The Final Fantasy 7 Fans Who Resurrected Aerith | IGN Inside Stories

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[@marhawkman303]

one.... interesting thing to ponder for me.... we know the in-game perspective is that cloud and friends are on the WRONG path. What... will that mean? what... consequences will there be for defying fate?

[@chrisb9943]

Wasnt there a hack and later a mod that lets you keep using here. Technically she wasnt in the cut scenes but you could still use her

[@aaronhigham1251]

What hit home for me is when cloud told her he'd take her on the highwind someday. It really gives the artwork of her watching the airship a depth that hurts like hell, especially when you were changing discs afterwards. Damn, Square. That is cold

[@KennyCleod]

Damn

[@TheKira708]

Who knows...FF7 Rebirth can change it, an mabe we will get to see her on it.

[@vincentgraymore]

This was exactly the point of the OG. The fact that remake plays with time itself makes it way less hurtful because we all know that is now within reach. Even if she dies this time again, even if there is no more time altering, reality itself allows for this to happen if the chance is just taken.

[@FutureDeep]

Aerith comes back to life every time you play the game.

[@lonely_warrior]

And died every time we play the game xd

[@darryltorres7302]

lmao! True!

[@hug0682]

Perfectly balanced as all things should be🤣

[@FutureDeep]

@@lonely_warrior Just start over before you get to that part.

[@kurrono]

no,.......p[ay New Threat 2.0 or 1.5 using 7th heaven mod.. she can come back to life there and for real..

[@MightyBeastPR84]

Her death scarfed my life, one of the most emotional moments of my younger years.

[@ThwipThwipBoom]

scarfed? lol

[@ColossalSwordFormAndTechnique]

It protected you from the cold 🥶 👏

[@afijohanutama3185]

She once said to Cloud in Remake, "Don't fall in Love with me" 😔

[@fearlesscheshirecat1411]

That’s because she knows what happens to her.

[@user-ej1dh3hb6l]

Exactly. She will be with Zack. Tifa is Cloud's true love.@@fearlesscheshirecat1411

[@fearlesscheshirecat1411]

@@user-ej1dh3hb6l The evidence would suggest otherwise. Cloud and Tifa are miserable together anyways….. Look at Advent Children….. He was so depressed and sad even years after Aerith’s death. That Cloud has to go to Aerith’s church just to feel close to her.

[@user-ej1dh3hb6l]

@@fearlesscheshirecat1411Maybe, but this is a new upcoming timeline.

[@simeacalvinlifeobserver3741]

@fearlesscheshirecat1411 (AND/OR) @user-ej1dh3hb6l GUILT GUILT GUILT... CLOUD VISITS ZACKS SPOT WHERE HE DIED AND THINKS OF AERIS SAME TIME. Feeding him, washing him, carrying him literally for years, Zack died to save him. Aeris was two inches from being Slashed due to Cloud being POSSESSED BY JENOVAH CELLS. Just GUILT all he feels in ADVENT CHILDREN.,.

[@moisesdanielalvarado5578]

Cloud Strife and Aerith Gainsborough are so cute together 🥰

[@allanz977]

It destroyed my party when Aerith died. She was the highest level and got the best equipments 😂😂

[@김성희-h7e5b]

Kek 😂😂

[@mizukawahisashi-pv8by]

lol

[@raviamodernepic]

Easily one of my favorite gaming documentaries now

[@IGN]

Thank you!

[@Koustav_04]

We're getting Rebirth trailer soon 😃

[@Sctn187]

The rumors in middle school were crazy even game shark would bring her back but only the lvl she was at when she died so my one buddy was grinding her up on basic low lvl enemies forever idk if he ever got her with the game shark

[@mangasaint]

Game shark worked, the problem was cutscene with in you party can sometimes ruin your save if you saved it. Since she can’t talk, it stopped the game from proceeding.

[@SlayerSeraph]

Why are they hyping this up so much? What's the special deal? Premiere and all?

