>>720042162
Something the original did that gets almost zero attention is how good Shinra is at rewriting history. Yuffie is kind of a brat who only cares about Wutai and Materia. But she's more right than even she knows. The Lifestream lost its name, it's Mako now. Knowlespole lost its name, now its Icicle Area assuming it's not just called "Northern Continent." No one even knows a whole village was wiped off map by Shinra? Oh you thought I meant Nibelheim? No I was talking about Corel although yeah Nibelheim got memory holed too. Too bad Sephiroth died under mysterious circumstances. Most popular soldier in the world, no one can explain what happened to him. Yuffie is struggling so hard to get her country out of Shinra's hands because it's already losing its identity. At least in OG, in Remake Wutai is still in open war with Shinra. And the most memorable part of it, other than being a tourist trap that serves its conquerors, is that there's a guy hiding there kidnapping teenagers so he can fuck them upside down on the faces of their ancestors.

>>717770943
To be clear, I don't think Crisis Core is all that good. It's the definition of a mediocre game. But I do like Zack and good guy Sephiroth. For its goals, I think it did okay. Most of my problems with Zack nowadays comes from SE constantly dragging him back up after his story ended. And trying to brute force a tragic end into a happy one. I'll readily admit that teenage me shed a tear watching the memories of Zack's friends fade away one by one in the DMW as his death approaches. But as an adult I don't think that one good thing is worth the garishness of all of that. But even if I'm willing to just accept the CC end for Zack, what Remake is doing actively upsets me.

>>713383712
Wutai wouldn't be at war if they just accepted Shinra's Reactors