The ending of 'Final Fantasy VII Rebirth' prompts heated discussion online about whether it does justice to its most iconic moment.
There’s no more important death in video games than that of Final Fantasy VII’s flower girl, Aerith. In the 1997 game, Aerith meets her end at the hands of Sephiroth, who brutally stabs her in front of the game’s hero, Cloud Strife, and by extension the players. It was a permadeath that stayed with fans.
“Why make it so complicated?” wrote one Redditor in a post asking for an explanation to the ending. “What was even the point?” wrote another in the thread. Square Enix’s twist on Aerith’s death also means that the scenes following her murder play out much differently. In the original Final Fantasy VII, the game’s cast individually mourns Aerith—Red XIII howls in sorrow, Tifa gently pats her hair, and so on—before Cloud carries her out to the lake and lets her sink into the water.
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