straylight, witch of emo 😈

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𝐈𝐍 𝐌𝐘 𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐊 𝐖𝐀𝐘❟ 𝐈❜𝐋𝐋 𝐀𝐋𝐖𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐘 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐘𝐎𝐔 28 ・ sʜᴇ/ʜᴇʀ

The thing that really strikes me about the tone of the remakes is that the original FF games feel like living, breathing worlds full of people even when it's like 4 NPCs on a pre-painted background. The FFVII remakes are very tonally stilted. Generic NPCs who plain looking assets stick out like a sore thumb against the Nomura character designs. Stilted dialogue only made more uncanny by the overall inexpressive facial rigs. An overall feeling of saccharineness that has too much polish to feel like it has any texture or character. You could, in theory, argue this is purposeful. The remakes are, in universe, a second attempt to recapture a failed past by the antagonist. While I'm not completely convinced I can see it as a valid augmentation of a certain reading of the remakes. But is that going to work if they were to remake VI or X? I don't think so. Spira is still one of the most robust and real, lived in worlds in any game and I really hate to think about Yuna or Tidus moving and talking like Remake Tifa or Cloud.