LogFAQs > #980950199

Fuck me, it is so obnoxiously long and repetitive. I did not see the need to slowly climb up Sephiroth's angel body, step by step, limb by limb, until we finally make him vomit himself up. The bit where you fight Jenova with characters two-by-two and then all at once was cool, we did not need to do that for another hour and a half. Lifeclinger should absolutely have been the final boss of this game. We already got a bit of Sephiroth in Remake, we could have skipped him in this one. Everything else aside, I think it undermines the story a bit when the narrative keeps going on about what a threat he is after we've whooped him nine times.

Forcing you into certain configurations of characters was fucking annoying, even when I'd made some effort to develop all of them at least a little. Though I must give a special shoutout to the game for removing Cait Sith's materia, putting him back in your party right at the end, and not calling attention to the fact that they did not auto-equip his materia back. I was wondering why I couldn't use Moogle Magic when that little tidbit occurred to me. Luckily, I hated playing as him, so he was exactly as useful as he would have been with materia.

I'd specifically like to call out the Barret/Yuffie/Red fight because Sephiroth loved to make himself immune to physical damage and then hold his hands up like he's going on a roller coaster, meaning Red couldn't reach him and Barret couldn't damage him. I know there is some kind of color coding, so I'm probably just stupid, but I could not figure it out. I don't know why the game abandoned the status effects it'd been using the entire time to denote that something's immune to one type of damage. I guess so you couldn't just use Breach?

Assess gives you no info, so you're just winging it the entire time.

Basically every phase of Bizzaro Sephiroth throws a truckload of constant bullshit at you, constantly knocking you out of attacks. The Bahamut phase was the. Fucking. Worst about it. At least I only got Gigaflare'd once, I saw a comment saying he Gigaflare'd back-to-back when they did it.

But the most annoying thing of all was Sephiroth's final attack. They did not telegraph that it was a OHKO nearly enough.

My first attempt, I had him on one hit point, so obviously it doesn't matter if you damage him enough, you need to actually stagger him out of his stupid little hurricane. Cloud and Aerith were low health and standing near each other, so I just assume it was bad luck that he killed me there.

Second time, I made sure to stay topped up and separated and just concentrated on avoiding damage since - haha - trying to attack Sephiroth while he's doing this means you're bound to take constant damage. Obviously, it's another OHKO.

At this point, I wanted to go the fuck to bed, so I looked it up and it turns out that Octoslash just breaks all the rules in the game. It doesn't matter if you use Planet's Protection, it still damages you. If you're using a limit break, it pulls you out of it. I did a google just now and found a topic on this very websight saying it doesn't even matter if you use Revival Earrings, you still die. So the third time, I made it through the restively easy rest of the fight (Sin Harvest Heartless Angel and all) and managed to kill him.

I understand some degree of this is mad cuz bad, but I did everything in this game aside from Gilgamesh Island with little-to-no issue on dynamic difficulty and this was easily the biggest crock of shit in the game. Way moreso than Odin who I at first called bullshit, but ended up being relatively fair, albeit a huge difficulty spike.

The cherry on the sundae is that after being able to skip every other cutscene in the game, the one before fighting Sephiroth is unskippable. Some real not stealing Kairi's heart action going on, Square Enix has still got it.