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What Final Fantasy opinion are you defending like this? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Cold take, I know, but I think FFVIIR is a falsely advertised sequel.

[–] buru5 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

agreed, it was a clever bait-and-switch-with-an-out

"no, remake doesn't stand for REMAKE ... it stands for RE-MAKE the story, completely, like .. history is being REMADE! it's time travel baby!"

they knew what they were doing; literally EVERYONE was expecting a close remake of the original game for modern consoles, instead we got a FINE and VERY COOL SEQUEL, but nothing close to the REMAKE they led people to believe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean by falsely advertised?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
  • SpoilersMajor story changes and can only take place after the original has already happened. It's a retread, but a sequel nonetheless. They explicitly said in interviews and such that it would be a faithful remake (despite additions).
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh I know it's a sequel. I just didn't know what you meant by the rest.

Personally I was pleasantly surprised it was a sequel and I'm glad it wasn't advertised as so. As I started realising that the little changes weren't just because of them taking creative liberty on the source material but instead something more and still in-universe to the original, the cogs in my head couldn't stop turning as I was trying to figure out what was actually happening. I liked that feeling as I was playing.

I enjoyed the game more because it was a sequel and because they didn't tell us before hand and now that the cat is out of the bag and I'm already hooked in, I am sooo excited for the next games in the series.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I found it to be pretty anti-consumer, but no beef if you enjoyed that.

Anyway, here's hoping it ages well like MGS2.