Not accurate. Tifa's awful platforming sequence gets them their first keycard in the remake.
True. He does shut down the system so she can get out, though.
Here, Hojo opens some doors and they fight their way out (in far more spectacular fashion than in the original).
Of course it's more spectacular, we're looking at 2020 production values v 1997.
In the OG, they get one door opened for them and otherwise have to fend for themselves. Here, they need a lot of help from Whispers, HQ, and Hojo. There is a difference.
The only meaningful difference here is that there is now at least a handwavey explanation (blessedly tied to the already established world building in the form of Mayor Domino) for their continued success once inside rather than just "Thank God nobody raised the alarm despite the guards they took out at the entrance and on the elevator ride. Or those on the 59th floor, even if they did take the stairs. And thankfully that one guy watching the monitors was asleep on the job -- oh, wait, nevermind, these first couple of guards on the 60th floor don't care if they see you anyway; they just tell you to leave, but then don't make sure that you do. Or even attack you if you keep getting discovered by the other guards on this floor. And praise the goddess that this presumptive buffoon on the 61st floor thinks you're maintenance."
It could be improved. You can avoid most of those encounters you are talking about (and the fact that you have to take the least stealthy route possible for your argument is pretty telling) the only compulsory ones are the three on floor 59, which require much less handwaving. But if you think it's more plausible to leave a giant pile of corpses in the parking garage and then climb around on the light fixtures in the lobby of this giant skyscraper and that Domino can cover it up without anyone noticing, then we have an impasse.
Given what they are, though, that's taking issue with the fiction being fiction. =P
In universe they keep fate on track, right?
They didn't, though. Cloud and co. had to create their own route, because HQ's was a bust.
Hmm. Depends. Did that explosion divert attention of security? And there's the Whispers again.
Well, there's no indication that he is. Domino clearly didn't call Rufus or even HQ and get instructions from them about what to do about Cloud's team.
Sure. That was Lic's hypothetical, so I was acting as though it was true for the sake of argument. We don't know what contact was or wasn't made (Wedge obviously checked in with them, at least.)
I mean ...
I identified a pretty long list of things that were patently factually not factual.
Did you? This is what I said:
They get one keycard from Domino in the OG. In the Remake they get all of them from him or through his arrangements, (including directions to the bathroom on the Exec's floor) as well as him quashing tripped alarms and security.
In the OG, Sephiroth opens one door, and they fight their way out themselves, after having found their way in themselves. In Remake, HQ gets them in (with Domino making fun of how ineffective they are), Hojo intentionally letting them out of his ant farm, AND help from the Whispers, and AVALANCHE HQ giving them their escape route. If Rufus is indeed co-ordinating AVALANCHE's ops in Shinra HQ, then they had his help through AVALANCHE HQ.
'All of them' is wrong because I forgot about the lobby one, but even then he shuts down security so Tifa can get out. The rest is still true, they didn't have help from Whispers, AVALANCHE HQ, or Hojo in the OG version. Domino gave them one keycard, and Sephiroth opened a door. They sneak in themselves with no one turning off alarms or upgrading their keycards for them. HQ got them in through Domino helping them get through the building, and then out again. Without all that help, they trip alarms at the front door and get nowhere.
So, you found one thing.
