IGN: Is Final Fantasy VII overrated?

[Khuutra]

kabhold said:

Khuutra said:
One thing I don't get is why it surprised people when Aeris died. It was one of the most heavily foreshadowed events in the whole series.

explain

 

Sorry that I'm late to explain this, but it mostly came in the fact that Aeris insisted, over and over, that she would be the one to sto Meteor, and it was implied over and over that doing this would require her to be alone. Cloud's visions of her, the walk through the woods, the entire sequence leading up to going after the White materia - all of it implied that Aeris wasn't going to stick around for very long.

It didn't make it less impactful. It was probably more impactful because it built up this sense of uneasy knowledge in me. But I saw it coming.