When Cloud says "The cycle of nature and your stupid plan don't mean a thing. Aeris is gone. " this scene becomes so personal. He cares much more about Aeris than the fate of the planet, or more than anything.
+Devsguy I imagine they probably tried both and had 1 group crying their eyes out by the end of it all and other that didn't seem to affected and thought "yep lets go for the incredibly moving option. Only just noticing properly other nice touches, like text going over Sephiroths saying "shut up" rather than the side or waiting, not shit given on your plot you killed Areith time to die!"
Yeah. This scene is a real case study. Not that the text thing is particularly relevant these days, but the idea behind it, of establishing one way for doing thing (characters take turns talking), only to disregard it when appropriate. The disregard of the rule is only possible if the rule exists, and is more effective the more firmly the rule is established.
One of the saddest moments of my childhood. I genuinely mourned the loss of Aeris as though I'd lost a real-life friend. Games, not just books and movies, have power.
I think Sephiroth was referring to the 7 seconds before the meteor fall on Midgar It says it in the chapter description of the game But I like your thinking there
Letting the music continue throughout the fight was brilliant. I remember having the feeling I still had a chance to save her, everything wasn't processed yet and the music continuing kept me in the state of confusion and sadness. The way they threw you into the fight without having the time to really let it sink in, I remember thinking I had to cut down Jenova as soon as possible to try and get to Aeris again.
Yeah, and they also left out the victory music. Of course, that made perfect sense, because the victory music at that moment would have been weird as hell, haha.
Without a doubt, this is the scariest and most chilling moment in the whole Final Fantasy franchise. It was just so sudden and unexpected, even to this day I still find if kind of creepy...
I don't disagree with you, but i do have a moment in this game might be a good contestant for most chilling Final Fantasy moment. When i first got the submarine, and didn't know how to pilot it, i pressed square, submerged and there was emerald weapon, swimming towards me and i didn't know what the "go" button was. I pressed up just in time to resurface, was petrified of that ocean ever since, and have had nightmares about it to this day.
SillyPlace.Net OMG! Same here, i bloody hated that sub, as well as the emerald weapon, as soon as it came in sight it always caught me - instant game over! But I can understand the scariness of it, I wouldnt want the incredible hulk charging at me underwater, sounds very claustrophobic
isaac mettle same.....my whole family of 4 watched this and the only one who didn't feel was my little 6 year old brother....emotionally stunted I guess
I don't remember if I cried the first time it happened (have a couple times during replays) but I do remember crying the first time I saw Bugenhagen pass. Ho ho hoooooo.
@@Ok-hy4xx we watched my father play through it while me and my brother had our own save file that we would play through the next day. We always learned through his mistakes lol
+Kelsey Curles Best way to find out is to mute the music and see if you react the same. Or mute it and play something completely jarring with the tone of what's going on on screen. Like any of the chocobo songs. That should give you a pretty clear answer. Personally, I think it's a little of both, but the music is what really drives it home.
Were you still thinking of the song in your head? That's why suggested playing something inappropriate for the scene. It ensures that you're only getting the impact of a single variable. In this case the scene itself. I do behavioral experiments like this on myself all the time. I'm weird like that. My own behavior fascinates me.
+green tea Since Final Fantasy VII is being remade, its either Aerith ends up dead or Tifa dose, which should depend on the player's past choices (either way will be extremely disheartening to Cloud Strife) One thing I find utterly unrealistic about when Cloud Strife leaves Aerith's body to sink is one thing that Square Soft (now Square Enix) forgot to take one thing into consideration... corpses don't sink on there own, especially fresh corpses, which makes it look like that Cloud Strife ended up drowning Aerith while she was still alive and paralyzed is what it looks like. That points out that out of all Final Fantasy games, Final Fantasy VII deserves to be remade.
Davidsuper1215 Zhong imagine playing it with no guides, no TH-cam... no hint of what is going to happen next... completely invested in the characters.. I am not even an RPG fan but this is my all time favorite game and this was a complete shock.
With how much in-depth the remake is, just think once we get to this part of how much more this scene is going to tear at our hearts. I'm dreading it...but at the same time cant wait.
A few days before... Cloud: "Alright, team! We're gonna have to start saving our money to play the arcades at Golden Saucer! I also have a three-part investment plan to get rich by breeding chocobo! First part of the plan: save money by no longer buying phoenix downs! Part 2: No more potions, either...don't need em since Aeris is such a great healer. Step 3: Profit!"
Half way thought the game development, the game director's wife died so he wanted the world to feel what he felt and that is why Aeris died. So sad, Aeris one of my favourite characters. So. Fucking. Sad.
