I have to accept at this point that the story is complete bullshit and the extended content is going to be stupid and just enjoy it as a popcorn flick.
We now have "Demyx SOLDIER OC Do not steal The Hedgehog," Every turk just calling Aerith by her name ruining the subtlety of them having watched over her forever (the only person who really should be calling her by her name is Tseng), holograms and stuff, Teleporting Turks (why do you need SOLDIERS who were essentially just buffed up humans if you can make your FBI agents teleport???), spooky ghooOOOoooooOOOOsts, and who knows what else.
I wish I could look at the "pretty graphics" and explosions and waifus and be like "omg I'm so excited" but all I see is what was a somewhat grounded story being turned into a Michael Bay Explosion fest and changing most of the stakes and characters (like Jessie who is now embarassingly just the "chipper Waifu fated to die before the other chipper waifu who also dies)
I'm sure it's going to be fun as hell for people. And I'm sure anyone who just wants "more FF7" and the typical people who say "play the original" will chime in and opinions like mine won't matter, but it really sucks seeing a remake finally come and all it does is double down on the aspects of the series I had zero care for. Just sucks to see Hologram Heideggar and such. It just changes a lot of context. And then them trying to talk about Wutai and stuff it's like "Are you really going to try and force in a subplot that explains Wutai and try to give one of the most useless subplots in the game main spotlight?"
It just feels like it always did for me. Fanfiction/Padding for the sake of milking the fanbase for every penny.
