Reminder of what should have been.
As nice and memorable as that scene was, I don't think bringing that to this thread now is appropriate tbh.
You don't like the current story direction. We get it.
Just be happy that we're getting a game at all, because before Tabata stepped in, it was reported that the dev team was depressed and demotivated, zero progress was being made to the story, changes were being made constantly and the entire development process was a mess.
Think about that.
I feel you're glorifying "Nomura's vision" a bit too much. A cutscene and a few trailers are just that: a cutscene and a few trailers.
They don't tell us anything else.
So I kindly ask you to stop trying to dampen the mood, since this is literally the only place where people can discuss this game without trolls and extreme haters lurking here.
I'm saying this as someone who absolutely loved the old trailers, Stella, and the early concepts for this game before Tabata stepped in btw.