Everyone is shitting on the trailer for Until Dawn 2 and as reluctant as I am in my heart since I've been burned by cash grab sequels before, I really don't think you guys are giving it a fair shake.
For one, this is the very first trailer, they aren't gonna show their whole hand right away.
Two, if it was going to be a shitty soulless cash grab, it would probably be full of the old characters, recast, and have all that nostalgia porn that companies like to put in without thought to attract fans of the original. The fact that it has new characters and a new setting is a good sign it's a story designed to be good enough to stand on its own.
Three, depending on your playthrough, lots of the old characters are dead, and giving the og a canon ending would be contradictory to the choices you get to make.
Four, it doesn't look like a completely disconnected story. Dr. Hill being shown right at the end makes me think it's like another one of his patients in the story and you find out who it is over time, which sounds so cool. If Dr Hill becomes the throughline of the series and we see all his different patients, I would love that.
Five, this is how all the slasher franchises Until Dawn was based off of worked. There was a whole new cast of kids for every Friday the 13th. And chances are at least one of the original characters will be there in some capacity, probably as an NPC, and probably Sam if I'm going with the Friday the 13th model, since Alice appeared briefly in part 2
Six, it looks fucking awesome. The killer looks so cool, the tension between the characters already has me invested, the setting is really interesting, and I want to know the lore already. What happened in the facility? Whos the killer and why are they here?
Even though I love the original so much and Josh is my favorite so I obviously want to see him again, I'm not going to write off the whole game already when ALL that we've seen in the very first trailer. You all would be just as, if not more mad if it was just a redo humping the OGs asshole