consuming methods were proposed, and it was later claimed that  it was only possible in the Japanese version by buying a rose when  Cloud meets Aries at the beginning of the game, and was cut from the  US version due to time constraints. These were all finally put to  rest when Tetsuya Nomura was interviewed about the making of the  game by UK video games publication "Edge". He stated that "[T]he  world was expecting us to bring her back to life, as this is the  classic convention. But we did not. We had decided this from the  beginning." Aeriss death was intended, in part, to be a response to  the dramatic cliché; of the "meaningful death", which Nomura  considered unrealistic.