SuperShinkenRed it’s amazing! I once bought it on a flea market, it being my second final fantasy game, I didn’t know what I was going for. It’s so emotional and beautiful. For such an old game, it’s graphics are so good!
***** Well, Angeal probably felt at peace when he died. Genesis was content at the end when he said that his dream came true. Plus, he was cured. Out of the three of them, Sephiroth was the one who completely lost his mind.
Does anyone else think that this is just the most beautiful part of Crisis Core? I don't know what it is...maybe the thought of what's to come for these three....just seeing them having this type of "fun" is eerily beautiful....
Really surprised me how chill Sephiroth was in this game before being driven insane by various events and circumstances that he couldn't have possibly done anything about.
Sephiroth was a gentle and soft guy.Before to NiebuhrHeim, he put himself as human and strive to maintain the heroic image of the hearts of the people, do not exhibit no parents dote on the fragile, do not exhibit the friend of sadness, do not exhibit of Claude home back to a friend to accompany the envy, but put the silently loneliness in his heart .
Did anyone else notice that at 1:37 when Genesis says "The world needs a new hero", it sounds like he's about to start singing "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" by Smashing Pumpkins?
How? Could you state the source? Thinking critically about it, It's hard to believe Sephiroth could allow himself to be limited enough to be defeated 3 times.
Sigmund Freud would be rolling in his grave if he ever watched this. Three men (two of them androgynous looking) expressing themselves by playing with their long and thick swords while fighting on top of a very large elongated structure? Oh my....
***** Er no. I'm referring to sexual related metaphors and appetites - topics that made up most of Freud's work. The Id, Ego, Superego is a whole different matter. Yes, Freud talked about that too, but he was more focused on human sexuality and ways it peeped out from our lives. Hence, why I joked about it. You got three guys fixated on their 'swords'. Also, neither trait (Id, Ego, Superego) is as exclusive to one character as you suggest. For instance, Angeal and Sephiroth are as emotional (Id) as Genesis is - they both mentally breakdown when they learn of their origins (Angeal wants Zack to kill him because he's a 'monster' and Sephiroth wants to take over the world due to mommy issues). Freud aside, I think SquareEnix wasn't just thinking about the Rule of Three. I think they were thinking about the Holy Trinity, especially when each other their names carries a religious-based named: Angeal, Genesis, and Sephiroth.
+Kowareta Ningyo and one where Sephiroth is the main protagonist. Maybe following his, Grnesis' and Angeal's climb through soldier to reach their "hero" status in 1st class.
1:19 A friend of mine was drawing some Sephiroth and asked me if I thought he was making Sephiroth's eyelashes too girly. I referred him to this video. Look at them! THEY ARE SO LONG! They are the longest eyelashes a video game character has ever had!
hmm the real winner must be angeal, there its kinda like this in console terms , you have the ps(sephiroth) vs xb(genisis) , and woopty due almighty pc(angeal) has to get involved to stop the madness that actually fits if you consider their sword size versus their console alignment.
Sephiroth only lost to cloud because the over rated good guy winning over bad guy thing has always taken its stand in almost every anime/tv show/movie. Sephiroth is realistically always going to excel as a better swordsman then cloud or zack or anyone else. Also Sephiroth held back up until his music kicked in, if Angeal didnt stop them, ginger boy would of got his ass handed to him.
Yeah he had all the skills to beat him but obviously he was holding back cloud was a novice when compared to him no way he should have been able beat him.
Ash S Not really. Good stories are created so the reader/viewer can invest themselves in it. It's not real and in that sense it "does not matter". But by that argument, a person has no right to comment on any book,film,game,story or anything creative because it's not real. You'd be stuck with nonfiction( and even nonfiction incorporates some elements of fiction- especially in memoirs, where writers need to fill in blanks of their memory with filler)
Darthy24567 Actually this is not a good story at all. There's nothing in this story that you can learn from and apply to your life. It's just measly entertainment for a couple of minutes of your life if not a waste of time.
Ash S Well, whether or not ff is a good story or not was not my point... it was that fiction can matter even though it's not real. Maybe it sucks, who knows? That would be a whole different argument.
NeoDanomaru Does it matter? There were casualties on BOTH sides and whatever reason they had doesn't make a difference to me. I loved these guys before their corrupted secret lives were unveiled to them and I still love them now and forever.....You shouldn't hate, even if they killed someone... :(
AshleyandShelby Gray I meant any of those poor souls and their families would dislike these three!!! Me on the other hand, I only dislike this because it stopped right when it was getting good!!! Stupid Angeal!
i dont understand why everyone says genesis got his ass kicked, i mean he only got knocked back once and was able to effectively block all of sephiroths blows with little effort so...
