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When was the last time you even played FF7? Genuinely curious.
MadVybz
Just a week ago, when I was trying out the HD bootleg mods for the PC version.When was the last time you played FFVI or FFVII?
This is problably what shows our difference in opinions.
I have both original copies of VI and VII and those are the ones I use to judge the game's quality, simply because that's what everyone went crazy over and became fanatics of. As time went on, people were able to fill VII's plot holes with a load of bullsh!t and fix the huge issues that were prevalent with the initial releases, both with re-releases of VII, its prequels and Advent Children.
That being said, I don't know what improvements have been put in place on recent iterations of VII; all I know is that the original is full of mistranslations, 2 dimensional characters (with loads of inconsistencies at that), tons of plot holes and an overall dull narrative.
The last time I played VII was just over the summer and VI the summer before. So both games are still relatively fresh in my mind, at least when it comes to the main antagonists. And by far, Kefka has far more personality than Sephiroth, simply going by exposition. You spend more time chasing a ghost in VII than characterizing it, so by the time you actually meet up with the big baddy, the whole ordeal rings hallow.
Kefka on the other hand is encountered much more frequently and is all-round a more memorable villain since he has ample screen-time to become a well-rounded character. His unique personality also gives him a bonus since Sephiroth rings similar to loads of anime-esque main villains.
There's not much difference between the original FFVII and the PC HD bootleg version. All it does is upgrade the graphics (increasing the resolution to HD and replacing the lego character models with normal-looking models) and audio (replacing the MIDI files with orchestrated music), while fixing the spelling errors that plagued the original English translation. Other than that, it's more or less the same game.I think what made Sephiroth insteresting is exactly for the reasons you dislike him: the mysteriousness. Throughout the whole game, we only hear about him, but never actually meet him until the end. But up until then, we get a lot of information about his backstory, and get to replay his past. It shows us how he was like before becoming evil, showing us his emotions and weakness, and pointing out how he wasn't always evil, thus making him feel more 'human'. Some of this might seem 'cliche' today, but back then, it was uncommon in RPGs.
With Kefka, we never really see the 'human' side to him. He certainly had a lot of 'personality' because of the way he laughs and cracks jokes (something we'd never see from the stoic Sephiroth), but otherwise we never see any emotion from him, or learn anything about his backstory. He's certainly a more likeable villain, because he can make us laugh even while despising him (kind of like The Joker), but I just didn't feel he was nearly as well-developed as a character.
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