Goddamn crybaby...

I happened to come across a link to a Wired article asking whether a video game could make you cry.

One of the moments he mentioned was Aerith's death from Final Fantasy VII. At the time, it didn't really affect me very much, as I'd already read a spoiler for it and so it didn't really come as a surprise.

You can check it out here, if you like. Go ahead, it just takes a second. I'll wait.

My reaction after seeing that video was...OMG, is that *really* what pre-rendered video looked like back in 1997? I'm certainly not one to get turned off by cartoony graphics (*cough* manga addict *cough*), but it's hard to read much emotional content into the characters when the limit of their expression is blinking their eyes and frowning. Ah, well, I thought - it's not as good as everyone remembered.

Then, for kicks, I clicked through to a short clip from FF:AC (the movie Square-Enix published a year or two ago reprising the FF7 characters). And suddenly the music starts, and it's Aerith's Theme, and...queue the waterworks. I guess that game affected me more than I thought :)

But I guarantee you there's not a single song from FFX that will make me cry...unless it's the background music for that damn balloon dodging Chocobo race I had to run a few hundred times...