[@rooislangwtf]

They do it for all the Inside Stories

[@webguy943]

Ff7 remake isnt really a reimagining. Its literally a sequel. Basically ff7-2

[@rharris_22]

Correct. So many people don't seem to understand

[@nobodyexceptme7794]

GameShark fixed this problem back in 1998, even put Sephiroth in your party! 😂

[@KudosRift]

She still alive in KH

[@franimal86]

The fans gave us the FF7 remake we’ve always wanted!! Remastered backgrounds, upgraded character sprites, the amazing Echo-S team gave us voice overs for every line in the game, upscaled menus, and of course the option to save Aerith. Square Enix has their work cut out for them with that kind of friendly competition. That said, I’m excited to play FF7 Ever Crisis and of course the 3 part remake.

[@xronyxnunez9226]

It’s sad to see her Died but trust me the way Zack died made me cry a lot protecting cloud that was heartbreaking 💔 🙏🏻

[@LeahJade87]

It was very sad, but Aerith died attempting to save the entire planet. ❤

[@xronyxnunez9226]

@@LeahJade87 she’s Zack girlfriend 🙏🏻💔🕊️

[@itsBINGO357]

The fun part is leveling her up.

[@simeacalvinlifeobserver3741]

@itsBINGO357 The PC mod New Threat using MATERIA SHE NEVER GOT USE. Seeing her in the Area Still Alive and Well. NOW ZACK IS NEXT he is NEXT. Great Gospel limit break at the end ...... invincible Lv99 Aeris. Morph used to get stat boosting items

[@kashalethebear]

She absolutely doesn't have to die. The developers wrote an alternate storyline in the original Final Fantasy seven but then decided not to go with it. The fact that fans were pissed off she was killed and the original, and they did it again in the remake just shows that they aren't listening to their player community.

[@simeacalvinlifeobserver3741]

@kashalethebear They have a plan. GREAT GOSPEL PART 3!!!!! Cannot wait to see what happens with the 4th limit break. Also VR Mission equal Zack AERITH Sephiroth All Keeped after the story also.

[@saurabhbhushan1714]

That was the most depressing part of my life

[@paulsmith9192]

This must be rebirth today at,summer games fest

[@MundusFate]

Hello friend

[@giornogiovanna5235]

@@MundusFate hello

[@r4z0r84]

can only get her back by yuffie warping to the dev area.

[@cheapskateangkol9371]

Aerith. Game character that most people care for even until now days.

[@ExistentHope]

You can rewrite fate with the Saga Frontier glitch as well.

[@valefolken9143]

Watching streamers scream and react to this scene really hits home that people will do anything for money. Not a genuine reaction to be found.

[@Baye1980]

Lots of female streamers are not genuine. Especially on twitch where it’s all about the money they get from the chats

[@Amir_97]

@Vale Folken you ain't getting a cent for playing ps1 games on youtube, just stop being edgy

[@sunbirth4795]

THATS what does it for you? Christ, calm down

[@corwinchapman8270]

just cos ur a jaded edgelord doesn't mean everyone else is

[@lostforever773]

​@Baye1980 why misogynistic?

[@jamesadd4566]

The moment sephiroth jumped down and killed her could still expect to see on rebirth but someone might have saved her from that.

[@johnnytodd5173]

Jenova

[@drumjod]

Really great video. It brought the perfect amount of emotion and depth.

[@Elysian-III]

So with rebirth out and with THAT scene playing out the way it did... how we feeling???

[@davidpaul1733]

Loved it. The rest of the game does a great job of making the player think Aerith will die again, only for Cloud to rise up in the final moments. The way Rebirth creates expectations only to do something different is very FF7.

[@rafaelikenaga]

well, there’s also the fact that Clouds beats her up hard and she runs away, next time we see her, she dies. it’s horrible.

[@DFTNSHEXGRM]

Oh yeah we gettin a trailer at Summer Games Fest

[@LEE-337]

The audio for Aequarinn is UNBEARABLE. Someone at IGN should have called her back and redid the interview instead of having the editor trying to fix it.

[@soldier_4th_class]

My man SegaChief! New Threat is amazing and incredibly fun to play.

[@IGN]

He's awesome!

[@jubilantvision2212]

The theory I'm curious about is Sephiroth killing Tifa and she's somehow alive.

