The Ghost In Aerith's Church

[neo_rufus]

I was suppose to do this entry a while back but kept forgetting. I know...shame on you, Miguel. So my topic for today is relating to Aerith. Have any of you seen her ghost at the church? I believe the ghost appears around disc 3 (some say this is false), pretty much any time after her death. My friend called me up and asked me about it. Apparently

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[yrena]

Actually I think it's meant to be a ghost but wasn't coded right. Because I actually went back to the church with AERITH IN MY PARTY first time you can get her, just after the chase with Reno *points to icon* this last time I played through, and got a VERY brief flash of the ghost, then it disappeared. This happens EACH time I go into the church.

I think it's due to programming more than anything. I've tinkered with making my own game before. In RPGmaker2000 you have to make your sprites off screen, then during an event you bring them in via walking or what have you. It's probably the same with FF7, but due to programming, it shows up when it's not supposed to. The very fact it exists on that PARTICULAR screen, and not the close up of the flowerbed where you meet Aerith after the beginning of the game, indicates it was intentional. The field file for the two screens are seperate, so it's not just a random appearing leftover from coding of when you first meet her.
I've experienced a LOT of behind the scenes incidences while messing around with games.

[neo_rufus]

That too is a reasonable explanation. I guess the creators of the game assumed that we wouldn't go back into the church until after her death (which is stupid to assume that...that is if they even did) and didn't bother making the proper changes. The same thing happened to me in this game I use to play as a kid.

I won't mention the name of the game due to how embarrassing it is (unless you really want to know) but I'll quickly explain what happened. This was my second time playing through the whole game and I wanted to take different routes, just for fun. So as I am walking to get to the first boss, I noticed the road that will take me to the final boss was open, so I follow it. What happened was that I fought the final fight with my rival in the start of the game, but this fight was supposed to occur towards the ending. So I think the game makers didn't bother making the adjustments because they assumed all players will follow the correct path. Sorry for wasting your time blabbing on about that. lol.

Hopefully these kinds of things don't happen nowadays. But I would have been freaked out if I was you, lol. Aerith seeing her own ghost, that's deep. :P

Wow you've experimented with making your own game? That is so cool! And I understand what you are saying and it makes allot of sense. :D