The Kingdom Hearts vibes terrify me, it's so unnecessary. Alternative realities, different timelines, deaths not meaning death anymore, changing Aerith into Doc and Marty's time travelling best mate, chatting with Space Sephiroth, and fighting Shadow of the Colossus are all keeping me up on these long covid-19 nights.
Tifa: "Cloud, you're scaring me."
eggyoke: "Nomura, you're scaring me."
I feel like I could write a 10,000 word diatribe on my fears about the ending but I think most people feel the same way (to differing degrees.)
Going into the Remake I always felt there would be changes. I'm not against it, it's actually refreshing to see things play out in deeper, more thorough ways than the original and perhaps changing some of the more vague and bizarre elements. I expect them to make changes to how the flow of events play out. For example, I absolutely can't see them doing a world map, there's no way we'll reach the point with us circling the globe in the Highwind. Everything's going to be much more tightly controlled and narrated, which so far I really liked. Just so long as they give us the equivalent content in its new presentation.
And this is my hope, that the reason for the "tear in destiny" at the end is simply a way of them playing with a meta ingame representation of the tweaks and changes they're about to make in order for future games to have a beginning, middle and end. It's sensible. It's entirely understandable. Logical even. My rationality is holding onto that. For my own sanity, this is what I'm going to tell myself is happening. Nomura is a kindly and wizened old sage who knows best and is not an incomprehensible, death denying, fan blocking, self-indulgent, incorrigible and creatively subpar dream destroyer