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6/23/2025, 6:52:21 PM
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Okay I guess the ending is as good as place as any. For starters I want to say that conceptually, the idea of making Cloud even more divorced from reality because of his denial isn't a terrible idea. Especially if we're going with a trilogy of stand alone games and we need to end the 2nd act with uncertainty. Even though this didn't happen in OG, I feel like it's really in spirit with FF7. But you know what we really, REALLY didn't need? Everything about this shit.
So FF7 has always been a game about an unreliable narrator. But you know, I kind of thought that Cloud was the unreliable narrator. Not the game itself. The game would have you believe that the Dream Worlds are little soap bubbles within the Lifestream where the souls of the dead work out their issues before they finally pop and rejoin the Lifestream. Unnecessarily convoluted but fine. But then that stupid fucking ending not only dilutes one of the most raw, emotional moments in video game history but does it in favor of confusing, contradictory lore. Because Sephiroth proves definitively that it's possible to bring in the dream worlds into reality. Zack and Aerith, 2 dead people, are able to just wander in and fight alongside Cloud. But these fucking writers insist that death is a real thing Cloud must deal with. Cloud is even able to take objects from dream worlds into reality. So it's not a multiverse, except for the times it is. In OG, Cloud tells Sephiroth that he doesn't give a shit about his autistic lore because he's grieving Aerith. Only for Rebirth to decide Aerith's death is the perfect place to put autistic lore!
Okay I guess the ending is as good as place as any. For starters I want to say that conceptually, the idea of making Cloud even more divorced from reality because of his denial isn't a terrible idea. Especially if we're going with a trilogy of stand alone games and we need to end the 2nd act with uncertainty. Even though this didn't happen in OG, I feel like it's really in spirit with FF7. But you know what we really, REALLY didn't need? Everything about this shit.
So FF7 has always been a game about an unreliable narrator. But you know, I kind of thought that Cloud was the unreliable narrator. Not the game itself. The game would have you believe that the Dream Worlds are little soap bubbles within the Lifestream where the souls of the dead work out their issues before they finally pop and rejoin the Lifestream. Unnecessarily convoluted but fine. But then that stupid fucking ending not only dilutes one of the most raw, emotional moments in video game history but does it in favor of confusing, contradictory lore. Because Sephiroth proves definitively that it's possible to bring in the dream worlds into reality. Zack and Aerith, 2 dead people, are able to just wander in and fight alongside Cloud. But these fucking writers insist that death is a real thing Cloud must deal with. Cloud is even able to take objects from dream worlds into reality. So it's not a multiverse, except for the times it is. In OG, Cloud tells Sephiroth that he doesn't give a shit about his autistic lore because he's grieving Aerith. Only for Rebirth to decide Aerith's death is the perfect place to put autistic lore!
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