Funny enough the whole Stalking Cloud thing didn't come to be until After FF7... Mostly due to a misinterpretation of his character. The FF7 Remake MOSTLY amended it.
C'mon guys, Sephiroth just wants to invite his best friend to his family reunion and have Cloud meet his mom. Not much, just a reunion.... J u s t A R E U N I O N
"it would have been very cute if cloud was the last boss fight for sephiroth." oh max, sephiroth would have to see cloud as an equal for that to ever happen.
Um he does. Sephiroth legit only sees Could as an equal even calling him brother. Only seeing Cloud as the only threat to his plans even. Which Cloud has proven true being he is always the one to stop him canon wise.
What would have been really cool is if they added Ruby Weapon as he is in Final Fantasy XIV for Sephiroth's final boss, along with "Ultima (The Primals)". BEAT, THE HEART OF SABIK, THE HEART OF SABIK, THE HEART OF SABIIIII-IIIIK!
Definitely plan on recreating this but including K Rool and other villains. I’d like to think the villains are applauding because they concede that when compared to Sephiroth, they are nothing.
The final boss isn't the hands, it's playing one-winged angel on Sephiroth's stage because the hands have come to fight him. He's literally the final boss.
@@mythosinfinite6736 Sakurai doesn't even work at Nintendo, he used to work for HAL. And Nintendo is responsible for choosing the possible fighters and negotiations with third parties, Sakurai said as much.
@@NuiYabuko I'm aware that he created Sora Ltd. for the sake of working with other companies as well, but let's face it, Sora's chained to Smash in every way but the roster. As for what makes him so great, it's not the roster picks; it's the amazing away that he integrates them. He's got a fantastic art for expressing characters within the constraints of his games that I aspire to as a dev. Side note: It's also not true that Nintendo picks them. It's more of a half-truth, and it only applies to the mandatory inclusion of a new Pokémon character every game (no seriously) and the Smash Ultimate DLC. The reality of the situation is that Nintendo presented an extended roster of possibilities and Sakurai got to choose 5 of them for the first DLC pack. As a bonus, evidence of Sakurai choosing picks can be found in the design docs of each game, where Sakurai presents newcomers that he wants to see in the game; the best known and most easily accessible example of these docs is the translated version of some Sm4sh doc pages, if you're interested.
I was saying on Twitter, basically the only thing he didn't do was get music from Remake, but you can kind of understand that that would be beyond even his ability.
@@scufflingboogaloo5006 Yeah but the treatment is "bigger" compared to others. For one thing, it also serves as redemption for Cloud's inclusion and return in Smash.
Max must've dream travelled to Sakurai's office or something. Mentioning Lance Bass (Sephiroth's first English VA) and wearing a Shinra shirt on the announcement. Calling the Sephiroth boss fight and Barret & Tifa Mii costumes (although the Mii costumes were pretty obvious). Dude has been on point for a while now
I just love how his classic mode is you playing as the final boss. You slaughter your way through every boss then Master Hand and Crazy Hand fight you on YOUR stage with YOUR boss music. Fucking love it
Sakurai: “This might be the first time we’ve designed a stage depicting a series of story events unfolding” Dude has designed so many stages that he totally forgot about Termina and the giants stopping the moon from falling in great bay didn’t he.
It's actually kinda ironic since the finale of Majora's Mask always had some major FFVII vibes to me. I mean, the crazy, nigh-godlike villain tries to kill everyone by dropping a celestial body on the world and The Giants are the guardians of Termina in much the same way that Holy/the Lifestream end up protecting the world.
It wasn't on the same level as Northern Crater. With Great Bay, it was more a background element, with the Northern Crater, the story is the sole focus of the whole stage, as the stage itself is pretty spartan in means of gimmicks.
The guy occasionally forgets one or two things (and he did say "might" so even he wasn't so sure about that) like how he said Suzaku Castle is the first stage to feature music changing in the middle of a fight where Mushroom Kingdom 2 did that with the stage's Overworld-Boss theme.
Ever since Joker released, there's this thing I do where I don't do anything with the new character until I've bested them in a CPU match. Nice to see this implemented in an official matter.
That's still crazy considering that only God's are considered strong enough to use that spell Donald is technically stronger than the MAJORITY of Final Fantasy and that baffles me lmao
"Mr. Sakurai, can we have Sephiroth NOW?" - players "If you want it, then you have to take it. But you already knew that." "We had a feeling you'll say that." *summons Cloud*
@@edmanr2010 i think the reason was cuz the coding for Steve was probably a nightmare and seeing the character is just a reminder of the hell him and ESPECIALLY the programmers went through
@@edmanr2010 Ontop of what was already mentioned, I imagine recording in a studio again was good for Sakurai as well as opposed to recording from his home. Helps bring back a sense of normalcy
Who know that when you were a kid you would someday be playing a game where you can play as Sepheroth throwing a poke ball at Solid Snake in a Metoid level made by Nintendo
"Shirtless Sephiroth"? Oh, you must be talking about his twin brother, Shirtisoff. Yeah, it's common to mistake the two, but here's a tip on how to tell them apart: Shirtisoff has more fangirls and fanboys drooling over him than Sephy. Also, if you look real closely you may notice that, unlike his older twin, Shirtisoff is also not wearing a shirt.
