Did You Care When (a certain someone) Died in FF7?

[StriderShinryu]

I was a Tifa guy through and through so while the moment was certainly emotional it didn't hit me at all as hard as it did for some people. Plus, having played other JRPGs before with that sort of storyline moment I wasn't surprised that it was not something I could stop or reverse.

 

[Spider RedNight]

I hated her so no, I didn't miss her at all nor did I particularly care when her 'OMG SO DRAMATIC' death happened.

Edit: HOWEVER, I was upset that I was screwed out of a decent healer.

 

[Kopikatsu]

I cared in that you find a powerful armor that suits her well in the same dungeon that you lose her, and if she has it after Sephiroth kills her, then it's gone for good. So that was annoying. But otherwise, not really. Now if Tifa died... that's a different story.

 

[SmaMan]

I started playing FF7 when I got it for PS1 about 13 years after it came out. So yeah, I heard of that spoiler for years before it as everyone kept freaking out. So when I finally did get to that point, it wasn't shocking in the least. Did I still feel for the characters? Yeah, a little.

Now you want a game moment where I did tear up/feel all the feels? The last hour or so of Earthbound.
Seriously. Go. Play. It.

 

[SoreWristed]

No.

The only feeling i had at that time was 'do i lose her materia and equipment now?

 

[mad825]

Of course I cared. I spent hours grinding her to a high level and game decides to pull a dick move.

 

[NPC009]

[HEADING=1]He's talking about Aerith for fuck's sake.[/HEADING]​

In a game where characters survive harsher things than a sword stab and can be revived using an item, I thought it was pretty dumb.

That exact picture was on the back of the box (of the European PlayStation version). So eh, not much of a spoiler. I guess some innocent soul could think Cloud's merely giving her a swimming lesson, but... yeah.

Didn't hit me that hard, really. It's not like I'd never seen a character die before in a videogame. Aeris kicking the bucket wasn't exactly a new thing, not even for Final Fantasy.

 

[Roofstone]

Of course i cared, she was the healer. Then she just goes ahead and dies! That is just questionable work ethic, I'd say the net worth of my party is better without her.

In fact, when I picked up that corpse we were all poorer as a team by her mere presence again, and once we let her float around like a rubber duckie we were all better off.

Damn waste of space. Worst hire ever.

 

[MerlinCross]

As a kid, yeah. It was kinda moving and didn't expect to see a main character actually DIE like that.

Few years later, my god that was stupid. I hated losing her for the insane healing and magic damage she was throwing around more than her death.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

Fine. Yes. Yes, I cared a great deal. I still get sad when I see the scene or play the game to this day, and I'm thirty. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person left on the planet who was so shocked by that moment. For the longest time I refused to believe it. The person who loaned me the game in high school said, "Oh, Aeris? She dies. You know that, right?"
"No. And if she did, you're just not playing it right." And then she died, and I was heartbroken. I liked her. She was sweet and dragged Cloud out of his shell. For a while, I kept trying every stupid rumor on the internet to bring her back.

That scene at the end of Kingdom Hearts, where they meet up again? That made me tear up a bit because I saw it as the two of them finally reuniting.


As for the Phoenix Down thing, I figured that out a long time ago. The description says it removes the KO affect. So it wakes you up if you're knocked out. It doesn't not reverse death itself. Of course, this opens up a whole new can of worms, such as how can people beat each other with massive swords or shoot each other up with bullets and not die, but getting stabbed is fatal, but hey! That's not the question. The question was why don't they use a Phoenix Down, and the answer is because it wouldn't work.

 

[Auron225]

At the time, yeah. I liked her as a character but more of it was just shock that they actually killed one your party members and that I couldn't fight with her anymore.

Most games that I'd played until this point were platformers and in some cases death was meant to be funny, like Crash Bandicoot. I wasn't used to that kind of actual-death in a game.

 

[Thanatos2]

I cared in so much as I was like crap, there goes my healer as thats what I was speccing Aeris for, but as in did I care why the character died? Meh, not really. FF7 was revolutionary for it's graphics, but the actual storyline wasn't as good as previous iterations, namely Final Fantasy 6, so I cant say I was that attached to the characters.

 

[likalaruku]

Considering that THIS used to be my Escapist Avatar.......

 

[TilMorrow]

[HEADING=1]He's talking about Aerith for fuck's sake.[/HEADING]​

In a game where characters survive harsher things than a sword stab and can be revived using an item, I thought it was pretty dumb.

