It's over for 7's original plot

Yeah, exactly. But from the player's perspective we only hear Sephiroth's stupid ass misinterpretation.

Not until a good deal later in the game and long after Cloud's Nibelheim story do we get the true details. So it's another twist for the player.

But he doesn't know he killed Sephiroth and he wasn't a SOLDIER. Those are some of the big mysteries of the og plot. the Remake already told us those things.

Script from the original:

Cloud
>Sephiroth... I trusted you...
>No, you're not the Sephiroth I used to know!
[Cloud and Sephiroth face off, and the screen goes white.]

Cloud
>......and that's the end of my story.
Barret
>Wait a damn minute! Ain't there more?
Cloud
>......I don't remember.
Aeris
>What happened to Sephiroth?
Cloud
>In terms of skill, I couldn't have killed him.
Tifa
>Official records state Sephiroth is dead. I read it in the newspaper.
Aeris
>Shinra, Inc. owns the paper, so you can't rely on that information.
Cloud
>......I want to know the truth. I want to know what happened then.
>I challenged Sephiroth and lived. Why didn't he kill me?
Tifa
>......I'm alive, too.
Aeris
>Seems like a lot of this doesn't make sense.

>spoilers on half the game's most interesting twists and mysteries.

To the players who played the original. Not to the characters. To the characters it's all vague and without context.

>Cloud knowing he killed sephiroth
They literally spoiled the coolest moment in the entire game. Holy fucking shit this is worse than I thought

I forget. Why did Tifa let Cloud blather on nonsense like that again?

Yeah. They spoiled the coolest moment in FF7.
Welp. No skin off FF7R's back. Since it's not a remake.
Before you even start. It's as much of a remake as all those Neon Genesis Evangelion movies. Which happen to take place in some sort of time loop or some esoteric bullshit. Because those movies acknowledge that the events of the previous movies and TV show happened. Same shit happening here.

It's not an actual remake. That was the whole point of the ending. You're supposed to already know the whole story because it won't even be told in the sequels, instead the sequels will just be Nomura's playground in which he can play with the FFVII characters as if they were action figures. It's his fanfic. It's his new Kingdom Hearts.

Something something shy and reserved and her last name is literal

Because She didn't understand why he knew so much about what happened yet he never saw him there.
His retelling of the events were almost completely accurate but he wasn't the one who did it and he had more information from a different perspective because she didn't know he was actually there. So she questioned whether or not she remembered wrong or not.

She didn't want to risk fracturing his psyche like what happens later in the story.