I didn’t even realize that! The references are nuts. The one that stuck out to me was when Tifa knocked Cloud and K. Rool away, being a reference to the Golden Saucer play.
The smash team adds references like that all the time in trailers. There is always so much detail in every piece of media the team produces. It really adds to the effect of them just picking up characters and plugging them right into smash without them feeling different.
@@TheMasterBlaze I first noticed it with the Sans reveal. His opponents are all humans and one yellow "flower" and he dodges every single attack from them. And then I believe he eats a hot dog. The amount of detail they pack into like five seconds of Mii fighter reveal is always crazy.
Max: "He is the only bad guy in smash" -Ganon: destroyed lands dies and comes back to do it again. -Ridley: a Space Pirate that has killed millions. Including blowing up planets. Also dies and comes back multiple times. Ya Ganon might be low compared to Seth but um Ridley got him beat ten fold when it comes to being an evil villain. Due legit killed Samus's parents and teases her about it just becuase he thinks its fun to fuck with her.
I don't get how people forget Ridley is smart.. he's literally described as the leader of the Space Pirates, a group that terraforms and invades planets, manipulate their own DNA and reverse engineer Samus's weaponry which is ancient technology that no one really knows how to replicate.
Killed her parents, right in front of her, gloated about it, and then tried to kill her while taunting her all the while. Its no damn wonder she's got PTSD from that. And mind you she was only a child of FOUR YEARS OLD when this happened.
This is just snipped from the stream. He glanced at his current stream time and estimated on the fly. Folks really in here expecting absolute perfection from people at all times...
@@hwanniggles187 No it isn't- Challenger Pack 8 was made available for pre-order almost immediately after this presentation ended. Anyone can buy that pack now and take the challenge.
this presentation was so extra and gave us so much more than we thought we'd get. Sakurai is an FFVII-fan, too. I laughed when he said "Sqe'enix-sama" when talking about the music copyright.
22:10 Is such a happy Max, it makes me feel warm and fuzzy. Nothing but appreciation for Sakurai for going _this far_ to do justice, not just to Sephiroth but to FF7 as a whole.
If they started the animation and cut to another scene before it landed it would have been very funny 😆. What would be even crazier is if your mii Aerith gets impaled as a quick cut scene during character select and she’s no longer playable when Seph fully gets released.
"Ridley's a space lizard who's misunderstood." The dude ate Samus' parents and then taunted her about it until her PTSD got triggered, he might be worse than Sephiroth if not in ambition than in cruelty.
Must be the Megamind effect. Ridley’s barbaric, brutal, and cruel. Sephiroth is cruel too, but he’s got fabulous hair, the sex appeal of an Olympian, and also outdoes Ridley in the ridiculousness factor by stalking Cloud literally everywhere. So, PRESENTATION!
This is why I love smash so so much As someone who is from a developing country,i never thought that my mom would know any of these characters even though she was in the generation to know them(except for Mario and Pikachu ,everyone knows them) Yet when Sephiroth came up,she immediately recongize him as she once played ff7 the original before It was so fun to actually bond over a video game character with my mom,someone who i never considered to have played any of them It fills me with joy to have a game where the young generations can use Steve,inkling and min min to play while the older ones can use what they grew up with It is amazing
@@The_child-catcher Well it's known he actually has a fighting game background. You can feel a lot of SNK in smash, and Terry was a love letter to them from presentation to how he plays. I'm sure if he was not so busy he'd do tournaments. Man.. imaging that tho, playing him in Grand Finals. He even joked about the frame data stuff which was great.
@@kalimbalove1912 Yeah, but that's the game model, for example, Raiden from MK should be 7 feet tall, but he's about Liu Kang's height in the actual game, and he's 5'10". Sephiroth at max is 6'2".
The best reactons for Max are the ones where he's smiling from start to finish. We got it with Cloud, again with Terry, and once more with Sephiroth. ^__^
@@MrDibara All those were Smash related. Outside of that, there are certainly plenty of other examples. But the Rock reveal certainly is a fine example too.
Interesting, his blade actually incorporates a concept in real swordsmanship. you have to strike with a certain part of the blade, just slightly behind the tip, for maximum performance.
Geno was also made a Mii fighter costume when Cloud came to Smash 4, and that didn't kill the meme. It just went from "he'll be in Smash 4" to "he'll be in Smash 5". Geno will be in Smash 6, trust me.
I love when max is excited about something lol especially if it’s something I can also get hyped about speaking of which I just had more work done on my ff7 arm sleeve today been working on it for about a year finally getting some background done almost finished !!!
"Ridley's just a big lizard who's misunderstood." I don't think you play enough metroid, Max. Ridley and Sephiroth are basically on the same level of evil
This man is so happy that i can't help but feeling happy as well! And good Lord, Sephiroth is a great DLC, they've done literally all right that they could have done right here
Max: *doesn’t play smash often*
Sakurai: “So we decided to add all of Maximillian Dood’s childhood favorites.”
