Quote Originally Posted by Leigh View Post
Why remake a game if you are just going to do the same thing, but instead of using A4 paper and crayons, you're using watercolours on canvas.
Because why fix what isn't broke?

Actually, I think there's a better reason. I think when you remake a game, the first people it should appeal to are fans of the original. Now I have no issue with wanting to branch out further than that as well, but I think the is a reasonable expectation that the primary goal should be to satisfy the original audience. Making big changes to the story, making big changes to the game systems, these are all things that risk alienating those original players. If you can make changes and keep them happy, good job. But if I lose a lot of enjoyment from the remake because it's turned into an action game, I suck at action games, and one of the reasons I liked the original is because it wasn't an action game, then in my mind they will have failed.

As you say, they can never please everyone. Even if you were completely faithful you would get some people condemning it because Cloud's hair spikes were the wrong length. But I do think they should be attempting to keep to the spirit of the original as much as possible, because it is the original fans who enjoyed that spirit that this project is (or at least should) be being created for.