Should the player choose to engage Sephiroth and win the battle, Cloud returns and fights Sephiroth, which ends with both of them disappearing in a flash of light after Tifa gives Cloud her support.

Despite finding his boss battle as one of the most challenging of Olympus Coliseum, they still referred to it as " nothing when compared to Sephiroth.

Since appearing as Safer Sephiroth in the final battle of the game, Sephiroth has had a single black wing on his back, referencing his theme music " One Winged Angel ".

In the game's last battle, Sephiroth takes two forms ; and.

In the final battle, plays while the player combats Sephiroth's first form, " Bizarro Sephiroth " ( also known as " Reverse Sephiroth ").

The first is a different orchestration found in Kingdom Hearts, the second is found in Advent Children, which plays throughout the battle between Cloud and Sephiroth, and features the progressive metal stylings of Nobuo Uematsu's band The Black Mages, as well as orchestral elements and new lyrics.

In Spring of 2005, Sephiroth was the winner in a GameFAQs character battle involving only villains.

Game Informer listed his original appearance in the third place of the publication's " Top Ten Boss Fights ", saying that the " battle against Sephiroth is top-notch.

In relation to Crisis Core, IGN AU stated that " even Sephiroth gets his moments in the sun ," praising the depth in his backstory, which would later make his boss battle more entertaining.

Outmatched by Cloud in battle, Kadaj absorbs Jenova's head into his body, and transforms into Sephiroth.

After a prolonged battle in Midgar, Cloud defeats Sephiroth, who dissipates, leaving a weakened Kadaj.

DVD Talk's Todd Douglass Jr. stated that Complete was " the best version of the film " due to its audio quality, the new scenes, and the expansion of Cloud's battle against Sephiroth.

In the director's cut version, Advent Children Complete, his role is expanded, and he makes an appearance during Cloud's battle with Sephiroth.

However, when urged by Tifa to let go of the past, Cloud sets out for the Forgotten City in search of the children, and confronts Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo, genetic remnants of Sephiroth left behind before he could diffuse into the Lifestream completely.

Sephiroth was also intended to manipulate Cloud into believing that he was a creation of Sephiroth's will, but this aspect of the story was later abandoned.

Cloud lowers Aerith's lifeless body into the water after she is killed by Sephiroth ( Final Fantasy ) | Sephiroth.

Cloud Strife experiences severe mako poisoning twice ; once upon being a subject of Hojo's experiments, and again upon falling into the Lifestream after being forced to give Sephiroth the Black Materia.

When Sephiroth and Jenova were defeated deep within core of Gaia at the conclusion of Final Fantasy VII, their destruction released Jenova cells into the Lifestream.

Zack follows Sephiroth into the reactor and they engage in combat, but Sephiroth is able to disarm and incapacitate him.

His experiments are dealt with in Crisis Core, wherein he is encountered sporadically throughout the game, and turns both Cloud and Zack into Sephiroth clones, although he labels them as failed projects.

Furthermore, Jenova's cells can change their form and appearance ; for example, Kadaj changes into Sephiroth prior to fighting Cloud in Advent Children .< ref name =" shift "> Ifalna: " It looked like ... our ... our dead mothers ... and our dead brothers.

Jenova is also responsible for the disease Geostigma, which infects all those who came into contact with the tainted Lifestream after Sephiroth was defeated in Gaia's core.

The ten Sephiroth are blended into the perfect gold.

Nibel Mako reactor, Cloud discovers Sephiroth releasing Jenova, an extraterrestrial lifeform and Sephiroth's " mother ," from imprisonment.

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Cloud is impaled by Sephiroth and hung over the reactor core, a scene also explored in other Final Fantasy VII series ' titles

After Tifa is injured by Sephiroth at the Mako reactor, Zangan retrieves her and carries her to safety.

Upon meeting Sephiroth at the Nibelheim Mako reactor, Genesis explains to Sephiroth that Jenova was an alien and that they were all monsters, indirectly leading to the Nibelheim incident.

In Sepher Sephiroth, he is listed as KYTzAVR, with a gematria of 327, although KYMAVR = 277.

Fighting against Shinra in the resistance group AVALANCHE, and driven by a feud with the primary antagonist, Sephiroth, Cloud learns to accept his troubled past and adapts to his role as a leader.

When the player arrives at the inn in the town of Kalm, Cloud narrates to the group his history with Sephiroth, a legendary member of SOLDIER and the game's primary antagonist.

In fact, these events did not occur as Cloud describes ; rather, they are an amalgamation of Cloud's actual past ( as a member of the Shinra army who failed to enter SOLDIER ) along with his friend Zack's own past, mixed with memories gleaned from Tifa's mind, created out of a combination of shame, Jenova cells and manipulation by Sephiroth.

Kadaj later merges with the remains of Jenova, causing Sephiroth to be reborn.

Cloud is also one of the main characters in the OVA Last Order: Final Fantasy VII, which depicts him in two events that were shown in flashbacks in Final Fantasy VII ; one at Nibelheim when he fights Sephiroth, and the other while escaping from Shinra with Zack.

Sora concludes that Cloud is still fighting with Sephiroth, and will not stop until he is defeated.

Kitase and Nojima, meanwhile, were in charge of developing Cloud's background and his relationship with the character of Sephiroth.

In Final Fantasy VII, Sephiroth is the result of an experiment by the megacorporation Shinra, in which they injected him with cells from the extraterrestrial lifeform Jenova when he was still a fetus.

His character existed from the earliest stages of development, as originally, Nomura thought that the game's plot would deal exclusively with Cloud Strife pursuing Sephiroth, who was always the game's main antagonist.

Nomura wanted Sephiroth to appear early in the game, and then have the plot dealing with the protagonists following him, so that gamers would not meet the final boss until extremely late in the game.

Sephiroth was initially going to be Aerith Gainsborough's sibling with their hair resembling one another.

This character was then changed to Zack Fair, however, and Sephiroth ’ s prior relationship with Aerith was dropped.

Sephiroth has long platinum hair and bright cyan eyes with cat-like pupils, and is depicted in a black coat decorated with metallic pauldrons.

Nomura has stated that Sephiroth was made to be a complete contrast to the game's main protagonist, Cloud, who was originally designed to have slicked-back, black hair with no spikes.

After the war, however, Sephiroth was sent on a mission to the village of Nibelheim, where he discovered that he was the product of a biological experiment that combined a human fetus with tissue from the extraterrestrial lifeform Jenova.

However, a few years later, Sephiroth appears once again, determined to continue with his mission.

At this point, the Lifestream will flow to attempt to heal the injury, thus allowing Sephiroth to merge with the exposed Lifestream.

When Sephiroth battles Cloud, both of them disappear, with Sora believing that they went somewhere else to continue their fight.

Along with the rest of the Final Fantasy VII figures in Dissidia, Sephiroth appears in the sequel Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy.

The most well-known piece is which is played during the final confrontation with Sephiroth.