Whoever dies in Rebirth won’t be coming back
Aerith dying in Final Fantasy VII in one of the most famous video game scenes ever. Given how the remake trilogy has been messing with the original game’s timeline and mythology, fans have wondered if maybe this time around she won’t meet her end at Sephiroth’s blade, or if perhaps somebody else will instead. The trilogy’s creative director, Tetsuya Nomura, poured kerosene on this speculation in an extended interview with Game Informer.
“I believe that loss is something that happens unexpectedly, and it’s not something so dramatic or drawn out, but is something in which a person that you have just conversed with is suddenly gone and never to come back,” he said. “I believe that the person who dies should not return in this title, and that is what we did with the original.” Will that person be Aerith? Nomura is certainly keeping the door open to the possibility it won’t be.