2:00 When I was playing through this part of the game when it first came out, my Grandma walked past the tv, heard the music, then stopped in her tracks and said "Wow that must be a really sad part of the game." This scene and song is so powerful that even someone that didnt play the game could feel the emotion of the moment. Its definitely one of the best directed and best scored scenes in video game history.
To think Aeris had the most powerful materia (Holy) with her all along and she thought it was just a useless piece of materia that did absolutely nothing. Just goes to show you that you are more powerful than you think.
Man i use to play this as a kid in the lounge while my mum took naps on the couch and sometimes watched, its now been 10 years since she passed away, time flies...
(meanwhile on the Muppet Show theater balcony...) Statler: Well, she's certainly dead in the water. Waldorf: And so is the game's script! Both: D'OH-HO-HO-HO-HO-HO!
They made Jessie's death a real tearjerker because we got more time with her. We knew her death was coming too, and it hurt. I think Aerith's will hurt so much more because of how much it's hinted at in remake pt1.
With arbiters of fate defeated in the remake, the remake no longer need to follow FF 7 original timeline/event. There is a possibility Aerith survives. There is even another alternate universe where Zack survives.
And I love how they do a boss battle after that without changing the music, like FUCK YOU, this is the best song in the entire game. We could loop it none stop for the whole 100+ hours and you'd still give the game 10/10 for best sound track ever!!!!
MultiProPu15 you see any other guy as strong as sephiroth showing up on that entire planet? you can say cloud was mako experimented, but what happen to the rest?
What a nostalgia feeling , when i was younger i spent many hours playing this game , even skipped school to play it , great memories!!!! Those games can never beat this one , never again...
I love this game, it was the best final fantasy franchise and it still is. Dont know why people still complaining about the graphic is so bad and those blood thing, dont they realize this is a ps 1 game
Gonna be a final fantasy noob here. Played this game for the first time in 2020 while locked in my room during Covid. Played it twice all the way through just to hear the music and get as many secrets and dialogue I could and this track and moment were something to behold for someone who had no idea what was going on.
I died many many times fighting the Jenova boss and I cried harder and harder every time I had to rewatch the scene. Pretty sure it started to genuinely damage my soul after awhile.
I played this game about 20 years ago.....and I still remember this scene.. That fact alone shows how awesome this game was and how memorable this scene was.
I'm sure it's been said before but I still think it's hilarious that her body sinks so far when Cloud was literally JUST standing in that waist-deep water. Like was there an underwater cliff? Did Cloud bring stilts to this party?
***** Maybe this isn´t water but some sort of fluid materia (or just some random fluid) which has much less density than water or something like that, I mean it´s a damn fantasy world. And for the blood, maybe the graphics weren`t good enough, or because kids could play it too and so they just didn´t added blood
*This was the first major death of my childhood* 😞 I watched my brother play thru this game when I was 7 (in year 2000) And how great was the soundtrack? This whole game is a masterpiece.
I actually prepared for this moment so that I wouldn’t cry. So much for that! It almost reminded me of when I lost someone special in my life. I miss you Charlie RIP my dog :’(
I was 13 when FF7 came out and when this happened, I was just like "... wtf? Wtf? DUDE, WTF?!" It wasn't until MW2 (2009) where a scene just completely shocked me and made me cry, man. Imo, Aeris' death is the craziest, most unexpected death in ANY form of media.
I dont give a fuck I still cry when i see this. I was 11 years old when I played it, I didnt know anything about loosing anything I didnt know about feelings yet when I saw this I balled my eyes out. I'm twety six now and still I feel the same sense of loss when I see it. Greatest Game ever.
The saddest scene ever in video game's history. Even the remake will not touch this for seminal and emotional reasons. This will stay with me forever. I remember the Sunday it originally happened I was playing this masterpiece of a game with my younger sister, she loved Aries and wen this scene dropped and the materia does that 1st bounce and this TIMELESS MUSIC STARTS the tears followed. No scene in a video game ever since has done this to me!
people might not know, but the director's mother died while making this game. He probably wanted to express the feeling of his mother dying to Aeris's death.
Ohh it's deeper than that. Her death happened right smack dab in the middle of the story. Not at the beginning, nor the end. In the middle, so we could try to sort ourselves out by going 'wth just happened?'
I don't think so. The archetype in this one is cleary the innocent girl, not the mother figure. It is about the destruction of beauty a lonely man would project on a girl.
