/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6182042
It's pretty clear to me that the Lifestream/Aerith saved the planet and everyone survived with the positive music and hopeful tone as the lifestream stops meteor from vanquishing holy right before the credits being evidence of this, and the epilogue with Red XIII is simply when all of the main characters would have naturally passed away and been long gone regardless. The epilogue is just to say, ok, they are all long dead but look, the planet is still alive, Midgar has overgroth, nature is flourishing, and of course Red XIII is still alive with his cubs because his species lives longer than the other characters do (Counting Cait Sith as a human because of Reeve.) I agree it's a better conclusion to the story than Advent Children, but I think the fact that people make the ending of Final Fantasy VII complicated and ambiguous says more about their desire to make things ambiguous in general than there being anything really unclear about the ending itself.