While I went into episode one on the premise that future instalments would more or less be a similarly faithful to but greatly expanded upon telling of the original story. Now I'm a little concerned that FFVII-R's length is set in stone, and any fluffing out of one area means equal cuts elsewhere. The best case scenario is that they've planned the whole thing out with expansions and cuts that make sense. What FFXIII and FFXV should lead us all to worry about, is that reality hasn't hit SE yet, and while we all know this is going to be a 3-4 episode affair, the guy making the decisions at SE's FFVII-R department is under the impression that the game can take as many episodes as necessary to tell the perfect story, regardless of return on investment, and after episode three, which gets us maybe to Aerith's death, someone tells them to wrap it up in one more episode, and we end up with a botched, inconsistent story that wraps up abruptly and screams unfinished, perhaps leading SE to fill in the gaps with supplementary material like a youtube video or iOS mobile app. Can they pull off an extended story in the style of FFXIII, FFXV and FFVII-R? Precedent says no. The bean counters are probably already getting antsy.