From the very first moment, FF7 Remake traded on the question: Would Aerith survive? Her death could no longer be “sudden and unexpected”; that ship sailed decades ago. Remake centered a huge ...

Her death was permanent, an inconceivable notion when video games were known for giving characters extra lives. As Aerith collapsed, so did a narrative trope that had restricted the medium’s ...

Later Aerith joins Cloud in battle against Sephiroth. Afterwards, the party mourns Aerith's death. Yet she remains seemingly alive and visible to Cloud. Yes, this is a story about multiple worlds ...

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 ...

Please do not read unless you've finished Rebirth. It's hard to overstate how iconic Aerith's death was in the original Final Fantasy 7. She may not have been the first main character to die in ...

Note: This article contains major spoilers for Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII Remake, and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. We recommend you finish Rebirth before reading further. Final Fantasy VII ...

But it doesn’t take long for fans and Square Enix to find ways to cheat death, from GameShark codes allowing players to keep Aerith in the party after she’s dead, to Square Enix futzing with ...

Aerith’s death (spoilers) in the original Final Fantasy VII was one hell of an emotional ordeal. And while fans scoured the game years after its release for a chance at finding a way to revive ...

And one of that story’s chapters covered Aerith’s death and how it came about behind the scenes. “Did you know people have been coming up to me for years now and saying, ‘You killed Aerith ...