Ummm Aeris’s death is the turning point in the whole dam story and the reason sephroth is able to mess cloud and all the other clones up so bad so idk how they would make a story where she lives work.

You know, I’m playing VII again now, and... the Gold Saucer fucking sucks. So I can see reasoning behind that.

Adding an Aeris lives “route” (or storyline) - 32.6 percent

I cannot speak for him. But for me, pre-rendered backgrounds put a huge plus to the atmosphere. I think this is true for FF7-9. And also for the Resident Evil series.

From my point of view voice acting and rendered environments destroyed the JRPG genre. This is the thing Bravely Default did really well. (I know that my…