Quote Originally Posted by Tifa's Boobs View Post
I never felt she added much to the game. Her whole purpose was to die. It's apparent.
Agree. It seems like Aerith's job was to only make a emotional impact on the player and then die. She was designed to be the sweet, innocent but courageous Flower Girl that got sadly murdered. So Sephiroth could look more evil and make the player emotional and keep playing forward to CD 2.

Because nobody really mentions or raves about what impact she made while she was alive.