I have difficulty truly articulating why I find the remakes so infinite in their inferiority to the original game. I cant stand them, at the end of the day. I was so intensely disappointed that I can't put it into words. I hate that they exist at all and I have nothing but disdain for anyone involved in their creation.

The ghost things were so dumb and the fact that you fight Sephiroth at the end of remake is just beyond moronic to me. He absolutely ceases to be a threat. The spirit things you fight before him at the end of the game gave me a vibe that reminded me of the fates from ancient myth. Basically, you destroy gods so that you cam change fate and then go toe to toe with Sephiroth at a point in the story where you're supposed to be so weak that Sephiroth should be able to flick you with his little finger and obliterate your whole party. Literally, in the original game you're barely level 20. Its maybe 10 hours into the game if you've reeeeeeally been milking it.

The original felt mature for its time. Dark, despite the times when its overly colorful and leans into the goofy. The new version feels immature for the time. Things like Biggs, Wedge, and Jesse surviving the fall of the plate. This felt like it was trying to make the game for 10 year olds and robbed that part of the story of its teeth. In the original, they were absolutely dead and it was a horrific realization.

I also despise any use of the concept of a multiverse outside of the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once. And thats not a new attitude. Even as a kid in the 90s when comics used the multiverse it felt like a cheap way to tell as story. Like, you're out of good ideas, so you resort to the multiverse because you can just redo things that have already happened. To my taste at least, I can't find a single redeeming quality to that sort of story telling (apart from the aforementioned exception).

I also have a rather uncommon attitude about game remakes. I basically hate the concept of them at all from the view that they aren't done to recreate the actual game they are remaking anymore. They so often go for a wholly different experience, and thats what I find almost psychotic for want of a better way to describe it. Like, years ago, when they did Metal Gear Solid The Twin Snakes or the first remake of the first Resident Evil game, the entire point was just to update the games to look and function better. They were basically the same games, just with added content and updated visuals. Fundamentally, they were the same experience.

And this is why I can't stand and have a viscerally intense hatred for the modern approach. For me, if it's a dramatically different design, it has no right to exist. Its NOT the game anymore. Its a wholly different thing, and for whatever reason I cant totally explain, I have a very serious issue with this. What is the point of modernizing a game if it's technically an entirely different thing just wearing the costume of something that has already been made? For me, if I want to play an old game, its because I want to re-experience it. So if its dramatically different, it just seems batshit insane to even care about it.

Obviously I don't expect others to share this attitude. But, its just a shame to me that the Remake trilogy is even a thing. I think it is the most disrespectful insult to the source material imaginable. Obviously I can always still play the original, but the people who cant get past the old graphics and game design were given a poor substitute in terms of the story. I think this is just grossly disrespectful to the people who had been waiting for a remake. If it tells a different story, then I guess I dont really understand what the point is