Truth be told, I didn't want to write anything about anyone other than the VII Comp characters. I think it's because I like their dress-style. That's the only explanation I can come up with besides VII being my favorite title which to me always begs the question still as to why. I like VIII, IX, X-2, and XII, but somehow VII stands out. I can't really garner as much fanfare for the pre-PlayStation generation possibly partly because I've never finished any of those titles.

Anyway, Sephiroth is a weird one. He summons Meteor to destroy a part of the planet so that he can absorb its energy to essentially become a god (Weiss later does nearly the same thing only by using an underground army and planning to conjoin with Omega). However, in the final battle, he displays the much more frightening Super Nova summon attack which not only engulfs himself and the party but destroys several planets along the way. I would hazard a guess that this attack was originally conceived as an end-all attack and that you had to defeat Sephiroth before he unleashed it otherwise it would be an instant game-over... but somewhere along the way, they chickened out of this concept or maybe they felt it looked so cool that it would suck if the only way to see it was to let yourself lose.