Jabbs to past FF's

[Marajade]

List the little nods/nostalgias to past FF's you've found.

The name of the hunt for Gilgamesh is "Battle on the Big Bridge" XD

 

[xena]

I dont get it.

 

[Marajade]

I dont get it.

Did you play FFV?

 

[xena]

Uh...which one was that? If it was the one with cecil, kain, and rosa then yes.

 

[Tiael]

List the little nods/nostalgias to past FF's you've found.

The name of the hunt for Gilgamesh is "Battle on the Big Bridge" XD

Same song too, just a different remix

Also the Prologue music at the save/load screen is same as FFIV intro with Cecil and Kain leaving the castle(edited)

5 of the espers being bosses from previous FF's(I/II/III/IV/V)

And there's more, but my brain is fried atm, so I can't think straight ><

Edit: Crime and Punishment Hunt(Orthros), Crime and Punishment was also an Active Time Event you could view in FFIX involving Cinna and his slacking off from his addiction to South Gate bundt cake(ok so I'm stretching it here) >>

 

[Marajade]

Not talking about the painfully obvious ones like Zeromus and Chaos or whatnot.

Stuff like the Big Bridge, and that the floors in Draklor Laboratories are the same floor #'s from the Shinra Building in VII

 

[Marajade]

Uh...which one was that? If it was the one with cecil, kain, and rosa then yes.

That was IV.
V was the one with Evil Black Mage X-Death.

 

[Tagrineth]

Also the Prelude music at the game intro, and save/load screen is same as FFIV

And I, II, III, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, and X.

 

[Lanien]

lol Yeah, the intro song is basically the same for all FF games, except they all have slightly different twists to them. Some have added beats, but ultimately, it comes from the same template.

 

[Tiael]

And I, II, III, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, and X.

Meant the Prologue(from FFIV) that plays during loading on XII, was a mistype.

Not talking about the painfully obvious ones like Zeromus and Chaos or whatnot.

Stuff like the Big Bridge, and that the floors in Draklor Laboratories are the same floor #'s from the Shinra Building in VII

And Big Bridge isn't painfully obvious to anyone who's played FFV?

Genji armor being stolen from Gilgamesh in XII just like FFV.
And while we're on the subject of Gilgamesh, his 8 weapons, Orichalcum that Zidane in FFIX uses, Excalipur and Excalibur from FFV(and VIII) used by Gilgamesh, Clouds Buster Sword from FFVII, Squalls Gunblade from FFVIII, Tidus's Brotherhood from FFX, Zansetsuken used by Odin in past FFs, and this isn't FF related, but his last sword is the Legendary Sword from Dragon Quest original trilogy(I-III), but most are obvious.

Edit: Another little thing I noticed, if it's anything that is, the Earth Tyrant bestiary description, one of the eight legendary wyrms of great power, which is a tyrant(t-rex model), and in FFVI there's the 8 legendary dragons that seal the Esper Crusader, and the Dirt(Earth) Dragon is one of them, and also a t-rex model. Too bad no other throwbacks to the other 7 legendary FFVI dragons, unless I am blind.

 

[mdkuser]

the battle theme is the same as in ff5 too

 

[Tagrineth]

Meant the Prologue(from FFIV) that plays during loading on XII, was a mistype.

Yes, it's in all the other games too. A couple games hid it in the credits, but it's still there.

 

[Tiael]

It was wasn't it? Don't recall it in X though. Agh it's been a while since I've beaten any FF(last being X-2......ugh), now I need to play more V.

 

[Sorrowfulturnip]

Also another thing that someone pointed out to me is that two of the espers resemble two of the bosses from FF Tactics. Belias resembles Velius except with an extra head, and Cuchulainn, which resembles Queklain, the first zodiac boss, which was the fat guy.

 

[Tiael]

They're the same lucavi/totema, with the correct translation(FFT was horridly translated) there's also Adramelk from FFT translated as Addramalech(sp?) in XII and FFTA(Bangaa Totema), Altima/Ultima from FFT/FFTA(Nu Mou Totema)/FFXII, Zalera from FFT/Zalhera from XII, Hashmalum in FFT/FFXII, Mateus the Hume Totema from FFTA, Famfrit the Moogle Totema from FFTA, and Exodus the Viera Totema from FFTA.

XII, Tactics and Tactics Advance are all linked in some senses, alternate dimension, another time period, nobody really knows, but it's just somethin for SE to tease us with.

 

[Marajade]

and Exodus the Viera Totema from FFTA.

I dont care, he's still Evil Black Mage X-Death. He's even a tree and everything.


Also, on the timeline, Its the past. Its the world Mustadio was talking about, with thier airships and guns and such.

Also, Balthier and Mustadio have the same last name.

 

[Tiael]

I dont care, he's still Evil Black Mage X-Death. He's even a tree and everything.


Also, on the timeline, Its the past. Its the world Mustadio was talking about, with thier airships and guns and such.

Also, Balthier and Mustadio have the same last name.

Of course it's ExDeath, I'm just saying what it's translated as in XII/FFTA
I'm glad they kept it ExDeath in FFV Advance though, I would have had to smack the translators/localizers at SE around.

 

[Tagrineth]

Exdeath was fucking mean, lol. Basically he randomly made a bunch of towns cease to exist. D=

 

[Tiael]

Lol yea, ExDeath is one of my favorite FF bosses, along with Kefka.

 

[Sorrowfulturnip]

I never did finish that game. I got far into it, and for reasons that I don't know, I just stopped playing. He was bad though. Makes me wonder why people don't talk about as much as they do kafka and sephiroth. I found him to be a rather interesting villian.