For future reference, don't harp on the graphics when you are making this sort of argument... Beacuse it's all people will respond to, 90% of the time. :rolleyes2

In my personal experience, it is pretty overrated. I had much worse of a backlash when certain characters in IV and VI died than when Aeris did... and I didn't care too much for Cloud at all. These opinions are due to my own taste... But I thought that the character of Sephiroth is overhyped by ANY standard. >.>