FF IX came out in 2000/2001.

What game will you remake? Why?

Right now I'm in my bimonthly Comix Zone obsessive kick, so let's say that. It didn't get the attention it deserved the first time around. Also, the beat-em-up genre doesn't get much love these days.

What would you do to build on the original? What would you do that would be significantly different?

More levels, definitely. What I would like to do is remake the six levels that are already there and call it one story arc. Then I'd like to add a few new story arcs with whole new levels. (For anyone who may be having difficulty following, each level is a page of a comic book, and each "book" has two pages. :P) I would also update the graphics, obviously, since it's from 1995. Everything was drawn by Comic Book artists in the original version, and I'd like to keep that going for the backgrounds, this time with high res images instead of translating everything into pixels.

I'd have to get Howard Drossin back for the soundtrack. He was amazing in the original version and he showed that the songs translate well into more technically advanced music (ie; not chiptunes :P) with the Roadkill album of remixes from the game.

I'm not sure what I'd do with the sprites, though. I'd either like to have high quality Odin Sphere style sprites or something more low key (but still awesome with the thousand frames of animation per character) like Street Fighter III. Or I could throw out sprites all together and use cel shading. That would work really well if implemented right. (And cel shading has come a long way this generation.)

I think it might be nice as a Wii game, if only because the premise is "guy stuck in comic book" any you could totally use the Wiimote to draw stuff, Okami style. :P Being a side-scroller (and possibly completely 2D) it wouldn't really need a lot of graphical power. The camera doesn't even really move, since it's key that everything be completely flat.

God, now I've gotten myself all excited for a game that's never going to exist. xP I need to stop now.