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Summary
Video game remakes are the bread-and-butter of the current video game industry.
Though some remakes decide that, well, it should be more than a remake.
Which remake will you play next?
It is a new game, and it should act like it.
Not just deeper, but further.
Except despite how disconnected it seemed, this game just so happened to be a direct continuation of Absolution.
If the 2016 game wasn’t enough to sell you on it, then the sequels will.
7Metroid
The strict continuity of Metroid is a bit complex.
While the side-scrolling entries were the original games, Metroid Prime is the more prevalent game.
Except it’s story is off to the side, squeezed between the original Metroid, and Metroid 2.
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This has enough to fit the criteria of being a sequel, but Super Metroid takes it further.
While not officially a remake, it retraces the steps of the original game almost 1:1.
Super Metroid is conversely a sequel that is also a soft-hand remake.
6Nier Replicant
When you want to talk about continuity, then Nier is a real winner.
Nier itself is a sequel series to Drakengard, and Replicant continues into Automata.
Except with the Replicant remaster/remake, it flows into Automata in more ways than one.
You see, Nier has quite a bit of extended media.
It is mostly supplementary, but fills in the gaps between games.
This version of Replicant howeveradds ending Eon top of this right at the very end.
The sequel was completely disconnected, making the series an anthology of stories instead.
And you thought Bloober just made horror games.
Except each story got one additional story segment, furthing expanding the plot of both.
Games take longer to make now.
Even the remakes we do get are mostly 1:1, though with a new art direction.
A Link Between Worlds straddled this line in such a unique way though.
Ah, but Yuga is trying to freeGanon after his original banishmentin A Link To The Past.
This is the camp which Thief (2014) falls into.
And it is messy.
Being stealthy can be even more fun in first-person.
There are a lot of interesting ideas at play here, but the whole vibe is just off.
For all intents and purposes, it would seem like a complete reimagining.
It’s light stuff, but enough to indicate the game takes place past the originals.
While never strictly confirmed, it seems it may be a successor in more ways than one.
A long-standing theory is that the Silent Hill 2 remake is set in a time loop.
Even the original game alludes to this in the Maria ending, but the remake goes a step further.
It was that, until it wasn’t.
The events of the original still exist, and this is another world wherein things have deviated slightly.
Square Enix has a lot of great games, including its remakes.