[@MrKnaives]

Eh, sephiroth thought he killed her she didn't really confirmed it did he? He's only doing it to paly mind games with cloud.

[@stevenwayne3701]

He wasn't talking about tifa imo. It's red herring. He was talking about Aerith.

[@crashwithkirby6708]

@@stevenwayne3701 Japanese trailer, he names tifa specifically in those lines.

[@bradDark6941]

​@@stevenwayne3701 he specifically says tifas name in the Japanese trailer

[@ultrainstinctgenesis93]

Sephiroth is just messing with Cloud thinking that Tifa is dead when in reality she's not.

[@ichrukishisadoinoe]

we gonna get to save aery!!!!

[@kendallmasterssank369]

"Resurrecting Aerith the movie" soon in the best theaters

[@randallgoeswhere]

This will def happen in the remake.

[@ohawwgeez3112]

Why? Killing Aerith was what ultimately defeated Sephiroth as she joined the life stream. If Sephiroth is aware of that why would he do it again.

[@nateadams2625]

This deserves way more views.

[@bigguy952]

Something tells me that Rebirth may be different in regards to this moment where we may be able to save her

[@mp5wes]

A tragic and shocking moment. Let's repeat it multiple times! - IGN

[@jadepinney602]

All you needed to bring Aerith back was a GameShark

[@kurrono]

New Threats 2.0 and 1.5 is the only way t orevive her SEga Chief did amazing work...adding her to be resurrected!!

[@skywalka02]

Coulda swore they had some Phoenix Downs…

[@JayfkProductions876]

This & Mordin Solus (Mass Effect) These Gaming moments hit hard emotionally

[@MeYouWhosWho]

The one that went around here in Newzealand was that, if you got your party to level72 she would survive

[@IGN]

That's a new one! Love hearing these. - Dale

[@paulsmith9192]

No blood after stabbing aerith.I thought was strange

[@jasoncockington7709]

Would be great if the sacrifice was still required, but different characters could be sacrificed based on differences in how you played the game and which stories you uncovered before the city of the ancients. Obviously for advent children, the canon sacrifice would remain.

[@DDAngel1]

I'll save u the time: it's just a glitch to keep her on the party but she won't be on cutscenes 😔

[@FilthyGringo]

Mf did a tl;dr for a documentary 😂

[@What.99]

“Let’s roll, homie!” - Aerith Gainsborough, 2019

[@squallneko]

They should make something like Nier Automata. Aerith will eventually be killed by Sephi, but you can prevent it if you're quick enough or something. Then the failed player will become a ghost character in your game and will fight for you. It will still be very very hard to save Aerith from dying but the collective voices/ghost characters will accumulate and finally everyone's wish from the internet will help you beat fate. What? Meow knows it's a bad idea, Imma meow myself out. Hmph!

[@Willchannel90]

Square Enix revealed that idea was cut in remake, after the re write.

[@stevenwayne3701]

Source: trust me bro

[@Willchannel90]

@@stevenwayne3701 Truce.

[@c10udbr34k3r]

SPOILER WARNING FIRST PLEASE IGN!!! We are introducing new gamers to the Final Fantasy 7 world and they don't know the whole story. Just a heads up :3

[@LucciLu777]

Since Zack is alive in FF7 RM, there is a high possibility that Aerith will be alive

[@iml3104]

Zack is not alive in the rm

[@SuperTrailerz]

thats another timeline

[@ultrainstinctgenesis93]

Zack maybe alive in another timeline but there is a possibility a timeline convergence can happen to where Zack and Cloud work together in the same time frame to beat up Sephiroth.

[@83DragonWolf]

Incredible. Loved this.

[@keith8880]

Great video

[@wisemanalpha100]

just go and create different game. Don't trick us into playing the remake and they end up re-writing the whole story? what is point of all this? the theme of FF7 is life and death. Sometimes we have to accept the loss and move on. Why you people so hype about resurrecting Aerith?

[@Raymondli0406]

Incredible story😢😢

[@JimmySentence]

great thanks for the spoilers.

[@unnamedlegeon]

Well when the game kill Aerith it makes the whole party loss their biggest magic user and healer 😏.

