:: RESURRECTING AERIS - courtesy of Lili Anderson ::
Unbelievably, in FF7, Aeris can be brought back to life. All you need is a few items and a hell of a lot of time and patience. This is not fake, there are screenshots to back this up as you will see. I have also talked to at least 4 people who have done it.
1. ITEMS
First of all there are items you will need to successfully get Aeris back, these are as follow:
PC or PlayStation version of Final Fantasy VII
4 Tissues (get by losing in the Battle Arena)
Buster Sword (for it's association woth Aeris)
1 Mastered Revive Materia
2. RESURRECT
Not many people know that the Revive materia can be levelled up past 3 stars. There is a secret 4th star which holds an ability named resurrect. To get this ability, you must earn somewhere between 800,000 and 1,500,000 AP. There is a catch though. You MUST have the Buster Sword equipped and the Revive materia fastened to it before you can gain AP for it.
3. GETTING AP
This is the long part but believe me it is worth it!!! Go to a place where enemies give a lot of AP. Examples are the Gelnika, Mideel Beach and The North Crater. I would recommend the North Crater. Once you get to the bit where your party splits up, go left and then up. Go to the right of the screen and get into a fight. 7 out of 10 times you will be up against a small pot with a purple creature inside it. Use the W-Item trick to get loads of elixirs and give it one. When you kill it (they aren't very hard) you should get 1000 AP for it, do NOT be tempted to use a double or triple growth weapon to up your AP because the Revive materia will not gain AP unless it is on the Buster Sword. Magic Pots can come singly, in 2s and in 3s. This means there can be upto 3000 AP up for grabs just for one fight!
4. AERIS'S HOUSE
Now you have the Resurrect ability, visit Aeris's House in Sector 5 of Midgar. Go into her room (the one on the right) and use the 4 tissues. Cloud should break down and shout "Why did you have to die?". Cloud will then go outside and tell the others his desire to bring back Aeris. The will be doubtful at first but will eventually agree.
5. FLOWERS BLOOMING IN THE CHURCH
Once Cloud has regained his composure, go to the Church in sector 4. Make sure Cait Sith is in your party, then talk to the kid on the right. She will want to play with Cait Sith (seeing as he is a cat!) and they will all go outside. Aeris's spirit should appear in the flowers telling you about the Resurrect Spell and to go to the Forgotten City. This is your next destination.
6. THE CRYSTAL PEDESTAL
Remember the waterfall where you saw Aeris pray for Holy? This is where you Cloud will perform the resurrect spell. Go up to the Pedestal and press the OK button. Cloud will put the materia on the altar then kneel and pray. The materia shoudl become an extremely bright orb of light and then shatter into a million pieces. Aeris's spirit will now tell you to return to the Church.
7. REUNITED
Now that you have performed the Resurrect Spell, when you see Aeris's ghost in the Church, it should become solid. At this moment Aeris will say "Don't worry Cloud, it really is me. Maybe now we can do all those things we never finished first time around." And there you have it, Aeris is back! Now you can take her on the Highwind just like you promised!
2 comments:
When I first heard about this rumor I thought it was BS and never tried it. A few weeks ago someone really close to me told me it was actually possible... so I've been trying to resurrect her since.
The thing is, this someone (I trust) that claims to got Aeris back doesn't even know how the hell happened. It was just a coincidence. I've been trying to look for a walkthrough (that's how I found this post) but there's a lot of stuff that doesn't make sense at all.
I even found this site http://www.finalfantasy7.freewebsites.com/resurrectaeris.html
it's pretty much exactly the same post above, but that one even got screenshots (that look pretty fake to me).
In my humble opinion... there's probably a way to resurrect her (gameshark involved of course), but lets see the facts... Character designer Tetsuya Nomura, and Yoshinori Kitase, the director and co-scenario writer, both made clear in the May 2003 issue of EDGE magazine that Aerith's resurrection wasn't part of the story: "The world was expecting us to bring her back to life, as this is the classic convention". A lengthy petition asking for Aerith's revival by Japanese players was sent to scenario writer Yoshinori Kitase. However, Kitase states that "there are many meanings in Aerith's death and that could never happen". (Found this on Wikipedia)
So yeah, I'm sick and tired of leveling the freaking materia for nothing. It might be possible, but who knows... Oh, and also, following this theory about her resurrection, it says you need either a pc or the PSX game (with a gameshark, I assume) but, does the pc means the actual PC FF7 game? Or an emulator?
If anyone out there actually did resurrect Aeris and got decent proof (not screenshots even my lil bro could make on photoshop) please, share!
PS. And I wonder... why there's no videos on youtube of Aeris resurrection... I mean, damn, you pretty much find anything there.
Well one flaw I see right away with this method is going back to where Aeris prayed for holy (and where she was killed). The way is blocked unless its cleared once youve done all the other work. And I have seen those pictures and agree they look fake. I do know someone that says they used a gameshark to get Dark Aeris, and they believe it must be possible to get her in that form since its in the game to begin with.
Still people have torn this game down to the code and found no complete resurrection and its been over 10 years without a proven method so its extremely unlikely there is a way to do it without a gameshark.
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