Quoting my post in the other topic so I don't have to just rewrite it. I think people in here generally get what Squeenix is layin down though
CoolCly posted...
This isn't a remake with plot details changed to match the vision of the new format or make things work better. That's common in adaptations - you can't keep everything exactly the same.
This is a case where the events of the original FF7 all canonically happened, and this is take two where Sephiroth knows how things went and that he lost, so he's causing changes. The plot ghosts know how things were supposed to go and have been trying super hard to make sure they go that way.
After all, at the Midgar point in the plot, Sephiroth shouldn't really give any kinds of fucks about Cloud in particular. But this is post game Sephiroth, maybe even post AC Sephiroth, so he's actually does see Cloud as the personal adversary that Cloud has always seen Sephiroth as.
The end of the Midgar fully commits to changing a few events after keeping things mostly the same the whole way through, so now we are coming out the other side with some differences.
Going into the future releases, this is full on new timeline, baby. Anything could happen. This took me from not caring at all about this remake to being 100% on board. This is awesome.
The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG