Yep. His alien cells are foreign to the body of the planet so it rejects him like a virus, and he's free to travel along the lifestream to different points in time and space. He is both severely limited (able to physically manifest under certain conditions) but also godlike in his power -- effectively immortal, and liable to continually return. So the question is how do they break that cycle so that the world is truly saved and not looped back into another doomsday run.
What you think, that was all part of Sephiroth's plan, to possess Kadaj and let Cloud kick his arse? Lol I think you can say that about every time he fucks up, it was his plan.
Aerith raised the lifestream which helped Holy destroy Meteor, she stopped his posthumous plan and last hope to destroy them all.
Most of the new stuff is great. Chapter 4 is all new and had better character development than anything in the original game. It thoroughly develops Avalanche and actually shows how Cloud begins to thaw out and warm up to other people. It humanizes him.
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Sephiroth hasn't been defeated yet. Only delayed. He can play this game for eternity if he wants, but if the heroes ever want true peace rather than their timeline being reset to "despair," they will need to find a way to stop the cycle. I'm intrigued.
Well, he can supposedly only return at full power with pure Jenova cells. But even without Jenova cells he can physically interact with the world. The Remnants of Sephiroth were clones he made using the Lifestream without any Jenova cells.
Nah, I can't get passed the idiotic time ghosts or the miserable filler chapter where they decided to give Corneo's door man a generic sob story and a misguided attempt at redemption. Or that dumb idiot Soldier guy with a bike fetish. Or saving basically every relevant character from Sector 7's plate collapse.
Feel free to show unfamiliar people scenes from both games -- or even just their written dialogue if you want to take graphics out of the equation and level the playing field -- and ask them which game has more convincing well-developed characters. Remake wins this easy.
He was defeated in the original, you see him scream in agony and he's destroyed in beams of light. He has this disconcerting look, like he knows he's dead as dead. It's funny really, that the newer games try to portray him as immortal.
I mean, he is immortal. He experienced pain but his cells just went back into the planet and came back in Advent Children, where he "evolved" once more with the wing and, as per the novellas, now knows how to travel along the lifestream through time when before he only used it to travel across space. That timeline the OG saved is obsolete now as he resets to a point in the past, equipped with information from the future. How he attempts things this time remains to be seen, but it would appear the heroes are doomed to face him forever unless they can find a way to stop him at the source (his cells traveling along the lifestream).
I think Cloud defeated him in 'the source', that astral palace in a battle of wills, but they changed it by AC "I will never be just a memory" and tried to potray him in a different tone with his character, compared to the original, him screaming in agony, and being destroyed in white beams.
I think that final battle in FF7 was meant to be Cloud defeating the piece of Sephiroth inside of Cloud. Cloud has Sephiroth cells in his body and that's how Sephiroth controlled him. Sephiroth tried to take over Cloud's body but Cloud kicked him out.
A -form- of him was destroyed. His cells remain, though. Just like how Aerith was destroyed but she survived in another form. They stopped Sephiroth for a moment, but now we know he only became stronger, traveling back in time.
I do believe it was the convergence of Cloud and Sephiroth's wills in the lifestream. That said his physical body, Safer Sephiroth, collapses into dust particles, no life energy wisps escape just dusk..
His will was fragmented by that final battle. That's why he created 3 fragmented clones of himself in Advent Children.
Yeah that's why I said in the context of the original game, Advent Children's backstory just said that could happen. If it was planned, we would have seen Sepiroth explode in 3 different set of wisps, or something but he was utterly fucked, his spirit become a white explosion and his pychical body turns to utter dusk. Those 3 'sons' climbed out of his arse of nothingness, or whatever else SE said he could do.
Yet by the end of OG FF7 the characters were still not as interesting or well-developed as they are in Remake Part 1.
Maybe. Even in the OG, Sephiroth had "died" at Nibelheim yet his cells were regurgitated by the planet at the Northern Cave, so in a way the OG had already laid the groundwork for the idea that killing his corporeal form isn't necessarily killing him for good.
You can definitely divide the OG into a trilogy. Midgar is very much its own arc, and then you have the wild goose chase to the Black Materia and Northern Cave, and finally the various attempts to save the planet (Tifa getting the gang back together to save Cloud, nuking Meteor, stopping the Weapons, stopping Hojo and finally Sephiroth).
Personally I do want something like this to happen, (not literally lol) and they turn this scene on its head. Not a fan of the whole idea Fate may be challenged, but "the waifu" always has to die.lol this has gone so off topic
Honestly, I want literally this scene. Do not even change the type of chair.
At the end, there was no cells left to reconvene. They destroyed him physically and spiritually. He was toast.
I'm very curious about how Sephiroth will approach that moment, knowing what he knows now. Or maybe even how Aerith will approach that moment, since she is clearly hearing voices from the future that she doesn't fully understand.
Sephiroth kills her, he uses Jenova's remnant as a symbiotic projection or host. Sephiroth mocks Cloud about how he has no feelings after he kills her, then the host mutates into Jenova Life.
