Time Line of FFVII

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So, I've been wondering. There's something pretty tricky about FFVII.

Supposedly, Cloud and Co. do all of the first disc in two weeks... that means the whole Midgar thing, the traveling, side quests, Aerith's death, all of that is said to have happened in a little over two weeks time.


That's bunk, right? :mokken:

I was under the impression that the game took like 6 months or somethin'. Is anyone else scratching their head at the supposed time the entire game took place?
 
Hmm, not sure if I wondered about it, but one thing I kind of realised about all FF games is that when they travel through the world map, they actually travel huge distances that could take days. The characters seem kinda big on the world map compared to the size of the world, but that's just so we can see them. So I think most of the time will go on travelling between locations, so it could as well take months for their adventure.
 
I agree with Matseb. We have to assume that the time it takes the party to cover the distance travelled is much longer than the time we take to do it.

I think it is really difficult to guess how long the period of time is within which the game took place. Since people using an inn could technically take months or years off of the game time, if they wanted to, the timeframe for the game would be different for each player.

Both world map travelling and inn resting are part of the gameplay experience, and shouldn't really be included in calculating the time. As far as story is concerned though, only spin-offs and official reveals in Ultimanias and the like can inform us how long such and such took.


My guess is that the game took place over a period of 6-9 months... Perhaps even a little bit longer, with a few extra months taking place during the period in which Cloud was not in the party, and was beginning to have his identity crisis.
 
My guess is that the game took place over a period of 6-9 months... Perhaps even a little bit longer, with a few extra months taking place during the period in which Cloud was not in the party, and was beginning to have his identity crisis.
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Thought someone would say it took a few months. That's what I thought, too. At least the first disc had to have taken about two months from Cloud's first mission to when Aerith dies. The Third disc I reckon took about three months. And then the last disc, I thought, happened in the time space of about two months. So in total, I thought the game happened in about 6-9 months. And as it seems, everyone I speak to seems to be under the same impression.

But there is an official source/book that says the game only happens in about 6 weeks at a max.

When I played the game it just felt longer than just a few weeks. I always thought it was about 6-9 months in time. I mean, how the heck can people travel all the way around the world so many times in only 6 weeks? That's impossible. Even for a fantasy game.

Plus, we have to remember that most of the time Cloud and co. walked to where they were going. That alone would take weeks.
 
So I googled FFVII timeline and found two similar, yet very different timelines. One goes with the idea that it occurs in 1997, and another in 2008. However they both seem to provide evidence that the game starts off around Dec 10th, and ends around Jan 20th.

So yeah.. game's pretty short. :monster:
 
Yeah, it's still frickin' bunk, though, right?

I mean, seriously, how can a group travel the world on foot most of the time in 6 weeks? That's impossible, even for a fantasy.

I think SE just pulled dates out of their asses.
 
Considering they barely stop for a meal I reckon it was all banged out in one day :wacky:
 
I think whenever they are fighting Weapon, Tifa is out for seven days too. So that's another week. For the rest I agree with Argor, and Matseb. Definitely not just a few weeks. I'm more inclined to say 3/4 months, rather then 6 weeks. xD They sleep a few days too, Gold Saucer Inn. All that kinda stuff, in between journey telling in Kalm, etc.
 
Colours said:
I think whenever they are fighting Weapon, Tifa is out for seven days too. So that's another week. For the rest I agree with Argor, and Matseb. Definitely not just a few weeks. I'm more inclined to say 3/4 months, rather then 6 weeks. xD They sleep a few days too, Gold Saucer Inn. All that kinda stuff, in between journey telling in Kalm, etc.
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Yeah, exactly Kira.

The team did sleep, they had to have. And they traveled across an ocean the size of the Atlantic--which is about a 7 day trip on a ship/boat.

Then you have to think of all the side quests; like getting Vincent and Yuffie--that HAD to have taken longer than two weeks.

And then there's Aerith--she couldn't even jump over debris in Midgar, we're supposed to believe she was able to travel that fast across the world?? Nah, that doesn't fit.

that nibelheim flashback is at least 3-4 days of storytelling
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Lol, oh, you.

