Quote Originally Posted by rubah
However, you clearly can, as Advent Children showed us:]

That says to me that Square intended their little ways of doing these upgrades/abilities to be realistic in the manner of the game.

There is no Sin in the real world, but in the game, it is a very real mechanic, just like I think that the spheregrid would be:]

(they also don't show them holding their weapons outside of battle. Perhaps they place the spheregrid wherever they hide their armor and weapons)
Ok, you win..., I havent seen AC yet so I've no idea what your talking about for that, but you raise good points that I cant argue with... and happen to agree with now that I think about it...