List of Final Fantasy references in A Realm Reborn

[Ayuhra]

Possibly mentioned already but I didn't see it on the first page

Final Fantasy Tactics
-Elidibus the Asciian is a reference to a powerful wizard in Tactics who goes by the same name. He has numerous potent spells including "Zodiark"

[Ardbob]

Possibly mentioned already but I didn't see it on the first page

Final Fantasy Tactics
-Elidibus the Asciian is a reference to a powerful wizard in Tactics who goes by the same name. He has numerous potent spells including "Zodiark"

Thanks, I'll add that right now.

I'm sure you guys notice above a graveyard of deleted posts. >.> I realized I could just edit a post to make it longer than 1000 characters, and it looks much better all as one post. I'll see if a mod can remove all those delete notices.

[Enkidoh]

Ardbob, I noticed you mentioned Gold Saucer already but an addition to that if I may, there are actually more references in that to FFVII than just the name of the place.

FFVII: the 'Mount Corel' area in Round Square in Gold Saucer in FFXIV is of course a reference to the area of the same name in FFVII (in FFVII it's near where the Gold Saucer is actually located). Both versions of Gold Saucer are located in mountainous desert areas, and when you first arrive at Gold Saucer you arrive on an airship and the scene shows the ship flying up to it, just like arriving at FFVII's Gold Saucer for the first time on the cable car.

As well, three music tracks that play inside FFXIV's Gold Saucer are taken from FFVII (or rather, they're remixes) - the eponymous theme Gold Saucer is fittingly GS's main zone theme, plus a remix of Electric de Chocobo plays during GATEs (in FFVII it was the track that played when encountering a chocobo in battle and also played during the snowboarding minigame), and fittingly, a remix of Fiddle de Chocobo plays during the Chocobo Races, which was also where it played in FFVII.

Yes the Chocobo Theme is a reoccurring track, but these versions were actually remixes of specific FFVII versions of these tracks so I thought they were worth mentioning.

FFVIII: Triple Triad is of course an improved version of the card game of the same name from FFVIII, including many of the same rules, like Same and Random. Even the music when playing a TT match is from FFVIII, Nobuo Uematsu's Shuffle or Boogie.

And speaking of Triple Triad, it should go without saying that the protagonists of nearly every previous FF game show up as special TT cards.

There's probably more, but that's what I can remember at the moment. Anyway, awesome work putting this together!

[Ardbob]

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Thanks! I'm adding all of those references.

[OMEGA_HACK]

The final boss in Amdapor Keep Hard mode is a tribute to Kefka from FF6 (his posture is similar, he has a white make-up look face with markings on it. And resembles a vizier like Kefka.





And they both share a maniacal laugh:
Dissidia Kefka laugh

Amdapor Keep boss laugh


Also on the notes of the FF12:

Confirmed
Elidibus (Emissary) - Zodiark
Lahabrea - Mateus (the sigil on his mask matches that of a portion of the sigil of Mateus from FF12)
Pashtarot - Zeromus
Igeyorhm - Shemhazai
Altima - Ultima
Emmerololth - Famfrit
Nabriales - Cúchulainn (again his mask sigil is a portion of Cuchulainn's sigl from FF12, furthermore Nabriales send's adventurer's to a place where status effects are increased times 10 following along the lines of Cuchulainn being a master of status effects (his alignment was poison and was charged to "absorb" all the filth of the world in the lore of FF12)

Speculated
Loghrif - Belias (we've seen Belias-egi in the SMN story missions and while the Ascian who summoned him is not mentioned his mask sigil is a portion of Belias's sigil from FF12)
Mitron - Chaos
Emet-Selch - Zalera
Fandaniel - Hashmal
Halmarut - Exodus
Deudalaphon - Adrammelech

Each Ascian is a direct reference name to 12's Scion of Light and their mask sigil/glyph is the creature of which they opposed. This information can be found in the Clan Primer in FF12.

[Ardbob]

The final boss in Amdapor Keep Hard mode is a tribute to Kefka from FF6 (his posture is similar, he has a white make-up look face with markings on it. And resembles a vizier like Kefka.

And they both share a maniacal laugh:
Dissidia Kefka laugh

Amdapor Keep boss laugh

Added to the list!

[Mirakumi]

Don't know if added but Jessie was in ff7 she appears in ffxiv after receiving the Magitek mount, and gives players the option to add the "attacks" inside cids warehouse.


She is in the opening bombing mission in ff7

[Zell1226]

Here's one I realized a week ago or so.

Final Fantasy 5: The first boss in Sastasha Hard Mode, Karlabos, is a direct reference to the boss in Torna Canal. Its signature move is Tail Screw, and looks identical.


EDIT: Oh yeah, since it hasn't been mention yet,
Final Fantasy 1: Female Paladin's idle pose is identical to Warrior of Light's idle pose in Dissidia: Final Fantasy. (Most other Idle poses are based off Dissidia idle poses, but it's late and ill describe them later maybe)

[Ardbob]

@Mirakumi: Yep, that's already on the list. :P
@Zell1226: I'l add the Karlabos reference as part of a group of references to various FF5 bosses. I'm not so sure about the idle pose thing. The pose looks similar yeah, but the pose isn't really unique enough to consider it a real reference. Probably just a coincidence.

