Saddest Moment in Final Fantasy VII

[Unsung]

I just finished playing Crisis Core for the umpteenth time and I began to wonder. What do people think was the saddest moment in the Final Fantasy VII series? Personally, I believe that it was Zack's death but I know that there are people who think that Aerith's death was more heartbreaking. The reason I think that Zack's was sadder was because he was turned on by his own allies and fought to the very end where he was shot dead, with the Turks unable to reach him in time. It's hard to explain but it was a moving and great ending. Here's a video for those who haven't played Crisis Core although you might not be into it as much since you have to play the game to fully understand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxdHhHsNlJw

Greatest game ending of all time. After that it just shows Aerith on Loveless Avenue selling her flowers. It did leave out the DMV going haywire because that was during battle. It basically showed flashbacks of his experiences with everybody as well as his flashbacks of solely Aerith before he falls in combat.

What do you guys think?

[Callisto]

Umm, Aerith's death. Nothing comes as close to being as sad as her death.

[StrungOut]

Umm, Aerith's death. Nothing comes as close to being as sad as her death.

I completely agree with that. Areith's is the saddest moment in the FFVII compilation. The music and the FMV when cloud carry her in the water almost gives me chills.

As for crisis core ending, it's a sad ending but I don't really like the song they use in that scene.

[Unsung]

I liked the music. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII is full of tragedy. It's such a compelling and interesting game. Most of the main cast dies in the game; Angeal Hewley, Genesis, Zack Fair, Director Lazard, Dr. Hollander, Gillian Hewley (Angeal's mother), etc. The only one out of those guys that I really didn't care for was Dr. Hollander.

[Sir Fratley]

I actually feel that Zack's death is sadder, mostly because I myself was once a soldier in the US Army, and I saw death up close and personal. Being betrayed by the very company you work for, turned on by your former allies, fighting to the death to protect your battle buddy (In this case mako-poisoned Cloud), and seeing all those memories he made while he was alive fade away, seeing things through the eyes of a dying man as life slips away. Aerith's death was sudden and quick, and while it was sad, it didn't have the depth and insight Zack's did.

[Noize]

Umm, Aerith's death. Nothing comes as close to being as sad as her death.

This. but for me is wasn't so much the death that moved me, it was the sad music that followed.

[Dahlia]

Zack's death may was a saddest ending but Aerith's death (13 years ago) was a monumental phenomenon , made guys who played FFVII cried so much ,then they tried to bringed Aerith backed to life again and again(included me).

[Lex Luthor]

I would say they were equally as sad but they both had their moments. With Zack you knew it was coming, you knew how the game ended. And yet they really built it up and made it much more effective on the audience by including his little aside to Cloud, Cloud's anguished scream (gives me chills everytime) and the huge battle with him against Shinra.

I didn't much care for the song, I felt it took away from the moment. They really needed something else there.

As for Aerith's death, if you didn't spoiler yourself, you didn't see it coming. Some of us spent most of disk one leveling her up and getting her limit breaks and ultimate weapon up high cause it was the easiest to accomplish (now we know why).. and then BAM. She's taken away from us. Even in it's tiny little 3D polygon models it's still heartwrenching to watch as Cloud holds her while Sephiroth gloats... as Cloud takes her out to the water and lays her to rest. Of all the scenes for a remake of VII, I'd love to see that the most because the same with what they did with Zack's death, they would probably add a bit more to the scene to make it more dramatic.

[Terra Branford]

Aerith's death was the saddest moment in FF7. It didn't make me cry (almost did) but it did make me hate Sephiroth really bad xD

VII, I'd love to see that the most because the same with what they did with Zack's death, they would probably add a bit more to the scene to make it more dramatic.

They'd probably take away from it, or completely edit it....

There should be a poll for us to vote between, although I'm pretty sure this thread has been created before....

[SuperSqueeAteYoBabyz]

When I was young before Crisis Core had come out and I had my first play-through of FF7 (In 2000) it was really sad that Aerith died but in a way I felt the story was building to such a point so it was like an understanding with the story that things needed to be that way, i felt well it was a nice run and we had fun have a good time in the lifestream. (Though I don't really like her very much now Aerith was my childhood game crush. I screamed no at the screen like an idiot and my grandmother looked at me like I needed help. lol)

Likewise It was extremely sad to see Zack die right there on the bluffs which overlook Midgar so close to his goal, while Cloud who actually made a good friend lost him just as fast knell beside him and just watch him wither. I loved the detail of the scene and the music did go over well but... (Crisis Core was the first game I bought for my PSP.)

I'm into the deeper psychological parts of the story so the saddest part to me was the deterioration of Cloud's mind from the mako poisoning which leads to me the happiest moment, the adventure you go though within his mind to bring him back to more then just some shell. It reminded me of something like the issue of a drug addict finally breaking that altered reality and coming back to the real world, or even a coma victim which more resembles at least what he looked like in that wheel chair though I can't say I've ever known a coma victim to wave there head back and forth and squeal like a piggy. (That part scarred me when I was little.)