I know a lot of people don't like Tyler Hoechlin as Sephiroth, but I honestly think he was great here. Definitely improved a lot since Remake

Dude Sephiroth is fucking terrifying here. They did such a good joh remaking this scene

It was always sort of unclear exactly who was more in control in the original game, Sephiroth or JENOVA. But here, I feel like it's pretty clear. As soon as his eyes turn extra green and slitted, right after he breaks down and throws that book off the table, Sephiroth is gone. Even if the original dude is still in there, it probably feels like he's in a fugue state or a dream while his "mother" does all the hard work of thinking for him.

Holy, the music does so well to represent Sephiroths descent into madness. If it wasn’t for the constant OWA motifs, you’d think this would originate from a horror game

15:10 I got chills looking at this.

Gotta admit, Sephiroth's creepy smile at the 15:20 mark is straight up terrifying. Well done, Square Enix.

The facial animation for the mayor when he about to died is terrifying

That one winged angel motif at the end of the scene is so menacing I love it.

When Sephiroth starts doing his famous evil chuckle at 7:23, you know he's gone insane.

The part with the anonymous shinra guard crawling towards Cloud’s moms house at 11:47 floored me immediately when I was playing, something felt off about the whole memory and Tifa mentioning that he wasn’t there during the event made it all click. Cloud was there but not as the SOLDIER we know him as, but a normal shinra guard hiding his identity out of embarrassment while on a mission to support Zack and Sephiroth and he is retelling the memory through his warped mind and the elements of Zacks personality and memories that he has taken on

The slaying of the mayor was unexpectedly brutal. It wasn’t a simple single slash like how other deaths are portrayed in the game. Sephiroth beheaded him, cruelly and violently. The horror in Cloud’s eyes say it all.

George Newbern was perfect as Sephiroth, but you can tell that Tyler Hoechlin is *really* trying and his improvement since the previous game is noticeable. Overall, I think he's a good replacement. I just hope people don't compare him too unfairly to Newbern.

1:16 Sephiroth is having an awful life. His father and his actual mother neglected him.

I absolutely ADORE the slowly forming One Winged Angel motif in the crawling segment at 13:17. And then into 14:05 when it's missing a note (Veni Venias and not Veni Veni Venias) into the one extra dramatic note at 14:16 before he kills the guy. It's like the birth of a villain in orchestral form.

14:37 smooth asf. The way he steps at hat and this music brrrr P.S. he gives a Darth Vader vibes

Sephiroth descends to madness

As good as this scene is, it would've been more terrifying if they actually shot at him and he casted stop, and slaughtered them one by one. At least it would've shown they tried, but they just stood there. They all had guns on him and they just stood there. That part made no sense to me.

15:15 I remember being just as terrified at this scene as an 11 year old in 97. It's definitely one of the most iconic and badass scenes in gaming history...

About Sephiroth cutting Tifa, the book Trace of Two Pasts set in the remake continuity gives a full description of the consequences. Sephiroth slashing her severed bone and flesh so severely during the Nibelheim Incident required some major emergency treatment, including medical wire to close the gaps in her wounds. Once all was said and done, overly-expensive skin transplants were then used, closing up what should've been massive scarring from ever occurring.

As a child playing ff7, I could have never imagined this. From the graphics to the music it’s unbelievable.

Honestly the Nibelheim scene is so sad for me because the people there really wanted to go far and beyond with their hospitality towards Sephiroth. They wanted to give medicine to him for crying out loud! Also it is very sad for Sephiroth himself because what he believed about himself was totally false and when Zack said “Sephiroth was created”, that was when he he lost it. I wished I could be there to tell him it doesn’t matter how he was born, because the most important thing is Sephiroth can feel hurt, pain, happiness, sadness. All of these feelings is what makes him a person and he is no different than any other humans. I wished I could have said that to him. The problem is he did not have anyone that was close enough to care about him. Cloud also went through mental breakdown but luckily he has someone who would bring him back to reality. Based on this flashbacks and what was shown in Crisis Core, Sephiroth was indeed a good man. It’s terribly sad with how everything went down.

