I think it’s kind of symbolic too that there are white feathers coming down when he makes his first appearance compared to his black wing/feathers that he’s known for once he turns evil 😈
The biggest takeaway that I think is interesting about Young Sephiroth is that it also indirectly gives some more weight to just how terrifying Jenova is, too. In the Kalm flashback Sephiroth mentions that she has 'superior magic' and so Sephiroth in this scene casting Fire 3 right out of the gate really puts it in perspective that he didn't grow into his power -- he was always a bit of a monster and only as an adult figured out why.
Not just Fire-3/Firaga, straight up ALL FIRE-3/FIRAGA. I thought that was only posisble with materia! (To be fair though, one of the meteria he had at the time might of been the All factor mteria.)
@@yorhaalmnot on his sword. Theres only one pair materia spot and its both magic materia, all is a darker blue. If he had all paired to fire 3 itd have to be on his accessory
0:35 The missles that Sephiroth sliced didn't just miss the main group, but also hit the Wutai soldiers that you can see behind them. Sephiroth really did consider everything.
Faster than the eye can see. Guy is just terrifying. Even if he’s on your side look what he did effortlessly as a kid. I’ll never understand how he lost. The gap between him and everyone else is like pond compare to an ocean.
@@tristanward9937 plot. Honestly, I can accept him being defeated by several strong enemies at once. But Cloud's lame ass soloing him and winning every time is stupid. Cloud is strong, but not like this.
@@TheGlo0m To be fair, Cloud has only fought him twice. Once in the Northern Cave, when he was arguably at his weakest since he had been beaten up by the whole gang in his two previous forms, with Cloud most likely getting a little push from the Lifestream to end it for good. Second time is in Advent Children where Sephiroth is likely not back at full power, since he's only "grown" back from Kadaj fusing with Jenova. And there again, it could be argued that the Lifestream helped Cloud a little bit with Aerith curing his Geostigma in the Church then with Zack giving him a talk before the final Omnislash Type.5. As for the Sephiroth we see at the end of Remake... I'd rather not talk about that shitfest of an ending. But we could argue it's just Jenova doing what she does best during the events of FF7.
I'm surprised that so many people are surprised by Seph being powerful as a kid. He's literally a bred super soldier. Him coming out of the gate powerful was kinda the point. On top of that, he's spent his whole life training in swordsmanship and magic, so this is what we should have expected even if it was never shown.
@0YourGuardian Glenn was going off of pure jealousy, not facts. Glenn is a hypocrite himself as well because we got a sneak peek of how they were made as well, being put in mako tanks. He's just mad Sephiroth is better than him. Sephiroth was injected with Jenova cells while he was still a fetus and that's why he's superior to the rest of SOLDIER.
I doubt anyone is surprised at all I don't even know what you're talking about. Just sounds like you wanna talk about sephiroth and jerk him off a bit. Which is fine obviously but nobody who is actually a fan of this series is surprised
Even if he were on your side, you'd still be more afraid of Sephiroth than your actual enemy. That's a testimony to his demigod type abilities and imposing aura.
What i love about Sephiroth as a character is that he has never been shown to struggle in battle. Even though he has been defeated,he was ALWAYS winning prior. It really gives a sense of invincibility to him.
@@kingvejita8827That's what I'm saying. Sephiroth always had a bit of a superiority complex, as we saw in Crisis Core with Angeal and Genesis. He was their friend, but he was the better fighter and had no problem constantly reminding people of that. THEN he learns he's actually some half alien being, created to be exactly what he was: strong. That made his superiority complex go through the roof. He wasn't a human anymore. He was above them, and had a life time of experience proving to himself that he was.
@@kingvejita8827 Well if it was me I would feel alone but try to help out as much as possible. Because Sephiroth wanted friends and Zack was the last one and closest to have as a friend. Since everyone wanted a piece of his fame and spotlight.
@@OwO377 Not necessarily. It's implied, at least in rebirth, that his descent into madness truly was a descent. Discovering Jenova and his origins certainly started it, but he spent DAYS reading and researching as much info as he could find on the origins of the Jenova Project.
No surprises, It's been said in the original game many times he fought in the wutaii war and was a Super Soldier, an Icon, a Hero , but it's SO FUCKING cool to see these words coming to life with this scene!
That's insane. I thought he grew into his power.... NOPE they're saying he was always a monster. No wonder why by the time he's an adult he's so aloft. Even when training against his friends. He knows he's an ocean difference in power between him and everyone else!
Hi, Im learning english and I dont understand what you meant with "aloft", may someone explain it to me please ? I did search on internet, but I dont get it either 😅 Thanks
You can tell it's him when he was young since his hair, Coat, and Sword aren't as long. They all get longer as he ages. It's lucky he died when he did. If he lived longer he would become a male repunzel with a coat he would constantly trip over and a sky scraper sword. Perhaps it was a mercy he died young.
Sephiroth is terrifying in that the only reason he even loses in any capacity, pre and post Jenova fusion is when he was mentally vulnerable, and that he chronically never considers anyone a real threat, never giving it his all.
Technically, he kind of wins the moment he's tossed into the Lifestream in the Nibelheim Reactor, since from that point onward he's fused with the planet and is, in a sense, immortal. Keeps coming back like an annoying rash just to monologue at Cloud and wreck Midgar again every few years. 😆
I really hope that we get more scenes of young sephiroth, hopefully him trying to have some camaraderie with people. He strikes me as the kind of character that would absolutely walk into a room seeing people arm wrestling, be invited to participate in being excited at the idea of playing something with regular people only to irreparably damaged someone with his lightest effort. I want to see the tragedy
He isn't like that at all. Hes sociopathically isolated and emotion lacking. It makes him seem like he just doesn't see a benefit inbeing attached to anything. He only displays emotion when seeing or talking about Jenova
@@OMGCMFno in Crisis Core when he is younger you can tell he has an ego but he isn’t evil. His isolationism is directly related to early trauma he accidentally hurt someone close to him or just other members of Solider. Then he started keeping his distance and realized people were afraid of him eventually resenting some of them for probably being too weak.
@connordutton674 Yeah I was going to say that too and add in that Angeal and Genesis (later Zack) were the only ones near enough to his level to work with him and not be grunt escorts. Basically the people closest to him while isolated died and zack (who was more like the little brother of his friend relationally than his actual friend) couldn't really help him keep it together. (Yes I know those two were basically toss-ins for crisis core but it kind of checks out)
@@elizabethchint2391 crisis core changed his dynamic YEARS after 7. Hated crisis core. Ruined my favorite villain. So no I won't consider later changes. Young sephiroth and sephiroth after he learns his jenova history are not the same person.