His mother passed away during the development of FF6, and I don't know that Aeris reflected Sakaguchi's mother necessarily (maybe she had the same bright, cheery spirit) but she was chosen because it was felt her death would have the biggest impact on the player. Having a lead character be killed was lead artist Tetsuya Nomura's idea, based around Sakaguchi's desire to make a story based around themes of life and death.
Every single time they pan up showing Sephiroth down striking, eyes watery, face gets pale, trying to tell this videogame character "NO! DON'T DO IT!" And it always ends in sadness. I don't think I'll handle the ultra powerful 8th gen version that'll probably be the most bloody on screen death of this iconic moment.
So sad man. What a great game. I still am emotionally attached to this game. The ending cut scene to this game gets me every time. Can not wait to see this remake.
I love Sephiroth but in this moment I couldn't feel nothing to him instead of hate and anger. The fact that he killed Aerith with no remorse, pure and too inocent girl, makes me upset. At the same time, I think this is the first time I cry a lot playing a RPG game, and I also think that for the era that this game was made, this scene was quite innovative, because of its CGI and music, also 'cause of its story...
probably the most spoiled moment in gaming,this spread like virus back in the day.you had to play this as soon as it came out and as fast as possible to not of heard about this scene.
Well most of us would save her. But since all he lost then is zack,his mother that we&he's aware off right there that he might have tried to save if he understood what sephy meant. He's still going to be surprised by aerith's death. Just as we might. Maybe they will trick us to belive she can be saved by actually prolong when it happens or make it seem like she would survive the altar just to troll us and have the death happen at the same place. We have to see.
i like to point out this was on the PS1, like come on we still talking about this game today..And the passion amongst gamers is eminence you ether like sephiroth or not .
One of the biggest reasons ff7 was such a masterpiece was because of the music and the way it was implemented in each monumental scene. It would help inspire so much emotion. As soon as you hear the bell you knee seph was about to make an appearance....I know they are remaking it but the one thing they better not do is completely and utterly remake the music to something that original isnt. Make it better . Use an orchestra for crying outloud but pleeeease do not change it. It will turn into the updated willy wonka movie which was trash to me because they changed the oompaloompa song from the original.
I remember playing this and just being super confused with how the water only came up past Cloud's waist and how far she sank...Well, and extremely sad but...
I knew before playing the game (cause of spoilers) but I cried so much. I haven't gone too far to reach her final limit breaker. She is and was useful for my team.
The jewel is the soul, it exits at the top of the head. I wonder where all this knowledge about the spirit comes from. The japanese games seem to be full of it. I don't know any other scene where they show things like this.
What's best about this scene (beside the music): Unlike almost all other "heros" behave in a scene like this, cloud does not even think about killing Sephiroth or about revenge at this moment. He even talks to Sephiroth calmly. All that matters to him is Aeris! Thus, I believe him when he says to Sephiroth, the cycle of nature or his stupid plan don't mean a thing.
:'( imo the saddest moment in the history of video-gaming. I nearly couldn't concentrate on the upcoming boss fight that shows up here, but as soon as i finished it and disc 1 was over prompting me to save, i saved the game and turned it off, and didn't come back to it for 2 days.
A few other games have pulled this sort of thing off. It was most notable in the Phantasy Star series(Phantasy Star 2 and 4). I believe the reason why this moment hit us all like an avalanche is because of the timing. We were given enough time to perhaps develop a sort of bond with Aeris, thus the reason this scene had such a powerful effect. Perhaps we were too young to understand the events taking place in those previous games, or perhaps it was done too soon. Nut i believe that this was all set up, and it was timed just right. Please excuse me, I think I have sand in my eyes...
Ever since Game Theory uploaded their over analyzed piece of shit to TH-cam, it has ruined the idea behind this scene so fucking badly. Sephiroth / Jenova - "Do not worry. Soon the girl will become part of the Planet's energy." - Meaning? She was going to die anyway, he couldn't save her, confirmed by the person who killed her. Yes, she decided to sink rather than float like a normal dead body. Let's think about it though shall we? Had she floated, would the emotional impact of the entire scene still been great? No, in fact it would have probably added a "Da'fuq / Lol' moment instead. If you think Cloud killed her? Great, I don't whatsoever.
I saw that video, and I have to say that as an original gamer, this is our tragedy. Don't try to over analyze this wonderfully scripted, tragic piece of gaming history with your know it all sciencey bullshit.
Eriq Beard Oh man I also find this "interesting". The facts are all there, and everyone I show this video to are all butthurt about it. I too have played this great game, and true it's one of the saddest moments that I can think of, but facts are facts.
