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redrocket posted...

Yeah remake does NOT at all imply major changes to a games plot

Obviously it's reMAKE, not REmake...

But Ermine nailed it with the idea of first time experience. For a game to truly be replayed, you need to replay all the original emotions too, it's not just seeing the graphics and hearing the dialogue. The only way to do that for such a classic game is to change things and create surprise.

The best analogy is Star Wars 7. Everyone complained that it was a copy of 4, which it was, because the whole point was to copy the full experience of 4, including the surprise and mystery. So its only option was to do basically the same as 4 but with some tweaks. Of course there's a nostalgic element, but that's not nearly as strong as truly feeling something new.

pjbasis posted...

I mean, if you want the most fundamental reason why I don't think this was the right direction, is because I think the modern storytelling capabilities of square is dead.

This is basically where I'm at. Like Star Wars 7, it all rested upon the sequels, which ended up terrible, retroactively ruining 7. You can easily see where the KH writing comes in with the new stuff in this game, so it's easy to be worried.

However, you can also see extremely good writing in the added details and nuances to the classic characters and scenes. It's really only the brand new plot stuff that fell flat. They left the door wide open to keep people hyped for 3+ years, but it's probably gonna be a near copy again until some KH bullshit at the end. The formula just proved too effective.