I've been on and off trying to force myself to actually get through the final couple chapters of Remake for about a year now, but that struggle and what I've seen of Rebirth has me thinking this trilogy might just genuinely not be for me and I should just give up on it, no matter how much of a fan of the series I may be. Feels weird that in recent years I've only ever really liked the FF titles the fandom at large seems to have issues with and hated the ones people love. Also, complete aside, but man what is wrong with the character's eyes in these games - whenever there's an emotional scene their eyes go into full-on epileptic fits. I get what they're going for but it irritates the hell out of me.
Remake was one of my favorite games when it came out but I hadn't played the original until afterward, which completely changed everything for me. Now its hard to look at what they've done and not just appreciate so much of what ff6/7 accomplished while Rebirth has such different goals in what they wanted out of their game comparatively. Also the game's faces and lighting mess up way more than it should, they get a weird smooth clay-like texture in some areas/hallways.
@@myth_jtp7258 I imagine playing Remake first must make for a very different perspective (it also makes your criticism more meaningful than mine, I'd wager - I'm definitely somewhat biased) - personally I have so many little gripes here and there with Remake that I have a hard time breaking them down succinctly, but the biggest, most overarching one is one of tone to me. The original took the player, its plot and its ideas seriously enough and was ambitious enough with its narrative to let dour, even dark moments linger and have consequences - hell, it was the first game to ever make me cry! - whereas Remake seems most interested in looking gorgeous and making the player feel good about themselves. Which isn't a problem in and of itself, but seeing as its working off the same framework, the difference in style makes it feel insipid. The worst part is that this would have been so damn easy to avoid, too.
@@HansAlRachid Remake struggles less-so than Rebirth in what seems to be a growing trend of asinine and terrible writing choices; something that wouldn't be hard to notice anyway but is so much worse having played the original. All of the contrived plot holes/defying fate/multiversal travel/shinra's incompetence with remake struggling the most with how the whispers flip a coin on whether their "changing" or "upholding" fate(Original's timeline) in order to just acquire the payoffs the writers want which typically don't align with what a fan of the writing in the original would ever want. You are definitely right about the first part for Rebirth: Consequences are meaningless. An easy example is cloud: he can force push his sword into Tifa (and do no damage as a consequence...), attack barret thinking he's sephiroth in the doctor's room, try to steal the world destroying materia the Gi mention and have nobody care (They care so less about it barret has his mythical "fine, fetch" moment which might be the fastest character assassination I've ever seen in a video game), and ultimately still have the black materia through writing magic by the end of the game and no one bats an eye (Besides a brief "Cloud you Ok" moments from the likes of Aerith or Tifa in places like Sleeping Forest which epitomizes the laughable extent anyone goes to supporting/removing weapons/actually helping cloud through his blatant schizophrenia/whatever you want to call it). And yes, it would be easy to avoid. There are countless resources available describing how writing choices in the original could have been fixed or avoided. One thing a good friend and I always talk about is how Seph is "suppose" to be only in Cloud's mind from nearby Jenova but there are a few scenes where other's clearly show they notice its Seph like at ToA Barret literally shoots his gun at him when hes acquiring the BM. Its a small plot hole that could be remedied easier than any larger contrivance but since Rembirth wants to use Sephiroth as the big cool sword guy that's easy to market, the problem is ignored for the worse and Seph clearly feels even more real and seen by the cast.
Awesome video man!
Wonderful video as always
I've been on and off trying to force myself to actually get through the final couple chapters of Remake for about a year now, but that struggle and what I've seen of Rebirth has me thinking this trilogy might just genuinely not be for me and I should just give up on it, no matter how much of a fan of the series I may be.
Feels weird that in recent years I've only ever really liked the FF titles the fandom at large seems to have issues with and hated the ones people love.
Also, complete aside, but man what is wrong with the character's eyes in these games - whenever there's an emotional scene their eyes go into full-on epileptic fits. I get what they're going for but it irritates the hell out of me.
Remake was one of my favorite games when it came out but I hadn't played the original until afterward, which completely changed everything for me. Now its hard to look at what they've done and not just appreciate so much of what ff6/7 accomplished while Rebirth has such different goals in what they wanted out of their game comparatively. Also the game's faces and lighting mess up way more than it should, they get a weird smooth clay-like texture in some areas/hallways.
@@myth_jtp7258 I imagine playing Remake first must make for a very different perspective (it also makes your criticism more meaningful than mine, I'd wager - I'm definitely somewhat biased) - personally I have so many little gripes here and there with Remake that I have a hard time breaking them down succinctly, but the biggest, most overarching one is one of tone to me.
The original took the player, its plot and its ideas seriously enough and was ambitious enough with its narrative to let dour, even dark moments linger and have consequences - hell, it was the first game to ever make me cry! - whereas Remake seems most interested in looking gorgeous and making the player feel good about themselves.
Which isn't a problem in and of itself, but seeing as its working off the same framework, the difference in style makes it feel insipid.
The worst part is that this would have been so damn easy to avoid, too.
@@HansAlRachid Remake struggles less-so than Rebirth in what seems to be a growing trend of asinine and terrible writing choices; something that wouldn't be hard to notice anyway but is so much worse having played the original. All of the contrived plot holes/defying fate/multiversal travel/shinra's incompetence with remake struggling the most with how the whispers flip a coin on whether their "changing" or "upholding" fate(Original's timeline) in order to just acquire the payoffs the writers want which typically don't align with what a fan of the writing in the original would ever want.
You are definitely right about the first part for Rebirth: Consequences are meaningless. An easy example is cloud: he can force push his sword into Tifa (and do no damage as a consequence...), attack barret thinking he's sephiroth in the doctor's room, try to steal the world destroying materia the Gi mention and have nobody care (They care so less about it barret has his mythical "fine, fetch" moment which might be the fastest character assassination I've ever seen in a video game), and ultimately still have the black materia through writing magic by the end of the game and no one bats an eye (Besides a brief "Cloud you Ok" moments from the likes of Aerith or Tifa in places like Sleeping Forest which epitomizes the laughable extent anyone goes to supporting/removing weapons/actually helping cloud through his blatant schizophrenia/whatever you want to call it).
And yes, it would be easy to avoid. There are countless resources available describing how writing choices in the original could have been fixed or avoided. One thing a good friend and I always talk about is how Seph is "suppose" to be only in Cloud's mind from nearby Jenova but there are a few scenes where other's clearly show they notice its Seph like at ToA Barret literally shoots his gun at him when hes acquiring the BM. Its a small plot hole that could be remedied easier than any larger contrivance but since Rembirth wants to use Sephiroth as the big cool sword guy that's easy to market, the problem is ignored for the worse and Seph clearly feels even more real and seen by the cast.