Then you don't want a remake, you want a reimagining.If I'm going to buy a new remake of a game, I want a different story experience, but that's just me.
In a remake the events of the original game will be faithfully portrayed (meaning that Aerith would be poked like a meringue by "Sephiroth" again), while in a reimagining usually there are more liberties at the time of telling the events (even most likely Aerith would die anyway...).
Anyway... I don't care if she dies or not... plotwise speaking she should die, but if they make us pay 2$ or so to "keep her alive" in the form of non-canon DLC... cool I guess (as a character is bland and boring, but as a healer she was the best to have around).
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Zack... Squareenix did a magnificent job at fleshing him out in Crisis Core and he's one of the main characters who evolves the most in the series.Favorite characters?
In the main game... Cid: he's the most human of the whole bunch, the one with the most interesting background, one of the heaviest hitters and the character who develops the most throughout the whole game... Not to mention that I love his theme.