The people who think FF7 wasn't woke originally legit must have been like:

Presumably Platinum's in-house engine that was reused for Astral Chain...etc

Those lanczos/xBR/FSR filters on low res 2d art and UI have been diabolical since the beginning. I remember enabling it in PPSSPP ages ago and going "oh wtf"

It has an issue of being too lean on quality of life, but it's so dense and polished in all other aspects that it is certainly "finished".

(If I said it was unfinished before... oops. I rescind that with this take instead.)

I saw this movie as a kid because my dad was watching it in the living room and I think it altered my brain chemistry forever ahahaha

Last PC I had that even alerted me was my old Dell desktop that would ring this completely alien alarm bell noises if the drive had any SMART signs of failure.

Damn near scared the crap out of me in the middle of the night

BOOWEEWOOWEE BOOWEEWOOWEE ERRR ERRR ERRR BOOWEEWOOWEE BOOWEEWOOWEE

As a PC player, we'd be better off without the discussions page. It used to be useful and now it's just actual brain rotting material.

Everytime I go in there I leave wondering what I was thinking....

It's why I think of old stories like "We need to hit a certain metacritic score to get paid a bonus" were such insane metrics. What control do developers have over a reviewer who just doesn't like the genre they are working in, or the art style they using, even if its totally nailed?

AI defenders will find a way to call Nintendo evil and greedy for this because "Nintendo is hobbling the ability of talentless people to create Nintendo fan content"....or something.