Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth never misses, but sometimes its interpretation of the original game lacks bite

There are many places across both Remake and Rebirth that you can point to this sort of thing; a place where the new games lack the bite of the original. The most obvious example up until now is FF7’s ‘Trail of Blood’, a truly iconic and creepy sequence in the original game that, in the modern version, replaces streaks of blood throughout previously shiny and sanitized corporate offices with a sort of weird glowing purple alien goo. The music is the same, but the mood is wrecked by the cha...