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AP3Brain posted...

As expected this just turned into shitting on Sephiroth and praising Kefka like some genius wrote him.

Sephiroth is not only really bad, but he's also part of the reason jrpg villain writing has been so stagnant since the 90s. Attempting to make you feel sorry for a villain is the laziest way to attempt to give depth to your antagonist and the pathos they attempt to pull with Sephy is both boring and not at all proportionate to where the story goes with him. And thus now we have people mimicing that in every other jrpg now where the bad guy wants to blow up the solar system or enslave the entire world because their ancestors were treated bad or because they had a rough childhood or whatever else.

Kefka isn't written by a genius. I wouldn't even say he's written super well. But he's a lot more memorable and interesting than Kefka in the long run because the majority of FF6 has the party facing off not against Kefka but against general human greed and cruelty, and Kefka just represents the extent of it. It's got themes that work from beginning to end and he fits into them perfectly. This is compared to FF7 which starts out really strong with a message about the environment and unsustainable human behavior and then gets progressively diluted by Sephiroth being vague and menacing because he's upset about his mom

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I pray god will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in truth