Genesis - “I’ll take sephiroth alone” Sephiroth “Alexa play my theme tune”

Sephiroth’s only two friends. And both of them have similar backgrounds and history with him. All three were Shinra experiments, Genesis was the failed experiment, Angeal was close to the ideal monster ‘design’, and Sephiroth was the perfect monster. And all three rebelled after discovering the truth about their origins. Though each one took their responses differently. - Genesis was desperate of a cure for his degradation, and blamed Shinra for his illness. Doing whatever it takes to cure his degradation. - Angeal became the very thing he fights against, a monster. Believing that a monster like himself is unworthy of having honor, and dignity. And he refuses to live the rest of his life as a monster. - And Sephiroth of course, wanted vengeance on the entire world and all of humanity. Believing himself to be the ruler of everything, in the name of his mother.

I miss George Newborns voice. He had this deep pitch in his tone that gave sephiroth that life in his voice.

Ahh, yes, the fight we've seen a hundred times, and now, we're gonna see it 1 more time, in HD

3:55 the way Sephiroth's sword slices through steel like butter is always so satisfying. Dude's strength is unreal.

Amazing how sephiroth considered both Angeal and genisis his equals but neither of them could hold a candle to him

The way Sephiroth effortlessly slashes through the Mako Cannon never fails to give me goosebumps. Man is a true monster, lol!

One detail I love in this upscaled FMV is that we can see Sephiroth’s eyes better. You can actually tell he has slit cat/snake-like pupils, whereas in the original you couldn’t really see. It adds an extra layer to Sephiroth’s body language (which was already great), and shows how a legitimately kind Sephiroth would appear to his friends.

It's actually insane how a cutscene made in 2007 still hold up to this day.

Sephiroth's theme never gets old it still gives me goosebumps

I love how this game showed that sephiroth was just a regular guy who wanted to just spend time with his friends. People say it took away from cloud and sephiroth but it really shows how both of their origins made them who they became. Sephiroth was popular and bared the wait of the world on his shoulders, but his friends where his escape and way to have fun. Loosing them and finding out the truth broke him.

Angeal: *stops Genesis so he won't destroy the place* Sephiroth 5 seconds later: *destroys the place* Ah, yes the true dynamics of a chaotic duo and their mom friend🤣🤣🤣

I always loved, from Advent Children on and especially in this fight, how they gave Sephiroth's fighting style the perfect touches. The way he fights is so simple and yet over whelming with the confident yet insane levels of oppression and uncertainty/surprise, he forces on his opponents. He fights not just to overwhelm you but to also scare you. Intimidate you, until no matter how powerful you are or even equal to him you are, you become unsure of yourself and stressed by him. I love it. Simple and yet again, so overwhelming. His entire style is built on fear. The part where he drops out of view and then comes through the cannon is a perfect moment to highlight it. He makes you feel like suddenly you're in a situation you thought you were already prepared for and that nothing can stop it coming. As opposed to just coming at his enemies, he takes steps to make you doubt everything.

I like that they changed angeals dialogue from "you'll destroy us all" to "you'll destroy this place".

The one detail I appreciate about the original is that all throughout the game you can see in sephiroth’s eyes there was still something inside him. Not sure what it is but you can see he’s not an evil person. But in the scene where he destroys nibelhime you can only see hatred and emptiness. Such great attention to detail.

4:28 angeal only uses one hand to stop genesis, but has to use his whole body to withstand sephiroth’s attack. sephiroth wasn’t even going full force (probably). it’s a small detail that i really like, just shows how superior he is.

Man shinra's training room is a wonder. For them to be able to do this..shinra unlocked space and time distortion....for their soldiers to train.

Honestly, seeing this fmv again brought me back to being a kid, what a joy.

Seeing so much emotion on Sephiroth's face brings out the scene.

You know Angeal is serious when you see him use his buster sword. Even Sephiroth knows it.

everyone always loves to talk about the bad things Crisis Core did but people rarely mention how much more of a badass than in the original game this scene made Sephiroth

I love how Sephiroth was taking it easy but when Genesis attacks Angeal, he got pissed and starts fighting seriously

Crisis Core was a love letter to the fans. Zack is one of the best video game protagonist ever... Good night Zack and yes you were a Hero...

Man, I forgot how amazing this fight scene was.

1:42 Whats scary is he's side glancing before he acts, and whats terrifying is sometimes hes not even looking at them so he's got his eye on them no matter what they do.

