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

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Immersiveunreality said:

Vodacixi said:

''In general, the simplest way to remember the difference between a reboot and a remake is to remember that for a film to be a reboot, it should be resetting a chronology that's been established over multiple films. A remake is concerned with updating a single film, sometimes slavishly''

So... just what they did with this game. They reset the original chronology that was stablished in the original game. Also, you have to take into account that this is the first act of this project. They have reset the story in the end of the first arc. Just like many reboots do (Terminator Genysis). The fact that this first part follows for most of its duration its original counterpart doesn't mean shit because this is just the beginning. They have stablished the reset, and that reset is gonna affect absolutely everything that comes after it, completely transforming FF VII story as we know. By your own definition, this is a reboot.

What they do is not resetting,they use the same chronology and they build upon it and make a few tweaks,a reboot completely deletes the path of the original chronology and makes a new.

By definition this is a remake, but you just seem to pick up whatever suits your opinion.

Have you not read the spoilers or watched the ending?

Because... 

Spoiler!

you literally fight the original chronology.  That's literally one of the boss fights.