Mark Maddon is thats the thing its still a sad and beautiful scene, just soneone else took a different spin on it. It may or may not be true. Its just a theory.....a GAME theory.
When Cloud says "The cycle of nature and your stupid plan don't mean a thing. Aeris is gone. " this scene becomes so personal. He cares much more about Aeris than the fate of the planet, or more than anything.
i like how they didn't change the music when the boss appeared.
Yeah, that was one of the best decisions in the history of video game design.
+Devsguy I imagine they probably tried both and had 1 group crying their eyes out by the end of it all and other that didn't seem to affected and thought "yep lets go for the incredibly moving option.
Only just noticing properly other nice touches, like text going over Sephiroths saying "shut up" rather than the side or waiting, not shit given on your plot you killed Areith time to die!"
Yeah. This scene is a real case study. Not that the text thing is particularly relevant these days, but the idea behind it, of establishing one way for doing thing (characters take turns talking), only to disregard it when appropriate. The disregard of the rule is only possible if the rule exists, and is more effective the more firmly the rule is established.
+Airma D Noctis When that happened I got more goosebumps
It was definitely a really cool moment to keep her theme going during the battle, still gives me goosebumps. Really cool little detail.
One of the saddest moments of my childhood. I genuinely mourned the loss of Aeris as though I'd lost a real-life friend. Games, not just books and movies, have power.
Yes, but everyone in the media trashes all video games as violent and gory, and use it for scapegoats
lik dis if u cri evry time
l337z0r And people say that video games are mindless consumptions of time.
***** Every day, son.
***** No
"Seven Seconds till the end." From when Sephiroth is on screen until he kills her is exactly 7 seconds...... 0:14 to 0:21......
Just like Philip... the number 7 😖 (reference from Hamilton)
I think Sephiroth was referring to the 7 seconds before the meteor fall on Midgar
It says it in the chapter description of the game
But I like your thinking there
That water below. It's not really water. It's tears. Tears from all the fans around the world that cried at this scene all these years.
I invested so much time in leveling her up just for her to get murdered by sephiroth.
What hurt the most
Ya I think I leveled her up to 60, then I didn expect her to die
A friend tood me not to do it cuz she wouldnt be in the team after. Then she died. I cried so much like i knew she wouldnt be with me but death??
I kind of wanted some of those points back especially the MP after she died no lie
This part made me cry all those years ago. Before you knew what happened with the internet etc. Aeris was never expected to die. It was just so wrong.
Sam L Too bad Cloud actually killed her ,not Sepiroth
@@terrywells4591 err... You have no fucking idea, Could never did it. It was Sephiroth controlling Jenova
Watching this now I'm still shedding some tears stupid ninjas in the kitchen again cutting onions
Please insert disc 2.
FUCK OFF, GAME. I’M CRYING HERE.
Some of the animation has aged a lot worse than I remember it in my head... the music though, the music stands the test of time.
No, your wrong, we are all wrong about that all this time. The animation has not aged badly at all, it's beautiful no matter what anybody says.
NOPE. The animation IS absurdly aged. Stiff, unnatural and clunky. It's a matter of innexperience but it does show and pretty badly.
Holy Narwhale87
You're clearly a fanboy. The animation has aged.
Holy Narwhale87 You're just a fanboy. This looks bad
Holy Narwhale87 Jesus dude, take the nostalgia goggles off. The game is great, but it’s not perfect.
Letting the music continue throughout the fight was brilliant. I remember having the feeling I still had a chance to save her, everything wasn't processed yet and the music continuing kept me in the state of confusion and sadness. The way they threw you into the fight without having the time to really let it sink in, I remember thinking I had to cut down Jenova as soon as possible to try and get to Aeris again.
Yeah, and they also left out the victory music.
Of course, that made perfect sense, because the victory music at that moment would have been weird as hell, haha.
Without a doubt, this is the scariest and most chilling moment in the whole Final Fantasy franchise. It was just so sudden and unexpected, even to this day I still find if kind of creepy...
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I don't disagree with you, but i do have a moment in this game might be a good contestant for most chilling Final Fantasy moment.
When i first got the submarine, and didn't know how to pilot it, i pressed square, submerged and there was emerald weapon, swimming towards me and i didn't know what the "go" button was.
I pressed up just in time to resurface, was petrified of that ocean ever since, and have had nightmares about it to this day.
SillyPlace.Net OMG! Same here, i bloody hated that sub, as well as the emerald weapon, as soon as it came in sight it always caught me - instant game over! But I can understand the scariness of it, I wouldnt want the incredible hulk charging at me underwater, sounds very claustrophobic
Have you played FF4 or FF6?
