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Hmm, no mention of how they lopped off a huge chunk of the story to get the game out the door... that is the oral history that would be interesting. Actually, t
by sennight 5y ago
Hmm, no mention of how they lopped off a huge chunk of the story to get the game out the door... that is the oral history that would be interesting. Actually, there are some recollections included that don't seem to make a lot of sense - specifically related to how Aerith's death was supposed to be some kind of teachable moment for players, a demonstration of how precious life is... through permadeath. Well Aerith's death wasn't supposed to be permanent, her resurrection was going to be part of the later story - you can even see where they cut out a scene where she appears at the church, following her death, in a shaft of light. Presumably there would have been some back and forth - and then a lead to the beginning of the fetch quest that would end with her back to life. All that is left is a very brief pop-in of her character model, and a useless item that was probably part of the cut quest - but developers forgot to remove.
- noasaservice 5y agoWow, your comment reads like many of the later 90's blogs I saw about this very thing. I saw SOOO many comments about Aeris should have been ressurected, or do these stupidly long things made up that can do it (it didnt). Unless you have attestation from the devs or designers, I'll have to consign this comment as 1990's level rumormill.
- krsrhe 5y ago
- sennight 5y ago
- tsol 5y agoAeris revival rumors were my favorite thing to read about. There were so many ridiculous, complicated methods to supposedly revive aeris. In fact there were a lot of different mytha like that.. things like getting the supernova materia, killing tifa instead of Aerosmith, fighting secret weapons, getting sephiroth to join your team, etc. Even though I knew 95% of it was fake, I loved reading about it for some reason. They were strangely imaginative, mixing real mysteries like aeris' ghost with plausible ideas like that there's a way to revive her through that. And let's be honest-- everyone wanted to revive aeris. Her death was one of the craziest moments in a video game I've ever experienced
- TillE 5y agoIt's really common to find unfinished, cut content in game data. Even if that possibility was explored, a design decision was made in the game that actually shipped, so I don't think it makes any sense to talk about different intentions.
- sennight 5y ago> ... a design decision was made in the game that actually shipped, so I don't think it makes any sense to talk about different intentions. >>> Final Fantasy 7: An oral history (2017) >> An oral history > history wut?
- arrakis2021 5y agohttps://youtu.be/VQEAFxjqr-E https://youtu.be/VQEAFxjqr-E
- rowanG077 5y agoDo you have a source for that huge lobbed of chunks? I have only found rumors and speculation.