I was hanging out with friends recently, and during one of our conversations, we came up with the age-old topic of gaming, which drives us to the point of throwing controllers. smash Professional Riddlers Doing That In a big game last year.People were drinking and discussing the usual suspects: FromSoft games, e.g. dark soul and Ax: Shadow Dies Twicealso cuphead, Ninja Gaiden, Super Meat Boy– All games that made me angry once or twice during my time with them.However, nothing sparks my Gamer Rage™ more than kingdom hearts Yes, especially because Sephiroth was such a jerk in that game. So much so that I have to openly admit that this guy made me break my controller in half.
This is not the first time I’ve already expressed my complaints about Sephiroth In the 2002 action role-playing game kingdom hearts. Final Fantasy VIIThe silver-haired evil prince is rarely a pushover in any incarnation, but here, he’s a true masterpiece. At least here he’s an optional boss, so you can avoid all this heart-wrenching, controller-breaking frustration if you want.
But if you really want to test your skills and stats against this challenge, take part in all the matches in Olympus Arena, a series of rounds designed to test your strength against the most ferocious bad guys in the game, You will eventually reach platinum competition. Once you’re inside, a ray of light shines down from the magenta sky. “Oh, who could this be?” I wonder when I first played this game in adolescence. You see the black wings, the silver hair, the uniform of a first class soldier. “Ah shit, it’s Sephiroth,” I said. Well, no big deal. I absolutely beat the other five trophies at Olympus Arena. I thought I was hot-blooded. “It’s okay,” I said Iconic one-winged angel theme “I see.”
Dear reader, I did it no Own this.
The game starts out pretty painful, but not particularly difficult at first. Of course, Sephiroth didn’t flinch from most of Sora’s Keyblade slides. However, under certain circumstances you can interrupt his attack. None of that matters, though, as Sephiroth can easily reduce Sora’s health bar to just two or three clicks of pixels. This is why this fight started to piss me off: Sephiroth is OP. I mean, I get it. He is also OP Final Fantasy VII, so it makes sense for Square Enix to continue working with Disney. But what makes it all unfair is that this is a fight against him alone.Yes, while the other five cups allow you to bring in Donald Duck and Goofy, Platinum is a 1v1 tournament our big shoes boy And there’s the silver-haired menace. This is rude.
What makes this fight even rougher is Sephiroth’s second phase. If you get him back to about half his health, he’ll get serious. Instead of walking around the arena, he starts sprinting and, in some cases, even flying and teleporting around the arena. His spells get stronger and last longer on stage. His attacks became more frequent and so reckless that his Masamune seemed to take over the entire arena. He summons meteors that oscillate around him and orbs aimed at Sora. In short, Sephiroth, at this point in the game, really wants to bury you. And fast!
Therefore, I entered Platinum at level 100, the highest level in the game. When I started playing, my confidence was through the roof because I was doing good damage. Then I was caught off guard when I suddenly died for a few minutes. “Fuck, I’ll try again,” I said, trying to be more aggressive on my second try while also monitoring my health more closely. It doesn’t matter because I’m dead. again. “Oh my God,” I exclaimed as I restarted the game for the third and fourth time.
On my tenth or so attempt at physically modifying Sephiroth, I got him below ten percent health. Although the items to replenish health and mana have been used up, victory is still in sight. In a last ditch effort, I flew into Sephiroth’s meteor storm, thinking I could sneak away from all the swirling rocks floating around him. I did, but just as I pressed the attack button, I heard Sora’s death scream as a stupid stone ball hit me in the face. At that moment, in a moment of rage, I flew the controller out of my hands and watched its cheap plastic shatter into a million pieces.
Thankfully, this is just Mad Catz PS2 Controllerone of those chunky wired game controllers, sells for around $20 on Game Crazy (rest in peace). Sephiroth makes me sweat; there’s no way I’d sacrifice Sony’s more expensive DualShock 2.mine late grandmaI’m not proud of my anger, though. I had to buy a new controller with the money I earned doing housework and working around the neighborhood because, as my grandma told me, “I don’t spend money on anger.” Sorry, grandma, let’s You are disappointed. Sephiroth is just a jerk.If you haven’t fought him, you don’t get it kingdom hearts.
I haven’t played Final Fantasy VII Reborn However. (Always busy Rise of the Ronin Now, Dragon’s Dogma 2.) So, Sephiroth is probably as much of a jerk as he is in there kingdom hearts.However I did finish Final Fantasy VII Remake And beat him on my first try.I felt like he was at ease there (and in Kingdom Hearts 2), so I suspect he might be easily beatable in subsequent games in 2024 as well.I wish he wasn’t so tough kingdom hearts, because his presence here still haunts me more than twenty years later. That Mad Catz controller that broke in half is a memory I will never forget.
Fuck Sephiroth. (I still love him though.)