After playing the ending of Final Fantasy X-2 for the third time, I feel that there are some really strange correlations between this game and Final Fantasy VII....

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First off, there's this scene in ch. 5 of FFX-2 where you talk to Shinra and he says he's analyzing the energy of the Farplane. He describes it being limitless and a source of life for all of Spira. Wow, Lifestream, anyone? Shinra goes on to say that the energy from the Farplane could power a city just like Zanarkand. Actually, when I watched this scene I thought immediately of that theory that the Ivalice in the FF games is all the same Ivalice and a good chunk of the FF games are connected to each other. I seriously doubt that Spira and whatever the planet is called in FFVII are the same thing though.

Secondly, at the final battle of FFX-2, when Lenne's spirit is finally able to talk to Shuyin, Shuyin says, "But I wasn't able to save you." Lenne replies, "That doesn't matter." Granted, this game was released before Advent Children so whoever wrote AC definitely could have drawn on this scene for inspiration. The correlation just seems a bit creepy, especially since almost those exact lines are said by Cloud and Aerith. Cloud, if you had died after Aerith's death, would you have ended up like Shuyin? I sort of doubt it but it's always a possibility, I guess.

I've also decided that Vegnagun looks like a giant moth. Sort of a weird design for a final boss. Maybe a Godzilla homage? Still weird.