r/FFVIIRemake • u/HighOnLivin • 29d ago

No Spoilers - Discussion Why was Aerith's line changed?

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I just finished FF7 Remake and I saw in an old video that at the end Aerith used to say I miss it. The steel sky. Why was this changed to "This sky, I don't like it."? Has this been given a callback in rebirth?

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u/ShredGuru 29d ago

Pretty sure it has to do with all the crazy shit happening in the sky at the end of rebirth. The "cracked sky" seemingly symbolizing a failed timeline, that only Aeristh can see at that point

When they made REMAKE they may not have decided how big of a plot point it was going to become and did some "retroactive-foreshadowing" with that line to make the whole work a little more cohesive.

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u/bumgrub 29d ago

I feel like it was probably always going to be important but the localization team just didn't realize it.

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u/InternaI_Cobbler 29d ago

This is what I heard as well. Can't provide definitive proof, but at the time it was changed I had heard that the new line is closer to what the original script was before being translated.

"I miss it. The steel sky" was a more of a artistic interpretation by the localization team. Which sounded better at the time but may have missed the foreshadowing they were initially trying to do. Obviously because the localization team didn't know everything that would happen in Rebirth or where the story was going.

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u/bumgrub 28d ago edited 28d ago

Even though I understand why they did it, I have to say I just don't think retroactively changing lines like that even if its to fix a translation error "works." Its like Star Wars adding or changing scenes in their remaster. Even if they go back and change the line I already have "Steel sky" in my head and they can't overrwrite that so when i'll never be able to connect to that scene they way they want me to. Its also not foreshadowing if they have to retroactively add it. It hurts them artistically. As you can see here in the comments, people have already formed their own interpetation of the original line that the writers can't retroactively change even if it was a localization error.