Quote Originally Posted by Lord Golbez View Post
It's a fair point. However, getting rid of Ultimecia would change the plot so dramatically it's impossible to say what course the plot would take with Edea as the villain. They'd probably have to change her whole backstory too because it wouldn't make sense if Edea was the true villain. It would he a cascading affect that would lead to a completely different story. Disc 1 could probably be kept mostly intact. After that....who knows?
The first two discs would remain the same, we don't even know about Ultimecia until Disc 3, and frankly I feel that's about the point where the story kind of loses itself anyway.