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Also it's kinda funny because I think the remake improved every character EXCEPT Cloud, who just doesn't have nearly as much of a personality as he did in the original. In OG FF7 even just judging the Midgar portion of the game he had more agency, he showed more emotion, he got into conflicts with other characters, he cracked jokes (like when he joked about Aerith having what it takes to be in SOLDIER after escaping the church) etc. in remake he doesn't have much to say and just acts stoic and socially awkward most of the time.
I think this is where voice acting comes into play more than anything. What we might have assumed were confident jokes could also be read in really awkward ways. Voice acting dictates this for us rather than our imagination, which means we have a more exact character but perhaps not the character we preferred to imagine. I'm with you, though. The best voice acted Cloud so far was in World of Final Fantasy.