Aeris or Aerith?

[Skyblade]

Yeah, given how many ports and corrections this game has had...

Original
PC
PSN
PC Rerelease

All of which have involved adjustments and changes, yet none of which touched her name, at all.

Who cares what the rest of the games say? The Compilation's works are nothing compared to the original game. The Compilation retconned tons of things, and nearly every change sucked.

Why would I accept a change to Aerith's name anymore than I'd accept Genesis being added to the Nibelheim flashback? It didn't happen. FFVII is its own game, and, in it, her name is Aeris.

Or Anri. Or Bumface. Or Poopfarts. Etcetera.

[Jiro]

The ports are simply them trying to cash in, I doubt anyone actually tinkered with the game beyond making it portable.

And Loony BoB, if Aerith had never appeared in another game then her name would still be Aerith because the people at Square Enix said so and they're Word of God.

[Skyblade]

The ports are simply them trying to cash in, I doubt anyone actually tinkered with the game beyond making it portable.

And Loony BoB, if Aerith had never appeared in another game then her name would still be Aerith because the people at Square Enix said so and they're Word of God.

One word for you:

Midichlorians.

Yeah, sometimes you have to ignore Word of God.

[Jiro]

Lucas is still the number one official source. I don't care if he's ruining trout, it's still his creation to destroy.

[maybee]

The PC re-release has Aerith and it has also fixed the infamous " This guy is sick " thing line.

[Loony BoB]

The ports are simply them trying to cash in, I doubt anyone actually tinkered with the game beyond making it portable.

They changed multiple dialogue entries and fixed poor grammar, etc. They decided not to change the name 'Aeris' in the manual or the game itself despite this being far, far easier than going through the dialogue and spellchecking it.

And Loony BoB, if Aerith had never appeared in another game then her name would still be Aerith because the people at Square Enix said so and they're Word of God.

I'll have to agree to disagree with you on that "Word of God" thing. I mean, these people can say a lot of things but I always disagree on "Word of God" kicking in. I definitely believe that if no further games were ever created following FFVII that nobody would have given two craps what SE said about "Oh, that name was intended to be Aerith! Oops!" I mean, do you think Terra's real name is Tina? Because she was intended to be Tina until the translation team decided to switch it to Terra after tester feedback. Again, translation team making decisions, just as they did with Aeris.

I don't think any of those who are set in their minds over what her name should be in the game are ever going to change our opinions. But facts point out that her name in the game and in the game manual is Aeris. And that, like it or not (including the Dev's point of view), makes it officially her name in Final Fantasy VII.

"This guy are sick" is also an official line as far as I'm concerned, though, even though they corrected it in later releases. I find it great! It's basically Aeris getting her words confused - I mean, it happens to the best of us in real life. Why not have characters in the game suffer the same way?

The PC re-release has Aerith

No, it doesn't. It's still Aeris.

[Bubba]

Aeris. Because that what she is called whenever I play the game.

[maybee]

So they fixed the grammar errors in FF VII PC Re-Release but they didn't change Aeris ? Interesting !

[Jinx]

Honestly, removing "This guy are sick" is a travesty.

[James_Cub]

I'm pretty sure most of the names of FF characters don't have to make sense, because if they do, boy have I missed the point of a lot of them.

There are a few names that have stories. I'm sure all of you know this, but for the sake of discussion:
Cloud Strife- Cloud, as in, the thingies in the sky. Strife, as in, the feeling of guilt and so on. This means he is mysterious, guilty and feeling confused/ashamed
Squall Leonhart- Squall, a storm or massive togetherness of clouds. Leonhart as the name implies, heart of a lion. Also implies he is mysterious, in turmoil and has the heart of a lion. That could be left for interpretion, but it would again enforce the idea that he is a lone wolf, brave yet mysterious. Moreover, all of his family has names relating to water. Laguna stands for lagoon in Spanish and, I believe, Italian and Raine is obvious. This would add to the idea that water constantly changes, moves, so on..
Vivi- VI is 6 in Roman numerals, the 6th letter of the alphabet is F, so Vivi actually translates as FF, Final Fantasy. The creators wanted Vivi to embody the whole evolution of Final Fantasy, how it went from being shy to quite powerful and not understanding where it came from.
Locke- lock plus E for added coolness, like Raine in 8. Locke obviously allures to the fact he is a thief.
And so on and so forth...