679: Save the Girl
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Okay, of everything in pop culture, what can make a teenage boy cry? That's a very specialized list, right? And we got talking about this at our office because Lena Maceti's one of the producers here. Remember how there was this one video game, a PlayStation game that got to her brother and his friends when they were kids? She says he was definitely not a crier. - And honestly, in my memory of it, my brother, Janos, cries halfway through the game because this character dies. He actually says that that's not true, but one of his other friends also remembers him crying. And lots of people had this reaction to the character's death, like famously. No matter how you play the game, she always dies and people reacted. - What was the game? - It's called Final Fantasy 7. - What was this? - 1997. And the character that they're all crying over is named Eris, but some people call her Eris. - And what was it about this character that was so intense? - Well, okay, so I have no idea. To me, it made no sense. She's like this one-dimensional girl. She's a cartoon. Like at the time, it was a big deal that she was 3D. So like she looked, I guess, believable, but she kinda looks like a Mario character. And it doesn't make sense to me that all of these boys would cry over it. And so since my brother disagrees that he cried about it, I called someone who definitely did. His name is Mike Fahey. He's a writer for Kotaku, this like video game review and like reporting website. And he wrote about Final Fantasy 7 being remade. It comes out, I think, in like the next year or two. And he wrote this article. And the title of the article was, I can't go through this again. - About this scene? - About this scene. About this scene. It's about how he doesn't feel like he can deal with her dying two times in his life. Like one time was enough.
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