Why is FF7's shocking moment considered the most shocking *spoilers*

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twesterm said:

Yojimbo said:
The Aeris scene is one of the most memorable scenes in a game for me. I have finished FF 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12 and played the rest of the games, but few scenes in the serie come close to that one. If I remember correctly FFIV is the game that has most death of characters it did feel little out of place but still the twins death is more memorable then Cyans family in FFVI. Its hard to explain but I felt more connection with Aeris because I had her in my party all the time and I was not expecting that you would lose her. But still its hard for SE to mantain the freshness of the serie I dont think another death of important character would suprise me.

The problem with the deaths in FFIV is they kept coming back and just took away from those scenes and made me feel cheated for feeling those emotions.

• Rydia-- her return was *awesome* and that one didn't feel cheap since she came back in an epic way.
• Edward-- I didn't like Edward to begin with...
• Yang-- cheap, he died, he sacrificed himself and he just *pops* comes back.
• Cid-- still cheap, but at least we found out pretty quick he didn't actually die
• Palom & Porom-- their scene was so awesome and so sad...and then at the end of the game they're back.  It just made their "death" feel so cheap and I just felt cheated for all those emotions I felt.
• Tellah-- not as bad as Palom and Poram and I understand why he was there at the end, but I almost didn't want to hear from him again.

You might want to hide that. OP said he is still playing FF IV and doesn't want to be spoiled.