I mixed a lot of legitimate discoveries with fake discoveries,” he reveals. “It was also an excuse to cover a lot of things that I had been wanting to cover, but really wouldn't fit in a video otherwise. For instance, I make a big deal about all the extra cross-dressing dialogue that was data mined from the game, which was found decades later. Aerith, I just adore you flower crown. But I do feel your pain, I would hate for someone to damage my garden too. If I had one..

With her joyful yet flirtatious personality to captivate us. Her compassion towards others and her teammates. But her final moments is what remember the most. I really like that she's very teasing,” she adds. “That she's someone who doesn't take things too seriously, or rather she's full of life and tries to get everyone else to enjoy it along with her.”There's also the hidden opponent that could be found in 3D battler,” he adds. “If you were to beat all four opponents, you get a fifth invisible opponent that always kills you immediately. That's real. I thought that was so cool.” I got all the characters and I literally had to crop each character out of that font-face and manually position them into place on the dialogue box, and then frame by frame, I animate the text, writing in and everything,” he explains. “It was literally done frame by frame. It took me weeks.” Oh Aerith, if only you stay with use a little longer. Things will be better with you here. But I guess that life, we all have to keep moving forward. New Threat is an ambitious overhaul for the PC version of Final Fantasy 7. It’s the work of Stewart Melville, a modder better known as SegaChief, and has a completely refreshed approach to battles, bosses, character progression, and artificial intelligence. Why were people upset? Well, the date the video premiered on is a vital part of the story. April 1st. The whole thing was an April Fools joke.

So originally I just went with that old joke, the Phoenix Down, which was a bit of an eye-roller,” says Melville. “But it was usually quite funny on streams because people in chat would say that beforehand, ‘Just use the Phoenix Down,’ and then they would watch as it actually happened and you'd get a good pop off on it. But later on I decided to try and make it a bit more seamless, just try to incorporate it into the gameplay mechanics a bit more.” Video games had killed off significant characters before Final Fantasy 7, but this was different. The resonance Aerith had with fans is incomparable, and the emotional impact of her death left many players desperate for a resurrection. Over 25 years, rumour became myth, myth became hoax, and eventually hope became a way to genuinely save the flower girl from Midgar. This is the inside story of the players who re-wrote fate and resurrected Aerith Gainsborough.I think I would buy one of these flowers, they look so lovely. Aerith , one of the lily’s please. Thank you very much. In its own way, the legend keeps Aerith alive. But while it seems like the book is well and truly closed on any hidden in-game method of saving Aerith, there is some truth in the idea that a glitch could be the secret to defying death. I have a lot of people coming to me like, ‘Can I get that mod? I want to use it in my video’,” he says. “A lot of the Final Fantasy community, actually. I have to reveal them. That was all basically animation. [...] Like Aerith being there in the scene, she's basically cropped in from another scene, so half of the image is cropped.” In the current version of New Threat, Aerith is part of the Jenova Life boss battle that immediately follows her death. After a few turns of combat, Jenova will resurrect Aerith and use her as a pawn. Killing Jenova without downing Aerith in the process triggers a whole new alternate route through the final half of the game; one in which Aerith remains a core part of the mission to save the planet.

I think she's a really, really fantastic character where you can't judge her based on her appearance,” says Aequorinn, a UK-based cosplayer. “I kind of assumed because she dresses really conservatively, and you see the pictures of her praying, I thought she was going to be quite sweet but also kind of serious and boring and sort of self-sacrificial. But then it couldn't be further from the truth.” It was absolutely earth-shattering,” recalls Tamara. “She was always on my team, always. I just loved her, it was just something about her character, she was so sweet and pure. And for whatever reason, maybe it is her personality and just who she is, it's life-changing. I still haven't gotten over her death years later.” It's scenes like that I find a bit more awkward,” he says. “You have to be careful about how you handle it because you can get a bit too sappy, I guess. You can maybe get a bit too melodramatic so I try and find a balancing act if I can or just try and not go to one extreme to the other, try and make it too lighthearted or try and make it too melodramatic. Maybe try and find that middle ground.” I think what I really wanted to do was just surprise people and just keep them interested,” says Melville. “Add little things in and maybe not document them just so that they can discover them on their own. That's how the Aerith thing came about originally because I was just working on the combat. I didn't really have any intention of doing anything story-wise.”Wow! Aerith, not all the flowers in the world can compare to your beauty. And you skin is surprisingly gleaming. Pray above to aid your teammates in battle. And pray for everyone for their health and better future. I feel like, personality-wise, she's probably the character in Final Fantasy 7 that I see myself the most in,” says Aequorinn. “So I knew as soon as I finished the game that I wanted to cosplay her. Not just to show my appreciation for a game I really enjoyed, but also just because I love the character so much. I just figured it would be nice to have the gameplay mechanic do it rather than have a dialogue option or something, or some other requirement that you have to go do a fetch quest or something,” says Melville. “I just wanted it to be a bit more interesting.” I know the feeling Aerith. Waiting for your friends to show up. Then play it cool like you weren’t waiting that long.

To truly give Aerith life after death, her story had to be re-written. The code and script of the game needed to be changed to allow you to save her life and fight alongside her to protect the planet. And that’s exactly what happened. But that line, ‘This is Hades,’ that became a little bit of a meme on the channel,” he says. “It was definitely like, ‘What if that line was supposed to be in the game?’ Because it would make sense that lines that you would find in the debug room were actually intended to be in the game.” Size chart for reference only. Choosing the size according to your Foot Length instead of length of the sole is the most accurate way. Even if Aerith change outfits she still looks beautiful. Looks so peaceful and calm in her own little world.Regardless of the remake’s eventual path, one of its enduring legacies will have been providing many, many more hours for players to get to know and appreciate one of Final Fantasy’s most iconic and important characters.