You sure? He could have meant:

Spoiler: Cait Sith

Spoiler: Sephiroth

Spoiler: Heck even Gene

Spoiler: Angeal

Spoiler: Or even Zack

etc
when talking about deaths that are worth talking about in FFVII. Granted the rest of his post is basically him talking about Aerith though.

Honestly when I first played the game I was a quite sad when she died whilst we were visiting that area, especially after all the shit had already happened to her during the events of the game and prior. Add on the fact that the player can't do a thing to prevent it or counter it and the situation was pretty damn depressing. Nowadays though whenever I reach that moment in my replays of FF7 I usually just say Damn as I lose the game's best healer/caster and realise that I may have lost some items.

 

[Hairless Mammoth]

Spoiler: Spoilers for FF7 within. Don't read what I wrote unless you have played the game fully. This is the only place on the internet where FF7 will be spoiled if you click.

I was really sad when Biggs, Wedge and Jessie were killed by the Sector 7 plate falling. Even if they were just side characters the story would forget later on, I felt like they were a part of the main team and... OH, we're talking about Aerith/Aeris/Aerish/the flower girl who was only mildly interesting. Yeah, I do miss those nifty limit breaks she had (and any armor she ran off with).

I heard this spoiler years before I played FF7. I kinda didn't care much for her, when Cloud reasons for joining Shinra were already established as a way to impress and protect Tifa, the girl he had a crush on his whole life and turned out to like him from a distance as well. (Also, I think she was cooler as a character since she was actually shy, despite being the popular girl in town as a kid, later learning martial arts, opening a bar that is a front for Avalanche and being able to suplex 10 story monsters and robots when her rage meter is filled.)

And really, the only noticably reason why Cloud took a fancy to the girl he met on the street selling flowers was because she looked exactly like Zack's girlfriend (because she was that girlfriend) he likely talked about while hauling Cloud's catatonic ass back from the Shinra mansion. When Cloud's mind finally semi-came back, he probably would now be attracted to the kind of ladies Zack was into, as Cloud was basically mimicking him.

Spoiler: Other FF death/major spoilers

Spoiler: Seriously, I spent 20 minutes typing out spoilers from Final Fantasy I to Final Fantasty XIII

Chaos is Garland, sent centuries back in time by the four fiends. Several characters die in FF2 and become playable in the Soul Of Rebirth bonus dungeon. Tellah dies casting Meteor. Galuf dies in an epic fight with a tree(makes sense in context). General Leo and Emperor Gestahl gets offed by Kefka halfway through FF6. Squall gets impaled by Edea's ice spears, yet wakes up fine (if not for being on a set of Metal Gear Solid 1). Edea is actually a nice lady, possessed by the true villain. She ran the orphanage almost every player character was in when they were young. They just don't remember because of an asspull. Queen Brahne dies in Garnet's arms after Bahamut tears her fleet apart. 9's Cid turns into a frog, then into Sean Connery (in his Ramirez outfit from the Highlander films!). Zidane is supposed to be Terra's new angle of death, after Kuja's limited lifespan expires. Garland gets kicked off a cliff, Kefka-style, by Kuja. Sin is Jecht. The final Summoning requires a guardian to sacrifice themselves and kills the summoner, hence why Sin really is Jecht. Yu Yevon, a summoner from the war 1000 years ago, is behind it all and has become a mindless spirit-tick, controlling Sin on instinct. Auron has been dead the whole time (still always badass, though). Princess Ashe isn't dead. Bach didn't kill her father, but his twin brother, Judge Grabranth, did. Vayne and Venat, some weird god-thing, want to wrestle control away from the other god-things and take all the power for themselves. Balthier is Dr. Cid's son, a former Judge, and, regrettably, not the leading man. Reddas, formerly Judge Zecht, dies destroying the Sun-Cryst. FF13 sucks.

 

[go-10]

I didn't care all too much since I was team Tifa all the way but the music to this day still affects me... I mean it makes me nostalgic not that it makes me cry, Tifa's theme does manage to make my eyes all watery and chiz

 

[HardkorSB]

Right after I played that part of the game, I went to the cinema to watch a movie where a guy cuts off 3 heads with a single swing of a sword so this dramatic moment got kind diluted.

 

[kilenem]

It might be because I'm from Detroit and we deal with violence on a daily bases which has caused us to lose empty. Me and my four friends collectively didn't give a damn and was only sad that she was holding items when she died.