@@cigh7445 4 is mid and filled with stupid fake outs
this probably the first time i cried in video game history.
isaac mettle same.....my whole family of 4 watched this and the only one who didn't feel was my little 6 year old brother....emotionally stunted I guess
me too
I don't remember if I cried the first time it happened (have a couple times during replays) but I do remember crying the first time I saw Bugenhagen pass. Ho ho hoooooo.
@@DontheJuan i am jealous you and your family play together at final fantasy7
@@Ok-hy4xx we watched my father play through it while me and my brother had our own save file that we would play through the next day. We always learned through his mistakes lol
Did we cry because of the music or the fact that she was such a sweet, innocent flower girl?
+Kelsey Curles Best way to find out is to mute the music and see if you react the same. Or mute it and play something completely jarring with the tone of what's going on on screen. Like any of the chocobo songs. That should give you a pretty clear answer. Personally, I think it's a little of both, but the music is what really drives it home.
+Telpenariel Dayum, even muted, it's equally chilling.
Were you still thinking of the song in your head? That's why suggested playing something inappropriate for the scene. It ensures that you're only getting the impact of a single variable. In this case the scene itself. I do behavioral experiments like this on myself all the time. I'm weird like that. My own behavior fascinates me.
+Telpenariel lololol
Kelsey Curles Eh, I like science. At least I'm not as crazy as Hojo. Then again...I don't think *anyone's* as crazy as Hojo.
WELP.. Looks like this scene is being remade.. fasten your seatbelts.. it's gonna be a bumpy ride..
green tea Bumpy ride? For gamers everywhere it's gonna be driving to hell and back....
And back again....
Seven times....
green tea so you mean maybe Areith can be alive next time... ?
+green tea Since Final Fantasy VII is being remade, its either Aerith ends up dead or Tifa dose, which should depend on the player's past choices (either way will be extremely disheartening to Cloud Strife)
One thing I find utterly unrealistic about when Cloud Strife leaves Aerith's body to sink is one thing that Square Soft (now Square Enix) forgot to take one thing into consideration... corpses don't sink on there own, especially fresh corpses, which makes it look like that Cloud Strife ended up drowning Aerith while she was still alive and paralyzed is what it looks like.
That points out that out of all Final Fantasy games, Final Fantasy VII deserves to be remade.
+Miss A I dunno. They could have a new quest to revive her, like Sega did with that Japan-only remake of Phantasy Star II with Nei.
Blood or no blood this time? what do you guys think? like when he rips it out?
Who's ready to bawl their eyes out again when the remake comes? ._.
this scene wont be seen in a while, perhaps a year
TO HELL WITH THIS I NEVER PLAYED THE GAME AND I SIMPLY SEARCHED FF7 AERIS AND THIS SHIT CAME UP FUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Davidsuper1215 Zhong imagine playing it with no guides, no TH-cam... no hint of what is going to happen next... completely invested in the characters.. I am not even an RPG fan but this is my all time favorite game and this was a complete shock.
@@DavidsuperZhong At 12 years old this game wrecked me on an emotional level I couldn't comprehend.
So not ready
With how much in-depth the remake is, just think once we get to this part of how much more this scene is going to tear at our hearts. I'm dreading it...but at the same time cant wait.
But what if they dont kill her this time
The plot is defeated
@@arceptor and what if Sephiroth kills Tifa to make Cloud suffer more?
No matter how times, no matter what quality (Can't wait for HD Remake), this scene will always get to me!
A few days before...
Cloud: "Alright, team! We're gonna have to start saving our money to play the arcades at Golden Saucer! I also have a three-part investment plan to get rich by breeding chocobo! First part of the plan: save money by no longer buying phoenix downs! Part 2: No more potions, either...don't need em since Aeris is such a great healer. Step 3: Profit!"
A day later he puts the blame on Barrett's previous leadership
Half way thought the game development, the game director's wife died so he wanted the world to feel what he felt and that is why Aeris died. So sad, Aeris one of my favourite characters. So. Fucking. Sad.
may I ask is that ture
yeah, why?
no just wondering that all sorry for asking
i cant find a source for this anywhere
BBCMadVillain go on Google and type in final fantasy wikia and go to final fantasy VII info and it will tell that fact that I told you.
2:00 When I was playing through this part of the game when it first came out, my Grandma walked past the tv, heard the music, then stopped in her tracks and said "Wow that must be a really sad part of the game."
This scene and song is so powerful that even someone that didnt play the game could feel the emotion of the moment. Its definitely one of the best directed and best scored scenes in video game history.