Sephiroth was trying not to hurt his friends. When he got serious genesis had a difficult time keeping up and the fight wouldn't have gone his way for damn sure if it continued.
Crisis Core was an amazing game. It was really cool to meet Zack and to see Sephiroth back when he was still one of the good guys. You see more than one side of him, he's a mentor and a friend, he has a personality and a sense of humor. You also come to understand that the Final Fantasy VII universe was a lot bigger than him and Cloud, that there is room for more stories, more heroes, and more villains than the two in the first game. Just fantastic.
Absolutely. Sephiroth is put on the back foot briefly at the start of the dual (possibly because Genesis' strength surprised him), but from 2:03, when he loses his cool, he totally regains the momentum. Genesis struggles in the air and by the time they both land on the ground, Sephiroth's blows are literally throwing Angel around (see 3:21 - and that's not even a proper blow from Sephiroth, just a repulsive block). He has to muster all his strength to hold Sephiroth back at 3.30, and Sephiroth doesn't even really seem to be pushing all that hard. There's no way Genesis could win this dual.
Trying in the fight idk bud you must be blind because Genesis damn sure looked like he was trying to me and to further back that up i'm sure you seen how angry he got at when Angeal interfered. So you obviously don't know what your talking about man Sephiroth yes has a majority of unfinished battles yes we know however, you have no right to say has lost a battle.
Fanboy? I just know what i'm talking about and you obviously don't Sephiroth is more powerful then hes displaying a child could see that. Cloud has gotten by Sephiroth their both perfect soldiers but, Sephiroth has held back in literally everyone 1 of his fights including the ones with Cloud. Please go read or something up on Final Fantasy.
***** NOO ........ Dont ........ mustnt ..... interfere ... with .... stupid fight Well fuck it Actaully if you do a Little Research you can find out that sepiroth indeed is and always was the strongest villian in any Final Fantasy game EVER. Fuuck even the director from the Final Fantasy games sayed so. He could have deafeated cloud in all off there battles. For Example in the movie "advancet children" were it wasnt even the real full powered sepiroth he could have killed him.
Danijellino Well it makes sense, after he absorbed all that knowledge from the life stream he became OP big time and the creators said themselves hes the strongest... However in this fight Genesis was close to overwhelming him during the fire blast!
Someone replied to you saying that the song is The Price of Freedom. That's the first song in the video. If you haven't found it yet, the one you're looking for is Truth Behind The Project, also from Crisis Core.
Jazzadrin He was about to blow up Sephiroth into pieces with the next blow. And in the finale his attack chopped through the shinra sword like a piece of butter, while Sephiroth sword couldn't. They were not even serious all of the time.
+Jager Ruiz He clearly was aggravated at the end. Not saying Genesis was as strong as Sephiroth but that firestorm attack obviously pissed him off. You can see it in his face. Genesis was no weakling
@TheMaisa1996 The names are interchangable, so we're both correct. It's sort of like saying that Suteki Da Ne is translated as either "Isn't it Wonderful" or "Isn't it Beautiful".
Why is Sephiroth considered so cool, hes got an OK look, uses the most generic kind of sword (Katana's tend to be overused) Has a badass song I'll admit. but overall. . .he's got a fairly bleh story "Omg I'm a clone. Made to be the best but I found out they betrayed my mom so I'll destroy the world" Vincent's background was better. He had a few "decent" scenes. but they never made it lok like he was trying so in the end they came out as "on look Sephiroth is doing his things again" Overall he's just boring and until lthis scene all he ever did was burn a village and walk through fire to be all "cool"
I think it's because he's that badass we all hope to be. You know, to be so effortlessly strong and could beat anyone without breaking a sweat. He's a generic one yes but a badass nonetheless.