14:00 Hello, we’re here just to die, weapons? For what? Please kill us all

This is Sephiroth's version of Vader's hallway scene in Rogue One

Just phenomenal. Played it this morning and have been watching the comparison videos of the original vs Rebirth periodically all day.

Man with no context you'd actually kind of feel sympathy for Sephiroth discovering his entire life was a lie. Then he goes and burns down an entire village and kills hundreds of innocent people for no good reason other then pure unadulterated hatred for humanity and all that sympathy gets replaced with sheer terror.

1:56 *" No such luck. You are a monster. "*

Watching the OG as a kid made me shit bricks. Watching the remake version as an adult made me go to bed scared that Sephiroth was gonna jump out of my closet. They're definitely doing things right and I'm both excited/dreading the full game.

God Hoechlin sounds so good here! I honestly thought when he snaps in Crisis Core Reunion as well that he sounded amazing. But this….this is an entirely new level!

I gotta say I LOVE that from 13:31 onward you can hear the occasional screeching sound coming from the violins (I think it's the violins) which adds so much to how fucking unhinged the whole scene is

Hojo really did make a perfect monster.

Nibelheim Incident but in Jujutsu Kaisen Sephiroth : *You Are My Special~* Cloud : really ? Zack : okay i am done

Sad that the man who Cloud looked up to had to turn evil always sad when that happens someone you really respected just going bad

It’s unreal this game is out now and that we’re finally playing it ♥️

My boy Kirby can take him down.

Chat is this real?

3:25 when the music swelled with the villagers talking about helping Sephiroth because they’re concerned for him…man. They actually were able to make this all more tragic

Wow! These sequences look a lot more detailed than the original ones from the first PlayStation console. It’s just incredible what they did to capture the likeness of the source material.

Sethiroth was waiting all that time for Cloud to show up to start reading the one book he needed to figure everything out.

cloud crawling to his moms house at 11:40

This reminds me from the incident at Phoenix Gate from FF16

12:10 there is defedently somting here its blocking his memories that is not the real one

The background Security Officer lines at 11:40 are a nice touch - were those in the OG? I don't remember.

Love the musix but they needed to mix better to hear them speak clearer. I had to lower music to about 7-8 and keep dialogue at 10 so it sounded better. Hope this improves someones experience.

Sephiroth gets his strength from his hair. Just cut it and his power is gone 😢

15:19 I don’t know guys, that twitch looks weird. This is such an iconic scene and the rest of it are all fine except that.

That little sinister smile Sephiroth gives cloud at 15:10. 😏 I love it

So uh.... Any reason why the other villagers aren't shooting Sephiroth after he slashed one of their friends/comrades? They're literally just standing there pointing their rifles at him, waiting to get cut down. Lol tf.

Now imagine if Sora showed up in this point in time

some of the changes are good, but the scene felt too long at the ending, why dont they shoot anyways

so much better than part 1

You can tell he wanted cloud to suffer. He didn’t lay a finger on him but he flat out destroyed everything else in his path

Can ya upload just the music from this cutscene?

My question is: Why didn't the mayor and his guys not just shoot sephiroth

9:15 Jenova lookin menacing. Alluding to her controlling Sephy?

That’s a really silly smile old sephiroth does when he’s stood in the flames at the end 😂

Nazgul theme at 0:35.

“Sephiroth the nightmare..”

The thing I now want to see when we get the full game is that when sephiroth is with jenova, will Genesis appear?

Sephiroth threw cloud away just raising his hand and cloud had the buster sword

Since i played the demo, if i was to skip this scenery will i still get the achievements for these scenes or no ?

7:15 You either die a hero or read long enough to see yourself become the Villain

11:34 Creepy!

3:30 on that day, 5 years ago

Hey where’s Genesis?

Notice he walks like OG FF7

It's interesting that they stopped the scene at Sephiroth saying am I even human? They didn't put in the crisis core content where Genesis got involved.

Me playing the demo: man sephiroth so cool and good this is freaking me out so want to have a beer with this guy I’m so weirded out by this Sephiroth: ah ,Cloud Me: there he is all is right again in the world

15:15 The Moment you've all been waiting for

Estuans Interius, Estuans Interius. Estuans Interius Ira Vehementi, Estuans Interius Ira Vehementi.

