SPOILERS LTD Remake — It's like New Coke except ... no, it's exactly like New Coke

[AncientGrim]

Nah this event is shit for any Tifa fan, it's absolutely infuriating how they're ignoring one of the heroine for a FFVII CROSSOVER (don't remind me of last year where she was barely present and it was all about Sephiroth). There's zero fairness and the bias that both Toriyama and Ishikawa have towards Aerith shows. Not only that but it's also somehow half arsed, with Cloud not even getting the recognition he should have.

And WORST, they treat Barret like SHIT for HIS month. I'm super mad at them.

Yeah and this coming not long after the whole Title Card fiasco that initially was skewed so ridiculously in favour of Aerith that it was obviously a biased mistranslation, it’s kind of hard to shake off the overall sense that the teams or people in charge of stuff like this for Ever Crisis are just set on not caring at all about fairness among characters, and by extension, those character’s fans.

The 1st anniversary image that showed up to that point all the various outfits for the characters was extremely telling, as Barret, Nanaki, and Cait Sith all only had 1 costume.

Playing Ever Crisis you can kind of come away with a very warped view of the sense of direction for the compilation and by extension the Retrilogy, because it’s just so at odds with what Remake and Rebirth have been doing. It’s hard not to think it’s due to the different sensibilities from the people in charge, and who specifically oversees story in the Retrilogy, and who is directing and in charge of the Ever Crisis events.

Because right now the main story of Final Fantasy VII being retold in Ever Crisis has reached the point of only really having one more scenario left before Aerith dies. And because it’s very much adapting the original FFVII story, then that would mean all future chapters for it in Ever Crisis wouldn’t feature Aerith at all, because she no longer appears in the story aside from at the very end.

So maybe this is why the recent Rebirth crossover so heavily zeroes in on Aerith, and the Loveless play and Gold Saucer. Which in both OG and Rebirth are kind of the final moments for Aerith and Cloud, and the rest of the party all together, before they go to the Temple of the Ancients and then Forgotten Capital.

Because soon there isn’t going to be story chapters for the FFVII story with Aerith involved.

But are they really going to just completely cut Aerith out of the game and all future seasonal events and stories?!

Because even those non canon, What If seasonal event scenarios only feature the characters as they’ve been unlocked in the main FFVII story.

To start with those seasonal events only had Cloud, Barret, Tifa, Aerith, and Nanaki. Because only the Midgar stuff had been released so far.

But as the main story of FFVII was retold in EC, and each time a party member appeared in the main story, then they would also start appearing in the seasonal events, as we’ve seen with Yuffie, then Cait Sith, and more recently Vincent. Same for Zack and even Sephiroth and some of the First Soldier characters, due to Crisis Core and First Soldier also having story updates.

So when/if Ever Crisis finally does get to Aerith’s death in the FFVII chapters, will they stop with the future content for her?

Or are they going to keep FFVII on hold indefinitely for now, and focus instead on Crisis Core, First Soldier, other compilation titles, so that they can continue to feature Aerith in events and stories and have her get more costumes?

Whichever of these two ways they are going take it will I think ultimately show where their sensibilities towards the story lie.

 

[Eerie]

Nah even when she dies she’s still going to be in the events. Definitely. They’ve pushed her character so much that she’s become absolutely necessary as a character to have in your pool, while other characters are really falling behind. Some you don’t want to play even, for you’d be limiting yourself.