It has less to do with Sephiroth himself, and more to do with the atmosphere around him. You'll notice there's a suspicious lack of that atmosphere in the rest of the expanded universe. Perhaps you haven't played the original game, so I'll fill you in, since he did a lot more than just burn down a village. For the first six hours of the game all you hear about the guy is whispers -- you know he's really important, but you don't know if he's good or bad or anything. The first time he's directly referred to is one of the most iconic scenes of the game. And no, it's not Nibelheim burning. Your whole party's been arrested and you're awaiting execution, and in the middle of the night you wake up. Your door has been very deliberately opened and yet every single guard that could have opposed you has been mangled beyond belief with the talking dog thing in your party seriously on edge, the creepy headless alien appears to have busted out of its cell from the inside, and you follow the trail of blood and organs up a path to the office of the guy that up until that point had been THE main antagonist of the game and the person you thought was going to be the endgame boss -- and he's dead and this "Sephiroth" has killed him. At first your party even thinks he's a good guy, until Cloud informs them he's a threat. Then there's the Nibelheim flashback, but again it isn't the burning of the village that made him cool. It was the fact that you really see quite little of him in action, and again the game only gives mention in occasional snippets of dialogue -- quotes like "He's far stronger in reality than any story you might have heard". And it sounds like hot air until you see the monster you've been running from, again, a major obstacle your party had to get past, slaughtered and impaled on a tree like a giant "SEPHIROTH WAZ HERE" sign. The rest of the game follows suit like this for some time -- you never really see him directly, only the aftermath. You show up, a place gets littered with bodies the second you turn away, and all anyone can say is "hey, I saw a guy do this but he left now". You only directly confront him twice before the final battle -- the first time he kills a major character, and the second he lands the protagonist in a goddamn coma. When the game finally did let us see the guy leaving bodies and wreckage everywhere, it happened so infrequently that you knew shit was about to go down. It isn't how much we see of Sephiroth being cool -- it's how little we see of him, and how good of a job the game did making those small glimpses feel important and ominous. And that's just plain old fashioned good writing. Sephiroth could have been a talking bear that wielded a squeaky mallet, but the game would have done a good enough job building up the atmosphere around him to where it wouldn't really matter. THAT is how to properly hype a villain. You fucking write him like a villain. None of this promo, fanboy "LOOK HE'S STANDING IN THE FIRE AGAIN CHECK OUT HOW BADASS HE IS" bullshit.
I suppose overall I just viewed him as a boring character because people just scream about his badassness cause of a few snippet scenes and his look. Overpopular character is overpopular. But yeah looking back on it. .. i was too young to appreciate the subtle hints they gave. I know they showed the scenes of "he's stronger than you can imagine" but that just felt like "well no shit, he's the best soldier so of course he's strong" But yeah they did set up a mystery of him pretty well. I will say it and i always mean it. I still love his theme
WonderSquid that's probably the best explanation i heard till now. And don't forget that the "real" Sephiroth was resting in a crystal at the Northern Cave the whole time.... So after all that slaughter, that talking and that guessing, you realize he wasn't even really there :-D That's quite mind-blowing, isn't it? And that's exactly how you build a villain. it's like Voldemort, after 4 books you know nothing about him except his strength, his evilness and that everyone shit themselves just just by hearing his name. when you finally see him you think "how the hell am i supposed to deal with this guy?". In my opinion ff7 is the best game ever made, and that guy is probably the real reason behind it.
I totally would! I'd be all: "You women are stunningly beautiful! Why do you have men's voices?" Then they'd be all "How dare you?? We are men!!" And I'd be all "Oh, sorry, you just look... well, you know... I mean... never mind"
Gotta give credit where its due: They did an amazing job creating Sephiroth as a villian. He looks positively dangerous, has a great backstory, and is amazingly powerful, much to the detriment of the heroes. Better yet, he just exudes awesomeness. When he goes on the attack, the entire landscape is ripped apart!
That's a great concept for a game Joseph! It even feels so ... obvious! Have I been blind all along? Well, I don't recall anyone coming up with such an idea before though. If only Square Enix shared your vision! Ah, what could have been ...
I like this Sephiroth so much more! There are actually fluctuations in his voice that give him more depth than in the movie XD This scene makes me super happy!!
In the case of the movie (I'm assuming you mean Advent Children?), that was deliberate. If you watch closely, he never breathes, either. The entire point was that he had become something...other, by that point. That there was no traces of humanity left, basically "Cthulhu-in-human-form-and-he-wants-you-dead."
Yoshinori Kitase has said " Sephiroths existence and will is extremely powerful. Their is nothing stronger, nothing above him." So from my understanding that means sephiroth has never truly TRULY gone all out against cloud.
I searched up the music that was used when Genesis began fighting Sephiroth, but it doesn't sound half as hard as what's used here. Is it "Those Who Accept The Protection Of The Stars"? Or is it something else.
Angeal is more than likely the oldest because his mother, Gillian, was injected with Jenova cells (not him directly) and then some of Gillian's cells were taken and injected into Genesis' mother. It is assumed this occured after conception of them both, respectively, which is why it is suggested that Angeal is older than Genesis, but both are older than Sephiroth.