To think Aeris had the most powerful materia (Holy) with her all along and she thought it was just a useless piece of materia that did absolutely nothing. Just goes to show you that you are more powerful than you think.
Nah, she knew. She just didn't want to give away her secret; she was the last of the Ancients and likely the only one to be able to use that materia.
@@BiologicalClock or else Yuffie will steal it lmao
Andre Bono Consuelo 😂😂😂😂😂
He protec
He attac
But most importantly
He can’t bring Aeris bac
A Dewott shut up and use my goddamn Phoenix down
You have no idea. My god this aged very poorly
@@anomonususer8626 phonix down dsent work because it only help K.O characters
Billy Chieng it was a joke
best game ever, best soundtrack ever, saddest scene ever.. she didn't deserve to die
I still get goose bumps, even after all these years
Even more impressive that this guy killed him with a Bahamut summon and Cloud limit break.
Phoenix down only brings back knocked out party members not if they're dead.
Kendrick Palmore bet
Do you even know what a Phoenix is?
Man i use to play this as a kid in the lounge while my mum took naps on the couch and sometimes watched, its now been 10 years since she passed away, time flies...
(meanwhile on the Muppet Show theater balcony...)
Statler: Well, she's certainly dead in the water.
Waldorf: And so is the game's script!
Both: D'OH-HO-HO-HO-HO-HO!
You sir win. I don't know what you win but you win
CharlesXavier I'm a little late to the party, but I am cackling like a hen that's just laid a dozen eggs.
I will remember that day ever... One of the saddest of all my life of video game player :'/
0:14 - 0:21
"Seven seconds until the end..."
men can you imagine this scene in the remake
gotta start saving my tissues now
that would be intense as fuck
gurukof they better not FUCK THIS UP. I PROMISE IF THEY DO I WILL NEVER BY A SQUARE ENIX GAME AGAIN. i hold a grudge on square beyond the grave.
im sure they will deliver it all comes to the actors and the beautiful aeris (yeah thats right aeris xD) theme
dont ever look at rebirth ending bro, it is fucked up
Even after 23 years, this still tugs at my heartstrings and makes me bawl my eyes out. You just know this is going to hurt even more in the remake
They made Jessie's death a real tearjerker because we got more time with her. We knew her death was coming too, and it hurt. I think Aerith's will hurt so much more because of how much it's hinted at in remake pt1.
With arbiters of fate defeated in the remake, the remake no longer need to follow FF 7 original timeline/event. There is a possibility Aerith survives. There is even another alternate universe where Zack survives.
I think I just realized what sephiroth meant by 7 second...
The saddest moment ever in a video game.
Ah... The feels... The feels... Too strong...
Because cloud, you are... My son.
And I love how they do a boss battle after that without changing the music, like FUCK YOU, this is the best song in the entire game. We could loop it none stop for the whole 100+ hours and you'd still give the game 10/10 for best sound track ever!!!!
+Clifford Wolfenstein my fav is cid theme
Lol. Sephiroth and Cloud has the Darth Vader and Luke Relationship now!
MultiProPu15 you see any other guy as strong as sephiroth showing up on that entire planet? you can say cloud was mako experimented, but what happen to the rest?
What a nostalgia feeling , when i was younger i spent many hours playing this game , even skipped school to play it , great memories!!!!
Those games can never beat this one , never again...
I love this game, it was the best final fantasy franchise and it still is. Dont know why people still complaining about the graphic is so bad and those blood thing, dont they realize this is a ps 1 game
the best game of all time
I’m gonna cry when I see this in the remake...
Gonna be a final fantasy noob here. Played this game for the first time in 2020 while locked in my room during Covid. Played it twice all the way through just to hear the music and get as many secrets and dialogue I could and this track and moment were something to behold for someone who had no idea what was going on.
Yep... 23 years later and I still cry every single time I watch this...
I died many many times fighting the Jenova boss and I cried harder and harder every time I had to rewatch the scene. Pretty sure it started to genuinely damage my soul after awhile.
No lie I screamed and cried and had no train of thought to fight jenova
I played this game about 20 years ago.....and I still remember this scene.. That fact alone shows how awesome this game was and how memorable this scene was.
When i watch this scene and play the battle with jenova i was alone in my home, i cried a lot, a part of my childhood ends that day :(
No matter how many times I rewatch it I always tear up when the music hits...
