Right, so I've played VII once. I loved it, but never got round to playing it any more than that. And this would be... ooooh, a decade ago? So I've forgotten damn near everything.

The main, and most frustrating, blank spot is to do with Cloud vs Sephiroth. I remember the scene in which Cloud gets a bit stabbed, and reacts very poorly to it (i.e. he kicks Sephiroth's ass). I cannot remember why this was. Why was Cloud so strong? When did he become so strong? How? Why did Sephiroth go stab-happy?

Please fill in these blank spots, and save me from a life of misery. Much obliged.