Aerith Died By Drowning?

[setting_son]

Aeris dies? THANKS FOR THE SPOILER, JERK.

Next you'll be telling me Bruce Willis is a ghost, the Titanic sinks, Jesus dies, Kevin Spacey can fake a limp, and portals can open on the moon.


But seriously, Cloud (at least, my Cloud, who I named MR. FLIBBLE) had, like, 99 Phoenix Downs in his inventory at the time.

If he is a ghost, then why is 'Die Hard' called 'Die Hard' and not 'Dead Hard'. Riddle me that!

 

[dickywebster]

Better question, why didnt he just use a phoenix down???
Ive brought her back a few times before that moment, why not then? =P
But then you probably dont want to read too far into most of the ff series as your asking for mind bending trouble.

You too, buddy. Pheonix Down cures K.O., it doesn't cure death.

I hate to be a jerk but there are two things I can't fucking abide when people talk about FF, and this is one of them. (The other is the "why is it called final when there's so many of them?" quip, always said with a self-satisfied smirk as if the person wasn't the fifteen millionth person to think of it).

Well its a logic hole i keep picking at, before i rememebr its ff and give up =P
Oh and the final part of final fantasy is easy, i know a lot of people joke about it but it doesnt take more than a minute with google to find the reason for the name...
Not like most of SE's series with the same name share a lot in common (like dragon quest).
But ultimately i only care about one thing with ff, how much of my life its taken from me =P

I just closed the logic hole, didn't I?? PD doesn't bring people back to life. When your characters go down in battle they're not dead, just incapacitated. After that cutscene, however, Aeris WAS dead and so couldn't be brought back.

As for the whole thing of people taking more powerful hits in combat and shrugging them off, I think the thing to realise is that the battles in FF are highly representational. I don't think we're actually being asked by Square to believe that Cloud and his friends can survive being stabbed and shot or that they take turns hitting each other; that's just the form they chose for the combat. They obviously weren't going for the closely-integrated-story-and-gameplay approach that Yahtzee is always on about - and which I agree is a very good thing in a game - but I'll let them off because it's just such a good game anyway.

You did that.

And you could always take the view that its ff and a lot of it doesnt make sense so questioning its just gonna give you a headache.
But then you could say they just block in combat and getting a huge sword rammed through your chest in a sneak attack is kinda hard to block, if you wanted some logic to it.

Yeah, I guess. I'm not into trying to logically explain everything though. To me fiction and art, and especially computer games, and doubly especially Japanese games, are about the weird and the wonderful. If I want realism I'll just get on with my life, to be honest. Realism has its place in many works of fiction, but unlike a lot of people I don't go around expecting it everywhere I look.

Yeah, to be honest I would wish you good luck trying to bring logic to things like anime, also you dont know fun until youve given a self proclaimed vulcan something like bleach and told him to explain it logically.
Ok hes a bit crazy wanting to be a vulcan, but he currently assumes japan is going through the 70s again =P