RIP Aerith
The biggest heartache we experienced from a video game was at the end of Disc 1 of Final Fantasy 7, when Sephiroth drops from the sky and stabs Aerith with his seven-foot-long Masamune blade. They released the Remake in 2020, which is great and all, but we’re not emotionally prepared for Aerith to die a second time. Oh, spoiler alerts, y’all.
But we never knew how true-to-life FF7 could be. One guy apparently spent a lot of time with a woman, like he did leveling up Aerith in the game, only for someone else to put his “sword” through her. That’s a huge yikes from us, dawg.