I still whistle this song all these years after playing ff7
Aerith and Zack really had a tragic story yet had a beautiful moments when they were together. I love both of em❣️😭
I'm sure it's been said before but I still think it's hilarious that her body sinks so far when Cloud was literally JUST standing in that waist-deep water. Like was there an underwater cliff? Did Cloud bring stilts to this party?
***** Maybe this isn´t water but some sort of fluid materia (or just some random fluid) which has much less density than water or something like that, I mean it´s a damn fantasy world.
And for the blood, maybe the graphics weren`t good enough, or because kids could play it too and so they just didn´t added blood
Oh must you ruin the charm and magic of old classics
It's a cliff, how else do you think the ancients hid the key so deep underwater that you had to get it with a submarine 👀
It's incredible how they managed to convey emotions from that scene with those graphics and awesome music by Uematsu...
I invested so much time of my childhood playing Final Fantasy games and can't wait to replay the remake. Probably going to cry again 😭
Poor cloud sephiroth not only murdered aeris but his mom too...
Ancora piango, dopo 23 anni..
5:26 I bet that in the remake everyone will be there
*This was the first major death of my childhood* 😞
I watched my brother play thru this game when I was 7 (in year 2000)
And how great was the soundtrack? This whole game is a masterpiece.
I actually prepared for this moment so that I wouldn’t cry. So much for that! It almost reminded me of when I lost someone special in my life. I miss you Charlie RIP my dog :’(
Fuck I was in 6th grade and cried like a baby to this.
I was 13 when FF7 came out and when this happened, I was just like "... wtf? Wtf? DUDE, WTF?!" It wasn't until MW2 (2009) where a scene just completely shocked me and made me cry, man. Imo, Aeris' death is the craziest, most unexpected death in ANY form of media.
Who's here because you saw Aerith (Aeris) in the remake?
I dont give a fuck I still cry when i see this. I was 11 years old when I played it, I didnt know anything about loosing anything I didnt know about feelings yet when I saw this I balled my eyes out. I'm twety six now and still I feel the same sense of loss when I see it. Greatest Game ever.
She went back into the stream of life
Sephiroth: *T poses*
The saddest scene ever in video game's history. Even the remake will not touch this for seminal and emotional reasons. This will stay with me forever. I remember the Sunday it originally happened I was playing this masterpiece of a game with my younger sister, she loved Aries and wen this scene dropped and the materia does that 1st bounce and this TIMELESS MUSIC STARTS the tears followed. No scene in a video game ever since has done this to me!
people might not know, but the director's mother died while making this game. He probably wanted to express the feeling of his mother dying to Aeris's death.
Ohh it's deeper than that. Her death happened right smack dab in the middle of the story. Not at the beginning, nor the end. In the middle, so we could try to sort ourselves out by going 'wth just happened?'
I don't think so. The archetype in this one is cleary the innocent girl, not the mother figure. It is about the destruction of beauty a lonely man would project on a girl.
His mother passed away during the development of FF6, and I don't know that Aeris reflected Sakaguchi's mother necessarily (maybe she had the same bright, cheery spirit) but she was chosen because it was felt her death would have the biggest impact on the player. Having a lead character be killed was lead artist Tetsuya Nomura's idea, based around Sakaguchi's desire to make a story based around themes of life and death.
I come from 2025, Aerith is now dying in 4k 60fps on PS5. Everyone is sad.
And now we're getting this redone with the remake.
Every single time they pan up showing Sephiroth down striking, eyes watery, face gets pale, trying to tell this videogame character "NO! DON'T DO IT!" And it always ends in sadness. I don't think I'll handle the ultra powerful 8th gen version that'll probably be the most bloody on screen death of this iconic moment.
After so many years still crying, damn...
Oh my gosh, I had to get off the video because I was crying to hard:'(. Rest in peace, Aeris....
Cloud let her drown... Dead bodies float.
The fact you changed Cloud's name made is unfirgiving.
So sad man. What a great game. I still am emotionally attached to this game. The ending cut scene to this game gets me every time. Can not wait to see this remake.
I love Sephiroth but in this moment I couldn't feel nothing to him instead of hate and anger. The fact that he killed Aerith with no remorse, pure and too inocent girl, makes me upset. At the same time, I think this is the first time I cry a lot playing a RPG game, and I also think that for the era that this game was made, this scene was quite innovative, because of its CGI and music, also 'cause of its story...
2020: ahh s##t here we go again
This melody.....never forgot this moments
Can we talk about how Sephiroth doesn't have gloves on before stabbing her, but when he does stab her they magically appear
probably the most spoiled moment in gaming,this spread like virus back in the day.you had to play this as soon as it came out and as fast as possible to not of heard about this scene.
