+Devsguy I imagine they probably tried both and had 1 group crying their eyes out by the end of it all and other that didn't seem to affected and thought "yep lets go for the incredibly moving option. Only just noticing properly other nice touches, like text going over Sephiroths saying "shut up" rather than the side or waiting, not shit given on your plot you killed Areith time to die!"
Yeah. This scene is a real case study. Not that the text thing is particularly relevant these days, but the idea behind it, of establishing one way for doing thing (characters take turns talking), only to disregard it when appropriate. The disregard of the rule is only possible if the rule exists, and is more effective the more firmly the rule is established.
One of the saddest moments of my childhood. I genuinely mourned the loss of Aeris as though I'd lost a real-life friend. Games, not just books and movies, have power.
When Cloud says "The cycle of nature and your stupid plan don't mean a thing. Aeris is gone. " this scene becomes so personal. He cares much more about Aeris than the fate of the planet, or more than anything.
I think Sephiroth was referring to the 7 seconds before the meteor fall on Midgar It says it in the chapter description of the game But I like your thinking there
Without a doubt, this is the scariest and most chilling moment in the whole Final Fantasy franchise. It was just so sudden and unexpected, even to this day I still find if kind of creepy...
I don't disagree with you, but i do have a moment in this game might be a good contestant for most chilling Final Fantasy moment. When i first got the submarine, and didn't know how to pilot it, i pressed square, submerged and there was emerald weapon, swimming towards me and i didn't know what the "go" button was. I pressed up just in time to resurface, was petrified of that ocean ever since, and have had nightmares about it to this day.
SillyPlace.Net OMG! Same here, i bloody hated that sub, as well as the emerald weapon, as soon as it came in sight it always caught me - instant game over! But I can understand the scariness of it, I wouldnt want the incredible hulk charging at me underwater, sounds very claustrophobic
Davidsuper1215 Zhong imagine playing it with no guides, no RU-vid... no hint of what is going to happen next... completely invested in the characters.. I am not even an RPG fan but this is my all time favorite game and this was a complete shock.
Letting the music continue throughout the fight was brilliant. I remember having the feeling I still had a chance to save her, everything wasn't processed yet and the music continuing kept me in the state of confusion and sadness. The way they threw you into the fight without having the time to really let it sink in, I remember thinking I had to cut down Jenova as soon as possible to try and get to Aeris again.
Yeah, and they also left out the victory music. Of course, that made perfect sense, because the victory music at that moment would have been weird as hell, haha.
+Kelsey Curles Best way to find out is to mute the music and see if you react the same. Or mute it and play something completely jarring with the tone of what's going on on screen. Like any of the chocobo songs. That should give you a pretty clear answer. Personally, I think it's a little of both, but the music is what really drives it home.
Were you still thinking of the song in your head? That's why suggested playing something inappropriate for the scene. It ensures that you're only getting the impact of a single variable. In this case the scene itself. I do behavioral experiments like this on myself all the time. I'm weird like that. My own behavior fascinates me.
isaac mettle same.....my whole family of 4 watched this and the only one who didn't feel was my little 6 year old brother....emotionally stunted I guess
I don't remember if I cried the first time it happened (have a couple times during replays) but I do remember crying the first time I saw Bugenhagen pass. Ho ho hoooooo.
@@Ok-hy4xx we watched my father play through it while me and my brother had our own save file that we would play through the next day. We always learned through his mistakes lol
+green tea Since Final Fantasy VII is being remade, its either Aerith ends up dead or Tifa dose, which should depend on the player's past choices (either way will be extremely disheartening to Cloud Strife) One thing I find utterly unrealistic about when Cloud Strife leaves Aerith's body to sink is one thing that Square Soft (now Square Enix) forgot to take one thing into consideration... corpses don't sink on there own, especially fresh corpses, which makes it look like that Cloud Strife ended up drowning Aerith while she was still alive and paralyzed is what it looks like. That points out that out of all Final Fantasy games, Final Fantasy VII deserves to be remade.
Half way thought the game development, the game director's wife died so he wanted the world to feel what he felt and that is why Aeris died. So sad, Aeris one of my favourite characters. So. Fucking. Sad.
With how much in-depth the remake is, just think once we get to this part of how much more this scene is going to tear at our hearts. I'm dreading it...but at the same time cant wait.
A few days before... Cloud: "Alright, team! We're gonna have to start saving our money to play the arcades at Golden Saucer! I also have a three-part investment plan to get rich by breeding chocobo! First part of the plan: save money by no longer buying phoenix downs! Part 2: No more potions, either...don't need em since Aeris is such a great healer. Step 3: Profit!"
