Actually it was just extremely loosely tied to the Final Fantasy Universe.
Examples: There was a Lifestream and they were trying to capture the essence or spirits trapped inside of different things kind of like the crystals containing the essences of Fire, Water, Wind, and Earth in the early Final Fantasy games. Also while it was set on Earth it wasn't exactly the same Earth because we obviusly don't have a Lifestream. So the movie is loosely tied to the games but anyway this is a thread about Hating FF9 not TSW so lets just leave it at that.
