SE wants to keep as much of the iconic image the Final Fantasy Franchise has created over the years. It’s one of the charms that makes it a “Final Fantasy”-game. With every Final Fantasy game, you would immediately recognize these iconic creatures.

However, even though they do re-use the same creatures, they make changes to each creature in order for it to fit the environment/lore/atmosphere of the game.

If we take the bomb as an example, let’s take a look at it’s “evolution” over the years:

Final Fantasy II:


Final Fantasy IV:


Final Fantasy V:


Final Fantasy VI:


Final Fantasy VII:


Final Fantasy VIII:


Final Fantasy IX:


Final Fantasy X:


Final Fantasy XI:


Final Fantasy XII:


Final Fantasy XIII:


Final Fantasy XIV:


Final Fantasy VII - Crisis Core:


Final Fantasy Tactics:


Final Fantasy Tactics - Advance:


Final Fantasy The Crystal Chronicles:


Final Fantasy The Crystal Chronicles - Ring of Fates:


Final Fantasy The Crystal Chronicles - The Crystal Bearers:


Final Fantasy Type-0:


As you can see, none of these bombs look exactly the same, but you still recognize them as the Final Fantasy Bomb creature. (^_^ ) There are versions of these creatures appear to be similar to the one that appeared in earlier games, but when you look more closely, you can find differences in each version.

The “Copy-paste Issue” was a big thing in 1.0, but that was all because of the terrain. I mean… I’ve never seen people complain that the Chocobo almost looks exactly the same in multiple Final Fantasy games. In fact, the biggest complaint i’ve seen was that the iconic creatures in FFXIII didn’t look like it’s predecessors in the slightest!