@NEStalgia negative and positive opinions about every new final fantasy game are extremely common. Every new entry is called out for being not a real final fantasy, or similar. But there's a lot of threads also saying this is the best final fantasy ever. The existence of either or your vague sense of how many comments were in threads that are a year apart aren't compelling arguments.
VII was considered the gold standard by the gaming community for decades, and while this game could have definitely cut out some side content and been smaller, there is no way the game could have cut out enough to fit the story beats of the rest of the narrative in. The side content just takes up much less development since it can exist in the areas that are already there
They could have crushed this series into two games only by cutting down on the expanded world, fleshed out characters, and of course the new plot threads.
The OG devs said they weren't interested in working on remake if they couldn't flex some creativity with the story, so the options were a less robust, less fleshed out two game series made by the B team, or going all in for a world that made all the wild hopping around from the original feel like it fit in a more realistic looking environment that is actually populated and made by the OG devs.
They picked the latter, because VII was the gold standard and why skimp on their biggest project?
Demon's Souls was a remake so tightly bound to the original it emulates movement, the size of assets, almost every step and every swing of your weapon is built to be identical to the original. I'm so glad SE isn't going that route for VII so I'm not sure why you brought it up.
I can just imagine the nightmare of a VII remake with the same artless adherence to the original that the Mana remakes has.
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@NEStalgia negative and positive opinions about every new final fantasy game are extremely common. Every new entry is called out for being not a real final fantasy, or similar. But there's a lot of threads also saying this is the best final fantasy ever. The existence of either or your vague sense of how many comments were in threads that are a year apart aren't compelling arguments.
VII was considered the gold standard by the gaming community for decades, and while this game could have definitely cut out some side content and been smaller, there is no way the game could have cut out enough to fit the story beats of the rest of the narrative in. The side content just takes up much less development since it can exist in the areas that are already there
They could have crushed this series into two games only by cutting down on the expanded world, fleshed out characters, and of course the new plot threads.
The OG devs said they weren't interested in working on remake if they couldn't flex some creativity with the story, so the options were a less robust, less fleshed out two game series made by the B team, or going all in for a world that made all the wild hopping around from the original feel like it fit in a more realistic looking environment that is actually populated and made by the OG devs.
They picked the latter, because VII was the gold standard and why skimp on their biggest project?
Demon's Souls was a remake so tightly bound to the original it emulates movement, the size of assets, almost every step and every swing of your weapon is built to be identical to the original. I'm so glad SE isn't going that route for VII so I'm not sure why you brought it up.
I can just imagine the nightmare of a VII remake with the same artless adherence to the original that the Mana remakes has.
The only way they could have crammed it into