I had heard the remaster had done some strange things

I'm curious about these strange things! Storywise, as far as I can tell, the remaster seems much the same as the original; it's been a while, though, so I may be misremembering (and I only watched a cutscene compilation of the original, so I don't know how the finer details differ). I definitely went from sadness to confused laughter at the ending in both the original and the remaster.