That it was! Cool story, great gameplay, awesome music and cutscenes, plus the good ol' feel of an FF game (recurring summons, musical themes, items etc.) ^_^
For those of you who don't know: 0:00 - 0:36 = The Price of Freedom 0:41 - 1:26 = True Motives 1:48 - 2:59 = Chaotic Battlefield 3:03 - 3:55 = The World's Enemy
Classicslayer67 in crisis core you fight all 3 of them one by one. Him dying isn't actually explained but he disappears before the final part of the game
Since a couple people said in response to my earlier comment that it would be cool if Seph, Angeal, and Genesis got there own title. I got inspired to start working on one. Yeah, yeah, I know we got all the licensing shit to deal with, but hey nothing wrong with thinking up concepts and ideas, for a couple a years down the road right?
Those who practice kendo will know why he uses his left hand. Strength to manipulate the sword primarily comes from the left side of the body. The right hand serves more as a support.
![LOVELESS recited by Genesis [HD]](/img/n.gif)
This game is underrated. I remember playing this on my PSP and thinking how great of a game it was. It still is.
Def top 5 psp games.
SuperShinkenRed it’s amazing! I once bought it on a flea market, it being my second final fantasy game, I didn’t know what I was going for. It’s so emotional and beautiful. For such an old game, it’s graphics are so good!
At the beginning, that was probably the last time that Sephiroth ever truly felt happy.
***** Ignorance was bliss. Finding the truth behind each of their existences tore them apart.
***** Exactly. They didn't know what they were until Genesis got injured and they slowly found out. Look what the truth did to them.
***** Well, Angeal probably felt at peace when he died. Genesis was content at the end when he said that his dream came true. Plus, he was cured. Out of the three of them, Sephiroth was the one who completely lost his mind.
***** Has it been a decade since Dirge of Cerberus? Where's the continuation and the return of Genesis??
***** But they'll make a remake, apparently.
Sephiroth is so badass, he has an own choir that sings his name
As they should.
Does anyone else think that this is just the most beautiful part of Crisis Core? I don't know what it is...maybe the thought of what's to come for these three....just seeing them having this type of "fun" is eerily beautiful....
aggreed
i myself felt the most beautiful part of crisis core was zack talking to cloud when he is dying
Sephiroth's lashes though
It must be Maybelline. OwO
+dantespimp It's the 'Big Eyes' Mascara one. I have one and it does wonders.
I love how this scene sums up the dynamic between these three so well, even without the awesome fighting.
Good times. One of best cinematic cut-scene from any FF game.
Really surprised me how chill Sephiroth was in this game before being driven insane by various events and circumstances that he couldn't have possibly done anything about.
best quality on a 240p vid i've ever seen
One of the coolest fights, EVAR.
They should put Sephiroth into more games. He has the potential to be one of the most iconic and enduring games bosses of all time.
followernumber1 he also appeared in Dissidia Final Fantasy
followernumber1 he already is
3:01 when the music begin, mean that Sephiroth get serious and unstoppable.
sephiroths laughing is so mighty
3:04 (sephiroth theme plays) sh*t just got real O_o
Sephiroth was a gentle and soft guy.Before to NiebuhrHeim, he put himself as human and strive to maintain the heroic image of the hearts of the people, do not exhibit no parents dote on the fragile, do not exhibit the friend of sadness, do not exhibit of Claude home back to a friend to accompany the envy, but put the silently loneliness in his heart .
This is a beautiful interpretation of him.
This is my favorite fight seen In all of final fantasy
Did anyone else notice that at 1:37 when Genesis says "The world needs a new hero", it sounds like he's about to start singing "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" by Smashing Pumpkins?
Sephiroth is in a league of his own.
Sounds like a line mugen would say from samurai shamploo
How? Could you state the source? Thinking critically about it, It's hard to believe Sephiroth could allow himself to be limited enough to be defeated 3 times.
Sigmund Freud would be rolling in his grave if he ever watched this. Three men (two of them androgynous looking) expressing themselves by playing with their long and thick swords while fighting on top of a very large elongated structure? Oh my....
***** Er no. I'm referring to sexual related metaphors and appetites - topics that made up most of Freud's work. The Id, Ego, Superego is a whole different matter. Yes, Freud talked about that too, but he was more focused on human sexuality and ways it peeped out from our lives. Hence, why I joked about it. You got three guys fixated on their 'swords'.
Also, neither trait (Id, Ego, Superego) is as exclusive to one character as you suggest. For instance, Angeal and Sephiroth are as emotional (Id) as Genesis is - they both mentally breakdown when they learn of their origins (Angeal wants Zack to kill him because he's a 'monster' and Sephiroth wants to take over the world due to mommy issues).