[@minibeech03]

she had to die for the story to make sense, deal with it. Its already hinted that she still in fact dies in the new trailer as you she doesnt take part in the jenovah fight in the trailer, as that is right after she dies.

[@Blank5115]

That Jenova fight is on the boat to costa del sol. 😂

[@fearlesscheshirecat1411]

You clearly don’t know anything lol

[@clerkofthesea]

So that's why there's some grafitti in Wreck-It Ralph that says "AERITH LIVES"

[@pogethedoge]

Hm?

[@lehah4333]

You guys needed to ditch that one girl with the bad mic. Horrible, horrible sound quality

[@alexoborne5419]

Didn’t Zack come back to life. How did he come back? Aerith could come back

[@toekneekun]

Let’s roll, homie! 😂

[@BlueMoon56832]

ALRIGHT...who wants to make a remake version of this mod for the third game (if it turns out it wasn't an alternate timeline she died in)

[@1VirFortis]

Come on, huge spoiler on title for new players man.

[@lunabaphomet]

IGN already proved they dont care as long as ppl click and coment in their videos ..🙄

[@ohawwgeez3112]

The game has been out for 2 decades. Also the new games are less of a remake and more of a sequel because it plays with your knowledge of the main timeline story

[@1VirFortis]

@@ohawwgeez3112 New babies are born every... minutes? Many if not most became gamers, and epic series like Final Fantasy probably gain new players like everyday. Is not a sequel issue, "ressurecting" says a lot.

[@Drw-id-Kirin]

When Doomguy saves Aerith, every last one of you will reform. 3/3/2020 3/20/2020

[@uss_cushing]

Yes dude you made the right call

[@jonathanreed9129]

Lol literally spoil the game for ppl who didn’t play it

[@Koustav_04]

Everyone knows the spoiler except those who are new to gaming hobby.

[@Alfredo_47]

Yes because there hasn't been about 457,902 videos on this since the game came out TWENTY SIX YEARS AGO

[@ElibeniEB7]

el juego es de 1997 payaso

[@lunabaphomet]

They dont care ,they done this múltiple times🙄

[@randomrobin7773]

Darth Vader is Luke's father.

[@Games23k]

The depht of aeris don't make any sense like the defht of Luna Freya too

[@Felix5k]

Let's roll, homie.

[@samihojiri5371]

Don’t level up Aerith!! Got it 👍🏻

[@eyezonly8593]

Right?😅

[@shawnathanm1152]

Think back to Final Fantasy 6. Does General Leo sound familiar?

[@gripplytoken4990]

wonder how emotional we all will be, when we will see her die in the 7 remake

[@simeacalvinlifeobserver3741]

@gripplytoken4990 Wonder how spine tingly we will be when ZACK SURVIVES. CLOUD WHO ADMIRED FIRST CLASS SOLDIER DUDE SEPHIROTH FIGHTS ALONG SIDE ZACK.

[@EdwardPaulet]

So you name the video with a spoiler, start the video with the spoiler, then show people new to the series reacting to it, showing us why YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE SPOILED THE SPOILER. Some people still haven't played it.

[@王智-c5d]

26 years, u say spoiler？

[@EdwardPaulet]

@@王智-c5d you can literally see modern streamers seeing it for the first time. Maybe FF7R players don't know it's coming.

[@WTurner859]

And Darth Vader is Luke's dad... Give me a break.

[@KAMProductions]

"scream" 0:21

[@s72-h6i]

They didn't get genuine fan reactions of true fans who played the OG VII back in the day.

[@utubism]

Seriously who did reaction videos back in those days?

[@s72-h6i]

@@utubism True fans made content about the game over a decade ago on youtube before the remake came out. Look up the Completionist

[@WasLilChrisnowbigish]

​@@s72-h6i FF7 came out in like 1997, there was no KZbin. In 1997. Im not even sure gamecapture software existed back then and even if did it would be extremly rare, so it would be a recording of a screen rhrough a camcorder, like no one was uploading game footage back in 1997, except maybe for a speedrun competition.

