Am I the only person that thought Kuja was the best villain? I think a lot of people discredit him because of how feminine he is.

He actually has an interesting and somewhat believable backstory, unlike Kefka. Not to mention, he's a freaking psychopath.

I'd actually put Kuja as better than Kefka. Sephiroth's definitely the best though, he was genuinely quite a threatening character throughout most of the game.
Very unlikely they'll match that. The thing they need to remember is you need to make your villain actually scary. With Sephiroth they succeeded with the trails of blood and Midgar Zolom impaled on a tree. That stuff really helps build the dread.

Sephiroth's plan

"Using the Black Materia, Sephiroth plans to call the Ultimate Destructive Magic—Meteor—to injure the Planet and place himself at the center of its impact zone as the Lifestream emerges to heal the Planet's wound. Sephiroth plans to merge with the Lifestream, becoming a god."

You hear this in the Temple of the Ancients


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k5EYm6EzMMQ

Sephiroth did nothing really bad to be fair... he was just a son crying for attention.

Not only that, but Sephiroth had an incredibly creepy theme that played whenever you were close to him (or Jenova or something. That part of FF7 was the most mindboggling.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rV40ypje7o

Edit: Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiWV2KseKeo

Kefka's back story would've made more sense if SE decided to continue with the idea to make Celes struggle with a mental disorder. Apparently Kefka was the first to have magicite experimented on him, and the effects are to make the individual insane. Celes having mental problems  and overcoming them would serve as a nice contrast to Kefka giving in.

Not that hard to beat Kefka, don't know much about Sephiroth but people seem to like him.

When has Sephiroth ever been a good villain?

Two consecutive posts trolling. So I guess you are being sarcastic, or at least I hope so.

As Ajax showed, most people don't even understand what the heck was going on in FF VII. Just because you only get to meet the real Sephiroth in the end shows how powerful he was. And the Nibelheim scenes, the Midgar Zolom impaled, the Temple of the Ancients crazy Cloud scene, the death of Aeris, the scene where Cloud hands the Black Materia to Sephiroth and then the final battle with that freaking song. How the heck can anyone say that Sephiroth was a bad villain? Even if he doesn't show up or do anything in CD 2, it was because the villain there was Shinra that needed to end and be taken care of.

Maybe it is my nostalgia, I guess that counts a lot, but anyone saying that FF VII had a bad story or bad villain just doesn't make any sense. Tastes are tastes. I played FF VI and I cannot remember any special scene with Kefka, I just know that he poisoned a village and became a God since that is what people mostly say. But I enjoyed it a lot, and it had a great story, but nostalgia plays a big part. Unfortunately most famous forums or magazines or gaming sites are from the US, and FF VI came there first than in Europe. So there is this idea that the industry regards FF VI as better and with a better villain than FF VII and so it is considered a fact.

Beating the mama's boy will be easy really.