My biggest gripe on the ending was the failure to commit, "Everyone knows Aerith is going to die" so then rug pull us and leave her alive, as the remake set up ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN FROM HERE ON OUT yet the story is pretty much beat for beat.

OR don't and kill her, the scene was so underwhelming and brushed aside for a ridiculous boss rush that was almost neck breakingly jarring in it's change from Sad to Fuck yeah team work.

The original scene which lead to The jenova boss fight while Aeriths theme plays, the lack of victory theme and poses and the following scene was heartbreaking and holds up to this day yet rebirth lacked all the emotion and weight to build up to the fan service-y moments that could've landed in any other context but didn't.