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Thank you so much for the kind words! I'm glad you enjoyed it!!

Thank you for writing this. Everything so far indicates a different ending. They will keep things mostly as is in the main timeline until the worlds merge again in part 3. After the reunion I expect we will have one single world once again where Aerith is alive.

>But yOu 🤓 don't 🤓 get 🤓 it mAN it's all tO make U FEEL like Cloud 🤓

They really played up the C/A relationship this time around, whether that's because it's going to be a different outcome around her fate remains to be seen, but there are a lot of points in her favor imo. Of course there is a lot that favors Tifa too but off the top of my head for Aerith there is: - UItimania Plus (the 3rd Remake Ultimania, as yet not in English) details Cloud's internal monologue during Tifa scenes as being him leaning into his cool S1C/Zack persona "more so than feeling something toward Tifa". Cloud is unable to cry here, or when Jessie dies, yet he uncontrollably lets out a tear at the start of R1.9 when Aerith walks away. I think it's the same with the C/T kiss, yeah Cloud wants to kiss her if you pick that route (who doesn't) but it's also because it feeds his ego and it's very forceful, like how he hurt Tifa when he was holding her in R1.13. Aerith's resolution is about her trying to get Cloud not to fall in love with her, which Cloud essentially admits he is falling for her. - The C/A exclusive trophy screenshots/references: R1.8 = Reunited. R2.12 = Hearts out, Dukes up. (This angle of the Skywheel is only shown in Aerith's date). R2.13 = I'm here for you. R2.14 = Confluence of Worlds. - Claudia flashback talking about exactly an Aerith type girl for Cloud, whilst Cloud is sleeping at Aerith's house. - Loads of Stamps that all have their nose pointing towards Aerith (they point towards Aerith, not just "towards the plot" as they are graffitied over in R1.2 on the top plate but those that aren't instead show the direction Aerith ran from the Shinra troopers). - The star motif. Star-crossed lovers, Aerith's outift having tiny star patterns on the shoulder pads, as earrings on her red dress. The cute couple side-quest in Cosmo Canyon. - Presumably the canon Rosa, her Temple of the Ancients weapon looks pretty much exactly the same. She's the default 4/6 times. Fits the "promise" plot-point and NPTK. - The Mog/Mag story being told several times as a parallel to Aerith's "last descendant of the Cetra/no children" lines in Traces Of Two Pasts. - Chocobo Chick summon in R1 having green eyes like Aerith (not the default blue). Cloud is likened to a chocobo like 100 times in R2 as well. Reminiscent of Sora who looks like a lovechild of C/A. - Leslie seeking his lover via the yellow flower pin (he does reunite with Merle). - Marlene got the full plot download in R1 and I guess saw Aerith's true feelings which Marlene (who surely must've also seen her past with Zack) which she then mentions to Zack later on, there was no time other than that brief interaction prior to Tsung's appearance where Marlene could've learned that so it must've been something Aerith might not've consciously meant to pass on to Marlene. Marlene mentioning Aerith likes Cloud is a throwaway if Aerith is just going to reunite with Zack in the afterlife from this point onwards. It would create needless melodrama if their role is just to stay in the lifestream and be together evermore. - Zack gets a yellow flower petal but it flows off his hand and towards Cloud, and Zack himself then tells Cloud to "save her!" - Rebirths ending has several moments that fit Yoshitaka Amano's concept art which is mostly C/A duo paintings. - Aerith and Cloud recreate the Tidus/Yuna Arigatou (Thank-you, infamously localized as it's alternate sentiment -> I love you, in The NA release) confession in Rebirth dream. - You start Rebirth with the Kitase party: Cloud, Aerith, Red13. With Kitase himself mentioning he wants a happy ending after 28 years of working on these characters. - Hamaguchi reminding people that C/A are not like a brother and sister relationship and taking a Clerith church duo shot with Kitase (seriously it's funny, there's some massive Clerith portrait church set up in a studio somewhere at Square that they took a photo together in front of) whilst also wearing pink shirts during development because of his love for Aerith. - Nomura always has Cloud searching for Aerith in every cross-over: Tactics, Dissidia and Kingdom Hearts. - Toriyama hinting C/A story beats at any chance he gets (he's not interviewed as often as ) - Nojima won't confirm or deny either C/A or C/T because he gets abused online so he has to go out of his way to state NPTK is about everyone but it seems very C/A specific and Uematsu said it is a love song and he made Loren Allred learn about C/A. Again R3 could canonize C/T after the life-stream sequence and the Highwind scene but if Aerith lives this time around I think she'll have to be considered the canon girl because there is just so much in her favor. If the developers stick to the original loss/angst ending leading to Advent Children's future comes about (regardless of R1's ending where I think it was rejected???) that will feel incongruent to how much effort they put into alluding to an alternate future being possible and how many C/A moments they added to R1 and R2. If we get the 1997 story again in the context of R-project It feels disproportionate to the amount of effort they put in (specifically to C/A) just to go back to the status quo, so I would admire the commitment to the vision frankly. I think all that was needed to land the emotion of Aerith's death would've been the original scene with modern HD-graphics and acting/music but if all of the added elements were for that purpose after all I think they just distract from the purity of the original.