2:00 When I was playing through this part of the game when it first came out, my Grandma walked past the tv, heard the music, then stopped in her tracks and said "Wow that must be a really sad part of the game." This scene and song is so powerful that even someone that didnt play the game could feel the emotion of the moment. Its definitely one of the best directed and best scored scenes in video game history.
To think Aeris had the most powerful materia (Holy) with her all along and she thought it was just a useless piece of materia that did absolutely nothing. Just goes to show you that you are more powerful than you think.
Man i use to play this as a kid in the lounge while my mum took naps on the couch and sometimes watched, its now been 10 years since she passed away, time flies...
(meanwhile on the Muppet Show theater balcony...) Statler: Well, she's certainly dead in the water. Waldorf: And so is the game's script! Both: D'OH-HO-HO-HO-HO-HO!
They made Jessie's death a real tearjerker because we got more time with her. We knew her death was coming too, and it hurt. I think Aerith's will hurt so much more because of how much it's hinted at in remake pt1.
With arbiters of fate defeated in the remake, the remake no longer need to follow FF 7 original timeline/event. There is a possibility Aerith survives. There is even another alternate universe where Zack survives.
I love this game, it was the best final fantasy franchise and it still is. Dont know why people still complaining about the graphic is so bad and those blood thing, dont they realize this is a ps 1 game
What a nostalgia feeling , when i was younger i spent many hours playing this game , even skipped school to play it , great memories!!!! Those games can never beat this one , never again...
And I love how they do a boss battle after that without changing the music, like FUCK YOU, this is the best song in the entire game. We could loop it none stop for the whole 100+ hours and you'd still give the game 10/10 for best sound track ever!!!!
MultiProPu15 you see any other guy as strong as sephiroth showing up on that entire planet? you can say cloud was mako experimented, but what happen to the rest?
people might not know, but the director's mother died while making this game. He probably wanted to express the feeling of his mother dying to Aeris's death.
Ohh it's deeper than that. Her death happened right smack dab in the middle of the story. Not at the beginning, nor the end. In the middle, so we could try to sort ourselves out by going 'wth just happened?'
I don't think so. The archetype in this one is cleary the innocent girl, not the mother figure. It is about the destruction of beauty a lonely man would project on a girl.
His mother passed away during the development of FF6, and I don't know that Aeris reflected Sakaguchi's mother necessarily (maybe she had the same bright, cheery spirit) but she was chosen because it was felt her death would have the biggest impact on the player. Having a lead character be killed was lead artist Tetsuya Nomura's idea, based around Sakaguchi's desire to make a story based around themes of life and death.
Gonna be a final fantasy noob here. Played this game for the first time in 2020 while locked in my room during Covid. Played it twice all the way through just to hear the music and get as many secrets and dialogue I could and this track and moment were something to behold for someone who had no idea what was going on.
I died many many times fighting the Jenova boss and I cried harder and harder every time I had to rewatch the scene. Pretty sure it started to genuinely damage my soul after awhile.
I'm sure it's been said before but I still think it's hilarious that her body sinks so far when Cloud was literally JUST standing in that waist-deep water. Like was there an underwater cliff? Did Cloud bring stilts to this party?
***** Maybe this isn´t water but some sort of fluid materia (or just some random fluid) which has much less density than water or something like that, I mean it´s a damn fantasy world. And for the blood, maybe the graphics weren`t good enough, or because kids could play it too and so they just didn´t added blood
probably the most spoiled moment in gaming,this spread like virus back in the day.you had to play this as soon as it came out and as fast as possible to not of heard about this scene.
I was 13 when FF7 came out and when this happened, I was just like "... wtf? Wtf? DUDE, WTF?!" It wasn't until MW2 (2009) where a scene just completely shocked me and made me cry, man. Imo, Aeris' death is the craziest, most unexpected death in ANY form of media.
I played this game about 20 years ago.....and I still remember this scene.. That fact alone shows how awesome this game was and how memorable this scene was.
Every single time they pan up showing Sephiroth down striking, eyes watery, face gets pale, trying to tell this videogame character "NO! DON'T DO IT!" And it always ends in sadness. I don't think I'll handle the ultra powerful 8th gen version that'll probably be the most bloody on screen death of this iconic moment.
i like to point out this was on the PS1, like come on we still talking about this game today..And the passion amongst gamers is eminence you ether like sephiroth or not .
I actually prepared for this moment so that I wouldn’t cry. So much for that! It almost reminded me of when I lost someone special in my life. I miss you Charlie RIP my dog :’(
*This was the first major death of my childhood* 😞 I watched my brother play thru this game when I was 7 (in year 2000) And how great was the soundtrack? This whole game is a masterpiece.
