8 Most Wanted Video Game Remakes (That Would RUIN The Original)

There are a lot of die-hard Square Enix fans wondering why the company hasn't yet announced a remake of cult classic RPG Vagrant Story, but there's a strong argument to be made that it should probably stay precisely where it is.

The game's grungy art style remains highly distinctive and instantly recognisable today, and let's be honest - there's no way a Square Enix remake doesn't polish it into something that looks aggressively "clean," in turn losing much of the original art direction's personality.

Other than that, the game's rather arcane gameplay systems - namely combat and weapons crafting - would likely be a colossal headache to translate to the modern gaming sphere. 

As such, it would almost certainly be "dumbed down" into something more casual-skewing for the sake of wider commercial appeal.

It is a game so thoroughly of its time aesthetically, tonally, and gameplay-wise, that it's tough to consider what a remake would even really look like - and that's because there's ultimately no good reason to do it.