Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Writer Warns Against Weird Fan Requests to 'Kill' Certain Characters

"Every character is written with love" No one cares. If no main character dies the story loses all sense of tension. You might as well be making Dora The Explorer game.

"I wanna see my favorite character be violently murdered in 4k resolution!"

We had that twist already, let the writers cook up a new twist, these remakes are going their own direction story-wise anyways.

Edit: Also on a side note, ironic that Square's writers are being blasted for not killing off characters, and yet Naughty Dog gets blasted for killing off characters. Funny how things work out.

Really sucks that said "fans" would resort to something as low as threatening writers if they don't get what they wanted.

Writers are free to tell the story however they wanted to. Fans shouldn't have control over how the events will go.

It's one thing to take criticism into consideration but it's another once devs allow fans to dictate how the story should go

I hope no one dies and they all get a satisfactory conclusion. They deserve it after all these years.
…and I hope Sephiroth breaks free of Jenova and goes to hang with his mom.
Happy endings are better.
Just my opinion! 😉

Who is it that the Twitter losers want to kill off so badly they're harassing a writer, anyway? Can't think of anything off the top of my head, unless this is being done by some of the people who are upset that Biggs and Wedge survived because that changed their precious story.

Gamer entitlement at it's finest. 🙄

Don't do a FFXVI and kill off the only two characters who were mildly interesting.

Just don’t kill people because that would be ‘unexpected’ for fans of the original. It’s a remake, story beats should be the same in broad strokes terms, they’re what made the original great. Expand on a granular level, don’t massively change the basics.

Considering the story that they are telling with remake it makes no sense that they(fans?) are asking to kill off characters, goes against the story imo! Figures it was twitter who says that. Toxic place.

@Deadlyblack Right? People just need to be outraged, that's all. It makes no sense. Tell me the last time a Star Wars "fan" was ever happy with anything.

I gotta point out that (spoiler warning for a 26 year old game) fans have been trying to find a way to save Aerith ever since Final Fantasy VII came out way back in 1997. Now that there seems to be a legit possibility she may survive, some people are losing their damn minds. I mean come on, why can't we just be happy that the FF7 remake project exists and commend SE for taking an approach that actually does leave room for surprises? Having said that, if Tifa gets killed off....

Very much looking forward to this game regardless what happens.

I just want Cait Sith to be unceremoniously executed, I don't see the issue with my request...🤔😉

If the writer is talking about Aerith my answer is it's because that is one of the most iconic deaths in gaming. If they're talking about fans wanting to kill off other characters then why? That is actually weird.

@theSpectre lol, Tifa is the last character I expect them to kill. There's no merit in killing her.

@theSpectre 🤯

What's up with people bothering devs or writers. Let them do their work. Unless they're asking for suggestions. Also I hate it when characters die. Don't want no one to die.

I think we all knew what was probably going to happen (or not happen) in this game, but now I think we know for sure.

Trolls aren't fans.

@theSpectre Tell me the last time when there was an actual good Starwars film or series?

nice, can't wait for Sephiroth spin off,

@Deadlyblack because not everyone played it and have experienced what we did. There are whole generations that missed out. I have been talking about this game for 20 years and was so excited my girlfriend and son get to try it when they announced the remake but I honestly hate what they have done to the story.

@Toot1st - As one of those who “missed out” the original is still very much available, which is what I did back in 2014.
Also, if you’re expecting a 1-1 remake, you might be better off with Ever Crisis, as that (from what I’ve seen) fits the bill more than this ever will.

@Gaia093 - My guess is Aerith; she died in the original and these people want to make sure she does in the remake as well (which is kinda ironic, considering the main reasons the death was so impactful in the first place are because it was unexpected and because players didn’t want the character to die)
Alternatively, there may be some new characters from the first part that people aren’t too happy with that they may want gone.
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Yeah, I’m well and truly in the “let ‘em cook” camp. Given how good Part 1 turned out, and what I’ve seen so far from Part 2, I don’t think there’s too much to worry about, especially if it’s one of the original’s basic story beats like Aerith’s death. (Though to be fair, I’m also not a stickler for this remake hewing to the original, so that may be affecting my position on this point…)

It's all gone a bit Kingdom Hearts anyway, so all bets are off. I'm half expecting Aerith to be killed by Goofy.

While I wouldn’t be outraged if Aerith doesn’t die, I would be disappointed if the story doesn’t have some sort of reason to change it. Her death was a pivotal part of the story.

@rachetmarvel The Last Jedi.

@Toot1st I get that but the original still exists and it's easily playable on almost every console/PC. There's even mods to help upscale the visuals and other QoL improvements on PC. They can both co-exist with each other, similar to other remakes i.e. RE4, Dead Space, Mario RPG etc.