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Well, here's how I see it. You do recall that all the characters are able to do some really trippy stuff during all their limit breaks, right? Tifa summons Flipper to unleash a new brand of hell upon her foes, Aerith has the naked cherubs and their healings powers (Great Gospel, if you're wondering which one), Cid with his jumping and dynamite sticks, and Cait Sith murdering his opponents with a slot machine. Nevermind the fact that Cloud's repeated slashing with the sword is insane (and should have broken his back, if not dislocated something by now).

When a character does a special attack or is in combat, it's probably considered an extreme situation for them, in which they are able to do things that they normally wouldn't. Everyone becomes a grasshopper (where as Cid is the King of Grasshoppers), and everyone uses their own mad skillz to smack the enemy back and forth across the battlefield.

If characters like Vincent can change their shape as mad men like Sephiroth summons chunks of rock from the sky to fulfill their alien mother's wishes, then why not have them all jump around like crazy? Although Final Fantasy VII does have it's own realistic aspects to it, it's still a fantasy/fictional genre, with magic and monsters and whatnot.

Cloud, during his Omnislash limit break (from the game) actually does quite a bit of jumping, similar to what he does in Advent Children. Same with Yuffie and Tifa. In fact, your characters will perform physical feats that you or anyone around you would not want to try at home. sweatdrop It's just a game, and a fantasy-sci-fi themed one at that. It's not like, let's say, Metal Gear Solid, where the creators are actually aiming for realistic fighting.

Cid probably still jumps the highest, as I'm sure he's always practicing from his airship at home. razz

If it helps, just think of the arthritis that all of them are going to experience once the cartilage in their joints deteriorates enough from all thsi jumping. xd They won't even be able to stand, much less jump, at the rate that they're going now.

That is, unless there's some super special treatment in their world that repairs the damage done to joints. ninja

Not that hard to understand. Think of this in matter of powerlevel = ability.

Cloud and the gang, in FF7 the game had powers normally based around their level. When you were high level you had good materia, or just didn't need it. When you were low... well.. you didn't have much. Advent Childern is 2 years after they not only saved the world after Sepiroth literally became a god, but imagine all the power they gained after that?

Non the less, the physics on how they can do all those crazy moves is new. According the DVD extras, they wanted anything to be possible. In the game oriignally, it was only possible within the limits of both the game, and.... Well... The fact there needed to be more story. After all, imgine how much story we would of lost otherwise?

Those are possibilities.

I just don't think that leveling up would make you be able to do that. sweatdrop

I can't write a lot for now...I need to go to school. sweatdrop

Yuffi is a ninja ninja thats why she can jump so high!

Leveling up represents expanding the boundaries of a person's capabilities so since by the end of the game they were at a high level then they became capable of jumping higher... though they were around a structure which would mean that they were probably jumping several times instead of one high jump... except cid who perhaps only had to jump once... biggrin

Because the game designers unintentionally contradicted themselves. 3nodding

The fight scenes were just too unrealistic to me...sure they probably weren't in FFVII, but they weren't outragiously wacky either.

The fight scenes in AC didn't make me go squeal and everything. sweatdrop In fact, I didn't find it as cool as most people did.