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    I'm pretty sure that this game is Japanese but im trying to prove my friend wrong because she says it's chinese.

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    Squaresoft and Enix are both Japanese companies, and thus SquareEnix is Japanese. I have no idea where your friend got Chinese but she's dead wrong.

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    It's Japanese.

    Although it seems to me that I read that square had south-east asia in mind when they designed a lot of the game (or was it somewhere else) but that still wouldn't be China.

    That being said, I don't think China releases a lot of video games. being so paranoid about the rest of the world and stuff.

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    If you mean what it's based on -- I'd say it's Thai or something. The pictures I've seen of Thailand look pretty close. The company is Japanese so in that sense it's japanese.

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    The whole tropical, hydrocentric setting is based on Okinawa, which is part of Japan.

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    Okinawa was once a vastly powerful trading empire.

    But I've never heard okinawans refer to people as brudda.

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    I think people thought it was Chinese or Thai becos of it's tropical setting. But that's actually Okinawa, a warm island in Southern Japan.

    I think I read somewhere that the name Yuna is also some sort of Okinawa n name for hibiscus flower. Hence the patterns in her dress.

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    Japanese dammit..
    You know you're obsessed with FF when...:laughing:
    1) You yell at the characters. i.e "Cloud, what the heck do you think you're doing?!"
    2) You praise the characters and/or tell them you love them. i.e "Oh yeah, Squall!"or"Nice save Tidus!"
    3)You start to dress/talk/act like the characters and/or pick up their habits i.e saying ...'whatever' half the time,randomly pointing your finger in the air when you talk to someone,ect
    4) You talk about the characters as if you know them. i.e "Oh yeah, I think Cloud and Tifa should get together."or" Seifer such a big jerk!”
    5) When you're playing FF and someone asks what you're doing you reply "saving the planet".
    6) You mistakenly refer pounds/dollars/euros as Gil afew times.
    7) When you grow up you want to be a -SeeD/ Shinra Soldier/ Galbadian Soldier/ member of SOLDIER/ Sorceress/ Choco Sage/ Garden Master/President of Shinra Inc./ Turk/ Scientist/Summoner/Mage/White Mage/Sephiroth
    8) You wondered (or wished) one (or more) of the following:
    --You knew did know (and /or)knew someone as cute as Squall/Cloud/Irvine/Sephiroth/Vincent/Tidus ect,Tifa/Aerith/Yuffie/Rikku/Yuna/Rinoa/Selphie ect
    -You could go to Garden instead of school
    -You could play Blitzball in PE
    -You could drive the Ragnarok/Highwind
    - Chocobos roamed the forests near your house.
    -You wish you could use magic/materia/GF's/summons/Materia
    -You had a limit break
    :riiight:

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    umm okinawa , isnt that the japanese place they invented armagedon around 1944? , maybe thats why the love for spells like nova and ultima etc lol
    sorry i know.. couldnt resist

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    Inventing armageddon in 1944?

    Say what now?

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    Quote Originally Posted by zwijnstijn
    umm okinawa , isnt that the japanese place they invented armagedon around 1944? , maybe thats why the love for spells like nova and ultima etc lol
    sorry i know.. couldnt resist
    I like Kung-Fu.

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    It's a Japanese game.

    This thread is being closed because the last few posts have been tasteless. Knock it off, guys.

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