#Aerith's final limit break restore all your HP/MP and give you invincibillity for a while

[icharchivist]

Yeah, I can remember the pain of relying on a party member in a JRPG only for them to leave because the world is a cruel place and suddenly there's a hole inside your heart and also your party and you're struggling emotionally and also in fights

YEAH 😭

i think it's always so good when they do that, like.... the way they make you MISS the character, not just emotionally but in every other way. The way you can feel the gameplay change in their absence, the way you see just how much you want them here. Like begging for their special attack to come and realizing it never will. Or picking up weapons for them later and not being able to give it to them.

it's just so efficient to really tie the loss on a gameplay way and ff7 does it so well (if only because it was the game that really brought this idea forward once it was brought in the west, Aerith's death is one of the most iconic death in video game history because of that)

but god. Esp with how much of ff7 is about loss and grief (to me at least) it is just so efficient to really make you grief in the little ways.

you'll notice every shot is composed in a way where it stands out where she is supposed to be in the group shots. You miss her at every turn. You'll never know happiness ever again-