#i know it’s going to devolve into more kingdom hearts-esque bullshit down the line and i should just accept it already

[lettuceflower]

over a year has passed since it came out and i still have so many issues with ff7 remake. no i haven’t gotten less salty about it. i think the meta time travel/multiple timelines whatever plot they’ve added is soooo dumb and unnecessary, the original works just fine without it. i’m not a purist, i’m ok with story expansions and changes but ff7 never needed the characters to fight against… fate ghosts. what the fuck.

and yet when i see screenshots from integrade i can’t help but feel this immense tug in my chest, this ache. i can’t explain it. i’m still so sentimental towards ff7’s characters and world, even if i think the remake is going to be a narrative mess going forward and inevitably devolve into even more anime nonsense and over the top melodrama.

still after everything, I STILL CARE ABOUT THESE CHARACTERS SO MUCH, I WANNA JUMP INTO THE SCREEN AND SAVE THEM FROM THE GOD-AWFUL WRITING AAAAAA

#ff7 #yes i still care them #i care them a lot #i just really need to say fuck it and embrace the clownery of the remake’s story if i’m going to enjoy it going forward at all #but my brain is really struggling to lower my standards about the writing and just turn my brain off #i know it’s going to devolve into more kingdom hearts-esque bullshit down the line and i should just accept it already #but i can’t #being a fan of the og is suffering #zack i love you bb but youre a walking fanservice machine now so you can pop on screen so the devs can be like: #‘hey remember ZAAAAACK????’ #'remember this CHARACTER YOU LIKE^tm??????' #'here you go impatient fans!' #bye bye reveal about cloud’s condition #because the devs couldn’t wait to insert a fan-favorite character as early as possible at the cost of one of the core twists of the story #i REALLY DO like zack ok but i’m conflicted about his role in th story this early it just ain’t right #and i have so many more issues aside from zack but i just felt like mentioning him #i really wish the writers had some SELF-RESTRAINT and let the narrative play out normally instead of taking plot points- #-from much much later in the story and inserting them as early as possible #because they cant wait to get to all the ~juicy stuff~ from the third act #i cant wait for the lifestream sequence between cloud and tifa in the next game /j #i cant wait for the WEAPONS to appear in the next game #i wanna scream #ff7r salt