I'm with champagne supernova. I want to jump in my handy dandy time machine and wipe out the Ultimania and the Compilation. A fun videogame that came out in 1997 didn't need this.

I played the game in 1997 before any of this existed. It all seems like "how much can we make up to keep this going and make a little more money" to me.

This is all slightly off-topic though. So! I agree that Sephiroth had really good build up. Awesome observation! Kefka really didn't have that, though his character seemed better. Build up matters, though.