I'M BROKEN AGAIN - Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth ENDING Gameplay Part 25

Sephiroth : "i underestimated you" Sephiroth : "Alexia, put my music"

For me the part that hits me, is seeing tifa crying her eyes out beside Red, and a somehow more tragic version of Aerith’s music plays 1:59:19 to be precise.

That “dream” date Aerith knew her time was limited and just wanted to spend some the last moments happy with Cloud before giving him the white materia. The instrumental version of no promises to keep playing during that portion is called “One last date - my dream.”

This felt like an actual relative or friend died in real life. I knew I wouldn't be ready to lose Aerith again.. It's one thing reading texts while playing with block characters but they humanized her so much. To the point that I knew it would destroy me or anyone who play these games.. Game of the Year

Finally someone who cried as much as I did. Think I cried almost non-stop the last 4 hours of the game, haha! Wonderful playthrough!

Seeing Zack and Cloud fight together, best duo ever!! 🔥💯

Took me a week to recover from the ending.

I'm loving watching everyone's playthroughs and reactions. I think the devs have perfectly captured her death here. Cloud is repressing everything and doesn't believe what just happened. Part of him is devastated, the other in denial. As I watch different people play, I see the same range of emotions. Half the players are blank faced, not even sure what happened, trying to analyze and reason but they can't because so much is happening at once; there's a fight to win. The other half of the players lose it. They can't fight because they can't see through the tears. They think they "did something wrong," because we are given the visual of "saving her." We are all feeling Cloud's fractured halves right now.

Only the most passionate fans are tearing up seeing him launch from the sky down.

Sadly, this was always Aerith's fate. A tragic self-sacrifice to give hope to the planet. I always felt Aerith deserved respect for this. She knew full well that once she set foot in the Forgotten Capitol, she wasn't leaving alive. And she STILL went. That's bravery.

In my first play through it was honestly so tough to focus on the fight against Jenova Lifeclinger, especially with the music.. such an amazing game that definitely does the original justice.

oh crap, that church scene with the forbeoding of farewells makes me tear up after seeing it like ten times. This game is something else.

They handled her death perfectly. The fans who say that this had no emotional impact need to watch this reaction. This game alone had more emotional moments than the entire OG. Also this wasn’t her entire death scene, it was kind of a teaser, the real thing is being saved for part 3 and will hit like a ton of bricks. Awesome playthrough. Part 3 will be incredible.

"Cloud, Thank you" - Great Callback to FF X

Cloud's been seeing dead people walking around and talking to him ever since he encountered Sephiroth (who he personally killed), when he first saw him again WAY back in Chapter 2 of Remake. Aerith's also been able to project herself to Cloud when she's not physically there before in Chapter 13 when she's captured at the Shinra HQ and he's at her house. This is likely because Cloud's Mako-poisoned "real" self is still mixed up with other hopes & dreams of different people in his head, and as a Cetra Aerith is connected to those parts of the Planet and can eventually hear and communicate to them just like she did when Elmyra's husband attempted to visit her before he Returned to the Planet when he was KIA in the Wutai War. That's why she's trying to find the "real" Cloud in the other world when he's passed out and dreaming. In the real world, Cloud's mind just keeps constantly overwriting what actually happened with a version of events that makes sense to him — complete with active visual hallucinations. It's the same thing that happens in Chapter 9 at the Gongaga Reactor when Sephiroth nudges that to make Cloud doubt Tifa is real, which she brings up again just before the Forgotten Capital. What we see Cloud experiencing there and at the end of the game is just like how we see him misremembering Zack drowning in Nibelheim or any of the other events there (where it's Zack, not him doing things), and he's seeing and remembering things differently than they happened. It's also exactly what we see happen with Dyne where he's talking to his dead wife in an empty room when Barret finds him. Aerith also feels Zack touch her hand from the Lifestream when he does it in the other world ans she's on Gi Nattak's boat. Additionally, there's an NPC in Cosmo Canyon who actually talks in detail about how that other world is a mix of people's hopes, dreams, & memories in the Lifestream and how she wants to meet her deceased parents there some day (I've got that clipped if you wanted to see it).

With Aerith now a part of the Lifestream and Tifa having likely gained some abilities herself having been inside a weapon, information between these two might be conveyed. They might be on to Sephiroth's main means and method of controlling Cloud by making him repress Sephiroth's murder of his mother. In Cloud's mind, he believes Nibelheim and her death to be all his fault. He thinks he delivered his family to Sephiroth. Aerith letting Cloud think she is alive a little longer would be a means of protecting him from coming to this same conclusion about her, long enough until Tifa helps him face these nightmares and cope with them. He hasn't been ready yet, as was apparent in the Tifa version of the garden scene in Remake when touching her brought on physical pain. She would only and always remind him of home. The worst part of extreme trauma is that it can take the things in life that are most enjoyable to you and make then agonizing.

the final 3 hours of this game emotionally damaged me in a way that i needed to text my therapist. the CLOCK TRIAL CUT SCENES?! CRIMINAL!!!!!

The end was just so tragic, even more so when Cloud starts seeing her, even though the gang and us know she is gone, the developers really did a great job with that entire sequence and the cast nailed their emotions right on cue, can't wait to hear your take on the ending This is my Game of the Year

Touching reactions, great thoughts and vid. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing your reaction. It was so heartfelt.