Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Final Fantasy VII remake Chapter 6 – Sephiroth


Ah yes, good old Sephiroth. We already talked a lot about him but I want to devote a couple of paragraphs to how the remake will affect him. Don't worry he won't change into a woman or cut off his hair, but he will likely won't be the same either.

Simply put: Sephiroth is insanely popular. And it would be bad business not to capitalize on that popularity. So we might see a bit more of Sephiroth in the remake. For example there is that part when Cloud and Sephiroth go to Nibelheim in the flashback and Sephiroth is a party member. You can't control him so you just watch as he automatically kills dragons without lifting a finger. Well as VIII and X showed us: It is totally okay to give us control of the villain and get a taste of power. This would be a perfect opportunity to ride the Sephiroth bandwagon. Also every time we find him, well one of his clones, he throws a materia or a Jenova fragment at you and flies away. We never get to have a decent swordfight with him. We never battle the normal Sephiroth. The final boss battle doesn't count.
Speaking of flying away. Thanks to One Winged Angel Sephiroth is required to show off his single black wing, despite him not having one in the original game. It is everywhere. Crisis Core, Advent Children, Dissidia, Kingdom Hearts. It is pretty safe to assume that the wing will appear in the remake as well.

Aaaand that's pretty much it for our bad guy. We covered most questions concerning him in previous chapters, but I wanted to get these two out of the way. Next stop, the wandering swordsman.

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