Well most of us would save her. But since all he lost then is zack,his mother that we&he's aware off right there that he might have tried to save if he understood what sephy meant. He's still going to be surprised by aerith's death. Just as we might. Maybe they will trick us to belive she can be saved by actually prolong when it happens or make it seem like she would survive the altar just to troll us and have the death happen at the same place. We have to see.
I remember playing this and just being super confused with how the water only came up past Cloud's waist and how far she sank...Well, and extremely sad but...
The jewel is the soul, it exits at the top of the head. I wonder where all this knowledge about the spirit comes from. The japanese games seem to be full of it. I don't know any other scene where they show things like this.
The saddest scene ever in video game's history. Even the remake will not touch this for seminal and emotional reasons. This will stay with me forever. I remember the Sunday it originally happened I was playing this masterpiece of a game with my younger sister, she loved Aries and wen this scene dropped and the materia does that 1st bounce and this TIMELESS MUSIC STARTS the tears followed. No scene in a video game ever since has done this to me!
One of the biggest reasons ff7 was such a masterpiece was because of the music and the way it was implemented in each monumental scene. It would help inspire so much emotion. As soon as you hear the bell you knee seph was about to make an appearance....I know they are remaking it but the one thing they better not do is completely and utterly remake the music to something that original isnt. Make it better . Use an orchestra for crying outloud but pleeeease do not change it. It will turn into the updated willy wonka movie which was trash to me because they changed the oompaloompa song from the original.
:'( imo the saddest moment in the history of video-gaming. I nearly couldn't concentrate on the upcoming boss fight that shows up here, but as soon as i finished it and disc 1 was over prompting me to save, i saved the game and turned it off, and didn't come back to it for 2 days.
What's best about this scene (beside the music): Unlike almost all other "heros" behave in a scene like this, cloud does not even think about killing Sephiroth or about revenge at this moment. He even talks to Sephiroth calmly. All that matters to him is Aeris! Thus, I believe him when he says to Sephiroth, the cycle of nature or his stupid plan don't mean a thing.
I finally played FF7 for the first time on the switch and I know what I was getting into because it is a famous video game spoiler. But it still hurts anyway now that I got the full context behind her death and got to know her better as a character. I was struggling for a little bit on that fight because one of its attacks hit my party like a truck. It managed to knock out Cait Sith and Yuffie with Cloud almost dying. I said to myself "If only I had Aeris to keep my party healed up", but then I remembered she died in the cutscene prior to the battle and I said "Sh*t that's right, she died. Damn you Sephiroth!".
I dont give a fuck I still cry when i see this. I was 11 years old when I played it, I didnt know anything about loosing anything I didnt know about feelings yet when I saw this I balled my eyes out. I'm twety six now and still I feel the same sense of loss when I see it. Greatest Game ever.
FF7, the best game ever made in my opinion and I'm pretty sure most FF fans agrees with that. This was the first scene in gaming history that actually made me cry. I actually had to pause the game in the middle of the battle to calm myself down, it was impossible to fight the boss with this music and tears in my eyes. Long live FF7...
I love Sephiroth but in this moment I couldn't feel nothing to him instead of hate and anger. The fact that he killed Aerith with no remorse, pure and too inocent girl, makes me upset. At the same time, I think this is the first time I cry a lot playing a RPG game, and I also think that for the era that this game was made, this scene was quite innovative, because of its CGI and music, also 'cause of its story...
A few other games have pulled this sort of thing off. It was most notable in the Phantasy Star series(Phantasy Star 2 and 4). I believe the reason why this moment hit us all like an avalanche is because of the timing. We were given enough time to perhaps develop a sort of bond with Aeris, thus the reason this scene had such a powerful effect. Perhaps we were too young to understand the events taking place in those previous games, or perhaps it was done too soon. Nut i believe that this was all set up, and it was timed just right. Please excuse me, I think I have sand in my eyes...
So sad man. What a great game. I still am emotionally attached to this game. The ending cut scene to this game gets me every time. Can not wait to see this remake.
For me, the reason fans are so disgusted by Aerith's death is because his death may have given the game a good reputation, but not for the character, even though she has a good personality and was heroic in the end , she had nothing more memorable than her death that valued her character, which influenced the current generation of fans of the game, they are not all, but many turn away from her or see her as useless because they know that Aerith is going to die, even though you choose to have an affinity with her, it makes no difference, you will not be with her in the end, which shows that it is not worth investing in the girl, when we compare her with other heroines of the franchise, we see that she is quite wronged, if she is still going to die, that she has the best game development, to compensate, and that make her more memorable for her life than for her death
