Final Fantasy VII Remake Review Thread - Current 88 Metacritic / 89 Opencritic

[Vodacixi]

deskpro2k3 said:

Vodacixi said:

You still don't get it. It's not about the changes. It's about selling a remake, playing with people feelings about reviving the story of one of their favourite games ever... when you're throwing all of that through the window and doing a reboot. And YES, IT'S A REBOOT. The original story is no more. They, quite literally, killed the ties with the original story. It's not like the remake of KH Chain of Memories where certain guy dies burned alive instead of just backstabed like in the original GBA game, but then everything proceeds as normal. No, this is like making a remake of A New Hope and suddenly making Obi Wan kill Darth Vader on the Death Star. That's not a remake: that's a reboot. You are restarting the original curse of history. Remakes don't do that.

Ok in that case you can say part 1 is indeed a reboot, but it falls in that grey area where you can say it's reimagining. I seriously don't see it as a bad thing lol.

I don't see any grey area. But even if there was, we are no longer talking about remakes. We are talking about either a reboot or a reimagining (concepts that are very very similar), none of which was what Square Enix sold to people. That's the problem.

You don't see it as a bad thing because you like the changes and you don't care about being tricked. But that's just you. You need to understand that, liking the changes or not, this is not what people signed for and that's why the opinion about the game is polarizing (among other things, because the game has quite a few areas that could have been done better to say the least).

Last edited by Vodacixi - on 07 April 2020