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

[DonFerrari]

Runa216 said:

Angelus said:
This thread is an interesting study in the duality of a fandom. Core structure vs. mythology.

One group is more than satisfied to play any story that in some way touches upon familiar beats, just so long as there's still a grand adventure with the characters they love, in a setting they remember fondly, with a combat system that feels natural to the FF lineage. For them, it's the moment to moment experience that defines the game.

The other, is much more invested in overarching elements that bind it all together. What's the exact plot? What's the nature of the conflict? How is it resolved? Is established lore respected? If these elements don't match up with their expectations, or established framework of the source material, the moment to moment experience is diminished significantly, and in some cases, made wholly irrelevant.

Neither group is wrong to feel how they feel. You just consume the material differently.

I think everyone's wrong to pre-judge a game they haven't played, while extrapolating the changes to two iterations that we know nothing about. It sounds like PArt 1 is a pretty damn faithful remake from beginning to end with one major change at the very end that opens up the door to a literal multiverse of possibility. I feel that, until we've gotten the whole picture, none of us can truly judge this. You can be excited or not, you can like the direction or not, but you can't really know what's happening until we see the trilogy in its glory. 

IT reminds me of the Star Wars sequels. yeah, those ended up disappointing a lot of people, but there was a galaxy's worth of possibility to explore and unlimited potential. I saw people hating star wars before they even knew what the crew had planned. This is very similar. 

Even more because this change can just make a small deviation and return to the same plot with just a small change of path which isn't changing the major plot.