This scene adds so much depth to the story on so many levels. Further emphasizing the simmilarities between Shinra and some real life governments waging wars on foreign countries and sending soldiers to their assured death, Sephiroth is displayed here as the weapon of mass destruction he was always supposed to be. An unstoppable force, trully a monster, the perfect soldier. He really was a chemical weapon built on a lab. This scene portrays him as heroic to the poor soldiers who were in this position, but the undertones of how incredibly dangerous he could become if he realized what he could do are clearly there. But this also paints a much more tragic vision of Sephiroth. He was used as a weapon as such a young age, he seems proud on killing things so effortlessly, showing how Shinra taught him to find value on killing. When he turns around and looks at his comrades and we get our first glance at his face we see those snake-like eyes and that sharp smile. He is not human, not trully. He's never been. But they lied to him in order to use him. The white feathers at the start also remind me of Griffith, from Berserk, a character that shares many simmilarities with Sephiroth in terms of concept and aesthetics. But it's also hinting us towards his path. From an angel descended from heaven to save those in need, to a heartless angel bound to destroy creation.
Are you like scared and stuff? I mean FF7 is real somewhere in the parallel universes. Sephiroth is totally like tearing stuff up somewhere. We have to talk about this stuff and the stuff. Come on.
I mean Cloud was said to be "part Sephiroth Clone" in the original FFVII and the Compilation. Hence the Remnants calling both Cloud and Sephiroth "Big brother".
@@MBOmnis Chaos is just a fairy tale. The darkness, the beasts-this despair that eats away at people's hearts-it's easy to blame a single thing for all that. It gives people hope to think that the world can be saved with a single heroic deed. Even if it's never that simple...
It's CGI bro, we've been getting these kind of cutscenes since 2002 in games. It's not actual graphics, just a pre-rendered scene. FFX had them, FF12 had them, Advent Children in 2005 had them, Crisis core had them. Are you underage?
No way, he's fighting on Shin-Ra's side! You know, Shin-Ra, the environmentally-sustainable and friendly neighborhood electric company! Totally not an evil organization that does all kinds of horrible human experiments in dark secret labs, and other unethical things. Just look at the company mascot Scamp! Literally 0% chance something like that could happen.
I'm not in the army, but I'm pretty sure there's a difference between a criminal, and a marine, or between a prostitute and a lady that likes intercourse.
Imagined being witness to such power, whether you are protected or not, such a sight in actuality would be positively terrifying! I love this scene because it highlights so much: the shear awe Sephiroth inspired, the mismanagement of science, and at it's heart the morality questions flying all over! Is it any wonder Sephiroth chose the fate he did? Is any wonder that he becamed so feared even before the revelations were made?! Mind boggling and such fantastic writing! FF7 story is one of the best in the world. It really is.
@@wilykat There are a ton of similarities between Vader and Sephiroth! If Final Fantasy VII hadn't released two years before the prequel trilogy, I'd believe that Sephiroth's backstory was directly inspired by Vader's. It's not like there aren't Star Wars references in VII already. They're both fallen angel-type characters, great warriors who betrayed the organisations they worked for (the Jedi, Shinra), slaughtered a bunch of innocents (Nibelheim, the younglings), and then were defeated by people less skilled than them due to their arrogance (Obi-wan, Cloud.) Anakin fell into a lava pit, Sephiroth into the Lifestream. Both "died" in a sense and were "reborn" afterwards, weaker and stronger than before. Vader was physically scarred from his duel on Mustafar and lost some of his Force potential, but his iron suit made him more deadly and terrifying. Sephiroth perished in the reactor but was able to influence events in the world as a lingering spirit in the Lifestream. Both serve masters more powerful than they are (Palpatine, Jenova) and have a strange obsession with their mothers. (Anakin's love for his mother was a major factor in his downfall.) Both were created through unnatural means (it's implied that Anakin was created by Sidious through the Force, whereas Sephiroth was created via the Jenova Project), and neither had a relationship with their father growing up. Sephiroth didn't know that Hojo was his father, and Anakin probably never figured out that Sidious or Plagueis was his father. They're both tall, imposing and like to dress in black leather. The differences are that Sephiroth never has a romantic relationship (or, indeed, a relationship of any kind, apart from his friendship with Zack), and doesn't try to overthrow Jenova or redeem himself at the end. Although who knows, the Remake project could well be heading in that direction. [EDIT: Oh, and they both have legendary theme tunes.]
Shinra made a monster out of this poor boy. He may be the "greatest villain in all of gaming" but I don't blame him at all for doing what he did when he learned the truth of his creation :/
I personally would’ve used that knowledge as a way to get bitches, myself. Awesome supersoldier with magic powers and an incredibly difficult weapon to use that can be wielded as easily as a butter knife? Can you imagine the Fanny I’d be tapping, with that as a pickup line?
hmm. greatest villain in gaming? idk man. greatest villain in final fantasy? sure. maybe tie between kefka, but sure. greatest villain in RPG? hmm okay, he's at the top but gaming? we can just flat out say bowser if we're going on that direction.
Nothing beats the serious elegance of the golden inlay around the emerald green of a Materia crystal blade. Its certain death if the user knows what he's doing. A weapon like that is no joke.
I can see why people look up to sephiroth and regards him as hero prior to FFVII Sephiroth. He looks cool af here. His short haired version makes him look a lot like any protagonist in an anime/game.
Do all the victims get to one's head... eventhough you are not at first evil, like witnessing the spoil of War (example: Bin Laden, again I'm not saying I like him, but if he grew in a great environment he could have been a good person).
@WorldOfLimbo Because the writers confirmed he always holds back after the nibelheim incident. As you can see here when he was a kid, he went for the kill as fast as possible since he wasn't particularly a bad person nor evil. After he loses his mind, he starts toying with everyone, making them suffer as much as possible for as long as possible. He enjoys seeing people crumble and kneel before him because he becomes an awful evil person after discovering he is not entirely human, and that overconfidence is his downfall multiple times. He is so nonchalant that it always gets him killed in the end, but if he went for the kill as fast as he did when he was a kid he could speedblitz the whole ff7 party without even trying.
@@juliogomesdesouza9035honestly he seems more efficient when he's just trying to get the job done he lets his guard down now since he wants to invoke despair into his opponents before finishing them off
@WorldOfLimbo because Cloud's body was modified by Hojo. Hojo didn't think the experiment worked locked him away as a failure. Instead created another Monster.
This scene is impressive, and great at showing just how powerful Sephiroth is, even at a young age. But it also has a dark side. Sephiroth is only fourteen years old in this clip. He’s a child who has been sent out to war to commit genocide.
