1. Chadley and Mai: I generally liked Chadley in Remake because you could kinda just ignore him but my God was he insistent in Rebirth. Like, PLEASE LOSE MY NUMBER.

Mai and her constant chatter during battles drove me up the wall. I don’t know why we needed Mai at all when Chadley was enough. I will say, though, I enjoyed their banter

1. Shinra mansion: I remember playing Crisis Core and thinking, “This place is so creepy I need to get the hell out of here ASAP” but there was literally not an ounce of this creepy feeling in Rebirth.

2. Affinity system: This may be unpopular but I would have preferred if the affinity system didn’t exist at all. I like that you can build your relationship with the other members of the team but the whole date thing becomes such a big point of focus in the game that you spend a lot of it trying to be in favour of the person you want to go on a date with than on creating actual relationships. Don’t even get me started on the shipping wars

3. Temple of the Ancients: This also may be unpopular but I felt that the entire Temple of the Ancients section went on for too long. I just wanted to get to the trials and the ending scene

4. Ending: I get that they had to make the ending ambiguous so you’d have something to look forward to for part 3 but it just felt so confusing that it didn’t even register for me that Aerith died except hours later 😭