Too bad the net code for smash is trash, luckily he plays a lot of local play.
@@Zero-9909 the netcode is that bad because I have been seeing a lot of online matches and it was running fine
I KNOW, He is so lucky lol
@@sinisterknows it's not just that bad, it's far worse.
@@naterambles8525 it's worst then smash 4 netcode?
Sephiroth definitely has the best victory screen in the game, he murders all your friends and then casually walks into burnt Neiblhiem
Joker from Persona 5.
Sephiroth's is still amazing though, definitely my second favorite.
This Smash fight was fun, _but he's gotta go see mother..._
niflheim*
@@captaindystopia
*Nibelheim.
@@ieatcereal4dinner489 Joker’s is okay...
"Ridley just a big lizard that's misunderstood."
And Sephiroth has mommy issues and like to stalk Cloud.
"Out of my way. I'm going to see my mother!" -Sephiroth - 1997.
Funny enough the whole Stalking Cloud thing didn't come to be until After FF7... Mostly due to a misinterpretation of his character. The FF7 Remake MOSTLY amended it.
C'mon guys, Sephiroth just wants to invite his best friend to his family reunion and have Cloud meet his mom. Not much, just a reunion....
J u s t
A
R E U N I O N
And also incredibly bland and over-theorized inflating his worth.
@@Nionivek Because Sephiroth had a REASON to stalk Cloud, knowing just how important Cloud was in everything.
I appreciate how Sakurai ends every Classic Mode fight by walking away from the defeated boss. Very true to Seph's character.
The man is such a Chad
I noticed that, I found it very amusing.
HELL'S GATE!
I DIDNT EVEN NOTICE THAT OMG.
Cool guys don't look at explosions, and Sephiroth is no exception!
"it would have been very cute if cloud was the last boss fight for sephiroth."
oh max, sephiroth would have to see cloud as an equal for that to ever happen.
Imagine if his boss stage was just a cloud horde battle, to show how much he thinks cloud is compared to him
Um he does. Sephiroth legit only sees Could as an equal even calling him brother. Only seeing Cloud as the only threat to his plans even. Which Cloud has proven true being he is always the one to stop him canon wise.
Sephiroth almost is scared of Cloud, look at his fixation towards him. I mean, he was the one who killed him.
What would have been really cool is if they added Ruby Weapon as he is in Final Fantasy XIV for Sephiroth's final boss, along with "Ultima (The Primals)".
BEAT, THE HEART OF SABIK, THE HEART OF SABIK, THE HEART OF SABIIIII-IIIIK!
He does though
Sakurai: Everyone is here!
Sephiroth: Everyone is *d e a d.*
Galeem killed everyone but Kirby, Kirby brought them back to life, and now Sephiroth is killing them again
@@GoldLight73 clearly galeem didnt do a good job, so sephiroth is just finishing up the job
By blowing up the damn solar system
@@aze0012 I mean, Galeem blew up the universe with light and remade it in an instant, but even that wasn't enough to stop Kirby.
@@GoldLight73 exactly why kirbyroth is a thing lol
Everyone was here*
Max "HOLY SHIT!"
Sephiroth: "HOLY?! SHIT!"
Love that
Take my like.
I hope this blows up
Clever
It's sad that other people who watch this won't get it, lmaoo
Anyone notice whenever they show sephiroths victory screen he’s playing against all villains and they are applauding him
Definitely plan on recreating this but including K Rool and other villains. I’d like to think the villains are applauding because they concede that when compared to Sephiroth, they are nothing.
I mean, his introduction literally have him 1-shot the Final boss of the game.
"I'm the Final boss now." -Sephiroth, probably.
The unique details that are hidden in plain sight....
Even other ff bosses is afraid of him lol
Nintendo Big Three villains: Yay, we got our asses utterly rocked. Now we're gonna die with the rest of them. Joy.
*CLAP*
*CLAP*
*CLAP*
"Ridley's just a space lizard whos misunderstood!"
He ate Samus' parents
One time!
@@ryanm.8720 And then you have to hear about it for the rest of time. Sheesh....
He just really loves his job.
@@ryanm.8720 apparently he also killed her Chozo dad!
@@emilstoqanov3270 He ate her parents, twice!
The final boss isn't the hands, it's playing one-winged angel on Sephiroth's stage because the hands have come to fight him.
He's literally the final boss.
Wait a minute, Patrick... I’m the final boss!
Safer Sephiroth is a literal demon
@@ryanm.8720 "AHHHHHH!"
We'll take that as a confession.
LMAO
I love seeing Max this happy. He was more hyped here than the Terry gameplay.
Everything he ever wanted for sephiroth came true
Exactly!
Its such a blessed thing for sure
@@sinisterknows Even the victory screen was what he was expecting
Baby
"How does this keep getting better?"
Because we, as a species, do not deserve Masahiro Sakurai. Actual legend.
This. It’s said a lot, but not even close to enough. Sakurai is everything we love about Nintendo.
@Sonic 2013 if you enjoy anything you're a shill.
