In video games, there's nothing more important than death. Final Fantasy VIIflower girl, Aerith. In the 1997 game, Aerith meets her end at the hands of Sephiroth. Sephiroth brutally stabs Cloud, the hero of her game, in front of her Strife and, by extension, the player.
It was something that would remain in the hearts of fans forever. “We felt it was essential to express the weight and rawness of loss,” said Tetsuya Nomura, a game director who has worked on several titles. Final Fantasy Titles including this year Final Fantasy VII Reverserecently said new york times. It was a formative moment for many players, and they remember the beat of the scene, including the moment its iconic musical theme begins.When Square Enix announced the remake Final Fantasy VII In the game trilogy, fans were bracing for Aerith to die once again, with more modern, more realistic graphics, but the games added a twist. The idea was that the phantom in the game was called the Whisper, and could potentially resist fate.
In other words, Final Fantasy VII Reverse When the console version launched late last month, players were faced with the possibility that Aerith could be saved, or that Square Enix might pull off the biggest troll in history.
(Spoiler Alert: Major spoilers ahead regarding Aerith's fate. Final Fantasy VII Reverse To obey. No, really, the whole scene is ruined.)
reproductionThe reenactment of the series' most infamous scenes begins with a familiar scene. Cloud approaches Aerith, who is kneeling in the Forgotten City, where he fled to pray for a way to defeat Sephiroth. Cloud, influenced by Sephiroth, almost kills Sephiroth himself. When that fails, Sephiroth appears from the sky, comically large sword in hand, and feeds everyone's favorite flower girl a shish kebab.
For a moment, Aerith's fate seems locked into the same fate gamers were familiar with in 1997, until Cloud breaks free at the last moment and deflects the blade. It falls harmlessly to its side and Aerith lives.
Or so it seems, until the scenes start to jumble between moments where Aerith is unharmed and moments later when she dies covered in blood. what?
Things only get more confusing from there. reproduction The entire game evokes the multiverse. When the cast found Cloud and Aerith, it was clear that they had seen their friends brutally murdered. Cloud, long established as an unreliable narrator, still treats her as if she were alive, and perhaps plays her role as some kind of ghost well.
The reaction to this scene in online fan communities was extremely perplexing. “Why make it so complicated?” one Redditor posted asking for an explanation of the ending. “What was the point in the first place?” wrote another in the thread.
Square Enix's twist on Aerith's death also means that the scenes following her murder will play out very differently.In the original Final Fantasy VII, the game's cast individually mourns Aerith, with Red XIII howling in sadness and Tifa gently stroking her hair, before Cloud takes her to a lake and submerges her in the water. It is these scenes that drive her to her death. There's no magic cure or plot twist to help her. She's gone.