@@alias588That's what I find odd. I'd be shitting my pants even if he was on my team. The fact Shinra didn't have a plan if he ever turned is crazy. imagine being 14 and wielding this kind of power, this kid had no equal, and Shinra just let him walk around
it so weird to see a young sephiroth and one with so short hair and and with out his signature sword , but hey even when a normal katana he slice his enemy without much effort
That katana was still spec'd to high hell. 3 materia in the hilt, and crazy good craftmenship through out the blade and handle. Shinra's military budget is well placed.
This further makes me believe that Sephiroth has always been holding back against Cloud for some greater cause. Hopefully we will see that when this time paradox trilogy ends.
"Anyway Cloud, that's the story of how the JENOVA cells inside me took over my body when I had a moment of extreme mental and emotional duress, and everything that happened after that was JENOVA using my body like a meat puppet. Thanks for not killing me in this weird spirit world and listening to my plight. Now we can team up and defeat JENOVA and get my body and my destiny back, and I'll work tirelessly for the rest of my days to undo the evil she carried out using my body over these past many years!" or something.
Him standing in that fire when everything burns around him is definately meant to be a recreation of the iconinc nibelheim. When he burns down the town after learning about Jenova.
But not Asian countries that have banned blood.. If they had blood they wouldn't be allowed to release the game in those countries and lose a big portion of their playerbase
@@Zack_Wildfire I meant more in video games and media stuff, but like I can agree it is weird but that's just how things are over there and we gotta accept it, they're just stricter with gore and blood and SE doesn't wanna get bumped to an M rating 🤷🏻♂️
@@ProToken420 those games are banned in other countries and have a mature raring, you're missing the point lol. Final fantasy is known for TEEN rated games, SE is not going to risk their rating or losing a big portion of their audience in Asia.
@@EvelynL.1112 I already knew that. It's just a lil weird because normal adult Sephiroth looks like his own original character but then he looks full on Kingdom Hearts character when young.
Sephiroth is a natural born badass. You can't refute it. If there was to ever be a list of all time 100 great fictional badasses from video games, comics, anime,etc. Expect to see the "One winged Angel" himself on that list. Easily in the top 20 if not the top 10.
Boy hit they ass with a flare spell or somethin cuz NO way that was a Fire level spell. Sheesh. I wish they'd just give us a FF7 movie of this caliber.
Yes thats Flare or one of its upgraded versions but seeing the state of the fireball i think its just flare. Sephiroth hardly tries there. They all dead though xD.
@@belias360 I'm aware. I got it on bluray champ. But Advent Children was not on this level and you know it. I mean a NEW FF7 movie. With graphics of THIS era. With combat scenes that rival this little cutscene. Thats what I mean by that. And I think others would agree with me as well.
It’d be cool to sort of get a sense of the awkward not very socially capable kid he must have been. Seeing him smirk like he knows he’s better i feel doesn’t work. It would have been more interesting to see Sephiroth’s first mission and he himself being sort of surprised at the gap between him and the rest of Soldier. That gap taking him off guard, alienating him further than his isolation under Hojo already had until he gets acquainted with Angeal and Genesis. Maybe a reference to a possible scenario in how he missed Gast, or perhaps he was once a part in how Iflana and Aerith made their escape from the labs and how as punishment he was forced to watch Ifalna’s dissection. Bits and pieces that show he was always sort of treated as a thing or a threat for so long that it shaped his perspective and personality from the get go.
@ooweeeooweee8871 in the original game when sephiroth talks to himself as he studies in the manor and asks himself why Gast never told him of his origins and asks why he had to die. This implies that he regets or mourns the professors passing to at least some degree. Furthermore in Crisis core Sephiroth is shown to be capable of meaningful relations, and we see him actively look out for his friend’s interests above the immediate needs of Shinra and the assigned mission. Yes he always had the capacity for ruthless destruction, but he was also capable of compassion and camaraderie, to the point of volunteering to donate blood to help a friend who got hurt in a sparing match. A backstory like I mentioned would show that despite his power and skill his confidence and psyche was always a bit fragile, teetering on the edge of snapping and becoming the villain of the main game.
Being surprised by his gap wouldn't have made sense though. Considering they made him in a lab to be a weapon, he would've known that he's been constantly being trained to be the best, resulting in him knowing he'd be stronger than any other average person.
@@xenofastiq knowing you’re being trained to be objectively more powerful and overall more capable than the average person doesn’t mean anything to someone without context. He likely grew up in labs isolated without peers. He was given experiments, trials, and training, but it likely wasn’t alongside the typical rank and file, especially when you consider how possessive Hojo is of his research. In short I feel simply seeing the moment where he gets an inkling of the difference between himself and the average person after a childhood of isolation was what I thought would have been interesting.
You know what you're talking about AND what would make the character's backstory more compelling. It would be much more interesting to see an isolated kid learning to deal with things like camaraderie, where he fits in amongst his peers and the alienation of knowing he's different, how being a super weapon is perceived by both his enemies and his allies, struggling to understand concepts like humanity, trust, loyalty, etc. Being an edgy badass from the get-go is not that interesting. Sephiroth always came across as a reserved intellectual, wise and powerful, with masterful control over his own strength. That's what made him frightening- not because he could chop up a zillion tanks in the blink of an eye or because he could explode all the things, but because he knew he could but made the calculated decision to hold it back. And as you mentioned with Crisis Core, Sephiroth wasn't always an evil villain. He snapped once he had that epiphany. Knowing that he was always a destructive psychopath isn't as interesting as seeing the series of events that slowly pushed him over that edge and seeing his fall toward the realization that beneath that fragile sense of control was the capacity to truly become a monster.
My only thing is, why not give a whole backstory game for him? Like give EVERYTHING. Playing as him at 5 years old that’s confused at how strong he is. 7 years old he’s accidentally playing with fire or whatever. Yeah monster out of the gate but really I mean show it? Who wouldn’t play that game?
@@tristanward9937 but that’s the point, give a child overpowered magic & focus more on the story of him or plot I mean. We just need to see this guy grow into this overwhelming might.
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I see even as a young lad Sephiroth had a penchant for standing menacingly in the middle of fires.
Talk about foreshadowing right. 😁
And he's the best at it too. He earned the right lol
Even his mother knew that he would one day stand among the flames.
Its because hes so cold🥁tss.
He's just trying to warm his ice cold heart give the guy a break. 😅
I like the idea of Sephiroth going like, "This weapon is too short. Very inefficient. A 7 foot sword should suffice."
Facts!😂
Then his 2nd thought would be: "A 7 ft. sword isn't badass enough, I need longer hair to boot."
If that's the case his third thought must have been "I need a long jacket to match my long hair and sword" 🤣
I read somewhere that he uses the masamune to handicap himself.
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So this is before sephiroth got his contract with L'Oréal and he got his long sword
Comocally large sword
He actually did have a contract with a Shinra-brand Shampoo in Crisis Core in which he uses an entire bottle of each time he washed it hair.
