10 Massive Video Game Spoilers The Internet Totally Ruined
6. Final Fantasy VII
The major spoiler: Aeris dies
Spoiled through sheer pop-culture status more than anything else, even those who are unfamiliar with Final Fantasy VII are aware of its most heartbreaking moment.
Aeris' death is without a doubt one of gaming's saddest story moments, but just because it reserves such an iconic status doesn't mean people should be able to spoil it so indiscriminately. People of various generations want to experience these stories untainted by their biggest plot-twists. Whilst you're unlikely to find someone today who's only recently been introduced to Star Wars, chances are they would've gone in with its biggest twists already enshrined deeply in the back of their mind. This means that not many people are going to get to experience these stories the same way people did when they first purchased them.
Time is never an excuse for ruining something - it's that simple.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
