You were right Yoska, so, I've made it more readable now.
And he didn't how?
I'm not saying he didn't, it's just that a lot of people use this as their sole reason for proclaiming Kefka Greatest villain ever. But you know what he owes his succes? An extremely wobbly airship, and some lazy heroes. They don't do anything for a year, not even looking for each other, until the one who's coincidentally been in a coma for a year awakens. Meanwhile, Kefka blows stuff up.
The second the heroes are gathered Kefkas ass is kicked, with the heroes being only marginally stronger than a year ago.
If we gace Sephiroth the same Airship-advantage, even if the heroes had started looking for each other and going for him immediately, it wouldn't have been fast enough to stop him.
In other words, Seph accomplishes much more than Kefka, in much shorter time.
It's been a while, so I forgot about that.
But didn't Shinra's paramilitary forces kill off some of the inhabitants as well?
Doma was strictly Kefka.
Nope, the only survivors were Cloud and Tifa.
As for Kefka, he did so in the empires service, contributing to a war. Sephiroth had the same goal from the start of the game and was independent from shinra, and didn't need to do such things - he'd kill everyone in the end, anyway.
But in the past, who knows how many hes' killed in Shinras service, during for example, the Wutai war?
As I recall, two of them did absolutely nothing, but stand around (one of them right next to a freakin' amusement park that it displayed no interest in).
Even then, Kefka also unleashed an entire horde of monsters on the world. Phunbaba, Doomgaze, the Dragons, and Atma.
And another two performed direct assaults on the two largest cities in the world.
The two you mentioned were just optional bosses who did nothing, in the same way everyone you mentioned from VI was, excluding Phunbaba. And even he didn't do much.
The problem is that is Kefka almost certainly could have wiped out humanity if he had wanted to. He got what he wanted, but he seems genuinely bored with power and is basically just sitting around in his tower and toying with humanity when he feels like it as a result. Kefka's pretty childlike and that's exactly what makes him so dangerous.
Sephiroth coming close to his goals will never equal Kefka actually acquiring godhood.
Isn't that slightly DBZ? He could have destroyed the world if he wanted, but didn't, even when he lost? Sorry, I don't buy it. If he could do that, I'm sure a psycho like Kefka would just destroy the world when he sensed he was losing the battle. And none of his abilities come even close to Sephs' Supernova.
Not really, when it's blatantly obvious that the whole thing was a ruse. The only reason Geshtal locked him up was as a bargaining chip to get what he wanted; he was immediately freed the minute that goal was accomplished.
The fact that he was jailed in any way, much less than the fact that he's part of someone elses (not his own) ruse, doesn't give an air of "unbeatable badass".
Actually, he used an illusion to trick Leo into attacking it, but I'm pretty sure that he kills Leo with a knife. That or with his bare hands. Hard to tell by the sound the game uses to represent the sequence.
I'll grant you that this proves he had a superior strategy -but it doesn't prove he's a better fighter.
Which doesn't change it from being a loss to a nobody.
It was never a duel, so it wasn't a loss. And the only reason Seph let himself get thrown in was because he was delusional, irate, and not thinking clearly. As a result he was surprised by Clouds action, and didn't think of letting the sword go.
It's a "loss" in the same way that Kefka would lose if you hit him in the head just after his brains were fried.
And then wastes time arranging it to send a message. There's no other reason for it to jammed on a tree like that.
This, I can't explain, except that he might have impaled the snake on the tree.
I have to say, so what? They're the Turks for God's sake.
They sure as hell wasn't a pushover on disc 3.
Maybe it's just me, but killing a freaking flower girl is not an impressive feat by any stretch of the imagination.
Up till that point that flower girl had been fighting Demons, Dragons, Giant Zombies and whatnot. She sure as hell was stronger than most other people in the world, and had the best defensive/healing skills in the game.
Basically, it's just another incident where Kefka got his hands dirty by killing somebody capable of protecting themselves while Sephiroth's largest claim to fame is killing a praying woman.
Gestahl was hanging on a ledge, and Kefka stepped on his fingers. Some display of strenght, on a person who was completely helpless.
See, either way, it's basically the same goal. The only difference is that Kefka actually achieved his goal.
It doesn't matter what Sephiroth says he wants to do, he never did it. Kefka actually absorbed the powers of the Three Goddesses and reshaped the face of the world.
I'm aware the goals are basically the same; the difference is, that Kefka never states that he wants to become a god, he just truns out that way. Sephiroth wants godhood, and strives for it the entire game.
That's still a loss to a single person.
And again, I wouldn't call it a fight. Sephiroth is only truly defeated at the very end of the game; not that he would have been any less powerful had the final battle taken place after two hours play.
A mental battle. Personally, I find that kind of stupid really.
I find it ties in with the healthy chunck of the game which involves Sephiroths will taunting and manipulating Cloud quite well.
Same guy. I don't see Kefka ever working for anybody else after he offed Geshtal.
Firstly: It was a spinoff, an alternate universe; It's not like the characters are warped out of FF7, at a point where Aeris is still alive.
Secondly, Sephiroth was woring for no one.
Thridly, if you meant to say that at least his power was the same, and he is weaker than a kid: His strenght was reduced. You don't see KH sephiroth pulling off Supernovas, do you?
Yes, a group of heroes, which was my point.
The fact remains that Kefka actually lost a battle before the final one, at a point where the heroes weren't that powerful. In VII, it was only at the very end they had enough power to beat Sephiroth.