The Aeris's Ghost Appearance [Spoilers]

[Aerith's Knight]

Right, so they did a prelude to the sequel film they didn't know they were going to make at the time of creating ff7? If your not being serious, I forgive you but if not, you shouldn't be telling anyone to stop making up theories.

lolz yeah i know.. but i still dont think it was a glitch.. why would those kids reference her?.. why wouldnt they fix it in the platinum version?

[demondude]

Because one of the game producers said it was a glitch perhaps?

[MJN SEIFER]

Listen guys and girls. I don't know if someone’s already mentioned this in this thread yet (I know I've mentioned it on other threads countless times!), but if it hasn't then here it is. If it has then I'm sorry.


Aeris appearing in the church is (IMO) a ghost and a glitch. It is a ghost as it is (presumably) only meant to appear after her death, but is also a glitch as it can and does appear too early.

I believe that Square either created the ghost for symbolism and made appear too early, or (less likely) a physical purpose, that was later abandoned, and they failed to remove the scene completely.

[Big D]

The only reason "Zack's ghost" is visible in that picture is because of the markings on the metal arch the team is standing in front of. That's not a face, it's a pair of rivets and a shadow. The arch is symmetrical, you can see the same features on the other side.

It's possible the animators did this deliberately - they drew in details that'd give the impression of Zack being there. However, it sure as hell isn't meant to imply that Zack was truly in ur photos, bein ur ghost.

[ReloadPsi]

You're all going to kill me, but...

I actually find this slightly believable. Remember the immensely vague chocobo cameo in Spirits Within?

[Big D]

Remember the immensely vague chocobo cameo in Spirits Within?

No, I don't. Do tell!

Wasn't it a chocobo mascot on someone's epaulet or something?

[Serapy]

The thing about her death being based on Sakaguchi's mother was an old rumour that keeps coming back. It's been debunked on these forums a good few times now His mother actually died in 1988, long before FFVII's development, and it's been stated by him somewhere that Aerith's death didn't come from that (use the search thingy to find out more)

Ah, that probably makes more sense.
Yeah, I understand but I meant that Aeris's death wasn't exactly because of the producer's mother death but the feeling/emotion/whatever what he had due to his mother's death, made him thought about putting a character death in FF7.

It's a scary thought.

I find it most likely that they changed when she was going to die, and originally there would've been some game content within the church. They then didn't quite take her sprite out properly. They certainly didn't have AC in mind back then as at the time it hadn't even been thought of.

It'd be like a premonition if Aeris started appearing and disappearing before her death, too bad Cloud never has done anything about it. Maybe he thought it was probably nothing, just his imagination.

[arcanedude34]

I don't know why it's so hard to believe that the figure in the picture is Zack. And also, why is it so hard to believe that Aeris WAS supposed to appear in the church in FFVII? The only glitch there that I can think of is that MAYBE they had the ghost only appear when Aeris isn't in the party (which is only one time before she dies) and then forgot to make it so you couldn't see it when she was still alive but not in the party.

Another theory is that, perhaps, the ghost was originally going to have more of a purpose instead of just flickering off, but due to the time constraints (FFVII was already shipped out later than planned) they scrapped the whole idea, but forgot, ran out of time to, or opted not to remove her from the church.

Of course, it also may be a glitch, we may never know, but that is obviously Zack in the church in AC, and was probably intended as a quick little freeze-frame easter egg for those with a sharp eye (or pathetic social life with nothing to do but look for these things). It probably has no deep significance.

Leave it to Square to do something like this to get everyone all worked up. ^_^

[jammi567]

Why are you people still debating this, clearly obvious, glitch? Why can't you discuss another mysyery of the game, instead of discussing one that's been picked to bits millions of times?

[cloud21zidane16]

Why are you people still debating this, clearly obvious, glitch? Why can't you discuss another mysyery of the game, instead of discussing one that's been picked to bits millions of times?

Its just that gripping

[jammi567]

It's booooooooring, though.

[cloud21zidane16]

It's booooooooring, though.

joking

[MJN SEIFER]

Why are you people still debating this, clearly obvious, glitch? Why can't you discuss another mysyery of the game, instead of discussing one that's been picked to bits millions of times?

Are you refering to Zack's "Ghost" or Aeris's "ghost"?

[jammi567]

Both.

[MJN SEIFER]

Both.

Well I don't know about Zack, but I know (and have proof) That the Aeris "ghost" was at least meant to be a ghost, but is definatly a glitch now.