@@Wolfdoggiehead & shoulders 😂😂😂
he actually did in Cris Core
he have contract with Shinra-brand shampoo
what do you think why his hair is always in perfect condition??
@@Wolfdoggieno wonder his hair becomes white
That man just took a bag of doves everywhere he went and dumped them out right before he appeared anywhere.
Like director John Woo.
Or maybe the doves follow him around.
Naw, just a Flock of Doves summon materia.
I think it’s kind of symbolic too that there are white feathers coming down when he makes his first appearance compared to his black wing/feathers that he’s known for once he turns evil 😈
Soldier 1: "Do the doves help?"
Sephiroth: "They help."
So Sephiroth has been practicing turning around standing in fire since he was young. That's why he's so good at it.
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Haha
Don't look at explosions.
The biggest takeaway that I think is interesting about Young Sephiroth is that it also indirectly gives some more weight to just how terrifying Jenova is, too. In the Kalm flashback Sephiroth mentions that she has 'superior magic' and so Sephiroth in this scene casting Fire 3 right out of the gate really puts it in perspective that he didn't grow into his power -- he was always a bit of a monster and only as an adult figured out why.
Not just Fire-3/Firaga, straight up ALL FIRE-3/FIRAGA. I thought that was only posisble with materia! (To be fair though, one of the meteria he had at the time might of been the All factor mteria.)
@@yorhaalmnot on his sword. Theres only one pair materia spot and its both magic materia, all is a darker blue. If he had all paired to fire 3 itd have to be on his accessory
LOL fire 3, it's been a while since I heard that.
It could be flare
But is just does near by damage possibly
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Not Flare. If it was, that entire place would be cratered. Flare are essentially mini-supernovas.
0:35 The missles that Sephiroth sliced didn't just miss the main group, but also hit the Wutai soldiers that you can see behind them. Sephiroth really did consider everything.
Hot damn! Good catch.
His battle IQ is just insane
I didn't even notice it'd been cut, i thought it barely just veered off course. I had to look hard to see it split in two. So..wow.
Those are Rhadoran soldiers, not Wutaian soldiers.
true, probably a mistake.@@EvelynL.1112
If you pause and count the cuts on the ground, it's 8 cuts, his signature Octaslash.
Nice
Faster than the eye can see. Guy is just terrifying. Even if he’s on your side look what he did effortlessly as a kid. I’ll never understand how he lost. The gap between him and everyone else is like pond compare to an ocean.
@@tristanward9937 plot. Honestly, I can accept him being defeated by several strong enemies at once. But Cloud's lame ass soloing him and winning every time is stupid. Cloud is strong, but not like this.
@@TheGlo0m These cinematics are meant to be wow moments, don't think too hard about how it's logical within the universe.
@@TheGlo0m To be fair, Cloud has only fought him twice. Once in the Northern Cave, when he was arguably at his weakest since he had been beaten up by the whole gang in his two previous forms, with Cloud most likely getting a little push from the Lifestream to end it for good. Second time is in Advent Children where Sephiroth is likely not back at full power, since he's only "grown" back from Kadaj fusing with Jenova. And there again, it could be argued that the Lifestream helped Cloud a little bit with Aerith curing his Geostigma in the Church then with Zack giving him a talk before the final Omnislash Type.5.
As for the Sephiroth we see at the end of Remake... I'd rather not talk about that shitfest of an ending. But we could argue it's just Jenova doing what she does best during the events of FF7.
I'm surprised that so many people are surprised by Seph being powerful as a kid. He's literally a bred super soldier. Him coming out of the gate powerful was kinda the point. On top of that, he's spent his whole life training in swordsmanship and magic, so this is what we should have expected even if it was never shown.
Also growing up in the Shinra labs being experimented, tested and upgraded on must’ve took a toll too. Like Glenn says they’re physically modified.
@0YourGuardian Glenn was going off of pure jealousy, not facts. Glenn is a hypocrite himself as well because we got a sneak peek of how they were made as well, being put in mako tanks. He's just mad Sephiroth is better than him. Sephiroth was injected with Jenova cells while he was still a fetus and that's why he's superior to the rest of SOLDIER.
I'm more surprised about him looking exactly like cloud with silver hair
Woulda been cooler if he seemed more inexperienced with his power and less confident.
This is basically adult Sephi lol
I doubt anyone is surprised at all I don't even know what you're talking about. Just sounds like you wanna talk about sephiroth and jerk him off a bit. Which is fine obviously but nobody who is actually a fan of this series is surprised
Even if he were on your side, you'd still be more afraid of Sephiroth than your actual enemy. That's a testimony to his demigod type abilities and imposing aura.
Agreed. He's just a beast no matter what. Sephiroth is insanely awesome
Beaten by a 16 year old kid for killing everything he grew up with except the girl.
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i wouldnt be afraid at all of him pre going mad,he was actualy a very nice guy,post mad ya i wouldnt wanna be close to him.
Fuck that, I'm making friends with the guy ASAP.
What i love about Sephiroth as a character is that he has never been shown to struggle in battle. Even though he has been defeated,he was ALWAYS winning prior. It really gives a sense of invincibility to him.
When he went full blown villain he fell into the villain trope to underestimate his opponent and gloat at them.
wouldn't you ? if ur existence was that of a demigod wouldn't you look down on this pesky mortals that struggle with everything @@mediademon90
@@kingvejita8827That's what I'm saying. Sephiroth always had a bit of a superiority complex, as we saw in Crisis Core with Angeal and Genesis. He was their friend, but he was the better fighter and had no problem constantly reminding people of that. THEN he learns he's actually some half alien being, created to be exactly what he was: strong. That made his superiority complex go through the roof. He wasn't a human anymore. He was above them, and had a life time of experience proving to himself that he was.
No...?@@kingvejita8827
@@kingvejita8827 Well if it was me I would feel alone but try to help out as much as possible. Because Sephiroth wanted friends and Zack was the last one and closest to have as a friend. Since everyone wanted a piece of his fame and spotlight.
Back when sephiroth could afford haircuts
He can't cut his hair since shinra put an insurance to sephiroth's single hair strand at 100,000 gil
@@SeferAngeloEspiritus😅😂🤣🤣🤣
@@dra88lib yeah thats a fact.... Every strand of sephiroth's hair is worth 100,000 gil
@@SeferAngeloEspiritus and that where genesis want to be second sephiroth.. to beat the ori..
he killed all the hair dressers
Before Sephiroth became a badass villain, he was a badass SOLDIER.
All it took for him became actual bad guy is one bad day.
@@OwO377 Not necessarily. It's implied, at least in rebirth, that his descent into madness truly was a descent. Discovering Jenova and his origins certainly started it, but he spent DAYS reading and researching as much info as he could find on the origins of the Jenova Project.