Freud aside, I think SquareEnix wasn't just thinking about the Rule of Three. I think they were thinking about the Holy Trinity, especially when each other their names carries a religious-based named: Angeal, Genesis, and Sephiroth.
Especially in 7.
Why won't they make any more games with Sephiroth as the main antagonist?
+Kowareta Ningyo and one where Sephiroth is the main protagonist. Maybe following his, Grnesis' and Angeal's climb through soldier to reach their "hero" status in 1st class.
Sephiroth almost barbequed..... luckly angeal stalled genesis... but man sephiroth was pissed u can see it in his smile
1:19 A friend of mine was drawing some Sephiroth and asked me if I thought he was making Sephiroth's eyelashes too girly. I referred him to this video.
Look at them! THEY ARE SO LONG! They are the longest eyelashes a video game character has ever had!
They trained at Lv. 49? Too weak.
Shinra should build Lv. 99 Training ground next time.
_Sephiroth should lend me his blade sometime..._
I LOVEEEEEEE THIS GAME!!!!!
I'll never get tired watching this again and again. It so damn cool.
hmm the real winner must be angeal, there its kinda like this in console terms , you have the ps(sephiroth) vs xb(genisis) , and woopty due almighty pc(angeal) has to get involved to stop the madness
that actually fits if you consider their sword size versus their console alignment.
So true, so true.
Sephiroth only lost to cloud because the over rated good guy winning over bad guy thing has always taken its stand in almost every anime/tv show/movie. Sephiroth is realistically always going to excel as a better swordsman then cloud or zack or anyone else.
Also Sephiroth held back up until his music kicked in, if Angeal didnt stop them, ginger boy would of got his ass handed to him.
Yeah he had all the skills to beat him but obviously he was holding back cloud was a novice when compared to him no way he should have been able beat him.
Realistically, this is all fiction and doesn't matter
Ash S Not really. Good stories are created so the reader/viewer can invest themselves in it. It's not real and in that sense it "does not matter". But by that argument, a person has no right to comment on any book,film,game,story or anything creative because it's not real. You'd be stuck with nonfiction( and even nonfiction incorporates some elements of fiction- especially in memoirs, where writers need to fill in blanks of their memory with filler)
Darthy24567 Actually this is not a good story at all. There's nothing in this story that you can learn from and apply to your life. It's just measly entertainment for a couple of minutes of your life if not a waste of time.
Ash S Well, whether or not ff is a good story or not was not my point... it was that fiction can matter even though it's not real. Maybe it sucks, who knows? That would be a whole different argument.
WHO IN HIS HEALTHY MIND WOULD DISLIKE THIS?
Do you know how many Wutai soldiers died to these three!?
NeoDanomaru Does it matter? There were casualties on BOTH sides and whatever reason they had doesn't make a difference to me. I loved these guys before their corrupted secret lives were unveiled to them and I still love them now and forever.....You shouldn't hate, even if they killed someone... :(
AshleyandShelby Gray I meant any of those poor souls and their families would dislike these three!!! Me on the other hand, I only dislike this because it stopped right when it was getting good!!! Stupid Angeal!
***** I totally agree with you on this one :)
I love this scene. It is just so awesome. I want to see more of them.
Sephiroth's music is OP, pls nerf.
Genesis: High pride...
But...
Sephiroth: Badass
Why doesn't anyone carry around Cure Materia during these things?
And 1:21 Gah, Sephi's eyelashes are so long.
I can imagine Sephiroth taking selfies with Genesis and Angeal using the Masamune as a selfie stick.
so winner Angeal? I mean he stopped the fight and it was his sword that got a pretty good hit on Genesis.
Wats the song at the beggining? ((:
i dont understand why everyone says genesis got his ass kicked, i mean he only got knocked back once and was able to effectively block all of sephiroths blows with little effort so...
Sephiroth was trying not to hurt his friends. When he got serious genesis had a difficult time keeping up and the fight wouldn't have gone his way for damn sure if it continued.
Seraph Sephiroth but still genesis was able to hold own his quite effectively with what looked like minimum effort
Crisis Core was an amazing game. It was really cool to meet Zack and to see Sephiroth back when he was still one of the good guys. You see more than one side of him, he's a mentor and a friend, he has a personality and a sense of humor. You also come to understand that the Final Fantasy VII universe was a lot bigger than him and Cloud, that there is room for more stories, more heroes, and more villains than the two in the first game. Just fantastic.
Deal with it genesis! you are no match against sephiroth.
Sephiroth so fineeee
neverever123ful I know he's so sexy, I love men with long hair it's the most natural thing.
