The $ Avenger wrote:If you go by "canon", meaning exactly what is said in games, then the simple solution is that Noah and Lutz are two different people.
Negative. If you go by exactly what is said in the games, all 3 of the Algo chapters that is, then it's clearly stated that Noah was the first generation Lutz. I could see people saying that Lutz from PSII isn't Noah going solely by the English translations, but it's still a bit of a stretch.
Personally, I always found Ripplinger's theory to be grasping at straws desperately. I never understood it either, since eliminating Lutz from PSII being Lutz from PSI destroys an important link between the two games (and with PSIV as well, since Kyra/Shess' first mention of Lutz is obviously meant to conjure a belief that Lutz is still alive even 2000 years after PSI).
-Corey