@@OwO377 and one bad book.
@@Oshaoxin The Joker anology doesn't have to be shoe horned everywhere, primarily because it's not true
Badass and still hot wtf
No surprises, It's been said in the original game many times he fought in the wutaii war and was a Super Soldier, an Icon, a Hero , but it's SO FUCKING cool to see these words coming to life with this scene!
Seph gives me some Anakin vibes. Guy was an example and insanely OP but lost his way and went from biggest ally to worst enemy.
Because of Palpati- I mean Hojo
@@DrCoomer_1 Hojo: You're fulfilling your destiny, Sephiroth.
@@ezrawyvern6795 Did president shinra ever told you the story of darth jenova the bitch?
@@DrCoomer_1No no you have a point Hojo is 100% mad scientist paplatine.
He also gives me massive Homelander vibes.
That's insane. I thought he grew into his power.... NOPE they're saying he was always a monster. No wonder why by the time he's an adult he's so aloft. Even when training against his friends. He knows he's an ocean difference in power between him and everyone else!
And, unlike the rest of SOLDIERs, Sephiroth's power grows, instead of killing him.
Hi, Im learning english and I dont understand what you meant with "aloft", may someone explain it to me please ? I did search on internet, but I dont get it either 😅 Thanks
@@halekswanderfilia241I think they meant aloof (distant), but I kind of like the idea of being so detached that you seem on a higher plane haha
@@ceramonemone Thank you very much my friend 🙏
if you check the original game, he's been saying how he knows he's different from the rest in some of his narratives
The world's enemy, indeed.
Pretty awesome to see the slash marks on the ground all around him.
I think it was 8 slashes as well, pretty cool.
@@powpowwowwow2839 I think that's a reference to his Octoslash but I could be looking into it pretty hard.
@@redfalcon8062 If it was 8 slashes (I didn't count) then it definitely is a reference
It's octaslash. Strained my eyes to count the slashes. There are 8, hard ones to see are on the bottom and right side just above the truck.
Someone didn't play the original...
You can tell it's him when he was young since his hair, Coat, and Sword aren't as long. They all get longer as he ages. It's lucky he died when he did. If he lived longer he would become a male repunzel with a coat he would constantly trip over and a sky scraper sword. Perhaps it was a mercy he died young.
😂 Okay now I want to see an old version where his hair, coat and sword cover the world 😅
we all know longer hair is more powerful, we learned this in DBZ
You don't know that. For all we know, an elderly Sephiroth might have had a receding hairline.
good one :)
@@brettzforeman would his sword and coat recede along with his hairline?
Sephiroth is terrifying in that the only reason he even loses in any capacity, pre and post Jenova fusion is when he was mentally vulnerable, and that he chronically never considers anyone a real threat, never giving it his all.
Technically, he kind of wins the moment he's tossed into the Lifestream in the Nibelheim Reactor, since from that point onward he's fused with the planet and is, in a sense, immortal. Keeps coming back like an annoying rash just to monologue at Cloud and wreck Midgar again every few years. 😆
@@alias588 100%, he's as persistant as a jester-faced reploid from Capcom
Aerith: "And comparable too"
I really hope that we get more scenes of young sephiroth, hopefully him trying to have some camaraderie with people. He strikes me as the kind of character that would absolutely walk into a room seeing people arm wrestling, be invited to participate in being excited at the idea of playing something with regular people only to irreparably damaged someone with his lightest effort. I want to see the tragedy
He isn't like that at all. Hes sociopathically isolated and emotion lacking. It makes him seem like he just doesn't see a benefit inbeing attached to anything. He only displays emotion when seeing or talking about Jenova
@@OMGCMFno in Crisis Core when he is younger you can tell he has an ego but he isn’t evil. His isolationism is directly related to early trauma he accidentally hurt someone close to him or just other members of Solider. Then he started keeping his distance and realized people were afraid of him eventually resenting some of them for probably being too weak.
@connordutton674 Yeah I was going to say that too and add in that Angeal and Genesis (later Zack) were the only ones near enough to his level to work with him and not be grunt escorts. Basically the people closest to him while isolated died and zack (who was more like the little brother of his friend relationally than his actual friend) couldn't really help him keep it together. (Yes I know those two were basically toss-ins for crisis core but it kind of checks out)
@OMGCMF You really know nothing about Sephiroth then.
@@elizabethchint2391 crisis core changed his dynamic YEARS after 7. Hated crisis core. Ruined my favorite villain. So no I won't consider later changes. Young sephiroth and sephiroth after he learns his jenova history are not the same person.
The character designs in this series never disappoint.
FF X-2 😅
right??? Seph has such a pretty face~
@@Veradunx-2 was great wdym
Tetsuya Nomura
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This scene adds so much depth to the story on so many levels. Further emphasizing the simmilarities between Shinra and some real life governments waging wars on foreign countries and sending soldiers to their assured death, Sephiroth is displayed here as the weapon of mass destruction he was always supposed to be. An unstoppable force, trully a monster, the perfect soldier. He really was a chemical weapon built on a lab. This scene portrays him as heroic to the poor soldiers who were in this position, but the undertones of how incredibly dangerous he could become if he realized what he could do are clearly there.
But this also paints a much more tragic vision of Sephiroth. He was used as a weapon as such a young age, he seems proud on killing things so effortlessly, showing how Shinra taught him to find value on killing. When he turns around and looks at his comrades and we get our first glance at his face we see those snake-like eyes and that sharp smile. He is not human, not trully. He's never been. But they lied to him in order to use him.
The white feathers at the start also remind me of Griffith, from Berserk, a character that shares many simmilarities with Sephiroth in terms of concept and aesthetics. But it's also hinting us towards his path. From an angel descended from heaven to save those in need, to a heartless angel bound to destroy creation.
This was amazing to read💪
@@awakenedclaymore8097so you are saying like Griffith he did nothing wrong.
It's a game, bro. Stop trying to relate it with our reality.
Are you like scared and stuff? I mean FF7 is real somewhere in the parallel universes.
Sephiroth is totally like tearing stuff up somewhere. We have to talk about this stuff and the stuff. Come on.
Dude! The game ain't even released and I'm already feeling the depression. Don't do this man. Not yet!
Angeal voice: "All hail sephiroth, eh?"
What a lovely young man! I'm confident he will become Midgar's future!
They love using that "Sephiroth standing in the middle of a firestorm" motif.
Hojo made him practice it in the lab's holo training rooms for YEARS before he let him go do it in front of other people.
bcs thats iconic
Because it immediately communicates to the audience that this indeed is THE Sephiroth.
Japan loves reusing everything they think is cool. They lack originality/creativity.
Soldiers: Who are you?
"I'm Young Sephiroth"
YUNG SEPHIPHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Literally the definition of a one-man Army
The definition of quality over quantity.
