A question I didn't think of until just recently. If a remake of SH1 is conceptualized, where does that leave 3 and 0? One's last appearance was in that awful movie that even an avid SH apologist such as myself can't defend, and the other just gets lumped in as one of those "bad western games".
Another thing to take into account is that these games will be for an entirely different generation of players, a good percentage likely only knowing the games more through mere pop culture osmosis rather than from personally playing it and already having that attachment, and already knowing the story beats from all the games.
I'm rambling a little bit now, so I'll cut to my main question: Would a SH1 remake be better looked at as "The Alessa Trilogy" where we are presented with the stories of 0, 1, and 3 in order?
One pro I see in this would be that the Travis story would get a proper retelling since 0rigins was already a half-baked game with potential that a small minority of fans have started to warm up to. This would give the developers room to restructure the story and avoid any inconsistencies that have been brought up over the years. As mentioned, it was already half-baked, so I doubt anyone (including me: #1 0rigins fangirl for ten consecutive years) would object to the game being fixed.
I think there's room to have the three games cohesively stitched together with the themes of protection and independence/agency running through each, but I'd really like to hear anyone else's thoughts on this idea.
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