Wow thanks for sharing your thoughts! I feel like if they aimed at "denying grief" as a general goal for the emotional scenes, then they accomplished their mission, since the game introduces a lot of new elements in such a short time span. I too would have much preferred if the Dyne section ended with the fight against him and had you dwell in the sorrow for a little bit. I also agree that they could have just added a funny Palmer spectacle where the chocobo section originally would have been (so a little later after Dynes death). Or they could have moved the boss fight against Palmer before Dynes scene. Both would have worked just fine imo. I think so too. Aeriths absence in the original is really felt. I'm pretty confident the 3rd part will in many ways remind you of her missing from the group - at least for the main group that is. Maybe they decide to make her playable otherwise but that depends on the narrative they want to go with. I'm sure they will deliver and commit to her loss and the feelings it elicited in the original, in a new and different way we havent felt yet.

Thank you very much! I hope so too. Your comment definitely helps with that as well!

Thats a very good point and I can totally see that happening. I can't wait! Thank you for your praise!

I very much appreciate how you gave the video a chance, despite your opposing opinion on the game. Thank you for your very generous comment! I'll definitely try my best.

That's a valid interpretation, but I think they designed the whole scene to be as ambiguous as possible, and there are good arguments for and against her being definitively dead or alive.

@@Chricetra In my opinion, Aerith is both alive and dead at the same time. Schrodinger's Aerith, if you will.

That's really high praise.. It means a lot to me! I'm happy you enjoyed it!

We don’t know- the water burial may have happened, but cloud would have mentally blocked it out. Like he mentally blocked out the real events of Nibelheim, and the death of Zack. Or, an alternative take could be in those moments Cloud’s mind has transcended between worlds in real time during Aerith’s death (traveling between a world where Aerith died, and another where he blocked Sephiroth’s sword and she lived at the same time), hence why he wouldn’t remember the events of her burial. I’m not going to claim we really know one way or the other because it’s purposely vague for us to theorize until part 3- but there are several possibilities to consider as to what was happening in those moments.

Cloud's memory rewrite simply could have occured after the burial. Cloud's emotions could have reached a breaking point afterward, causing his mind to begin repressing the memory shortly after it happened, in an attempt to shield him from the pain. We see in the ending that Cloud suffers from memory/Jenova headaches when he gets flashes of Aerith's death, so it's clear that something is up. The stark contrast between Cloud's emotional state, and the emotional state of the rest of party, as well as the way Cloud talks to Aerith during the final scene, heavily suggests that he does not conciously recall Aerith's death.

Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts! These games mean a lot to me, so I try my best to highlight the aspects that have been changed, since I believe that the attention and care to detail that the devs put into them, deserve to be talked about more. I agree with you about the characterization of minor and major characters. They did a fantastic job making every character feel fully fleshed out and believable. Definitely one of my favorite aspects about the Re-Trilogy.

No. Just no. The format as it is, creates the time gap and creates the cursed fillers ruining the game. I'm not against changed if it's stated the og game is abc and a remake is a fantasy upon it. But the way they did it just sucks. Shure they really tried. But if they want to remake the whole game don't split it. Or if you want to split it, lean into it. Why add content that wasn't in og but is dated in 2024? I get it all games need filler content but what ff7 fans wanted is cutscenes and character interactions. What I learned from remake is that a walking simulator in ff7 is the best way to do it. It would work great episodicaly. And most heretical for me is ruining the summons.

@@wmen48I don't really mind splitting the game into three parts, since that's how it was back in the OG with the three disks, but what bums me out is that they're sticking too close to the original storyline while changing very few things. If they're really this afraid of going all out on the storyline's divergences, then why not just make a 1:1 faithful remake? I think Squeenix had much bigger plans for the Remake trilogy at first, but due to the polarizing reception of th storyline in Part 1 (ghost shenanigans), they chickened out and instead decided that Rebirth would stick as close to the OG as possible. Bummer...

That's awesome to hear! Let me know your thoughts once you finished it!

Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed watching it as much as I enjoyed making it :)

Her death ain't powerful anymore. If it was so called FF7 fans cared about her death, they wouldn't have been memeing and laughing at her death for well over a decade before the Remake trilogy was announced.

Thank you so much for your praise! It's always interesting to read the perspective of new fans of the franchise, especially regarding such iconic moments in gaming. I'm holding out hope that there is a bigger emotional payoff that has been planned to be revealed in the third game and that we just don't see at this moment. As it stands I prefer the old one in many ways, but it all depends on whether or not Aerith actually survived this time. But I totally get where you're coming from!

Lets just wait for part 3 ❤ ​@@Chricetra

Thanks a lot!

Thanks for the high praise!

Thank you for the kind words! I've been meaning to talk about this since I finished Rebirth and I'm quite happy with how it turned out!

@@Chricetra I am too. The script was solid. This is one of those once in a console generation games that can have a 200+ hour platinum trophy that is very much entertaining regardless of it's length. Hopefully your next vid is as good as this one.

I'm glad you enjoyed!

Thats very kind of you to say! Final Fantasy 7 is also my all-time favorite game! I have more FF7 videos planned for the near future :)