Genesis is hot.
Same thing here
Genesis is ssssexy
Sephiroth nuff said. images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120410013853/finalfantasy/images/4/4a/Sephiroth-ffvii-fmv-shirtless.png
*****
Dat lightsaber
It's not a lightsaber.. I prefer his sword to Sephiroth's impractical one.
@@DarkResonance Genesis's sword is bland
I don't know why but I just really love how they play 4 songs in 4 minutes. They're all so nicely placed and chosen.
I swear, the only one that sounds good in English is Sephiroth.
Yes 😍😘
+Dovahninja true. every character sounds horrible except sephiroth
I agree
lucrecia! - vincent
If it wasnt fpr Angeal's intercept Sephiroth would have slaughtered Genesis.
Absolutely. Sephiroth is put on the back foot briefly at the start of the dual (possibly because Genesis' strength surprised him), but from 2:03, when he loses his cool, he totally regains the momentum. Genesis struggles in the air and by the time they both land on the ground, Sephiroth's blows are literally throwing Angel around (see 3:21 - and that's not even a proper blow from Sephiroth, just a repulsive block). He has to muster all his strength to hold Sephiroth back at 3.30, and Sephiroth doesn't even really seem to be pushing all that hard.
There's no way Genesis could win this dual.
Trying in the fight idk bud you must be blind because Genesis damn sure looked like he was trying to me and to further back that up i'm sure you seen how angry he got at when Angeal interfered. So you obviously don't know what your talking about man Sephiroth yes has a majority of unfinished battles yes we know however, you have no right to say has lost a battle.
Fanboy? I just know what i'm talking about and you obviously don't Sephiroth is more powerful then hes displaying a child could see that. Cloud has gotten by Sephiroth their both perfect soldiers but, Sephiroth has held back in literally everyone 1 of his fights including the ones with Cloud. Please go read or something up on Final Fantasy.
***** NOO ........ Dont ........ mustnt ..... interfere ... with .... stupid fight
Well fuck it
Actaully if you do a Little Research you can find out that sepiroth indeed is and always was the strongest villian in any Final Fantasy game EVER.
Fuuck even the director from the Final Fantasy games sayed so.
He could have deafeated cloud in all off there battles.
For Example in the movie "advancet children" were it wasnt even the real full powered sepiroth he could have killed him.
Danijellino Well it makes sense, after he absorbed all that knowledge from the life stream he became OP big time and the creators said themselves hes the strongest... However in this fight Genesis was close to overwhelming him during the fire blast!
Someone replied to you saying that the song is The Price of Freedom. That's the first song in the video.
If you haven't found it yet, the one you're looking for is Truth Behind The Project, also from Crisis Core.
Sephiroth has strong hits, but Genesis could blow him away with magic. He's a good long range fighter.
XD Wow. Genesis is a lil bitch.
No he can't. As you saw, Sephiroth handled everything Genesis threw at him, and he only used one hand the whole fight. Genesis is a chump.
Jazzadrin
He was about to blow up Sephiroth into pieces with the next blow. And in the finale his attack chopped through the shinra sword like a piece of butter, while Sephiroth sword couldn't. They were not even serious all of the time.
Looks like it didn't work out to well for him .
Sephiroth needs not worry about childish magic when he can reduce titanic metal structures to dust with a single swing of his masamune .
Ah my poor baby
+Evelyn L. Yuppers~
i love how you guys pretend to say they stood up a chance aganist sephiroth, lol. Yeah, he was never serious. Not even at the end.
+Jager Ruiz He clearly was aggravated at the end. Not saying Genesis was as strong as Sephiroth but that firestorm attack obviously pissed him off. You can see it in his face. Genesis was no weakling
@TheMaisa1996 The names are interchangable, so we're both correct. It's sort of like saying that Suteki Da Ne is translated as either "Isn't it Wonderful" or "Isn't it Beautiful".
Why is Sephiroth considered so cool, hes got an OK look, uses the most generic kind of sword (Katana's tend to be overused) Has a badass song I'll admit. but overall. . .he's got a fairly bleh story "Omg I'm a clone. Made to be the best but I found out they betrayed my mom so I'll destroy the world"
Vincent's background was better.
He had a few "decent" scenes. but they never made it lok like he was trying so in the end they came out as "on look Sephiroth is doing his things again"
Overall he's just boring and until lthis scene all he ever did was burn a village and walk through fire to be all "cool"
That's a nice opinion you have there.
I think it's because he's that badass we all hope to be. You know, to be so effortlessly strong and could beat anyone without breaking a sweat. He's a generic one yes but a badass nonetheless.