He is this powerfull even as a child oh damn
Bruh he cut the whole truck in half remember him vs genesis
0:25 He's so fast that the way he unsheathe his long sword in that impossible angle was never captured in any of the videos before.
Young Sephiroth looks eerily like an evil Cloud Strife, and I'm 200% sure that's intentional for some reason we to not yet know.
I mean Cloud was said to be "part Sephiroth Clone" in the original FFVII and the Compilation. Hence the Remnants calling both Cloud and Sephiroth "Big brother".
Thank you! I went down the comments to see if I wasn't the only one who felt this.
Impressive...
But can he kill Chaos?
I don't remember he ever fought Vincent. ... Not as in-game combat mode.
Given statements from the directors that Sephiroth is the most powerful being in FFVII, without a shadow of doubt.
Not even Jack could kill Chaos
@@MBOmnis
Chaos is just a fairy tale. The darkness, the beasts-this despair that eats away at people's hearts-it's easy to blame a single thing for all that. It gives people hope to think that the world can be saved with a single heroic deed. Even if it's never that simple...
@@GilgameshofBabylon I'd continue the dialogue if I remembered what the next line was. Have a like instead. :P
The older he got, the longer everything became
Longer hair, longer sword, longer legs, longer d-
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Well, uh... I suppose, yes...🫣
🌭
Let's... rephrase that.
Just in case anyone doubted or underestimated Sephiroths speed.
He sliced a missile point blank less than half way through its trajectory.
I'd like to think those white feathers symbolizes what good and humanity was left in sephiroth, and now it's black feathers
One with wings light and dark
You know someone's speed is insane when you're watching them in slow-motion and STILL don't see them slice something
The graphics are so well detailed and polished that its starting to look like a live action movie scene. It's beautiful!
They're just pre rendered cutscenes
I don't know, looks equal to Kingsglaive but with a more anime-esque aesthetic.
It's CGI bro, we've been getting these kind of cutscenes since 2002 in games. It's not actual graphics, just a pre-rendered scene. FFX had them, FF12 had them, Advent Children in 2005 had them, Crisis core had them. Are you underage?
@@demetst760what a weird question to ask
I sure hope this guy doesnt become evil or something.
No way, he's fighting on Shin-Ra's side! You know, Shin-Ra, the environmentally-sustainable and friendly neighborhood electric company! Totally not an evil organization that does all kinds of horrible human experiments in dark secret labs, and other unethical things. Just look at the company mascot Scamp! Literally 0% chance something like that could happen.
Sephiroth has always been a cut above the rest.
"He was a really nice guy" is what they said about him before his uh....spree
Nah, most people said that he was cold towards others.
Heh… a CUT above the rest… because sword….
I'm not in the army, but I'm pretty sure there's a difference between a criminal, and a marine, or between a prostitute and a lady that likes intercourse.
0:23 His blade is surely too long to be drawn over the shoulder like that so he needed a camera cut while he struggles to get out his sword
Imagined being witness to such power, whether you are protected or not, such a sight in actuality would be positively terrifying! I love this scene because it highlights so much: the shear awe Sephiroth inspired, the mismanagement of science, and at it's heart the morality questions flying all over! Is it any wonder Sephiroth chose the fate he did? Is any wonder that he becamed so feared even before the revelations were made?! Mind boggling and such fantastic writing! FF7 story is one of the best in the world. It really is.
Sephiroth cuts a rain of missiles like he didn't even cut it.... And nuke an armada just a single fire spell
Lil bro is doing Vergil type things.
No surprise, he has the power to destroy the whole world.
I mean it makes sense since… he can create a spell where he summons all the planets so it makes sense
@@cha_michaelmf_1504Sephiroth predates Vergil doing vergil things.
@@cha_michaelmf_1504 He came out long before vergil.
Damn, the person that released the doves has great timing.
Or maybe he stole the pilot's pillow and shredd it to feathers...
Young Sephiroth is insane.
Not as insane as baby sephiroth!
Ain’t nothing like prenatal Sephiroth
Sperm Sephiroth is the GOAT since he defeat his billions of brothers and sisters
Think how crazy his father was?
@@arklouiee3883 Hojo?🤣
"Hey Boss that look of delighted bliss on his face after all that murder...should we MAYBE be concerned about that?" "Naw, it'll be fine"
"I'm just happy to have made it in time to save all of my new friends--that's you guys. Also my hearing is exceptionally good. Hello!"
Sephiroth: imagine not having a large fire as your background
I want him to be playable later in the game so bad
Someone hasn’t finished the chapters yet 😅
If you dont mind spoilers for chapter 5: ruclips.net/video/plZKQVfkkN4/видео.html
@@overdresstoimpress6975 true i havent, had to work every day since release
He … is?
@@Valentien23yeah everybody is expect for Biggs,Wedges and Jessie right now
He beat those enemies by the time missiles exploded. That some supersonic / hypersonic speed right there.
Fist of the north star reference maybe?
@@mediademon90 I haven't watched it so can't say lol. I only know Omae wo Shindeiru from it.
@@mediademon90I'm stronger!
Sephiroth truly is the Darth Vader of the FFVII universe.
Final fantasy is based parcial from Star wars
More like he is the Dark Avatar Anakin from FF7 universe tbf but yeah, pretty much
Then Obi wan as Zack and Luke as Cloud
No, he's so much more than that. Him and Vader have no similarities other than being the flagship villains of a beloved franchise.
@@wilykat There are a ton of similarities between Vader and Sephiroth! If Final Fantasy VII hadn't released two years before the prequel trilogy, I'd believe that Sephiroth's backstory was directly inspired by Vader's. It's not like there aren't Star Wars references in VII already.
They're both fallen angel-type characters, great warriors who betrayed the organisations they worked for (the Jedi, Shinra), slaughtered a bunch of innocents (Nibelheim, the younglings), and then were defeated by people less skilled than them due to their arrogance (Obi-wan, Cloud.)
Anakin fell into a lava pit, Sephiroth into the Lifestream. Both "died" in a sense and were "reborn" afterwards, weaker and stronger than before. Vader was physically scarred from his duel on Mustafar and lost some of his Force potential, but his iron suit made him more deadly and terrifying. Sephiroth perished in the reactor but was able to influence events in the world as a lingering spirit in the Lifestream.
Both serve masters more powerful than they are (Palpatine, Jenova) and have a strange obsession with their mothers. (Anakin's love for his mother was a major factor in his downfall.) Both were created through unnatural means (it's implied that Anakin was created by Sidious through the Force, whereas Sephiroth was created via the Jenova Project), and neither had a relationship with their father growing up. Sephiroth didn't know that Hojo was his father, and Anakin probably never figured out that Sidious or Plagueis was his father.
