I just started playing ff7 a little bit again for the first time in probably 3-4 years. And while playing it again I was kind of recollecting back to how it was the very first time I played the game.


FF7 was the very first RPG I ever tried to play so at the time I played it I was not familiar with the way rpg's worked. I was amazed with how intriguing some of the characters were and how much development they received (as up to that point I thought all video game rpg's were basically all like the nintendo mario brother games. Where there is basically no character development or no plot and all you do is take your character through a level until you reach the end). I had no idea that the characters actually had conversations with eachother in some of the current games.

I especially was drawn in to Aeris's character for some reason. For some reason she had alot of the qualities that I liked for girls to have in real life (i.e. a fun spirit, flirtatious, playful, friendly, etc..etc..) . I had to look at internet walkthroughs alot because I had absolutely no idea how to play rpg's at that point. And in the walk through I read the guy actually did not say Aeris died. He just said that when the group was getting there forturne read to them that when it said Cloud would gain alot but at the same time would lose someone dear to him. When they said that line the guy who made the walkthrough said that he was talking about the future of Aeris.

So I wasn't sure rather that line meant she would die or rather or not for some reason she would just leave the group. But I remember putting Aeris in my party during most parts of the game after I read that so just in case she did die or leave the group I would have more time to spend with her. And when the time of her death scene did come I don't really know if that scene was more emotional because I was afraid she might die and didn't want her to. Or if it would have been even more emotional if it came to me by a complete shock.

But though I am kind of ashamed to admit it but I think I might have had an iddy bitty bit of a crush on a video game character over the course of that very first time I played ff7 . For some reason about every single quality that I like in real live girls were all put together in one package in this made up video game character named Aeris.