It has less to do with Sephiroth himself, and more to do with the atmosphere around him. You'll notice there's a suspicious lack of that atmosphere in the rest of the expanded universe. Perhaps you haven't played the original game, so I'll fill you in, since he did a lot more than just burn down a village.
For the first six hours of the game all you hear about the guy is whispers -- you know he's really important, but you don't know if he's good or bad or anything. The first time he's directly referred to is one of the most iconic scenes of the game. And no, it's not Nibelheim burning.
Your whole party's been arrested and you're awaiting execution, and in the middle of the night you wake up. Your door has been very deliberately opened and yet every single guard that could have opposed you has been mangled beyond belief with the talking dog thing in your party seriously on edge, the creepy headless alien appears to have busted out of its cell from the inside, and you follow the trail of blood and organs up a path to the office of the guy that up until that point had been THE main antagonist of the game and the person you thought was going to be the endgame boss -- and he's dead and this "Sephiroth" has killed him. At first your party even thinks he's a good guy, until Cloud informs them he's a threat.
Then there's the Nibelheim flashback, but again it isn't the burning of the village that made him cool. It was the fact that you really see quite little of him in action, and again the game only gives mention in occasional snippets of dialogue -- quotes like "He's far stronger in reality than any story you might have heard". And it sounds like hot air until you see the monster you've been running from, again, a major obstacle your party had to get past, slaughtered and impaled on a tree like a giant "SEPHIROTH WAZ HERE" sign.
The rest of the game follows suit like this for some time -- you never really see him directly, only the aftermath. You show up, a place gets littered with bodies the second you turn away, and all anyone can say is "hey, I saw a guy do this but he left now".
You only directly confront him twice before the final battle -- the first time he kills a major character, and the second he lands the protagonist in a goddamn coma. When the game finally did let us see the guy leaving bodies and wreckage everywhere, it happened so infrequently that you knew shit was about to go down.
It isn't how much we see of Sephiroth being cool -- it's how little we see of him, and how good of a job the game did making those small glimpses feel important and ominous.
And that's just plain old fashioned good writing. Sephiroth could have been a talking bear that wielded a squeaky mallet, but the game would have done a good enough job building up the atmosphere around him to where it wouldn't really matter.
THAT is how to properly hype a villain. You fucking write him like a villain. None of this promo, fanboy "LOOK HE'S STANDING IN THE FIRE AGAIN CHECK OUT HOW BADASS HE IS" bullshit.
I suppose overall I just viewed him as a boring character because people just scream about his badassness cause of a few snippet scenes and his look. Overpopular character is overpopular.
But yeah looking back on it. .. i was too young to appreciate the subtle hints they gave. I know they showed the scenes of "he's stronger than you can imagine" but that just felt like "well no shit, he's the best soldier so of course he's strong"
But yeah they did set up a mystery of him pretty well.
I will say it and i always mean it. I still love his theme
WonderSquid that's probably the best explanation i heard till now.
And don't forget that the "real" Sephiroth was resting in a crystal at the Northern Cave the whole time.... So after all that slaughter, that talking and that guessing, you realize he wasn't even really there :-D
That's quite mind-blowing, isn't it?
And that's exactly how you build a villain. it's like Voldemort, after 4 books you know nothing about him except his strength, his evilness and that everyone shit themselves just just by hearing his name. when you finally see him you think "how the hell am i supposed to deal with this guy?".
In my opinion ff7 is the best game ever made, and that guy is probably the real reason behind it.
Why do these women have men's voices?
***** Heh... just saying... they have remarkably feminine-looking faces...
***** Hear, hear.
+Thalya Flourishing Chin structure still very much masculine, they're just good looking and well groomed men lol (no homo).
You totally wouldn't say that to their faces lol. On a side note, Angeal is most certainly convincingly masculine.
I totally would! I'd be all: "You women are stunningly beautiful! Why do you have men's voices?"
Then they'd be all "How dare you?? We are men!!"
And I'd be all "Oh, sorry, you just look... well, you know... I mean... never mind"
Replaying FFVII Remake now. Voice actor for Sephiroth is just sad compared to this.
So beautiful made, was mind blown when i saw this on my psp
Awesome stuff man
3:08 The most badass sound effects, right here.
Impressive how Angeal stopped both of them.
Gotta give credit where its due: They did an amazing job creating Sephiroth as a villian. He looks positively dangerous, has a great backstory, and is amazingly powerful, much to the detriment of the heroes. Better yet, he just exudes awesomeness. When he goes on the attack, the entire landscape is ripped apart!
