"Final Fantasy 7 PC" is not an immediately intuitive combination of numbers and letters. Am I talking about the old trapezoid box version released in 1998? Or the "remaster" re-released in 2013? Or the first in the trilogy of remakes released nearly a decade later? Calling the 1998 version the "original" just makes things more confusing, since it isn't exactly the same as the PlayStation game released the year before.
When Square Enix updated Final Fantasy 7 to modern platforms in 2013 it had the chance to create something like the definitive version of the game, but instead it took some shortcuts, "improving" a few things from the original—like some of the notoriously rushed translation's grammatical mistakes—but more or less leaving the rest untouched. It's a worst of both worlds combination, where funny lines like "this guy are sick" get corrected to "this guy is sick" but the script as a whole remains confusing and frequently misrepresented in English.
Two years ago, fans released a monumental mod called the Shinra...
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