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Red_XIV posted...

Your point? It's still weird that it's split into 3 games like this.

Not really.

As someone who's played and beaten the original a solid five times, I think there is a huge benefit of doing it this way.

That benefit is more breathing room for the characters. People are always attempting to praise the OG for it's characters and scripting, which has always been weird to me because they're just not that great in the grand scheme of things. Other titles out around the same time did better at scratching the narrative itch.

Remake comparatively breathed a lot more life into Midgar itself, the people that live there, and even made Shinra a little bit more memorable as villains outside of just being "Big megacorp bad" (Try to insist with any degree that Shinra 'had character', especially with dialogue-related evidence, and I can almost guarantee you it's either from extended material or FF7 Machinabridged and not OG FF7).

And Rebirth is looking to be a continuation of the same, putting care and effort into fleshing out the areas we journeyed to in the OG as well as taking a new spin on things.

I am looking at it less as "A single game being split into three parts", but akin to something like the Trails series - the Cold Steel arc in particular - where the multiple games are necessitated for narrative purposes.