LuckyTrouble on 23 August 2015
| JRPGfan said: very few villians come close to Sephiroth. Sadly to many games have really poor villians. |
| Wagram said: Blind nostalgia likely will hold whatever villain it is back. People refuse to take off the goggles. |
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Sephiroth was not a good villain. Honestly, we haven't had a good FF villain since Kefka. It's like they exhausted their villain writing ability pulling out all the stops to make a genuinely evil person, and since then, we've gotten a couple of half decent efforts and otherwise nothing noteworthy. FFX onward especially has produced zero memorable villains, and even as much as I like FFIX and I felt the story was fairly well told, I can't remember who the final villain ended up being. FFVIII kind of struggled all around, and FFVII has been raised to such a high standard by nostalgia, it's ridiculous. People putting Sephiroth on the same level as actual good villains is an insult to good writing everywhere.