Love how Cloud is the hero of ff7 but just a baby infront of Sephiroth Zack Angeal and Genesis

I like how the back-and-forth in this fight is Genesis pulling out the stops, enhancing his power and abilities with more and more magic... and, in the meanwhile, all Sephiroth does to counter everything Genesis throws at him is just to try a little bit harder.

Still got the goosebump no matter how many times i rewatch this scene

This is still one the best fantasy fight in gaming industry. Music, voice actor and cinematic, its all are perfect.

one of the best rendition of One winged angel, who knew a triangle would make it sound so menacing

The music always hits the spot. This scene when i first saw it on the psp version. It was something that would be memorable! =)

It's weird to see sephiroth open up to zack the way he did in crisis core

3:24 They change this line Original is "You destroy us all" It change it to "You destroy this place"

Seeing so much human emotion on Sephiroths face is astounding

Genesis feels like the friend that dragged his two besties along with whatever crazy adventure on his mind, Sephiroth the friend that tries to go easy on them in sparing keyword tries and Angeal the friend who had to make sure they don't do anything crazy

Ahhh I miss George as Sephi... still :/

How the fight really started... Sephiroth: Your Jordan's are fake. Genesis: Sephiroth you sob, I am tired of your ish 😡 Sephiroth: 😏 Angeal: Guys please don't😬 *Sephiroth vs Genesis*

I also wish mabe in the future we get a game about these three an how they became First class soldiers. That would be a pretty sick game. Playing as a young Sephiroth an end of the game he is known as the worlds strongest An number one Hero.

to be honest among the three of them angeal's appearance is more like a villain compared to genesis and sephiroth... but the fact is he is the kindest among them as he is the one who look after them especially zack fair.. to zack angeal is not only his señior but also his mentor and saviour

"No way to talk to a hero" proceeds to blow angeal face off.

I like how they redid the sounds for the cinematic cutscenes but left them visually in tact. I'm so used to hearing the PSP cutscene sounds.

The new sound fx are amazing.

Never thought I'd see the day when I can watch this marvelous scene with an even greater quality.

George Newbern had that calm yet stoic voice that suited Sephiroth so well and Rick Gomez brought the liveliness that suited Zack. I miss the old VA's, the new ones ain't it.

Sephiroths short game in close combat with a Masamune is impressive. The devs did their homework on this fight scene. Love the part he blocks Genesis then uses his free hand to back hand his sword and the result is Genesis flying backwards from basically a 1 inch backhand of Sephiroths own sword

Noticing the brand new sound effects for the fight to make it more consistent with the sound direction of modern FFVII At some point though, they're gonna need to explain the origin story for the Masamune because ever since Advent Children Complete, it's been given this distinctive howl any time Sephiroth prepares an attack

George newbern will forever be the true Sephiroth. 🐐

0:46 when the music start playing I felt so big nostalgia 😭😭😭

It seems to me that Sephiroth succumbed to himself only for a moment when he began to attack genesis. Moreover, he increased his onslaught gradually. After the Genesis moves. Plus, after the fight, he didn't look at Genesis, so as not to offend him. And that's why he turned away and showed him his back. Ie, he trusts Genesis prematurely.

Sephiroth went from "I'll go easy on you" in the beginning towards "Now I am hella pissed" so quick!

That's the first time I saw the updated version! Thanks for uploading it! I'm getting the game on release date!

"Stop! You'll destroy this place" "That's no way to talk to a hero!'

I’m actually super impressed with Hoechlin as Sephiroth…. Edit: I know people are just used to what they know, but in 5 years people will love it.

I had this clip saved on my ipod in the days. Watched it sooo many times. Shi just doesn't get old

I'm genuinely impressed by all the voices tbh, Genesis and Angeal are on point, if Tyler lowered his voice a little lower for Sephiroth it would be golden but he still executed those lines perfectly. Also so happy we can see sephy's pretty kitty eyes!

Don't get me wrong the new voices are fine but the old voices were top notch. The delivery and everything. I do hope modders would make a OG voice pack type thing for this game. It would have been perfect.

