No slanted rocket. No damn tea. No abused wife. No sexy lady decal. No cigarette to ignite his dynamite. No dragons. Not even a spear. His personality seems to be "generic nice guy" now, he doesn't even swear. This isn't Cid Highwind, this is an Ifalna/Aerith simp.
Also the part in the OG FF7 in the scene where Cloud gives Sephiroth the black materia, Cloud beating up Aerith has been removed as well. Cloud beating up Aerith showed how brainwashed by Sephiroth he was but let's remove that . (Hey that sounds similar to Resident evil 4 remake removing the scene with the brainwashed Leon strangling Ada)
And of course the wokes are defending all this censorship, because fiction can't be fiction anymore, a character can't have personality traits they don't like anymore and we can't see anything bad happen to DA FEMALE either . In the OG game, Cid was abusive to his wife but he grew out of it and learnt to appreciate her when she saved his life, but all that character development is gone now
As always with this sort of thing, take the content they won't allow in a remake, multiply it by two, and that's how much stuff they wouldn't allow in a wholly new game where nobody would even know what content they cut. Writers at big studios are all made to be servants of "sensitivity readers", AKA the most terminally offended left-wing faggots they can find. Good characters, good writing, and good games are being strangled in their crib by these assholes. Whatever the game design equivalent of corpoate memphis is, that's where the industry is going.
It's good. More time for us to outgrow our childhood while the competition keeps getting sucked deeper