Quote Originally Posted by TaleraRistain View Post
Do we just want them to copypasta stories we've already experienced or show honor to them but tell a different story?
Its not always about copy pasting stories. Its about preserving a character in presentation. Anima, THE strongest Aeon next to sin in ffx's story (magus sisters are NOT part of that), was disgustingly placed at the end of a dungeon. Making all his strength appear as if its nothing. Its a character deserving to be a trial.

And that is an important part of fan service. As that way a character is reminded the way they remember it. Even if story wise its completely diffirent (and maybe like yojimbo anima also has a chance for a real opportunity to be a trial, but story wise it feels like they made that near impossible).

I dont care if a character gets changed, as long as the character keeps its personality and relative strength towards its original story.

The magus sisters on that were a bit more difficult as the individual fights matter (and on that, putting them in a single dungeon was on that not a realy bad choise), but again, it does not show their strength, and therefor feels like a waste.

You can make an enemy in a story a friend of you, but even then, that character needs to show its quirks of evilness it had. Even if its just in the relentless way of taking care of other enemies. Its those details that define the character. A diffirent personality means that such character could have been replaced by anything random. Its the known personality behind such character that allows further speculations etc to happen. And this is an important part of story telling, keeping the player active into thinking about all possibilities, and imagining how such character would react to it. That is an artform on its own, and EW failed a lot at this.