List of Final Fantasy references in A Realm Reborn

[mbncd]

A lot of these text based references are things the EN lore team could've just decided to throw in on a whim. I'm curious if the other languages have as many or even more references than we do...

[Sove92]

"2. The adventures from version 1.0 are called "Warriors of Light"."

This is not true, you are called a WoL regardless of whether or not you are a Legacy player. The first time this is mentioned in story is the level 15 quests where Raubahn says you are one of them too, even if you are a 2.0 player.


Anyway.

VII: Shinra and Garlemald share a similar origin in the sense that they both started small and insignificant, until they figured out how to use the world's dominant element (Ceruleum is a refined form of Aether) to their advantage and exploded in power.

[Ardbob]

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

I think this is mostly covered by the part where I talk about their AF armor being modeled after Kain's armor, but I'll add a note about the pose as well.

"2. The adventures from version 1.0 are called "Warriors of Light"."

This is not true, you are called a WoL regardless of whether or not you are a Legacy player. The first time this is mentioned in story is the level 15 quests where Raubahn says you are one of them too, even if you are a 2.0 player.

I know that all adventurers are Warriors of Light. I worded that badly. I'll fix it right now.

VII: Shinra and Garlemald share a similar origin in the sense that they both started small and insignificant, until they figured out how to use the world's dominant element (Ceruleum is a refined form of Aether) to their advantage and exploded in power.

It's a somewhat generic backstory for a villainous empire so I don't know if I'd consider it a reference to Shinra specifically. I'll put it under Possible References.

[AugustFlynn]

The job crystals in XIV seem like a direct reference to the job crystals in V. They housed souls of past warriors of light.

[Karja]

For FF7 the Jessie reference is still missing.
They introduced her in 2.3 in the Main Story.
More reference in her Wiki entry.

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Jessie

[ilebur]

1. The Ceruleum Processing Plant might be purposely similar to the Mako Reactors from Final Fantasy 7. (credit: aranwade)

We can also see Biggs using a security console to open a gate in the Processing Plant much like in the start of FF7: http://i.imgur.com/BrlKQMI.jpg

[Tsuchi]

Hiya,

You mentioned that Typhon and Ultros from FFVI are present, but you didn't mention that Dragon's Den is an area previously found in the GBA re-release of FFVI.

[Kerrigen]

Unei, Doga and their theme, were lifted from FF3.

[DracotheDragon]

nice list but i noticed a few things were inncorrect :3

"12. The song that plays during a game of Triple Triad is a remixed version of "Shuffle or Boogie""

thats slightly wrong it is the exact same song :3 it hasn't been changed in the slightest



"The Ascian Lahabrea's name is a reference to the esper from Final Fantasy 12. (credit: slatervonjager)"

also incorrect, Lahabrea is the name of the esper of Light Oppsitting The esper of dark metaus, Nabriales continues this as he is the esper of light to Cúchulainn


"1. For a limited period of time, Lightning appeared in a series of FATEs. You could even obtain hers or Snow's outfits (depending on your gender)."
Outside of this limited event when you d the quest to unlock the astatitian he will always cut the lalafell's hair into a green version of lightning's hair



also the garlean empire, seems to be a mix of 3 empires from the final fantasy series, the empire from ffII, (with it being led by a large man in very eccentric style clothing and hairstyle and being mostly machine based), The galbainia army from FFVIII, (due to there use of gunswords) and they can be compared to the Rozarrian Empire of Final fantasy XII the new emperor of garlamald looks similar to Vain solidor in his power up state (said by a friend of mine) as well as there extensive use of airships as a main fortress (shown with the argile that was destroyed by midgarsomrr) as well as sharing the trait of using captsule's that creates magic rather then using the 'magic's' themselves.



EDIT TO ADD ONE MORE: The male miqo'te /pose, and Idle pose is similar to Vaan's pose. even there /streatch is the same as vaan's prefer way of stretching which he dose a few times in ffXII

[Zell1226]

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.

Trust me, it's not coincidence, it's a reference. Even the feet are angled the same. I'm not the only once who noticed this when idle poses were first released.