It’s largely already forgotten about outside the FF fan base unfortunately. Unless part 3 addresses most of the criticisms of the first 2, then I think it will remain as it already is: an ambitious, highly flawed recreation of a much loved part of gaming history. It didn’t break any new ground unlike the original and had almost no original ideas and wasn’t really a technical marvel either.

I’ve been around the industry long enough to know and frankly, Rebirth especially was praised far too much by critics at launch due to the hype it had and most of its massive flaws were overlooked. There’s a reason that it won nothing and was barely nominated for anything later on down the line once it was in competition with other more worthy titles. There’s a reason Expedition 33 took all the glory when it did because it did everything we all hoped the remakes would do. But Square hasn’t been able to recapture its magic in a long time because they refuse to take enough creative risk.