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Q: The story’s keyword is “connected”.

Watanabe (Scenario planner): When we put all the scenes together, I personally like the keyword”connected”.

Nojima (Writer): Inside the game, I try to connect all the scenes and stories together. The name Shinra, that was also in FF7, is it connected? Yes it IS connected. For example, “Graduation mission” and “Rin Detective” mission” , Rin says “ we are the same mind”, which it’s a mysterious line from the game.

Nojima: Shinra (the kid) quits the Gullwings, Rin gave Shinra a HUGE financial support, he found out by using Venagun, he can pull out lots of MAKO energy from the farplane, BUT he cannot complete this mission by himself. Later generations moved to another planet and created the Shinra (KANJI) company… This occurs 1000 years later.

Q: AFTER that, does the story of FF7 occur?

Nojima: Yeah, I guess so. In my mind I have those feelings in me. If I think about those characters involved in the story, I’m holding those images inside me. Shinra was a good person, but his later generations will be like the “president“. (laughs)

Watanabe: One of the staff from FF7 saw Shinra’s episode, the camera work we used under Bevelle gave that staff member a “familiar feeling.”

Toriyama (director): Yeah, that scene looked like the opening movie of Midgar from FF7.


http://www.willamette.edu/~ejohnson/nojima3.htm

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I.. really don't think they are =|

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The guy who was interviewed made the characters said they "Probably are"

[Stu]

their may be tongue in cheek references , but be careful not to misinterpret this article. In no way are Final Fantasy VII and X connected storyline or world wise.

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Originally posted by Morpheus
their may be tongue in cheek references , but be careful not to misinterpret this article. In no way are Final Fantasy VII and X connected storyline or world wise.

Agreed.
All the FFs have references to each other.
Such as the recurrence of some of the summons {Bahamut/Shiva}, the name Cid etc, but none of them are actually connected.