They're both tall, imposing and like to dress in black leather. The differences are that Sephiroth never has a romantic relationship (or, indeed, a relationship of any kind, apart from his friendship with Zack), and doesn't try to overthrow Jenova or redeem himself at the end. Although who knows, the Remake project could well be heading in that direction.
[EDIT: Oh, and they both have legendary theme tunes.]
“As you grow in age so does the sword”
-Sephiroth prolly
Shinra made a monster out of this poor boy. He may be the "greatest villain in all of gaming" but I don't blame him at all for doing what he did when he learned the truth of his creation :/
I personally would’ve used that knowledge as a way to get bitches, myself. Awesome supersoldier with magic powers and an incredibly difficult weapon to use that can be wielded as easily as a butter knife? Can you imagine the Fanny I’d be tapping, with that as a pickup line?
I think the greatest villain ever, if you can use that word in his presence Uchiha Itachi.
hmm. greatest villain in gaming? idk man.
greatest villain in final fantasy? sure. maybe tie between kefka, but sure.
greatest villain in RPG? hmm okay, he's at the top
but gaming? we can just flat out say bowser if we're going on that direction.
Fire burns in the background as Sephiroth turns
Sephiroth: "I wonder if I'll ever get to look this cool again"
I think it too with my cigarette in my mouth.
Crisis core: say no more.
I see where genesis got the inspiration from 😂
I don't know if this is intentional or not, but at 1:30 Seph looks like Cloud's evil twin
I don't see it 😢
Wrong time stamp but I think I see what you mean
He looks pretty gay!
The short hair do make them more similar
Which begs the question, did hojo's experiments to make cloud equal to sephiroth change his physical appearance too?
Even when he was young, he was a force to reckoned with.
Nothing beats the serious elegance of the golden inlay around the emerald green of a Materia crystal blade. Its certain death if the user knows what he's doing. A weapon like that is no joke.
That is japanese steel.
Square: So glad we’re almost done with the story!
Nomura: Hold on there.
Nomura plan in a nutshell
That smile ... that damn smile.
Teen Sephiroth looking like a JRPG protag.
I can see why people look up to sephiroth and regards him as hero prior to FFVII Sephiroth. He looks cool af here. His short haired version makes him look a lot like any protagonist in an anime/game.
Do all the victims get to one's head... eventhough you are not at first evil, like witnessing the spoil of War (example: Bin Laden, again I'm not saying I like him, but if he grew in a great environment he could have been a good person).
Sephiroth is the coolest character and right behind comes Cloud in all of jrpg games.
I wouldn't mind seeing a prequel or Final Fantasy where you can use Sephiroth.
Third place goes to BoF IV's Ryu and Lou-Fu respectivelly.
Fourth goes to Justin from Grandia.
Dart from LoD completes the quintent.
Sephy boy is so overpowered it's crazy. Bro at 12 could probably beat Cloud's ahh into a pulp.
@WorldOfLimbobecause he was going crazy……madness does it.
@WorldOfLimbo Because the writers confirmed he always holds back after the nibelheim incident. As you can see here when he was a kid, he went for the kill as fast as possible since he wasn't particularly a bad person nor evil.
After he loses his mind, he starts toying with everyone, making them suffer as much as possible for as long as possible. He enjoys seeing people crumble and kneel before him because he becomes an awful evil person after discovering he is not entirely human, and that overconfidence is his downfall multiple times. He is so nonchalant that it always gets him killed in the end, but if he went for the kill as fast as he did when he was a kid he could speedblitz the whole ff7 party without even trying.
@@juliogomesdesouza9035honestly he seems more efficient when he's just trying to get the job done he lets his guard down now since he wants to invoke despair into his opponents before finishing them off
@WorldOfLimbo because Cloud's body was modified by Hojo. Hojo didn't think the experiment worked locked him away as a failure. Instead created another Monster.
@@juliogomesdesouza9035he wouldn't be able to speed blitz the entire ff7 crew. Cloud and Vincent would be able to react to sephiroth.
He has the beauty of an angel and the power of a demon!That’s why they call him One-Winged Angel and Demon of Wutai.
Maybe Sephiroth stopped Cloud from walking the same path.
The dude sure likes to stand in fire and turn around menacingly.
Even in his younger days he was still a badass
He casts fire because he knows that he's being filmed and wants to hit it with that look back.
He knows that will be his "classic" look so gotta get his pose right 😅
I think like that too, that's why my favorite receiver in the NFL is Ocho Cinco, where has he been ? I love that guy.
In other words, Sephiroth has never gotten a haircut.
When you don't know if the guy helping you will turn on you after everyone else is dead:
holy shit when i clicked on this i thought it was a live recreation. Insane graohics.
This scene is impressive, and great at showing just how powerful Sephiroth is, even at a young age. But it also has a dark side.
Sephiroth is only fourteen years old in this clip. He’s a child who has been sent out to war to commit genocide.
Exactly. That's what's frightening. 😰😰😰😰😰😰😰
But he's so good at it! It would be a shame NOT to use him. It's his entire purpose! No way it could backfire later, after all.
@@alias588That's what I find odd. I'd be shitting my pants even if he was on my team. The fact Shinra didn't have a plan if he ever turned is crazy. imagine being 14 and wielding this kind of power, this kid had no equal, and Shinra just let him walk around
it so weird to see a young sephiroth and one with so short hair and and with out his signature sword , but hey even when a normal katana he slice his enemy without much effort
That katana was still spec'd to high hell. 3 materia in the hilt, and crazy good craftmenship through out the blade and handle.
Shinra's military budget is well placed.
@@LegocatshouseThat thing can cut a tank with ease + Sephiroth’s undeniable strength.
Even his young self looks otherworldly.
1:20 foreshadowing 😅
They got Nibelheimed.
Just a little lol
The last smile: "well, easily done"
Hey look, that iconic scene where Sephiroth is surrounded by fire.
I hope we get to see zack in his 3rd class
This further makes me believe that Sephiroth has always been holding back against Cloud for some greater cause. Hopefully we will see that when this time paradox trilogy ends.
"Anyway Cloud, that's the story of how the JENOVA cells inside me took over my body when I had a moment of extreme mental and emotional duress, and everything that happened after that was JENOVA using my body like a meat puppet. Thanks for not killing me in this weird spirit world and listening to my plight. Now we can team up and defeat JENOVA and get my body and my destiny back, and I'll work tirelessly for the rest of my days to undo the evil she carried out using my body over these past many years!" or something.
Ain’t Sephiroth without some fire and a slow 180
It became foreshadowing later on ff7.
Hojo made him practice that in the lab, for sure.
Him standing in that fire when everything burns around him is definately meant to be a recreation of the iconinc nibelheim. When he burns down the town after learning about Jenova.