The last person at a Nintendo with a head that's screwed on straight
@@mythosinfinite6736 Sakurai doesn't even work at Nintendo, he used to work for HAL. And Nintendo is responsible for choosing the possible fighters and negotiations with third parties, Sakurai said as much.
@@NuiYabuko
I'm aware that he created Sora Ltd. for the sake of working with other companies as well, but let's face it, Sora's chained to Smash in every way but the roster. As for what makes him so great, it's not the roster picks; it's the amazing away that he integrates them. He's got a fantastic art for expressing characters within the constraints of his games that I aspire to as a dev.
Side note: It's also not true that Nintendo picks them. It's more of a half-truth, and it only applies to the mandatory inclusion of a new Pokémon character every game (no seriously) and the Smash Ultimate DLC. The reality of the situation is that Nintendo presented an extended roster of possibilities and Sakurai got to choose 5 of them for the first DLC pack. As a bonus, evidence of Sakurai choosing picks can be found in the design docs of each game, where Sakurai presents newcomers that he wants to see in the game; the best known and most easily accessible example of these docs is the translated version of some Sm4sh doc pages, if you're interested.
Sakurai just basically said “Yes” when adding Sephiroth into Smash. The absolute madman!
Oh hey godlord
@Sonic 2013 fired but he is the one that created smash
I was saying on Twitter, basically the only thing he didn't do was get music from Remake, but you can kind of understand that that would be beyond even his ability.
@Sonic 2013 wait... What?! Glad you're not the boss, goddamn.
@Sonic 2013 how could you say that about this man. Dude tries to satisfy everyone with this game and it's awesome.
Sephiroth is the only character that literally gets special treatment in whatever game he is featuring in or added to.
Because if he doesn't he kills everyone
If you think sephiroth is the only character in smash that's received special treatment, then you obviously haven't been paying attention.
@@scufflingboogaloo5006 Yeah but the treatment is "bigger" compared to others. For one thing, it also serves as redemption for Cloud's inclusion and return in Smash.
@@dnmstarsi is adding 50 music tracks not big enough for you?
@@scufflingboogaloo5006 I said his treatment was "bigger" compared to others not everyone else. LOL
Seeing Max's reaction to Sephiroth's gameplay was one of the highlights of my day, but what really got me was the Kirby reaction at the end.
Same, he was about to drop that outro too 😂😂
Bah buh BA-HOLD IT!
I can't believe Max called the special boss fight!
this is one of the best things that max has ever dreamed of
Welp. Time for max to will Marvel 4 into existence.
Boi i think max can see the fakin future
Max must've dream travelled to Sakurai's office or something. Mentioning Lance Bass (Sephiroth's first English VA) and wearing a Shinra shirt on the announcement. Calling the Sephiroth boss fight and Barret & Tifa Mii costumes (although the Mii costumes were pretty obvious).
Dude has been on point for a while now
And the victory screen, too. The man's FFVII obsession has made him into some kind of prophet.
Sephirot vs Dracula is something out of a 1999 internet fanfic
And then Dracula realizes that Sephiroth isn't Alucard.
The absolute PlayStation fan dream.
Reminds me of Ganondorf vs Dracula
@@sonymicronin Do you mean the Death Battle?
@@donovanhadley2209 yep, it was epic af
The victory screen pose is Absolutely Beautiful.
Player: How long is Sephiroth's range?
Dev: 3 and a quarter Kirbys
Why did you call Daddy Sakurai "dev"?
I just love how his classic mode is you playing as the final boss. You slaughter your way through every boss then Master Hand and Crazy Hand fight you on YOUR stage with YOUR boss music. Fucking love it
Considering that Sephiroth literally murdered this game's final boss in his trailer, it's just fitting that he's treated as THE final boss.
"Mr. Sakurai, when will It release?"
"December 22. But you can use him now if you want to"
“If you earn it”.
Rest up, charge your switches and then don’t stop until seppy is dead.
@@10tailedbijuu i beat him in 18seconds on very hard
Bodied him first try on Very Hard
"If you want it, then you have to take it. But you already knew that."
"I had a feeling you'll say this."
You want him, beat him in limited time challenge. Any difficulty.
He literally called everything right in the beginning, holy smokes
Foresight 100
Holy does smoke, yes. It specifically smokes Sephiroth.
@@mythosinfinite6736 not if he has anything to say about it, and he does! It's called
"The Jello Cell" xD
Max prediction is getting better. 99+ Insights.
So Cloud's stage is the beginning of FF7 and Sephiroth's stage is the end of FF7.
It's almost poetic. Cloud is the opening of FF content in Smash, and Sephiroth concludes it.
....oh.
I did not notice that. That’s pretty cool.
Max gets so excited for the stage he actually starts turning into toad 23:47
Xd
I'm fuckin dead
🤣
Imagining Toad saying "LOOK AT THIS SHIT" is the funniest thing to me, I don't know why
Sakurai: “This might be the first time we’ve designed a stage depicting a series of story events unfolding”
Dude has designed so many stages that he totally forgot about Termina and the giants stopping the moon from falling in great bay didn’t he.
It's actually kinda ironic since the finale of Majora's Mask always had some major FFVII vibes to me. I mean, the crazy, nigh-godlike villain tries to kill everyone by dropping a celestial body on the world and The Giants are the guardians of Termina in much the same way that Holy/the Lifestream end up protecting the world.
It wasn't on the same level as Northern Crater. With Great Bay, it was more a background element, with the Northern Crater, the story is the sole focus of the whole stage, as the stage itself is pretty spartan in means of gimmicks.
The guy occasionally forgets one or two things (and he did say "might" so even he wasn't so sure about that) like how he said Suzaku Castle is the first stage to feature music changing in the middle of a fight where Mushroom Kingdom 2 did that with the stage's Overworld-Boss theme.
@@GrahamChapman i think it could be a reference maybe?
Pfft ffvii what a loser the real story for chads is PAC LAND
When you SD with Hell's gate off the side you aren't killing yourself, you just see Aerith way down there
PTSD lol
we call that move "down erith"
Ha🤣 best comment ever!
Too soon.
So that's where he came from when he stabbed aerith he just jumped off a stage
alternate video title: 'max predicts literally everything' the video
I've never seen max this exciting for this 😅 this has got to be the greatest Nintendo switch game of the year
Take a drink every time Max gushes over a FFVII reference.
Jokes on you I dont drink 😉
Don’t make me into Newspaper Article, please.
Drunk in the first 10 minutes
@@gabodevilmaycry22 It would hit me like something out of Fist of the North Star. Where I collapse after the presentation.
Got drunk xD
That's alotta gift subs
What are gift subs?
Love your vids, happy to see you here
@@gordonxyooj He spend over 1k bucks on his community.
@@FlameJackstar damn that's love
@@FlameJackstar but compared to how his community supports him that's nothing... Donations flood in regularly
I feel like Sakurai's the cool uncle who always brings the most insanely cool Christmas presents every year.
Ever since Joker released, there's this thing I do where I don't do anything with the new character until I've bested them in a CPU match. Nice to see this implemented in an official matter.
Sometimes those Lvl 9 CPUs can show you some cool stuff too, so that's not a bad idea.
Wow thought I was the only one
I kinda miss that unlock feature in games with multiple characters. Very reminiscent of the olden days of gaming.
If you don't do this with a level 9 cpu, you're doing it wrong.
Dude the AI on level 9 is insane in smash man but it is really fun to fight them on that difficulty and it feels rewarding
Sephiroth: uses Gigaflare
Donald Duck: Laughs in Zettaflare
*Quacks in Zettaflare
That's still crazy considering that only God's are considered strong enough to use that spell
Donald is technically stronger than the MAJORITY of Final Fantasy and that baffles me lmao
@@MrAnimater_Vr The cap is his limiter, when it's off, that's when you really see Donald in all his splendor
@@johnnybrotwurst8007 sephiroth: ... ok fine, supernova
@@MrAnimater_Vr Yeah, but that spell literally takes Donald all his life force to use lol.
"Ridley's misunderstood."
Samus: "yeah, he's so misunderstood, that's why he killed my parents right in front of me when I was a child."
yeah man, it happens all the time, poor ridley
Ridley: "IT WAS JUST ONE TIME!!" D:
Samus: "I actually shook the man's hand afterwards I mean they didn't even pay their taxes"
He was just doing his job
It was an accident
"Ridley's a space lizard who's misunderstood"
Samus: *Bold words for someone within Charge Shot percent*
Scintilla blocks it.
“Your arm cannon means nothing”
"Ridley is a space lizard that is misunderstood."
Samus's parents, adoptive parents, and both planets would like a word with you.
"Mr. Sakurai, can we have Sephiroth NOW?" - players
"If you want it, then you have to take it. But you already knew that."
"We had a feeling you'll say that." *summons Cloud*
Now I'm motivated!
_What the hell is this??_
"how many times did you buy the dlc"
"hard to say it's the only memories since smash bros ultimate announcement"
POWER!
И тебе привет
Can we just appreciate that Max called Sephiroth having a special Boss Fight?
I mean didn’t we all?
it was a pretty easy thing to guess lol
He transforms at the end of the trailer tho.
@@NSFSponsor That’s not the boss.
@@EWOODJ Just saying why people already assumed he would have a boss fight
The amount of love that went into sephiroth is just outstanding
Did you notice how much happier Sakurai seemed this time around compared to announcing Steve?
@@edmanr2010 i think the reason was cuz the coding for Steve was probably a nightmare and seeing the character is just a reminder of the hell him and ESPECIALLY the programmers went through
I see it as both love and making amends to Final Fantasy's lack of representation even though it wasn't Sakurai and Nintendo's faults.
@@edmanr2010 Ontop of what was already mentioned, I imagine recording in a studio again was good for Sakurai as well as opposed to recording from his home. Helps bring back a sense of normalcy
I've never seen a man go from fanboying, straight to "this is kinda neat"
24:00
Haha was thinking the same thing
Who know that when you were a kid you would someday be playing a game where you can play as Sepheroth throwing a poke ball at Solid Snake in a Metoid level made by Nintendo
While Steve?! has just been smashed off screen by Banjo.
@@garethwilkins6744 while sonic emotes on the right side
@@wolftales5203 And Terry Bogard Buster Wolf's Sora.
Max smacking his lips to shirtless Sephiroth, " Thats good, that tastes good"
"Shirtless Sephiroth"? Oh, you must be talking about his twin brother, Shirtisoff. Yeah, it's common to mistake the two, but here's a tip on how to tell them apart: Shirtisoff has more fangirls and fanboys drooling over him than Sephy. Also, if you look real closely you may notice that, unlike his older twin, Shirtisoff is also not wearing a shirt.
I like how he calls every single thing about the game, that's a real fan right there.
I just noticed that Barrets mii costume was revealed while on a train! Good lord that is so perfect.
I didn’t even realize that! The references are nuts. The one that stuck out to me was when Tifa knocked Cloud and K. Rool away, being a reference to the Golden Saucer play.
@@Shanderson716 And a more obvious one, Aerith is holding a fire flower when first shown.
There's even a bomb going off offscreen. XD
The smash team adds references like that all the time in trailers. There is always so much detail in every piece of media the team produces. It really adds to the effect of them just picking up characters and plugging them right into smash without them feeling different.
@@TheMasterBlaze I first noticed it with the Sans reveal. His opponents are all humans and one yellow "flower" and he dodges every single attack from them. And then I believe he eats a hot dog. The amount of detail they pack into like five seconds of Mii fighter reveal is always crazy.
Max: "He is the only bad guy in smash"
-Ganon: destroyed lands dies and comes back to do it again.
-Ridley: a Space Pirate that has killed millions. Including blowing up planets. Also dies and comes back multiple times.
Ya Ganon might be low compared to Seth but um Ridley got him beat ten fold when it comes to being an evil villain. Due legit killed Samus's parents and teases her about it just becuase he thinks its fun to fuck with her.
Ridley is easily worse than Sephiroth. Years ago I used to think he was just some mindless space Dragon but holy shit.
@@jeremyknight9980 Same here. I didn’t know he actually thought stuff out until much later
@@thatboidarock3731 Ya reading the canon manga and getting into the lore you realize that dude diff had brains to go with that brawn.
Don't forget Dark Samus, she flew under the radar but she almost destroyed several planets as well via Phazon corruption
I don't get how people forget Ridley is smart.. he's literally described as the leader of the Space Pirates, a group that terraforms and invades planets, manipulate their own DNA and reverse engineer Samus's weaponry which is ancient technology that no one really knows how to replicate.
34:57 The look of a man who just realized that he needed to dish out 200 gift subs.
Ridley is just a space lizard who is misunderstood...
Samus parents and the chozo race beg to differ
He killed Samus' parents, ate them and then made fun of her about it later
@@roosterboots4684 what? he just wanted to make samus have a family reunion!
Killed her parents, right in front of her, gloated about it, and then tried to kill her while taunting her all the while. Its no damn wonder she's got PTSD from that. And mind you she was only a child of FOUR YEARS OLD when this happened.
One time!
I beg to differ too lol
I didn't realize they were releasing the second half of remake in smash
69 is a fine number, that's why u aren't getting more likes.
"thats the fastest 35 minutes of my life"
*Looks at the time*
Wait, wtf
RIGHT?!
This is just snipped from the stream. He glanced at his current stream time and estimated on the fly. Folks really in here expecting absolute perfection from people at all times...
@@ExireHG What are you on about?
@@ExireHG My dude chill the fuck out they were just agreeing with him that it didn’t feel like 40 minutes
@@ExireHG Bad day?
i love the little giggle from Max everytime he says "Sephiroth vs ..." because of how unbelieveable it is :D
Everyone: "Steve is the edge-guard king"
Sephiroth: "hold my masamune"
Steve: "k"
*Masamune proceeds to occupy Steve's entire hotbar*
@@liamanderson7082 UNDERRATED REPLY. XD
And now Kazuya: "hold my elbow"
Sora: “hold my keyblade”
Man, Sakurai just put the entire FF7 ending inside Smash !!
squarenix : we're remaking FF7. Here's part one...
Sakurai : and here's the ending. You're welcome.
missing the part where you feed elixirs to pots
Even Crisis Core and Dirge? Before Crisis to?
Sakurai who radiate Chad energy: We'll just throw in some extra coding for free so you can earn Sephiroth a few days earlier.
Its only for those who have Fighters Pass 2
@@hwanniggles187
No it isn't- Challenger Pack 8 was made available for pre-order almost immediately after this presentation ended. Anyone can buy that pack now and take the challenge.
@@Blackheartzero exactly. You need the pack in order to do the challenge
@@hwanniggles187
No, you said you needed the whole Fighters Pass 2 to do the challenge.
