(06-16-2015, 12:11 PM)Aaron Wrote: Sephiroth had zero problem with Cloud when they first met. But after Genesis pulled that stunt im Nibel it all went down hill.
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Plenty instances of games having background lore added and stuff way after release to further the depth. I hardly think Sephiroth would be as popular as he is now or FF VII in general without crisis core.
It's not about when they first met. What I'm talking about is the incident in the Nibelheim reactor. You know, where Cloud stopped him from reuniting his mother and flung him down into the Lifestream despite being run through? Leaving him near death forcing him to be recuperating up in the north for the entire duration of the game up until you finally find him and Cloud gives him the Black Materia. Genesis had absolutely nothing to do with that, unless Crisis Core forced (and I am really of the opinion that Genesis is "forced") him to have also been there and somehow aided in Sephiroth's freakout over being a test tube baby.
And FF7 was super popular well before Crisis Core came out, and Sephiroth still being toted as the coolest villain ever by FF7 fans. The game's popularity is why Advent Children and Crisis Core were created - to capitalize on a popular game. Crisis Core did not make FF7 nor Sephiroth popular.
EDIT: Also, Sephiroth's "revelation" was in core FF7, before Genesis was introduced as a character, too. That's what the whole Nibelheim reactor scene is about. Genesis, as I have mentioned, feels horribly tacked on and unneeded to me - only existing at all because the producer really likes Gackt and wanted to try and fit him into his continuity. It smells of Mary Sue-ism and pandering of the highest caliber to me.
"Oh, no. It wasn't Sephiroth realizing he was an artificially-made super-soldier made from the DNA of someone believed to be of an ancient race - but actually a shapeshifting alien - that made him snap and decide to deal with the problem of humanity. It wasn't being stopped dead and nearly killed by some inferior, no-name low-class SOLDIER failure that made him spiteful. It's because he hung out with bad boy Genesis and got a scar."
If anything, I feel the addition of Genesis CHEAPENS Sephiroth because he steals away Sephiroth's agency as a villain.
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