I Hate All the Things I Love

I’m replaying Final Fantasy VII. Installed it, started a fresh file. “This is gonna be so great! I fucking love this game!” Played up to Fort Condor. “Everything about this game is retarded!” “What in the ever-flipping fuck were the script writers on? I want to know so I can avoid that shit!” Good God, the Nostalgia Goggles certainly filtered out a lot of shit. How did I not notice how awful this game was when I played it the first 5 times?

Why is it whenever I think of (or rewatch or replay) the things I love, I find that I actually HATE them. It’s awful. ALL THE FLAWS STICK OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB.