Spirit Energy and Memories: The Magic of Final Fantasy (VI-X-2/Tactics/TSW Spoilers)

[Squall of SeeD]

That's damn impressive.

Anyway, your assessment and analysis of the memory and Lifestream concepts is incredible. Excellent, excellent work. I concur totally with strawberryman and Behold the Void here.

Thank you. ^^

Interestingly, I think the argument could be made more expansive. Now, I don't personally agree with this theory, but you once suggested a commonality between the worlds of FFIII and FFVIII: that they are, in fact, the same planet. If you hold such a theory, or at least see nothing that would cripple it, you could, via FFVIII, extend the Lifestream/Magic/Memory concept back to FFIII.

Yes, I thought of that earlier, actually. ^^ Here's what I've got in regard to that:

I concede that there may be holes in the theory, such as the whereabouts of the Elemental Crystals in Final Fantasy VIII. Personally, I believe that the Crystals could have removed themselves from the surface world so as to never allow anyone to tamper with them again, as their power was not something that should be tampered with in the first place. If they removed themselves to within the Planet, this might even explain why Magic seeps up out of the Planet to its surface at Draw Points.

The concept of Draw Points is very similar to Final Fantasy VII's concept of Mako Fountains, and due to aspects of other games to suggest that all the worlds (or at least those of Final Fantasy VII, IX, X/X-2, and The Spirits Within) have a Lifestream, it may well be that these Crystals are just the same thing by a different name, and in a different form. The fact that the world was held together by these Elemental Crystals the same as the life of the world of Final Fantasy VII or IX is maintained by the Lifestream within would suggest this to be the case. Once having moved to reside within the Planet, the Crystals may have even dropped their crystalline forms and become a swell of Spirit Energy as we see in Final Fantasy VII or The Spirits Within. Perhaps even the Lifestreams at their centers bear crystals. Further, the sentience of the Crystals is somewhat reminiscent of the sentient nature of the Planet in Final Fantasy VII.

Your assessment of Final Fantasy: Tactics Advance is also excellent, masamune. I'm really wishing that I had played the game, which I haven't had the opportunity to do. That's interesting enough to make me want to go out of my way to play it, though. Good work!