I see your point with Cid and Berret. You're not the first person to compare it to Wuxia films. And myself not being a fan of Wuxia I can't honestly see why people keep digging into that. I gues it has similarities. But maybe they're just coincidense? I've read a hand full of interviews and never heard anyone mention borrowing inspiration from movies like that. My personal take is that by the end of FF7 your characters are level 60+ and for the most part, pretty bad-ass. They can do a lot of amazing things a "normal" person of that world couldn't dream of (taking out a dragon in a few swipes? Calling up mystical beasts to tear some hell? Stuff like that). A giant leap being part of their super-human repotoire didn't seem too far-fetched to me for some reason.