The song that starts at 00:41 is called Theme of Crisis Core:"Truth behind the Project"
That's a great concept for a game Joseph! It even feels so ... obvious! Have I been blind all along? Well, I don't recall anyone coming up with such an idea before though. If only Square Enix shared your vision! Ah, what could have been ...
Someone can help me i don't remember the music at 0:49 and at 1:48 ?
Oh the nostalgia...when is the hd remake due?
love this fight its so beautifully done
I like this Sephiroth so much more! There are actually fluctuations in his voice that give him more depth than in the movie XD This scene makes me super happy!!
In the case of the movie (I'm assuming you mean Advent Children?), that was deliberate. If you watch closely, he never breathes, either. The entire point was that he had become something...other, by that point. That there was no traces of humanity left, basically "Cthulhu-in-human-form-and-he-wants-you-dead."
If I'm not mistaken there at Junon!! I noticed that when I played ff 7 after crisis core... It's pretty cool I noticed that :)
@Thelightinpuredark It's an arrangement of it called "The World's Enemy". Yes, it's based off of OWA, but it's not the exact same.
I never get tired of watching that video!!!
"Ooh, augh." 10/10 best quote angeal
ah the memories
feel like crying tbh ;3
Yoshinori Kitase has said " Sephiroths existence and will is extremely powerful. Their is nothing stronger, nothing above him." So from my understanding that means sephiroth has never truly TRULY gone all out against cloud.
You sir, are awesome. I love that manga. Its a nice change isn't? lol
no matter how many times i watch this fight its still epic
this is officaily the coolest thing ive seen
I searched up the music that was used when Genesis began fighting Sephiroth, but it doesn't sound half as hard as what's used here.
Is it "Those Who Accept The Protection Of The Stars"?
Or is it something else.
on sehiroths final fantasy wiki on the abilities section it says that, if you dont believe me look at other websites they say the same thing
just out of curiosity does anyone know where i can get a copy of loveless for myself irl?
price of freedom is the definition of beautiful music
You gotta love how these guys take and deal hits that slices through tempered steel.
I don't think that Cloud has the buster sword. he left the buster sword on the very same place where Zack died
Angeal is more than likely the oldest because his mother, Gillian, was injected with Jenova cells (not him directly) and then some of Gillian's cells were taken and injected into Genesis' mother. It is assumed this occured after conception of them both, respectively, which is why it is suggested that Angeal is older than Genesis, but both are older than Sephiroth.
Looks awesome in english, and in HD!
OMG THANK YOU!
Doing the chiburi before the fight even begins for dramatic effect. Nice touch, Sephiroth.
That it was! Cool story, great gameplay, awesome music and cutscenes, plus the good ol' feel of an FF game (recurring summons, musical themes, items etc.) ^_^
Wish we could see a fight like this in more films, one guy holding off two guys each with swords
It's called "Truth Behind the Project" you can find it on UA-cam.
I LOVE CRISIS CORE!!! IT MADE ME CRY AND IM PROUD TO SHOUT IT!
Anyone ever wandered how they can move around so far just within a small emulated training room like this? I doesn't make any sense to me.
For those of you who don't know: 0:00 - 0:36 = The Price of Freedom 0:41 - 1:26 = True Motives 1:48 - 2:59 = Chaotic Battlefield 3:03 - 3:55 = The World's Enemy
Classicslayer67 in crisis core you fight all 3 of them one by one. Him dying isn't actually explained but he disappears before the final part of the game
ah the good ol' days, back when youtube quality was 480p if you were lucky.
This is, without a doubt, the second most epic fight that ever took place on the Sister Ray; the most epic being Tifa vs. Scarlet XD
and what's the song's name when sephiroth have a battle only vs genesis? (the metal one)
Since a couple people said in response to my earlier comment that it would be cool if Seph, Angeal, and Genesis got there own title. I got inspired to start working on one. Yeah, yeah, I know we got all the licensing shit to deal with, but hey nothing wrong with thinking up concepts and ideas, for a couple a years down the road right?
ok what is that building made out of aluminum
The song was called "the price of freedom"
Those who practice kendo will know why he uses his left hand. Strength to manipulate the sword primarily comes from the left side of the body. The right hand serves more as a support.
0:38 The names Sephiroth. Got it memorized? :P
It's a game on PSP, Crisis Core : Final Fantasy VII
I love reading something, and knowing that they really know their subject. Interesting!
@ Rudi Hartono
First one was Price of Freedom, Second i dunno, 3rd i think Genesis soldier boss battle and 4th (obvious) is One Winged Angel
Is there any extended version of the music in the beginning?