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[Nickolaidas]

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You're trying to tell me that THIS is how they treated Corneo in the original? Yeah, they made him seem REAL dangerous... lol

Also, there was no "them" in the original. It's just Corneo and his nameless goons, all of whom were summarily taken care of within 10 minutes of screentime. As a reminder, Corneo is only in TWO scenes in the original and he's not played off as a goofball, he's portrayed as the spineless creep that he is... and he pays for it the second time you meet him in Wutai.
The honchos I was referencing are the hand massage woman, the cowboy with the monotone voice acting, and the gay dancing guy. All awful people that the writers want us to think are quirky people... if you ignore the sex trafficking. Like I said: tone-deaf.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: when the story sticks to script, it's excellent. But when they try new things, it often falls flat on its face.

But having said all that, I still love the game overall because the good outweighs the bad. Just because I'm not afraid to criticize the flaws doesn't mean I'm a hater or whatever nonsense that diehards think.

I don't think you are a hater, I just think you are wrong. Corneo in the original is acting like Pepe la pew, while in the remake he is respected and feared by many people, even giving us a dark story of loss with his top goon. He acts like a sleezebag who thinks that he's cool. As for the triad, Sam and M are not good people. Rodea is a better person, but that's because he's dealing with the top clientelle, while the other two deal with the gutter. He can turn a blind eye to Corneo's sex trafficking because he's treating his own sex workers as professionals, while Corneo has slave labor.