Anyway, you get the idea. People complaining about Barret should look at the other angry 30s something character in the party which happens to be white. Even Cid can be considered worse since he abuses Shera around. Sure, Barret talks the way he does, but his character is actually pretty good. The struggle he had, to have his village burned, eventually having to kill his friend and adopt his daughter. Even by the end he admits blowing the reactor was a terrible thing and he made suffer a lot of innocent people. If they just tone down his characterization, he will be the best character in the remake.
Regarding the girls, basically Aeris was a martyr to protect the planet, although she had no intention of dying, and
Tifa is the leader of the group when Cloud is disabled by the lifestream. She is a strong woman who tried to go one on one vs Sephiroth. I don't know man, I have read so many opinions here that just seem exagerated and unfair. We can all reduce everything to the bare minimum and say Tifa is a giant tits girl, Aeris is the innocent naive girl who needs rescuing (although she went freaking alone to the Forgotten Capital knowning well of the threat Sephiroth posed) and Barret is the stereotypical black man. But whatever, people will always find something to complain.
