LogFAQs > #978708803

The "What If..." categorization isn't quite right, because by and large the game still sticks to the script when it comes to major plot points (so far). I do think they really go off the rails in game 3 though.

And I'm all for a 75% completely original third game. Post Temple of the Ancients, the only iconic events from the original that I think need to be faithfully recreated in the remake are:

• the escape from Junon
• Cid's backstory (and I guess it's possible they do this in Rebirth or Rebirth DLC)
• a return to Midgar sequence

Everything else (Great Glacier, Northern Crater, Huge Materia hunt, Underwater wreckage, final dungeon) can be done in a completely new way or not at all and I'd be fine with it. In fact, if the third game doesn't have a completely different endgame I think it would be a pretty big failure in storytelling, considering how much has been set up.