i have more 10 videos of people reaction to this scene on my chanel.

I was devastated 27 years ago. I cried like a baby again this year. My goodness…

Aerith's theme strongly starting up again when the boss fight starts pushes the emotions through the roof

Sephiroth really said: “Sorry fans who wanted everything to change, canon event babes” 🤭

It's been three months...watching these videos still makes me cry 😢😢😢

only people who love Aerith will feel this scene

No matter how many times I watch this scene, no matter how many times I’ve finished the game; it’s gets me every time

I cried so much at this scene. Even though i truly believe cloud *did* save her(I have a theory I'll put under this main part), I could not help but get so extremely emotional when it showed blood. Here's my theory. Cloud did save aerith and is seeing aerith really there. However, it's the aerith from the timeline he created by blocking sephiroth's sword. There is evidence to support this. Like sephiroth wanting cloud to help him defy destiny and telling cloud he had his blessing and he'd need a final push to join him in defying destiny and merging timelines, how it had the new timeline rainbow efect when cloud blocked sephiroth's sword, how aerith tells cloud "i saw what you did back there. Thanks," how the scene changed when cloud walked past the circle of white whispers surrounding aerith at the end(before walking by them, the group was around aerith. After walking through the whispers, nobody is around), how the wind from the bronco was blowing aerith's hair, how aerith was still standing there saying goodbye after cloud and the others had already flown away, and even more that i cant think of right now off the top of my head. The third game will involve zack trying to make cloud better so that he can save aerith. Not a lot of people seem to remember, but marlene told zack that cloud couldnt save her until hes better. This *has* to have payoff later on. Zack will help to make cloud better so that he can save the aerith from the timeline he made by blocking sephiroth's sword. Then, aerith will be permanently back(she's obviously coming back. She didn't even get her true final weapon in this game) and cloud and aerith will be reunited(theres so much foreshadowing for them being reunited).

This scene alone just brings back the memories of the original game. How devastating hard it hits because it is out of nowhere.

To have left the great ARUUU speechless and soundless for what felt like an eternity.. you know your game has achieved peak emotional impact. As Vision of the MCU articulated, our collective grief for her loss is the perseverance of our undying love for her, and how important she was to each of us. Incredible work by the creators in elevating this scene to even greater heights.

The original emotional damage, common now in 4k with realistic graphics.😢

I cried my eyes out when Aerith died in OG FFVII. When it happened in Rebirth? Nothing. There was so much frantic multiverse stuff going on that I didn’t have time to feel anything.

I recently discovered Aruu about a few weeks ago. I loved watching her playthroughs that she posted on KZfaq. She’s such a huge Clerith and she expresses all the time how much she loves Aerith’s character. Which I would say I am as well, which is why I relate to her playthrough so much. However she has not yet posted the last part of her playthrough on youtube so I never got go see her reaction til now. It was utterly heartbreaking 😞.

日本からコメントします。エアリスはみんなの中に生きています😌彼女は星と共に生きる事を選びました。今までもこれからも。エアリスはとても強い子です。

“Please insert disc 2.” I played FF7 decades ago on ps1 and Aerith’s death hit me like a truck. I then stared at the disc swap screen for a while trying to comprehend what happened. I couldn’t do it.

Saw it coming from 27 years away🥱 but the graphics and improvements still brought a tear to my eye plus the end where everyone is mourning sucks too

i remember it like yesterday. over 2 decades ago. i was still a teen. no widespread internet back then. the disbelief. the denial. gripping the controller so hard it creaks. for over two weeks i tried, exhausted every option. replay. save scumming. every corner of the map revisited. every rumor, theory chased and tested. even levelling her up to the max, using various rubber band tricks. winning every single minigame at the gold saucer, to find her final staff. thinking, maybe, just maybe, i didn't do enough to save her. until i find the courage to visit a cyber cafe, and open gamefaqs site. found the answer. every single guide said the same thing. she's gone. then, it finally hit like a truck. oh boy, my first ever gaming depression. found a new purpose after being trashed by Ruby. my first gaming rage. no time to be sad. gotta grind, grind, grind. aah, the good old days.

My reaction was just confusion

I was ARUU during that scene. I cried like I lost a loved one.

Everyone like Cloud: We did it!!! Meanwhile in reality...

We are all just little kids again, playing for the first time.

Playing the OG this came as a complete shock!! I’m not sure what to think about Rebirth. I think she’s dead but because Cloud is complete messed up he thinks she is alive or is he seeing her from a different world?? Idk. The OG Seph kills her and then you go straight into fight Jenova with Aeriths Theme music playing! Then they put her in the water afterwards. It was heartbreak and anger! I liked Rebirth but wish they would’ve kept it this scene just like the OG. I guess I’m just saying I’m confused 🫤

🥺💔The moment her theme played I was six underwater😢😭

I just don't know why they took out cloud's speech. Cloud: ...Shut up. The cycle of nature and your stupid plan don't mean a thing. Aerith is gone. Aerith will no longer talk, no longer laugh, cry...... or get angry......What about us...... what are WE supposed to do? What about my pain?

And here I thought I was the only one who got emotional despite it being not as impactful as the original

Welcome to trauma 2.0. This one is not so rough as the one in the original though.

geez that 1st chick made me cry...

I never finished the original....i never could.....now i just might....for her..

I knew it was coming and still took a few minutes to stop crying lmao

Can u actually say for certain that she died? My first time watching I was confused if anything. Did Cloud save her? Did she die? I still don't know.

The life stream. Thats how sephiroth travrls between worlds. Aerith can do the same. She does this in Advent. I like Max Dood's theory that there are multiple sephiroths and the one in the lifestream is actually trying to help Cloud. Before crises hints at this.

No rogers base?!?

Original would be more brutal as you can sephiroths sword going through aerith

Can someone explain to me like a 5 year old what exactly happens, like she died but cloud thinks everything is okey-dokey 😂😅

They should watch the original game they put more in it and they didn't show the sword went through her or cloud put her in the water .I wish they did that for the remake but didn't.

Imagine still crying when we all knew it was coming from 25 years ago

Shouldn’t this video be labeled as strongest reactions to aeriths… “death?”

If you didn’t react like this then you didn’t play the game right

i really really hope Aerith return in part 3, she deserve live happily and i want see her in futur Final Fantasy games

Wait so aerith dies again in rebirth? 😢

She didn't die though

These scenes literally had zero emotional impact compared to the original. How people managed to shed a tear over this is baffling. They did Ifalnas death way better honestly.

I would advise not to include Suzy Lu, she would come after you and have your video removed!

Meanwhile I was like this 😐😐😔😮‍💨 "yeah, he got her"

Never played the original so maybe that’s why but the voice acting from cloud and aerith seemed empty to me. No real emotions to speak of other than “oh ok” from me with this one

stop crying, there's no time, stop and fight 🤣 the first reaction was too exaggerated, in my opinion, Sephiroth is the best villain ever created, you don't have to cry, you have to be happy

WATCHING THIS IN HD YEP

WELL AT LEAST I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO IS CRYING AERTH's DEATH AND I PLAYED THE OG

Tragic, but Cloud belongs with Tifa.

Bandwagon hoppers 😅

YEAH I WAS CRYING TO WHEN AERITH DIED TO AND I BEAT THE OG

OH I AM SORRY IN 4K

😆😆😆😆😆 Oh no Aerith had a date with Sephiroth sword everybody starts Crying whaaaaaa, whaaaaaa, whhhhaaaaaa...... Grow up!! Jeeez!

People be overreacting