It's funny, I always thought that all the final fantasies were based in the same world but just thousands of years apart from each other. I think I heard someone else talking about how they are actually different universes somewhere. Does anyone know for sure which one it really is? I don't have too many of the games under my belt so I could be very wrong, but I figure that they gotta have some connection because of what I've seen in X-2 and XII both relating back to VII. In X-2 just at the end you can hear shinra get the start of his idea for the mako reactors found in VII (If you talk to him after going down into the farplane he will talk about it). In XII I saw a bit of a hint back towards VII through the bits of information you get if you kill enough of a certain monster. I forget the name but theres a skeleton kinda thing in the Barheim passage that in the extra information mentions the ancients and the need to learn from them. So uh...yeah what do you guys think?