(I hate that part of the damn game. :mokken:)
 
Big Casino said:
that nibelheim flashback is at least 3-4 days of storytelling
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:lew:

I hate that fucking flashback

Also, I think folk tend to over analyse shit. It IS just a game afteral. It may make more sense for it to of occured over a few months, rather than weeks, but if that's how the timeline flows, that's how it flows. How do we know their days are as long as ours, afteral, it aint Earth is it, it's a whole nother world. Maybe the planet is tiny. maybe they walk fast. Maybe... fuck knows. The optional shit is optional, so cant really tack that on, they, I imagine, work the time line just round the main story events. There's the week we know of where Tifa is out for the count, and the day or 2 in the gold saucer, the night they sleep after the first bombing mission... over. and. thinking. Maybe they are on pro plus and never sleep other than the aforementioned times. think theres a sleep in junon as well.... though that might just be a kip for a short time while cloud has that little brain fart over why he hadnt seen tifa other than as a guide in nibelheim 5 years ago
 
Yeah I don't understand it myself, but it's there in black and white. Sense as it doesn't make it, but it's there. I always thought it was a several month journey myself, especially when the only little piece of time information we're given in game, is when in Disk 2, Tifa blacks out for a week and Meteor's there.

That's a whole week in the game, which seemed pretty minor in comparison when you think it's a few months at least. But 1 week gone when supposedly the game takes 6 weeks itself? I don't buy that cheese, man. :mokken:
 
I don't buy it at all, to be honest. :mokken: Along with everything else in VII, it just doesn't add up that the game took place in 6 weeks.
 
It'd be interesting to compare to the supposed timeline of other FF games - I read on a Final Fantasy Wiki that FFIX is meant to take place over two months or so for instance.
 
We could make an estimate I suppose. We know that the meteor stars sometime whilst Tifa is out (so around early disc 2) and we know only at the very end it reaches them. So we could estimate how long would a meteor take to come down, considering how visible it was and all. That way we could also extrapolate and compare that time to the time it takes to do Disc 1. Although like Bambi pointed out, it's an entirely different planet and universe and so universal rules there would be different.

And ugh, the flashback is pretty annoying after the first playthrough, but I reckon they wouldn't spend more than an evening on it. Discussing the past wouldn't take longer than crossing the world map.
 
Sky+Earth said:
I was under the impression that the game took like 6 months or somethin'. Is anyone else scratching their head at the supposed time the entire game took place?
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Well...the game did take me around 6 months to complete on the first playthrough. :dave:

But in all seriousness, no I'm not really pondering too much about the timeline tbh. Two weeks, four weeks, six weeks, or 3 months, I really could care less since what matters is the content and storyline of the game and that's what I focused on. I admit I never actually gave the timeline any serious thought, though I did wonder about it when I was 12 years old, but I lost track and eventually stopped pondering.

As for traveling the world and stopping by at inns and such...well, I honestly wouldn't even count that as part of the timeline. xD That's just part of the game content in order to give certain characters and events a backstory, though I'm certain nothing significant in the actual game timeline. Sure it's there, and if we want to be technical about it, then yes, I'd say 6 weeks is a bit too short for that whole adventure, but I really don't think the creators had planned on having players wonder about these things. It's something to think about though, but nothing that should be taken technically.
 
The whole of the Game, as listed in the 10th Anniversary Ultimania and in the revised edition, occurs over the span of 2 months, from December 9th, around 12:00AM, to the Early Morning of some day int the last third of January.

I know you do not like this Cali, but searching for others who do not like this does not make it any less the case.
As for the Kalm Flashback, why would it take terribly much longer to relate than it was to watch?
Implausible or not, events up to Hojo's final showdown take place during the month of December. Preparing for the final battle and defeating Sephiroth took up most of January.
http://www.finalfantasyforums.net/final-fantasy-vii/time-line-of-ffvii-43258.html

FFIX occurs over the course of 2 and a half months.
http://thelifestream.net/final-fant...orld-chronology-p44-46-of-the-ffix-ultimania/
 
That FFIX timeline is pretty good. Hehe, Garnet only gave up her voice for 9 days. That is so not worth it. Most people who this happens to lose it for months or years.
The link to FFVII's one doesn't work. It just brings us back to the first page of this topic.
 
Thanks, I already checked it out yesterday, since I guessed it'd be on the same site as FFIX's one.
You know what's funny in both of those? How not much happens throughout the centuries and then within 2 months of the game a lot goes down.
 
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