daniel_gudman said:
Contrabardus said:
They could just make it so you can save Aerith. That wouldn't be too difficult to cover as long as the game lets the current canon ending exist as an option.
Supposedly - and this is just a rumor I am repeating - there really was supposed to be a "Save Aerith" optional quest line, but the production team ran out of time and money, so they couldn't implement it.
I dunno how I'd feel about a "Save Aerith" route though.
To be honest,
given my preferences, I would rather have a Yuffie Ending available all the way through to the end.
I heard the rumor too, I believe it was started by people who were messing around with the debug mode and using it to add Aeris back into their party after her death. They noticed that Aeris actually can appear in a few cutscenes if she's in your party, and even has one or two spoken lines! (I believe one of them is she'll say something unique after the snowboarding mini-game.)
From what I read though, the general consensus is that she wasn't intended to actually live, but rather she was originally going to die later in the plot. Because eventually she does stop appearing altogether in plot events and there's an inaccessible area in the Northern Cave that can only be gotten to through the debug menu that plays her theme.
I agree that there should be a Yuffie route. Aeris is my favorite girl, but if she has to die then Yuffie is a good second choice. Tifa was always kind of a boring character and she has a lame character design. (what kind of martial artist wears a miniskirt? And who wears a miniskirt with
suspenders, period? Her Advent Children outfit is so much better.)