Final Fantasy 7 Remake: 8 Things NOBODY Wants To Admit

One of the expanded characters most Final Fantasy VII Remake players seem to enjoy the most is Jessie.

In the original, the AVALANCHE bombardier hit a few switches, had a chat about scanners on a train, and then, by and large, popped her proverbials on the side of a scaffold. We barely got to know her, let alone care.

There's a superb expanded sequence in the remake that takes us to Jessie's privileged childhood home plate-side, as we learn her motivations for joining AVALANCHE. Her greatly expanded role is mostly to provide some necessary emotional impact when she gets a bit shot to death (what with Part 1 obviously shorn of that scene).

However... much this memorability manifests from her absolute thirst for Cloud.

Within five minutes of knowing him, Jessie is dripping off the sulky anti-hero as though he's wearing Lynx Africa or something. It's hardly surprising that a subset of the audience seem to have warmed to her this time around, then.

The 'female characters as male power fantasy' theme continues with primary protagonists Tifa and Aerith.

Without dwelling on her preposterously proportioned chest, Tifa's interactions with Aerith - Cloud's new gal, she reckons - are laced with jealousy. It's a way for the target audience to vicariously 'enjoy' two idealised women fighting for their affection, even if Cloud's personality doesn't demand it.

Then there's Madame M, who implicitly makes SOLDIER boy spaff his parachute pants, for a price. This all goes, ahem, hand-in-hand with the Remake's female cast being almost entirely in service of the men.