10 Video Game "Remakes" That Changed EVERYTHING

10. Final Fantasy VII Remake

No matter what Square-Enix were going to do with the Final Fantasy VII Remake, it was cause for apprehension. Despite being a stone-cold classic, any revisit to the game was going to need a lot of updating to bring it to modern standards.

The combat, first and foremost, shifts dramatically from 1997's random encounters to a more active and immersive system. Instead of being completely turn-based, players can attack enemies at will and now the ATB system is more geared towards building up special abilities and magic.

But the loudest concerns were about the fragility of the story. Over the years, FF7's world had been grown by spin-offs. Whilst some thought the original needed to be revisited in order to better tie these in, other fans thought that the game was better as a stand-alone experience and worried that the remake would render the original obsolete.

However, in a stroke of mad genius, major story departures in FF7 Remake are part of the story.

Every time the plot deviates from the original, Cloud is attacked by strange wraiths. This waylays any concerns about the delicacy of the plot and replaces it with intrigue since FF7 Remake is designed specifically to tell players it’s going off-script.

Instead of attempting to “replace” the original, this game actually takes place alongside it and the word “remake” in the title cleverly actually means something else entirely.