I did some research and have found a whopping 37 new references that I've added to the list. Here they are:

Final Fantasy 1
1. Kraken appears as a boss in both Hullbreaker Isle and Sastasha (Hard).

Final Fantasy 2
1. The "Dreadnought", a Garlean ship, is a reference to a warship of the same name in Final Fantasy 2.
(I also fixed the link in the first point)

Final Fantasy 3
1. The Summoner's Artifact Armor is called "Evoker's _____", which is a reference to the job Evoker from Final Fantasy 3.
2. All weapons that can be purchased with Rowena Tokens (Soldiery) are named after weapons from Final Fantasy 3.

Final Fantasy 4
1. The weather vane in the Heavensward cinematic is shaped like the original Final Fantasy 4 logo.
2. The Bard relic weapon, Artemis' Bow, is said to have been crafted by Gilbert (the japanese name for Edward Chris von Muir).
3. In the first and second turns of Binding Coil of Bahamut you fight the ADS boss and its nodes. These are based on the CPU from Final Fantasy 4.
4. Allagan buildings like Binding Coil of Bahamut have similar interior decorating to the Tower of Babil.

Final Fantasy 5
1. Sastasha is heavily influenced by the Pirates' Hideout and both locations are the first dungeon of each game.
2. The Forgotten Springs in Southern Thanalan is a village of mostly female Miqo'te dressed in ancient clothing. This is likely a reference to Mirage Village from Final Fantasy 5.
3. In the guildhest "Hero on the Halfshell" you have to sedate a "Gil Turtle" which can also be found in the Gil Cave in Final Fantasy 5.
4. Twintania (Turn 5 BCoB), Melusine, (Turn 2 BCoB), Catoblepas (Halatali Hard), Halicarnassus (Haukke Manor Hard), and Karlabos (Sastasha Hard) are all named after bosses from Final Fantasy 5. (credit: Zell1226)

Final Fantasy 6
1. The 2013 Halloween event includes a man named "The Impressario" which is a reference to a man of the same name in the Opera House of Final Fantasy 6.
2. The nation-state of Doma is based on a nation of the same name in Final Fantasy 6.
3. In one of the Ixal quests an airship named Blackjack appears.
4. Ultros and Typhon are optional bosses in the Hildibrand sidequests, using direct quotes from Final Fantasy 6 at several points.
5. During the battles with Ultros and Typhon, "The Decisive Battle" from Final Fantasy 6 plays.
6. Setzer Gabbiani's outfit can be bought at the Gold Saucer.

Final Fantasy 7
1. During the "Dreams of Ice" missions, Yda can be found competing at squats with Hoary Boulder.

Final Fantasy 8
1. Zell's tattoo is available as an option in Character Creation.
2. The "Double" and "Triple" spells used by Nabriales are from Final Fantasy 8.

Final Fantasy 9
1. In Aleport (Western La Noscea) you can find a winged mermaid statue that very closely resembles the figurehead of the Prima Vista airship.
2. When unsheathed, "The Majestic Moogle Mogtome", an Arcanist weapon, takes the appearance of a moogle writing in a book, closely resembling the Save Moogles of Final Fantasy 9.

Final Fantasy 10
1. Garlean machines are referred to as "machina" much like in Final Fantasy 10.
2. Soul crystals are a very similar concept to dresspheres from Final Fantasy 10-2.

Final Fantasy 11
1. The Pugilist's Guild quests makes a reference to Cornelia, who founded the guild. Cornelia was a monk in Final Fantasy 11.
2. The artifact and vintage armor sets for all jobs are identical to the names of the artifact armor sets in Final Fantasy 11.
3. The final boss of Snowcloak, Fenrir, looks much like Fenrir from Final Fantasy 11 and even uses similar moves.

Final Fantasy 12
1. The final boss of Stone Vigil (Hard Mode) is Giruveganaus.
2. The beast tribe Gnath closely resmble Urutan-Yensa.
3. In the minion guide, the King Tomato minion has a quote attributed to Tomaj.

Final Fantasy 13
1. Jandelaine, the aesthetician, starts his service by turning a female Lalafell's hair into Lightning's hairstyle.
2. In Coerthas there is a quest "Rolling with the Snowies" in which a snowman says "Revolutionaries always get called crazy", which is a line used by Fang in Final Fantasy 13.
3. During the 2014 Halloween event, an NPC uses the phrase "Sugar and Rainbows" which was used by Sazh Katzroy.
4. The Gold Saucer side quest "So you think you can ride this chocobo" is a reference to the lyrics of the "Crazy Chocobo" theme.

Final Fantasy Type-O
1. The imperial salute of the Garlean Emprire is the samea s the Millitesi Empre salute in Type-O.

Final Fantasy Tactics
1. The cowardly merchant Ungust says at one point, "Spare me your contempt! If you want to blame someone for the the world's in, blame yourselves or the gods!" This is a direct quote from Delita Heiral at the beginning of the playstation version of Final Fantasy Tactics.

[OMEGA_HACK]

Male dragoons alternate weapon drawn pose is the same pose from the famous artwork of yoshitaka amano's Kain Highwind pose. FF4