The Final Fantasy 7 remake was the biggest surprise of E3 2015 in what was generally a disappointing year, and the entire Internet shat its pants in shock at the news, which was long thought impossible. Now, we’re far enough from this beautiful announcement that we can start asking tough questions. Not easy questions like whether Aeris can be saved (no way), but tough ones, like: Will all the stupid crap from Advent Children and Compilation of Final Fantasy 7 make it into the game?

Final Fantasy 7 Remake: It Better Not Have Advent Children Stuff In It

Final Fantasy 7 is one of the seminal games of the pre-HD era, and it will be a blast once it’s remade—especially since the graphics and gameplay of the original are actually a little hard now, simply because it came out so early in the 3D era (Final Fantasy VI holds up much better). But in the early 2000s, the Compilation of Final Fantasy 7 came out and mucked everything up. The story of Final Fantasy 7 was confusing enough as it was, mostly due to a less-than-stellar translation, but the new stuff made the problems much worse. And if that stuff gets into the remake…

Advent Children introduced the strange disease Geostigma and three children, surviving shards of Sephiroth’s spirit. Before Crisis and especially Dirge of Cerberus introduced even more total nonsense, like Deepground, relating to Shinra’s activities before and after Final Fantasy 7. Personally, I would say the new stuff is a major drag and adds little of value—i.e., it’s dumb—but your mileage may vary.

Regardless of what you think, you’d better get used to it. All that dumb Advent Children cruft? We’re going to be getting that in the Final Fantasy 7 remake. We already know the game isn’t a straight remake; it couldn’t be. They’re going to be taking some stuff away, changing some stuff, adding some stuff.

And I bet they’ll be adding things from Compilation of Final Fantasy 7. Why? Because Tetsuya Nomura, the head of Compilation and the director of Advent Children, is also heading up the Final Fantasy 7 remake. He created all that cruft in Advent Children. Of course he’s attached to it, and of course he’ll shoehorn in a few references to it here and there. It would be surprising if he didn’t.

Let’s just hope it isn’t too obtrusive—a few sly references to Advent Children or Deepground are just fine, but if they become major story elements, then the Final Fantasy 7 remake would feel like a truly different game. And we don’t want that. We want to live in our nostalgia!