Multiple FF Questions

[Mo-Nercy]

I'll only answer a few. I'll let someone else field the others because I haven't played in a long time. Also these are out of the order you wrote them in because I went back and did some more.

EDIT: I've actually gone back and done more than a few...

-Is it true that FFX and FFX-2 are prequels to FFVII? I've compared maps, and they seem very similar (FFVII's map has many more smaller islands broken off of main continents, and Spheres may, in fact, be early Materia, and much more abundant).

The only real "evidence" for that occurs in X-2 when Shinra says that the pyreflies of the Farplane can be harvested into some sort of fossil fuel. People instantly made the connection with Mako energy, which uses the Lifestream (more or less the same thing) to provide power to the masses. The fact that his name was Shinra also led people to believe that the little genius in FFX-2 would go on (or his descendants) to bring the dream to fruition etc. etc.

I think it's reasonable to say that Square just put it in as a bit of a tease. FFX-2 isn't a "serious" FF and it's set in a light-hearted sort of way. I'd just dismiss it as an attempt to be mildly humourous.

-Where can you obtain or buy double- or triple-growth weaponry during the game, besides in the third disc?

I do believe that there are several weapons that you can find. The Rune Blade is found in Mt. Nibel, somewhere in the first screen (on the peak of a little spire). I'm pretty sure it's possible to get Apocalypse before disc 3 but again, I haven't played in a long time. Aeris' Wizard and Wizer staves are both double and both found easily. Aw, there's actually a LOT for all characters and I don't think it's worth going through them all when it'll be easier searching it up.

-What is Vincent precisely?

He's a former Turk. Hojo messed around with him (I don't think it was injection of Jenova cells like SOLDIER because he doesn't make Mako eyes, so it's something else evil and frankensteiny) and now he's a freak that can change forms.

-How can Nanaki (Red XIII) reproduce if he is the last of his kind?

He may be similar to those animals that can reproduce without a mate (was that asexual, or is that something else *is confused*). Failing that, the world of FFVII is a very magical place. So a wizard did it.

-Where is it possible to obtain or buy Morph materia anytime other than when you first meet Yuffie?

Sorry. You have to master it.

-When Tifa becomes controllable after WEAPON blows a hole into the gas chamber she is held in, she escapes by jumping off the barrel of the Junon gun and onto a ladder of the airship, Highwind. A mysterious voice, much like the one invading Cloud's mind, tells her to jump. Who is it?

I've always assumed it was just someone on the Highwind yelling at her from below. I might have to go back and take another look it though.

-What happened to Nibelheim, really? Was it, in fact, destroyed five years before?

If you'd go to Tifa's room and read the note on her desk, you'll see that it explains that Nibelheim was in fact rebuilt and people were brought in by Shinra to pose of townspeople. Yes, Sephiroth burnt it to nothing five years ago.

-When Tifa tells Cloud about when she met him in Midgar near the train station, he tells her he hadn't seen her in five years, when it had really been seven years. How is this so?

It was five years since Cloud saw Tifa but it had been seven since Tifa saw Cloud. Cloud was a Shinra soldier, too ashamed to reveal himself when Sephiroth and Zack were called to Nibelheim. So Tifa never saw Cloud even though he was there.

-Tifa helps Cloud remember himself; when he found he was just a guard and not Zack, then what happened to him after he threw Sephiroth into the depths of the Mako Reactor with Jenova? What about Zack? Is it true that Hojo had put Cloud and Zack into a capsule each in the Mako Reactor to experiment on them and keep them alive? And why, if memory serves, doesn't Tifa know exactly if Nibelheim had been burned down?

Hojo had Cloud and Zack preserved in capsules, yeah. They escaped and made a break for Midgar but Zack was shot down as they reached their destination. I don't remember Tifa ever saying that Nibelheim hadn't burnt to the ground.

-Throughout the game, Cloud hears a voice in his head, such as after he falls into the church and meets Aeris. Who is speaking to him? Is it Sephiroth?

I've always thought it was the real Cloud, a little bit of him that knows about his past and wants to help physical Cloud get back to himself. A pretty safe assumption because the voice stops after Tifa and Cloud take a dip in the lifestream.

-At the end of the game, Sephiroth is destroyed, and so releases Aeris's spirit into the Lifestream, bringing her prayer for Holy to the planet to make it's decision, correct?

No. We hate Holy! Holy failed the Planet. Red XIII says that Holy is leaving the Planet and that it failed to protect it from Midgar. Aeris doesn't save anything because she prayed for Holy, not the lifestream. Her sacrifice was for nothing. As for her face appearing at the end, I've read that as a tribute to the price she paid to try and save the world. She had nothing to do with it IMO.