Comments on: Final Fantasy VII (7) [Beta / Tech Demo]

By: Robert Seddon

Robert Seddon — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:47:48 +0000

As I recall, the idea that the Northern Crater was originally planned to be her place of death is a theory (written up in articles on FFVII Citadel) based on those extra bits of dialogue, and the existence of an apparently unused Northern Crater map with her music theme playing–but the latter later turned out not to count as evidence, because it was discovered that that map doesn’t have a music track specified, and so the game defaults to the first item on the playlist, which happens to be Aeris’s theme. So the jury is still out, except that we know from an interview that Aeris’s death wasn’t planned from the very beginning of development. But then, at the very beginning Square were thinking about New York and Hot Blooded Detective Joe…

By: yota

yota — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:56:26 +0000

here some ffvii rumors.. i don’t know if they are true or not..

Originally the game was going to end at the 1st visit to north crater and Aerith would die there in that ending, however Square thought the game was too short so they basically killed Aerith sooner and filled disc 2 explaining clouds past clearer and making you fight shinra til disc 3. Then you go to the crater and kick his ass again

i think that aeris was meant to die in this game. I heard that they originally planned to do it at the northern crater but some reason, move it earlier. which explains the dialogue here.

actually there was a file left on the FFVII database that was basically aeris’s text and sprite if you hacked her back to life in disc 2 oddly enough they never removed this factor and nobdoy even knows why it’s there. Maybe to foreshadow a future FFVII event?

There is still some parts of Disc 2 and 3 where she speaks if you have her in the party, this is simply because it wasn’t always the plan to kill her off, it was a decision made later in the game and some speach boxes still survive.

By: monokoma

monokoma — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:54:47 +0000

you are right, i forgot about Mario RPG and Treasure Hunter G! ;P For some reasons i did not related those 2 games with CG graphic..

By: Celine

Celine — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:46:29 +0000

Beaten by Robert :-\

By: Celine

Celine — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:42:57 +0000

Why ? It fits perfectly imo.
Square at that time was developing Super Mario RPG that employ pre-rendered graphics and what is known as Final Fantasy 7 nowadays sure use lots of pre-rendered backgrounds.

IMO Final Fantasy 7 on SNES ( surely different from what is the PS1 version ) wasn’t feasible for economical reasons ( it would have been released probably in 1997 when the market for the platform was almost gone ).

By: Robert Seddon

Robert Seddon — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:31:28 +0000

Well, when you consider that (as Celine mentioned) Square made Super Mario RPG, and they were the publishers for Treasure Hunter G, CG doesn't seem all that unlikely.