[@minibeech03]

known fact, the cosplay fans obsessed didnt happen until the remake, none of them played the original game. and No there is no way to revive her. Welcome to internet trolls and human stupidity and gullibility

[@kennethchia4194]

Hey IGN maybe tag a spoiler warning!?

[@xxarcangelxx143]

This a big nothing burger that IGN believes is exciting and worth to hype up for literally no reason

[@s72-h6i]

Why give this troll the spotlight?

[@_mellosine]

Garbage. The game is probably great, but I'm referencing the fact people can't just let characters die. They'd rather have a cheap story, erasing a pivotal moment in storytelling, than they would have a compelling death...

[@Thundercidder]

on the other hand，if 7re do wanna let aerith lives，as long as it's make sense and help with the story telling，people can't force the game to kill her just to recreate the memory they had with original ff7.After all，7re are not remake but sequel more likely.

[@Aragorn7884]

*Spoiler* 😅😅😅

[@epitaph6878]

Thanks for the spoiler

[@kikiomerta]

Damn spoilers guys!☹

[@gamemaster2192]

then why did you watch it

[@fearlesscheshirecat1411]

@@gamemaster2192It’s in the title dummy

[@shinx2k6]

Phoenix Down!

[@Dan-Simms]

Right? Lol

[@serpentdarkcloud5810]

Aeriths Death is FF7.

[@lostforever773]

Y'all need to learn what remake means

[@Sheishi_Games]

Someone will take her place, probably Tifa

[@darryltorres7302]

Or maybe it's Aerith that's still killed off but not by Sephiroth indirectly.

[@JustinStrife]

Not going to happen. Tifa is needed to bring the real Cloud back. Without her, Cloud is lost. Or he will end up dying too.

[@gareckthetailor9918]

aeris

[@andrewmaughan1205]

If the creators of the remake don't include a way to save her, even if it's difficult and doesn't happen until the end of the story, after they went & saved Zack, they will deserve to be blacklisted from the gaming industry for life and have to reroll their career lives afterwards.

[@4-kathryn]

I'd be frustrated if this time around we still can't save her. More so because this FFr series keeps hyping the audience about changing fate... and the unknown journey continues.... please please please make this game end on a positive note for Aerith.

[@hug0682]

​@@4-kathryn Well, when they enter through the portal the Aerith from that timeline died thus no reason to kill our Aerith But we will see. Hopefully they don't kill Tifa this time around, because they seem to make Tifa more important this time around since she's the key to Cloud finding his trueself and she's the key to Cloud finding out what happens in Nibelheim, and Sephiroth is aware of this this time around

[@JustinStrife]

@@hug0682 There's no way Tifa is dying. Cloud can't have his character arc without her.

[@taurusomicron43]

"bRo It'S a cAnON eVeNt"

[@munkhochir4252]

Just use revival materia

[@TwistedSisler]

Leave it to IGN to shamelessly spoil the biggest event in the game for new players to the remake series

[@Odinarcade00]

Did you know they made other games?

[@telluhwatboy]

The remake is not the original,and it shouldn’t be. Let Aerith survive.

[@jewjoe87]

They're totally gonna kill Aerith again

[@rsrocha1984]

No! No! No! Zack didnt survive in the remake! It is another universe, you can see by the shinra logo!

[@simeacalvinlifeobserver3741]

@rsrocha1984 Final Fantasy TACTICS...... Cloud went to another universe.... Balthier also FF12. Then they returned to their realms.

[@FreeFlow__]

This is not ok. So many players that have never played og and don't know what happens to aerith.

[@nikkitaylor4092]

The people reacting are showing their age… yes I’m old as dirt

[@cryptopapii]

Two words: Ben Lansing

[@AaronBowley]

SPOILER ALERT WARNING PLEASE WTF!!!!

[@rooislangwtf]

Spoiler alert for a 26 year old game?

[@caseyimiller]

‘Everyone else spit on you, why does it matter if we do too?’

[@darryltorres7302]

@@rooislangwtf Believe it or not, there's still people whos never played or know much about ff7 even today.

[@AaronBowley]

@@darryltorres7302 for real, it’s mostly boomers that have played the game or know what happens 😛

[@peterg4130]

​@@AaronBowley millennials And gen xers.. Not boomers lol