Sephiroth: What will you do in the final seven seconds?
Cloud: Huh?
Sephiroth: The Audience will understand
Well most of us would save her. But since all he lost then is zack,his mother that we&he's aware off right there that he might have tried to save if he understood what sephy meant. He's still going to be surprised by aerith's death. Just as we might. Maybe they will trick us to belive she can be saved by actually prolong when it happens or make it seem like she would survive the altar just to troll us and have the death happen at the same place. We have to see.
I live and breath Final Fantasy series, and when I first saw this many years ago, I balled like a little baby.
I dread seeing this in the remake
Sephiroth: 7 seconds until the end. Time enough for you perharps. But what will you do with it? Let's see.
This scene still makes me sob my eyes out
I can’t wait for the remastered version but at the same time I’m not ready for this again
if not the, among the saddest ever...
i like to point out this was on the PS1, like come on we still talking about this game today..And the passion amongst gamers is eminence you ether like sephiroth or not .
Omfg the sad feels.
One of the biggest reasons ff7 was such a masterpiece was because of the music and the way it was implemented in each monumental scene. It would help inspire so much emotion. As soon as you hear the bell you knee seph was about to make an appearance....I know they are remaking it but the one thing they better not do is completely and utterly remake the music to something that original isnt. Make it better . Use an orchestra for crying outloud but pleeeease do not change it. It will turn into the updated willy wonka movie which was trash to me because they changed the oompaloompa song from the original.
Curious to hear your thoughts on how they went with the music?
I cry everytime I watch this... Sephirot I will have my revenge on the Remake! Get prepared!
I remember playing this and just being super confused with how the water only came up past Cloud's waist and how far she sank...Well, and extremely sad but...
THE TEARS😢
I REALLY wonder how they're gonna play this scene out in the remake.
It's that music that is so emotional.
I knew before playing the game (cause of spoilers) but I cried so much. I haven't gone too far to reach her final limit breaker. She is and was useful for my team.
Instead of blood, we're just gonna give you a rolling jewel and sad music
The jewel is the soul, it exits at the top of the head. I wonder where all this knowledge about the spirit comes from. The japanese games seem to be full of it. I don't know any other scene where they show things like this.
What's best about this scene (beside the music):
Unlike almost all other "heros" behave in a scene like this, cloud does not even think about killing Sephiroth or about revenge at this moment. He even talks to Sephiroth calmly.
All that matters to him is Aeris!
Thus, I believe him when he says to Sephiroth, the cycle of nature or his stupid plan don't mean a thing.
They've got to keep this theme in the remake! In fact, all of the original themes.
:'( imo the saddest moment in the history of video-gaming. I nearly couldn't concentrate on the upcoming boss fight that shows up here, but as soon as i finished it and disc 1 was over prompting me to save, i saved the game and turned it off, and didn't come back to it for 2 days.
A few other games have pulled this sort of thing off. It was most notable in the Phantasy Star series(Phantasy Star 2 and 4). I believe the reason why this moment hit us all like an avalanche is because of the timing. We were given enough time to perhaps develop a sort of bond with Aeris, thus the reason this scene had such a powerful effect. Perhaps we were too young to understand the events taking place in those previous games, or perhaps it was done too soon. Nut i believe that this was all set up, and it was timed just right. Please excuse me, I think I have sand in my eyes...
Ever since Game Theory uploaded their over analyzed piece of shit to TH-cam, it has ruined the idea behind this scene so fucking badly.
Sephiroth / Jenova - "Do not worry. Soon the girl will become part of the Planet's energy." - Meaning? She was going to die anyway, he couldn't save her, confirmed by the person who killed her.
Yes, she decided to sink rather than float like a normal dead body. Let's think about it though shall we? Had she floated, would the emotional impact of the entire scene still been great? No, in fact it would have probably added a "Da'fuq / Lol' moment instead. If you think Cloud killed her? Great, I don't whatsoever.
I saw that video, and I have to say that as an original gamer, this is our tragedy. Don't try to over analyze this wonderfully scripted, tragic piece of gaming history with your know it all sciencey bullshit.
Mark Maddon Exactly my point.
thats the point of his videos though......and i thought it was an interesting take. don't let your nostalgia goggles get in the way
Eriq Beard Oh man I also find this "interesting". The facts are all there, and everyone I show this video to are all butthurt about it. I too have played this great game, and true it's one of the saddest moments that I can think of, but facts are facts.
Mark Maddon is thats the thing its still a sad and beautiful scene, just soneone else took a different spin on it. It may or may not be true. Its just a theory.....a GAME theory.