LogFAQs > #923245209

There's one issue I have with the remake that stands above any other complaint I have, and it's the sole reason why I have no faith in the title, and that reason is that Squeenix openly admitted that they're attempting to flesh out the lore and story.

This is an issue because we're talking about taking a 30 hour game that already had pacing issues, and dragging it out into a 100+ hour experience. Not only that, but we're dealing with modern Square Enix writers who have proven themselves incapable of telling interesting tales.

Plus you've got the cutscene-ification of everything that drives me up the wall. Take the Aeris flower-selling scene for example. In the original, you had the choice of buying a flower from Aeris or telling her no, and when you meet her later on your action will alter her dialogue. This remake forces a canon choice that Cloud gets the flower.

Another example would be turning the tutorial boss fight into a cutscene-laden, 10 minute affair where you must watch the scorpion jump about on walls and peform special attacks until he lands back on the main platform. This entire game is a drawn-out mess that spits on everything that made the original good.