@@Blackheartzero oh my b. I thought he said its only available to those with Fighters Pass 2
I love how the outro music starts playing, then he notices Kirby's hair and just stops to admire it before continuing on.
this presentation was so extra and gave us so much more than we thought we'd get. Sakurai is an FFVII-fan, too. I laughed when he said "Sqe'enix-sama" when talking about the music copyright.
22:10 Is such a happy Max, it makes me feel warm and fuzzy. Nothing but appreciation for Sakurai for going _this far_ to do justice, not just to Sephiroth but to FF7 as a whole.
They should've shown the spike attack against an Aerith Mii
First of all, how dare you?
Second of all, HOW DARE YOU?!?
Wow that’s literally a disrespectful reference you did there My good sir
Ngl, thought that would be the case when she was brought out during the segment on his aerials.
well he did use it right next to a Zelda sleeping (so basicaly an Aerith stand-in) in the reveal trailer.
If they started the animation and cut to another scene before it landed it would have been very funny 😆. What would be even crazier is if your mii Aerith gets impaled as a quick cut scene during character select and she’s no longer playable when Seph fully gets released.
Ah yes, Hell’s Gate, aka Aerith-B-Gone
Also, new main found.
Not bad, but preffer to call it "The end of All Hope", partly cause Nightwish feels very fitting of sephy.
Down Aerith.
@@QwixLF bravo
"Ridley is just misunderstood..."
He says to Samus, the person who's parents were eaten by Ridley...
I'm sure he was joking, lmao 😂
One time!
"Where are your parents? Here? Maybe here?"
Ridley killing Samus' parents was only in the Metroid Manga and a quick trophy description in Brawl.
That's a dives profile pic right?
Was I the only one expecting a Hell's Gate on Aerith during the showcase?
Nope I was expecting it too.
That would be
BEYOND EXTRA
XD
He started demonstrating the aerials with Aerith as the punching bag even, but then swapped to Samus. We got baited by Sakurai.
This was a SHEER JOY to watch. My face hurts from smiling for 30mins straight.
Max's reactions were worth it.
Literally when steve got revealed max said "this is a dream come true just not mine" and look what happened immediately after
This was one of those times I felt completely connected in hype with Max and chat. That victory screen got me yelling all round my living room.
"Ridley's a space lizard who's misunderstood."
The dude ate Samus' parents and then taunted her about it until her PTSD got triggered, he might be worse than Sephiroth if not in ambition than in cruelty.
One time!
Must be the Megamind effect. Ridley’s barbaric, brutal, and cruel. Sephiroth is cruel too, but he’s got fabulous hair, the sex appeal of an Olympian, and also outdoes Ridley in the ridiculousness factor by stalking Cloud literally everywhere.
So, PRESENTATION!
@@ryanm.8720 twice actually, he killed samus's bird dad
This is why I love smash so so much
As someone who is from a developing country,i never thought that my mom would know any of these characters even though she was in the generation to know them(except for Mario and Pikachu ,everyone knows them)
Yet when Sephiroth came up,she immediately recongize him as she once played ff7 the original before
It was so fun to actually bond over a video game character with my mom,someone who i never considered to have played any of them
It fills me with joy to have a game where the young generations can use Steve,inkling and min min to play while the older ones can use what they grew up with
It is amazing
This is a wholesome comment. I agree❤
Max's best days:
1. Sephiroths reveal
2. Clouds reveal
3. The birth of his child
Ff7 remake announcement and release dates
4 & 5: Terry n Ken reveal
For as much of a hardcore fan as he is, I'm pretty sure Ripley's birth is by far #1. *BY. FAR.* ;)
@@knuckles543 FF7R Day 1
@@MrDibara That’s the joke 🙃
I want Sakurai to have his own channel where he plays stuff, he's amazing
I'm surprised at how good he is. Considering how hard the man works I wouldn't think he would have time to play games.
@@The_child-catcher He is probably playtesting his game a lot which means he is playing it before it's released to the public.
@@The_child-catcher Well it's known he actually has a fighting game background. You can feel a lot of SNK in smash, and Terry was a love letter to them from presentation to how he plays. I'm sure if he was not so busy he'd do tournaments. Man.. imaging that tho, playing him in Grand Finals. He even joked about the frame data stuff which was great.
@@mrnygren2 yes but actually no
I'd love to see him play some KOF.
His classic mode should’ve had the burning stage where you defeat a bunch of Villagers.
"Sephiroth is like 7 feet tall"
Sephiroth: 6'1".
The 6'1 is wrong actually. From his FFR model height when transposed he's about 6'6.
@@kalimbalove1912 Yeah, but that's the game model, for example, Raiden from MK should be 7 feet tall, but he's about Liu Kang's height in the actual game, and he's 5'10". Sephiroth at max is 6'2".
