The big point on everyone's mind is, since this is a "remaster," it's kind of like SE saying "this is how we meant it to look the first time."

Just with what little I've seen, I can tell that Nomura (responsible for the spritework on the original ff6) did not draw these characters at all. I wish he had...the spritework definitely isn't up to par.

But if one jaded teenager picks this up and thinks it's awesome enough to be an improvement on sliced bread (the way I did when I picked it up), then it's all worth it. They'll find their way to the original sooner or later.