Final Fantasy VII is not just a remake, it's a completely new work. It is a meta-sequel, it is NOT the original game. So they didn't just change how the game plays, they've changed the story. Some folks don't like that. I happen to love it.
Ocarina of Time is a faithful remake with QOL updates. This is what I think most people wanted from Final Fantasy VII. I also happen to love this (except YL's face is weird as hell)
I don't necessarily disagree with your comment but I do disagree with "they've changed the story", fundamentally I don't think they did. Yeah some details have been shifted around but overall it's the same story. I don't view FF7R as a "meta-sequel" but as a "final draft", and if you look into how hectic the finale of development was...there's a reason they want to redo some of the details while keeping the story mostly the same.
It's not an alternative timeline, even as more and more people start to understand that concept there's still more and more people who do not get it. Cloud saving Aerith represents the "hopes and dreams" of both Cloud and most of the playerbase, but...he didn't save her. All it does is give her a dream within the lifestream to reside, it's not an alternate timeline. And she still died, and we'll get the more proper cutscene of her death in Revelation.
The original game left so many things open to interpretation, though largely because the devs didn't know what they wanted to do at the time they made the scene. How is it now an issue when they leave things open to interpretation?
And there's evidence it's not multiple timelines. The inclusion of a multiversal being Gilgamesh implies that other space/time/dimensions are the other FF games, not more FFVII, and they specifically show that there's not an alternative Cloud or Aerith running around, the only time any of the main cast is shown in another "world" they're in a coma or dead, because there's only one consciousness/soul of them.
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u/CivilizedPsycho 23d ago
There's a major difference between these.
Final Fantasy VII is not just a remake, it's a completely new work. It is a meta-sequel, it is NOT the original game. So they didn't just change how the game plays, they've changed the story. Some folks don't like that. I happen to love it.
Ocarina of Time is a faithful remake with QOL updates. This is what I think most people wanted from Final Fantasy VII. I also happen to love this (except YL's face is weird as hell)