8.0 speculation

[Turnintino]

I thought it was fairly clear that we're dealing with a Sea of Clouds situation, where people are mostly living on floating islands and the ground is an inhospitable wasteland that we're probably only going to go to for dungeons.

I had the same assumptions about most of the dungeon previews.

There's not really anything that rings as VII at all, so I have no idea where anyone's getting that[...].

Apart from what Cilia mentioned, I think this concept art has also contributed:



Which has been structurally compared to Midgar:



All surface level stuff at the moment, but I wouldn't write it off at this point. Regardless, I'm hoping they restrain themselves in referencing whatever it is they inevitably end up referencing lol.

[Cleretic]

Apart from what Cilia mentioned, I think this concept art has also contributed:

While I do see it, that's one that I actually thought looked like an FFX temple. Nothing in specific (although I could make a thin case for the Remiem Temple or Zanarkand Dome), it just had the same air to me of that sort of centralized but distanced location.

I think it's interesting that my read on that changes entirely based on presumed scale, though. There's no clear sign of how big this place is; I was picturing this being roughly the size of a cathedral, but it could be much larger.