Truly, a mystery.
27 years later, Final Fantasy 7 veteran Tetsuya Nomura wants to know why you all find Sephiroth so attractive
"Frankly, I'm very curious"
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[GamesRadar] 27 years later, Final Fantasy 7 veteran Tetsuya Nomura wants to know why you all find Sephiroth so attractive
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Truly, a mystery.
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HOW is Sephiroth a protagonist
y'all better not make Genesis come back as an EVEN BIGGER BAD that Cloud and Sephiroth (and Zack, ugh) need to team up to beat
Cloud's only trying to save the world, Sephiroth is trying to save the universe.
You know deuteragonist exist right? Being a "protagonist" doesnt mean being a hero of the story
Interesting. This is the more interesting bit IMO, the rest is kinda clickbait-y
Sephiroth isn't a deuteragonist either. He's literally the main antagonist.
This is like Gege Akutami (Jujutsu Kaisen mangaka) wondering why people like Gojo when he made him the strongest at everything, best at everything, and most attractive
Assuming this game provides a good chunk of Sephiroth's backstory I think it's easy to see why someone involved in the writing process could see him this way
Mommy issues personified on top of the anime pretty boy aesthetic. People love the parental issues thing in antags.
My anticipation (and hope because it's better than fuckin' Genesis) is that they'll lean more into JENOVA being the biggest baddie of them all or something.
Ask Nomura. He's the one who called him a protagonist.
I mean the lore has made it abundantly clear that Jenova is very dead and Sephiroth basically puppeteers parts of her corpse to enact his will remotely. Suddenly turning it around and explaining that "actually Jenova was alive and controlling Seph the whole time" would be pretty weird.
Given what's going on in Ever Crisis... It's gonna happen.
The worst part is that realistically a revived Genesis should be a good guy trying to protect the planet from Sephiroth. Dude has absolutely zero reason to want to blow up the world, he already got what he wanted from Minerva. If anything, he should want to basically be Minerva's "legendary heroic knight" protecting her planet from threats.
I know but still. :(
I hate literally everything to do with Genesis and I will rationalize anything to keep him away. Despite knowing full well that he's back and I'll just have to suck it up.
Protagonist is not synonymous with "good guy," to be clear. They're someone whose actions are moving the plot forward while an antagonist is trying to stop them.
I'd not get overly hung up on translated word choice from Nomura.
He's beautiful, evil and powerful. What's not to admire? Most mortal men can't pull off all three.
Its gonna happen. Its the entire reason the Crisis Core remaster released.
I've always found people who are so keen to visit their parents even in later life to be an endearing, attractive quality.
I wonder how old the oldest real person with dork ass parents that named them Sephiroth is. There's gotta be Sephiroths in the work force by now. Imagine meeting a new coworker and their name is Sephiroth? I'm sorry, but I'd laugh so fucking hard.
Yes, I'm aware what a protagonist is. The point is that Sephiroth's goals - literally all of them - are directly counteractive to Cloud and his team's, as well as the entire planet's, which makes him pretty flatly an antagonist.
Like if Nomura's trying to say "he sees himself as the hero of his own story", okay, but Sephiroth very much does not act like that. Genesis did.