The darkest side being always top tier is like Sephiroth

How often can you play as sephiroth in this game?

Hoo boy, starting a 13:00 this game goes full Kojima. Making you press buttons to slowly crawl. While the ridiculous "action" of 4 guys surrounding Sephiroth with guns, yet nobody ever fires a shot while Seph just lazily slaps them with his sword one by one. I wouldn't even call that style over substance. It's more like tropes in place of logic.

The underground makes more sense now

Sounds more like the original Sephiroth VA now. No complaints

13:30 ​​⁠I was honestly expecting him to slash them all at once with one big strike. It’s not unlikely considering the Masamune’s sheer length. It would have been much better than what we got where he just picks them off and they stand there instead of firing a single shot at the silver haired psychopath 😂

13:35 kinda dumb how here they could have had a scene where Sephiroth moves so fast he can dodge the bullets/cut them down easily as they try to shoot him. But instead they decided to have them act like Assassins Creed 2 characters who only try to attack once at a time, and don't even fire their guns while he casually cuts them down? I get that you could be scared and untrained, but no way do you not fire that gun in panic after the first guy gets cut down, let alone the second.

The impalement at 12.45 proves they are not censoring Aeriths fate, they are just showing Cloud is not perceiving it right. The stuttering when Cloud flies backwards from the door to his house into his true body, static effects like throughout the game happen and he hears his mother spirit in the lifestream telling him to live. Cloud is just seeing the other worlds in his mind due to his situation and connection to lifestream through his mako experimention. Also Aeriths dream later she has is one of the hopes and dreams realms we are exploring and people are calling them "timelines". I say this is a red herring. I call them "possibilities that never came to be". Including the Stamp designs. This is not a sequel people. This is a real remake. Omfg.

Man hes is already a better villain than Adryan from ff15 not even ultima couldn’t come this close

Does anyone else see sephiroth as kinda tragic ? I mean the jenova cells in his body made him go crazy just like how we’ve seen cloud act the same in rebirth

Aw he doesn't chuck the Materia at Cloud and fly off in the library

Security officer at the end

Fuckkkkk I remember this on the playstion when I was in 7th grade

is cloud still thinking that he is zack in this demo?

11:50 Those who know, know.

The real victim is Sephiroth. Jenova can rerwite memories and preyed on Sephiroth's state of mind and gained full control. You can see him losing it in his mind then he does a complete flip.

How Cloud’s sword stick behind his back?

15:10 i need this soundtrack

Everything was good but...there was no blood and gore asides from Tifa lol. Would've been much more impactful.

That kalm inn is exactly look like the design that fan made up. Don't tell me, square Enix taking their work and then getting credits for themselves?

The guy with the guns are playing turn based combat?

This scene is like Final Fantasy VII version of No Russian mission from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare classic trilogy where Makarov massacre the civilians in the airport.

I think Tyler was the perfect pick for him

I just thought of something, what if Sephiroth didnt destroy Nibilhim, but Nibilhim destroyed itself? The reactor they fixed was the oldest one, so say a storm just so happens to blow something up releasing mako into Nibilhim causing the villagers to hallucinate. Sephy couldve just been heading to see Jenova while the villagers burmed their town down around him. Dude was too out of it to realize thus he doesnt help. Some people attack him due to the mako poisoning and he defends himself. Everything happens basically the same, just a different cause all blamed on Sephiroth.

Sephiroth going mad is in away, another one of Hojo's experiments. Dont want to spoil it but most of what sephiroths reading is half truth with lies on top. Made upp by Hojo.

This is the Crisis Core version. The events being explained here are incorrect…

I've always wondered even from the original FF7... Sephiroth learned that he was an experiment injected with an excavated creature's cells. Was this really enough to make him go insane and evil? I can understand hating Shinra for it and wanting to kill/destroy them, but not the rest of humanity which had nothing to do with it.

I have a real nitpick with the lack of blood. This isn't a kid's game, there's a lunatic massacring an entire village. Why are they terrified of showing blood? Ridiculous.

That's Why I Know That Sephiroth Was The Worst Enemy Of Jenova Than Cloud

Why does his facial scar disappear

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