So, I'm gonna have a whinge.

What they did with the remake is one of the worst narrative crimes, ever, in the history of videogames.

Having the plot of the game be the characters trying not to follow the plot of the original game? Get in the bin!

If the original was a crazy adventure across a whole world, the remake is meta-textextual ouroboros that only has enough budget to create but one city in that world.

I was aware of the general controversy, but only this week played this thing.

It was an amazing, truly great recreation of an iconic opening sequence... until the 4th-wall destroying dementors ruin Aeris introduction!

Did they do this cause they really wanted to not be bound by the original narrative? Was it because building the entire game in a full 3D engine would be massively expensive?

It doesn't matter, because the story is now meaningless, and the idea of re-experiencing the original is gone.

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