Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Makes a Mess of THAT Moment

It's like they couldn't decide whether to fully commit to killing Aerith or change her fate, so they resorted to a confusing middle ground that satisfies neither decision.

The reason why the scene fails in Rebirth is because in the og it was the main focus of what was happening. Aerith died nothing else mattered at that moment. With Rebirth because its supposed to be the finale of the game they had to turn into a big bombastic multiphased final boss. There is so much crazy stuff happening that its difficult to focus on her death. They basically turned one of the most saddest moments in the story into an action sequence.

The original is proof that in some aspects "less is more"

They literally did Jessie’s death in Remake better.

This is bad but honestly the most unbelievable scene in this game is when the party gets knocked out by the generic thugs in corel prison.

Sephiroth: "Why won't you die?" Aerith: "Nano-timelines, son."

Didn't think I'd fully agree with IGN about FF7 but here we are.

They could have just made a straight remake and nobody would have been upset.

you know it's bad when, after half an hour, you still feel... nothing.

This would be like remaking Sixth Sense and when you get to the twist where Bruce Willis' character learns he's been dead the entire time the Grim Reaper shows up and they have a John Wick style shootout action sequence immediately after. It's tonedeaf and horrible.

They were never going to recapture the genuine shock that 1997 players experienced. What they failed was to do the scene justice. They killed her anyway, but in a distracting mess of empty fake-outs.

Aerith’s death from a tragedy fans weeped over since 1997, to a confusing twist like Kingdom Hearts lore…

Finally someone gets it. Aerith's death was profound and Cloud's speech afterwards was what made it iconic. Them deciding to cut that out was injustice in my opinion When cloud said "what about our pain?!" That hit in the feels

See you in 4 years to play Final Fantasy 7 Revengeance in Playstation 6

Well now Aerith is the Cait Sith of shrödinguer ...

The biggest reason that the original hit that sad emotional note was because it was a straightforward scene, she was murdered in front of you And the gang, everyone's mad at sephiroth, he floats away gloating. Jenova shows up out of nowhere, you beat it up and THEN The gang mourns over aerith. It was very easy to interpret because it was straightforward.

Nothing "Phoenix Down" cannot fix Aerith. 😅😂🤣😭

My initial thought at the end was cloud is seeing 2 realities at the same time and is struggling to realise it, one where she died one where she lived, unsure as to why hes seeing the crack in the sky when the rest arnt, maybe hes going to have a near death experience sorta like at midel to reset him

Aerith's spirit intersecting to help Cloud would have been better served for the final boss fight of the 3rd and final game against Sephiroth, here it just muddles her death

Her "death" had less of an impact because of the phasing in and out of the blood on the sword and Aerith's body. In the original you knew she died. In this one because the blood/no blood shows 2 realities you know she died, but also she did not. Then there's like an 8 stage Sephiroth boss fight and you still see Aerith interacting with and even fighting alongside Cloud for the last boss fight. Then she's in the 18 minutes of ending scenes and cinematic. She's not dead to the player or Cloud only the other party members. Full on death has way more of an impact.