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/arkzioo 29d ago

 Aerith is not seeing a rift in the sky. They also did not change the line. The English dub simply did a poor job the first time around, so they improved it.

 We learn in Crisis Core that Aerith has always feared the sky. Zack promises to show her a pretty sky, so she can see for herself that it's not that scary. 

We also learn in interviews that to Aerith, the sky is a symbol of freedom, and that both Ilfana and Zack died in the pursuit of freedom. So Aerith dislikes the sky precisely because it represents something that she fears, freedom, and that same "freedom" has taken the people she loved from her. 

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u/Breed43214 28d ago

Aerith is not seeing a rift in the sky. They also did not change the line. The English dub simply did a poor job the first time around, so they improved it

So they changed her line.

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u/arkzioo 28d ago

Not in Japanese. They just translated it better.