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| There Were Two Sephiroths; Complete buffoonery, here | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 10 2008, 03:54 PM (221 Views) | |
| Drake Clawfang | Dec 10 2008, 03:54 PM Post #1 |
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Rydia Fanboy
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This bugs me, but really, does anyone else think that at some point, Sephy just kinda split in two? Because in all his spin-off appearances he's not the same guy. I watch the Crisis Core vids on YouTube, I was AC, and then I play FF7, and it's like they're not the same person. Like... FF7 - "I am the chosen one, I will lead the planet as the last of the Ancients, I will merge with the Lifestream and become a God, blah blah blah..." CC, AC, Dissidia - "You want a piece of me? Bring it, I'll f*^#ck you up." Really, his personality in FF7 is just so...messianic and prophetic and such, while in the rest of the Compilation Sephiroth is shown to be a cold, calculating murderer. I just cannot picture Compilation Sephy saying the type of things FF7 Sephy says, I really can't. Personally, I think Sephiroth is an okay guy in the Compilation, but in FF7 I hated him, he was just so messianic and delusion it was pathetic when you learned it was all a lie and his entire villainy was based on nothing but misinformation. Anyone else feel the same? |
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| Vixie | Dec 10 2008, 04:32 PM Post #2 |
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Sicker than the rest
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SE has simply realized that Sephiroth is more popular for just being plain badass, than for anything he actually achieved in FFVII. How many times have you heard him being raved about by fanboys who turn him into this completely different character? Also there was this assumption by fanboys that Sephy wasn't just "not a bat shit crazy nutjob" pre Nibelheim, but a straight up nice guy....I'm guessing SE picked up on that and decided to throw it in CC? I like Sephiroth in anything where he actually has a purpose....so KH Sephy and AC Sephy are a no, he's just a plot device in them. The slightly delusional, rambling villain with elaborate plans is Sephiroth as far as I'm concerned. He was a "tragic" villain (different from Kefka "I did it for the Lulz" Palazzo) and I personally found him a more effective and vital character in the original. "You want a piece of me, bring it, I'll f*^#ck you up"!Sephiroth isn't my favourite portrayal, but it wasn't his style I liked the most in the first place. So it isn't really two Sephiroths to me, more SE trying to make him more appealing and ramping up the slick badass factor, and contradicting their original creation in the process. It's not just Sephiroth who's different either....FFVII Cloud is not AC Cloud, who in turn is not CC Cloud, same goes for Aerith and to a lesser extent, Yuffie. |
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