Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno View Post
So far some good responses, I'm curious to know how VII's level of 3D is so important to it when I personally feel the story can easily be told through 2D. Overall, I feel only battles would be dramatically affected.
It is a point that VII's graphics are simplistic, and it is a fair enough argument that VII is a 2D game placed on a pre-rendered background.

But making it a pure 2D game with sprites would make the game lose a lot, and not just in the battles. Would Midgar be as moody or depressing in 2D? Would the image of hopelessness come across as clearly in Gongaga or Corel? I love Cosmo Canyon, but would it be the same in 2D. How would Sephiroth look?

And beyond that, I would not like to see VII remade with the same graphics. For anybody who disagrees that graphics make a game better, go play GTA4. All the subtleties that great graphics can do made the story rise from somethin simplistic to something amazing.