He's Japanese, everything above 6 feet may be Mt Fuji for all he cares
Yep, Cloud is only 5’7”
Have you seen his first appearence in FFVIIR in which Cloud ran into Sephiroth's chest? There is no way Sephiroth's not 2m+
sephitoth: uses gigaflare
fox: USES UNO REVERSE CARD
This was genuinely the most wholesome thing I've seen today. Max and Sakurai being nerds and gushing over Sephiroth and FF7
Also known as Max being a fanboy for almost 40 minutes
We are truly in the greatest timeline, people. Well, except for Geno fans. F
I'll take what I can get
Maybe next time
If to get Sephiroth we had to sacrifice Geno, I’m willing to take that
And, you know, the world-spanning pandemic. 🤷♂️
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
It's so wholesome seeing max happy man we will miss this dearly 😟
29:40 anyone else notice that Sakurai's timing of saying Nice was perfect with the score being 69,000
To think, he was a mere 100 points short of his total being 69,420 at that moment. He can’t keep getting away with this
Geno has finally died. Rest in piece speculation
Sephiroth did my boy like Aerith.
Nice hoonters mark
The best reactons for Max are the ones where he's smiling from start to finish. We got it with Cloud, again with Terry, and once more with Sephiroth. ^__^
all we need is dante and maybe a resident evil rep. or even chun li
What about Rock Howard's reveal in KoF XIV?
@@MrDibara oh yea that was amazing too
@@MrDibara All those were Smash related. Outside of that, there are certainly plenty of other examples. But the Rock reveal certainly is a fine example too.
I just realized it but Terry looks like the love child between Cloud and Sephiroth.
Awww yeah the one reaction I was waitin' for baby! This party's gettin crazy!
Let’s rock!
And it's going to get even more crazy when the sephiroth boss rage comes
Chads watched the live stream tho B)
@@Carolusim Lol I was too late, didn't get to see it live!
@@DocDevious23 dude I swear I missed like 10 mins cause my wifi kept commuting dieded
Interesting, his blade actually incorporates a concept in real swordsmanship. you have to strike with a certain part of the blade, just slightly behind the tip, for maximum performance.
The "Geno will be in Smash, trust me." meme will finally die.
It’ll be like “Ridley is too big” from this point on
Oh no I think the prologue just finished
@@mrpizza_5139 Maybe next game when Square allows him in and Sakurai or Nintendo is like "Let's put him in NOW."
Geno was also made a Mii fighter costume when Cloud came to Smash 4, and that didn't kill the meme. It just went from "he'll be in Smash 4" to "he'll be in Smash 5".
Geno will be in Smash 6, trust me.
@@irishjet2687 he better be in smash 6 at this point lol we've been requesting this character since smash 3
"What is this, Ergheiz 2?" LMAO i laugh so hard on that statement.
God Bless the Smash
Loved how they remixed the "pain" song from og ff7
I love when max is excited about something lol especially if it’s something I can also get hyped about speaking of which I just had more work done on my ff7 arm sleeve today been working on it for about a year finally getting some background done almost finished !!!
Love seeing people being genuinely passionate for stuff like this
With that stage design, you can tell Sakurai is such a fan of the original game. So awesome
I felt like I was in ride a Disney Land for a second lol.
There was so much put in this one character it is amazing
it's Sephiroth...Japan's Darth Vader. it had to be perfect.
@@l0n3w01f you know it's funny you said that because I remembered that some one thought it was darth vader that was in the character revealed
This is Sakurai we are talking about here. He goes above and beyond for ALL DLC characters
@@sinisterknows a dude thought Vader’s grandson was Byleth
@@l0n3w01f huh I never saw it that way lol
Also congrats on 1M+ views with the doods on the Sephiroth reveal reaction
"Sephiroth, versus... Jigglypuff ❤"
"Sephiroth, versus... ＧＲＥＮＩＮＪＡ❤"
Sephiroth versus..........steve
“Sephiroth versus... Banjo❤️”
Max's reaction to everything shown is so wholesome.
I like how we get an *advent* children character right before Christmas 😁😅😂
"Ridley's just a big lizard who's misunderstood."
I don't think you play enough metroid, Max.
Ridley and Sephiroth are basically on the same level of evil
Yeah, the only difference is Sephiroth wants to destroy everything, while Ridley wants to conquer evetyhing
Max plays fighting games mostly remember. So don't be surprised that he isn't too into metroid
Obvious joke on his part was obvious. XD Classic Max!
It was a joke
@@xJ4R3x no, Ridley destroys too. Bowser and ganondorf are the conquering guys.
Max getting his Christmas present early I see.
AND NOW THE MOMENT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR
KIRBY-ROTH
@@JONATHANP1619 Sounds like a lot of hoopla over a kirby transformation, right?
I love seeing Max’s reactions like this so much
the music getting cut off at the end for Kirby's hair was genius! Love the editor
ROUND OCHO
ESPN 8 THE OCHO
IF IS BARELY A FIGHTER,WE MAKE IT A MII COSTUME
"Usually have to pay extra for that kinda action, Cotton!"
@@dantheguy3303 i luv u for that
Geno becomes a Mii Costume.
"It's a bold strategy cotton, let's see if it plays out."
This man is so happy that i can't help but feeling happy as well!
And good Lord, Sephiroth is a great DLC, they've done literally all right that they could have done right here
16:39 *No wonder he's voiced by the VA of Yoshikage Kira*
A classic case of "when u love what u do".
I almost thought he was gonna use arieth to demonstrate the falling stab attack