10 Biggest WTF Moments In Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth
1. Aerith's Fate
The ad campaign leading up to Rebirth was centred on one question: Would Aerith defy fate and survive the events of Final Fantasy VII's story this time around? Well, due to Rebirth's dimension-spanning, timeline-jumping conclusion, we now know the answer is...
Maybe?
Even several months removed from Rebirth's release, it's still hard to wrap one's head around Aerith's status at the end of the game. Cloud seemingly saves Aerith from Sephiroth's infamous sword-plunge, deflecting the one-winged assassin's fatal strike with a defiant roar. Yet Aerith inexplicably dies anyway. Except Cloud seems to think she's still alive. But everyone else acts as though she's dead. But the blood keeps disappearing and reappearing on her body. And Aerith talks to Cloud in the finale, but no one else can hear her.
If the above paragraph seems jumbled, that's exactly how it feels watching Rebirth's finale play out. All the guff about alternate dimensions and multiple timelines results in it being totally unclear whether the Aerith whom Cloud is talking to is a figment of his imagination, an interdimensional counterpart, or the same Aerith but on a different plane of reality.
To conclude, let's add one more sentiment to the repurposed quote that began this article: "Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is weird. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly, bloody frustratingly weird it is".