aren't you? You've revived almost EVERYONE who died in Final Fantasy 7!! That trivializes death, I'm afraid. Jenova, though, is no problem - Jenova DEFINETLY needs much more facetime. So does the rest of her race. I wanna find out about the plague and such! :O Never getting to see it in action was like never getting to see Sin's toxin in battle or nothin'

What else to discuss... Well, your new characters seem interesting. I'd like to know more about them. Let's see, for main characters, we right now have... A swordsman (since we have Sephiroth, why not make him something different? Just about EVERY Final Fantasy game has starred some troubled youth wielding a huge sword, right? You won't be punished for being inventive, y'know. Think of some other powers for him, mayhaps? then again, two sword-wielders worked in FFX. Do what ye think proper.)... A Materia expert and mage... a gun-user... a very powerful swordsman/psychic mage offspring of an evil alien force... Marlene, who'll probably be a summoner or something (Hey, I know there aren't summoners in FF7, but that could be a new feature :/ Lack of classes always took something away from the characters, anyway. Uniqueness... other than Limit Breaks, they're almost interchangeable!)... And a few more, probably. Oh yeah, and I dunno about Dio being a party member. I certainly agree that he should play an important role in this game, but he just seems kinda... boring, to me. What, would he be some sort of wrestling Setzer? Oi. Oh, yeah, and Vincent and Cid will come back too? Neato.

Now, here's an idea. Red XIII remains mysteriously absent for much of the game. It takes a long time to learn where he vanished to. It turns out that, after exploring the entire world, all of this has actually been fake. Sorta. All of humanity (but no other species, except evil crap like monsters - one of the clues that this is what's happened is that Red XIII and all other non-human creatures like Moogles and Chocobos are conspicuously absent from the gameworld as you explore) was transported to this pocket dimension by Holy. Remember that whole plot in FF7 about humans possibly being judged unworthy by the Planet? This is the fruition of that plot. It will be an enormous revelation after you've been playing the game for quite a long time. Eventually (perhaps with Cid's help, an invention can be created to pierce through the outer edge of the pocket dimension and escape to the 'real world'), more places can be explored, more characters met, etc. The game has to be really long and complex to be even close to being worthy of sharing the name of FF7 One thing I'm thinking about is the true nature of Materia - perhaps you have to meet the God-King of the Cetra, who commands (or simply is) Holy, and is served by an army of angels (the ghosts of the Cetra... including their leader, Aeris), and... *shrug* Just a thought. That angel symbolism was mysterious, in FF7.

As for why humanity was seperated from the Planet by Holy in the first place... I'm still working on that. Why didn't Holy simply kill all of humanity, and then have them be resurrected as assorted non-humans (that's how karma works! :O)? Well, it'll be explained in the game, whatever we decide on. Assuming anyone even agrees with all this stuff as a cool twist to throw in.