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Having just played Final Fantasy VII : Crisis Core, I have made, what I think, is a startling discovery. The Shinra guards from Final Fantasy VII are the same as the soldiers in the Galbadian army! Don't believe me/don't recall what the two look like? Well then I have photo evidence of this laziness by Square in reusing character models across two games back to back.

The Galbadian soldiers of Final Fantasy VIII

The Shinra guards of Final Fantasy VII

So, any thoughts anyone? ninja

Wow they do look the same...yeah that is pretty lazy lol! And stupid since galbadian troops are very different from final fantasy 7 soldiers

lol well of course not summons or espers or whatever the hell square feels like calling them but there is a difference between the 2 soldiers....in final fantasy 7 avalanche the shinra soldiers (normal garb soldiers, not counting the SOLDIER rank like Zack and Sephiroth) wear a helmet with a yellowish visor in front for them to see, also they carry nightsticks instead of blades for melee weapons like galbadia does, shinra troops also use rifles alot, galbadian troops don't use guns that much and most actually use close combat blades or weird types of swords in the game final fantasy avalanche for the PS I have never fought a shrinra soldier that uses a blade or sword of any kind except for the SOLDIER ranking shinra soldiers like SOLDIER first and second class

I don't think that Avalanche: Final Fantasy should really count as an argument here, as it was a fan made game and had no connection to Square Enix. ninja

well it is quite likely that they did i mean come on u cant expect every thing to be original lol it takes years for that stuff some times u have to use some things u already have if u still like the game silly i dont see the prob. lol this part is off topic but ur avis look so much alike i thought u were talkin to ur self lol

I see similarities but they don't look the same to me.
You have to remember Tetsuya Nomura is a bit lazy when you look back on his minor character designs, because a great majority look the same. Some of the major character designs hold similarities as well. I don't think it's Square's fault more so as it is their character designer's.

lol bingo lol

Wow..haven't noticed that before, but yeah they almost look exactly the same except for maybe 1-2 differences.