Seph living in his kadaj phase
all that and not a single drop of blood.....dammit SE....your player can handle seeing a few drops of blood
But not Asian countries that have banned blood.. If they had blood they wouldn't be allowed to release the game in those countries and lose a big portion of their playerbase
So if they bleed irl they go to jail wow what a strange country
@@Zack_Wildfire I meant more in video games and media stuff, but like I can agree it is weird but that's just how things are over there and we gotta accept it, they're just stricter with gore and blood and SE doesn't wanna get bumped to an M rating 🤷🏻♂️
He cut them so fast the blood didnt have time to show up lol
@@ProToken420 those games are banned in other countries and have a mature raring, you're missing the point lol. Final fantasy is known for TEEN rated games, SE is not going to risk their rating or losing a big portion of their audience in Asia.
When the hacker in the lobby gets put into your squad
When you have to cut the sword drawing part because its impossible
1:26 "It was perfect. Perfect. Everything. Down to the last minute details."
- Homelander
It's just an animation.
Young Sephiroth standing in middle of the flames and turning around with the same menacing look, brought the neibelheim vibes...
Sephiroth deserves better, he doesn't need to play the roll of the bad guy...
Him looking so much like Kadaj makes too much sense
They had to do the iconic flames scene one more time for good measure of his abilities
Unnamed masked goons: *exist
Young Sephiroth: your free trial of breathing has ended
Young Sephiroth: "White feathers look cool for an intro."
Adult Sephiroth: "Nah.... Black feathers are more badass!"
Never seen sephiroths sword in a sheathe till today
It's a different one
Young Sephiroth looks like a Kingdom Hearts character.
Same character designer: Tetsuya Nomura
@@EvelynL.1112 I already knew that. It's just a lil weird because normal adult Sephiroth looks like his own original character but then he looks full on Kingdom Hearts character when young.
This is the guy who lost by being jumped 7 guys not being even half of his power.
It was a much simpler time…back when Sephiroth was heroic and still had a shred of humanity and sanity.
Sephiroth is a natural born badass. You can't refute it. If there was to ever be a list of all time 100 great fictional badasses from video games, comics, anime,etc. Expect to see the "One winged Angel" himself on that list. Easily in the top 20 if not the top 10.
"natural born"
Nah
Boy hit they ass with a flare spell or somethin cuz NO way that was a Fire level spell. Sheesh. I wish they'd just give us a FF7 movie of this caliber.
Yes thats Flare or one of its upgraded versions but seeing the state of the fireball i think its just flare. Sephiroth hardly tries there. They all dead though xD.
Advent Children has been a thing for years.
@@belias360 I'm aware. I got it on bluray champ. But Advent Children was not on this level and you know it. I mean a NEW FF7 movie. With graphics of THIS era. With combat scenes that rival this little cutscene. Thats what I mean by that. And I think others would agree with me as well.
@@coreyboyd28calm down buddy, we get it
@@kmikel3669 don't come on here with that kind of energy my guy. ain't nobody ask you for that. got nothin nice to say, keep the shit movin'
It’d be cool to sort of get a sense of the awkward not very socially capable kid he must have been. Seeing him smirk like he knows he’s better i feel doesn’t work. It would have been more interesting to see Sephiroth’s first mission and he himself being sort of surprised at the gap between him and the rest of Soldier. That gap taking him off guard, alienating him further than his isolation under Hojo already had until he gets acquainted with Angeal and Genesis.
Maybe a reference to a possible scenario in how he missed Gast, or perhaps he was once a part in how Iflana and Aerith made their escape from the labs and how as punishment he was forced to watch Ifalna’s dissection.
Bits and pieces that show he was always sort of treated as a thing or a threat for so long that it shaped his perspective and personality from the get go.
@ooweeeooweee8871 in the original game when sephiroth talks to himself as he studies in the manor and asks himself why Gast never told him of his origins and asks why he had to die. This implies that he regets or mourns the professors passing to at least some degree.
Furthermore in Crisis core Sephiroth is shown to be capable of meaningful relations, and we see him actively look out for his friend’s interests above the immediate needs of Shinra and the assigned mission. Yes he always had the capacity for ruthless destruction, but he was also capable of compassion and camaraderie, to the point of volunteering to donate blood to help a friend who got hurt in a sparing match.
A backstory like I mentioned would show that despite his power and skill his confidence and psyche was always a bit fragile, teetering on the edge of snapping and becoming the villain of the main game.
Being surprised by his gap wouldn't have made sense though. Considering they made him in a lab to be a weapon, he would've known that he's been constantly being trained to be the best, resulting in him knowing he'd be stronger than any other average person.
@@xenofastiq knowing you’re being trained to be objectively more powerful and overall more capable than the average person doesn’t mean anything to someone without context. He likely grew up in labs isolated without peers. He was given experiments, trials, and training, but it likely wasn’t alongside the typical rank and file, especially when you consider how possessive Hojo is of his research.
In short I feel simply seeing the moment where he gets an inkling of the difference between himself and the average person after a childhood of isolation was what I thought would have been interesting.
Sephiroth has always been weirdly humble and caring.. right before he knew of his origins and grew mad at the world for abusing his mother
You know what you're talking about AND what would make the character's backstory more compelling. It would be much more interesting to see an isolated kid learning to deal with things like camaraderie, where he fits in amongst his peers and the alienation of knowing he's different, how being a super weapon is perceived by both his enemies and his allies, struggling to understand concepts like humanity, trust, loyalty, etc. Being an edgy badass from the get-go is not that interesting.
Sephiroth always came across as a reserved intellectual, wise and powerful, with masterful control over his own strength. That's what made him frightening- not because he could chop up a zillion tanks in the blink of an eye or because he could explode all the things, but because he knew he could but made the calculated decision to hold it back.
And as you mentioned with Crisis Core, Sephiroth wasn't always an evil villain. He snapped once he had that epiphany. Knowing that he was always a destructive psychopath isn't as interesting as seeing the series of events that slowly pushed him over that edge and seeing his fall toward the realization that beneath that fragile sense of control was the capacity to truly become a monster.
need a standalone game about sepiroth
Even as lil baby Sephiroth, he was busted powerful
young sephiroth was still in a budget for hair care products and couldn't afford letting his hair get long
My only thing is, why not give a whole backstory game for him? Like give EVERYTHING. Playing as him at 5 years old that’s confused at how strong he is. 7 years old he’s accidentally playing with fire or whatever. Yeah monster out of the gate but really I mean show it? Who wouldn’t play that game?
Because it wouldn’t be much of a game. You would just wreck shit with zero opposition.
@@tristanward9937 but that’s the point, give a child overpowered magic & focus more on the story of him or plot I mean. We just need to see this guy grow into this overwhelming might.