Man you can really tell the original sephiroth voice understood that sephiroth was feeling nostalgic and put in his voice. New just reads the line flat. Crisis core had robotic anime voice direction but you could tell the actors understood how to play within that limitation. The charm of og Zack was that at times you could tell the line delivery was extremely authentic, which I suspect he wasn't given good enough directions to do that, he's just a talented Character actor. New Zack plays too much into the characters archetype so he ends up sounding too big all the time. 1 good example is Angeal was early into the game. Most people feel, me included, this new one is doing an equal quality job. However when he tells the tale of dumbapples, og sounded nostalgic and when he corrected Zack that he was poor he said it in a "you can't be serious " tone. New angeal....well he sure did read those lines. I'm just gonna change my mantra, redubs with new actors several years later won't matter if they're "good", we literally have the original, the new stuff doesn't magically live in a vacuum. There's only 1 old ass game I'd want a redub of and even that I can't really say I'm entirely for because it would effect later games and anime, the games are .Hack vol. 1-4 Im concerned the only reason we don't have the 4k version of advent children is because someone really wants to redub it. This sucks because the gameplay is so amazing but the voices consistently worse. Maybe if I only played crisis core once, years ago, and never revisited a single visual I'd think nothing of the new voices. But that's just it, I have. So I'm not gonna be as nice as the people who clearly can't remember or can't exactly pinpoint what exactly is off. And again. The original was a hot mess. But grafting a new dub on top of old robotic line delivery is a recipe for distaster.

You know it's serious when the music starts singing the bosses name.

The fact seph sends all these dudes flying with one arm is funny man 😂

Sad they didn't update the CG cutscenes, but they still hold up luckily.

Till this day 3:49 fucking blows my socks off. The absolute confidence in sephiroth to decent, just to blast off with his music.

Wow... over ten years about this scene~ i love it!

"How can I not, when you've beaten it into my head?" ...He's not wrong. Lmao

The voice acting is different. But I'm surprised they managed it pretty well. Even Genesis smugness is even better here.

Angeal: Don't take Sephiroth lightly. (refuses to use Buster Sword)

Hands down, has to be the hardest cutscene in FF history 🔥🔥🔥

Still one of the most iconic fight scenes in FF period

Funny thing about Genesis having a Hero complex is that the Original colors of the Fighter Class for most main heroes was the colors Genesis wears looking like like original Fighter color, the main image of the hero sprite.

I love how Sephiroth just slices through those massive pipes like its mozzarella 😂

genisis - why do i hear boss music?

Game already downloaded, waiting for midnight to play.

Sephiroth’s voice though. It’s like a fan impersonating him 😂

voice acting in the orginal was better you can tell by their intonation but graphics are better in this ofc

The voice acting is killing that epic cut scene. It feels like the actors are reading if the pages and barely putting any effort into there VA.

at least they changed "you'll kill us all" to the more accurate "you'll destroy this place" even though more translation inaccuracies exist

I mean this with full sincerity, but I miss George Newburn's voice. His performance as Sephiroth is genuinely iconic and probably the best cast character in Square's entire history. I love Hoechlin, but some things you will never forget

The insanity of this scene is that, having seen his strength in Remake's finale, with how much power he has there and he is holding back even then, toying with Cloud and the gang, then just how much is Sephiroth holding back here?

This IMO, still has to be one of the most badass scenes Final Fantasy history, if not in all gaming, for almost 2 decades. And while I've held on to the original FMV all that while I now FINALLY HAVE IT IN 4K BABY!! 🤘🏾😎🤘🏾

When you're casually playing the game and the most hype cutscene battle starts unprompted

Angeal sounds just like the old VA

It's weird hearing the new voices....it might be long but this scene is pretty much embedded in my brain, while watching I can still perfectly recall the old voices...wish it was the old crew voicing I'm sure they can still pull it off

I remember watching this on my PSP as a kid and thought it was like the most realistic looking anime fight I ever saw

Amazing how different Sephiroth looks with a genuine warming smile instead of his sociophat one.

Angeal a beast for blocking both Genesis AND Sephiroth attacks at once.

Old VA still 👌holds the Cake in this scene

The second theme played in this video, "Truth Behind the Project" is my favorite theme in all of Crisis Core. Probably because I love violin/piano themes, and they do such a great job making it intense with that song.

The moment One Wing Angel starts playing, you know Sephiroth stops holding back.

After all these years I still say the same thing about this fight. I want Genesis’ sword.

wished we could fight like that in the game

Sephiroth: The cool aloof somewhat antisocial one that secretly loves his friends. Genesis: The fanboy who’s so obsessed with one particular work he never talks about anything else and is convinced that not only is it real but he’s the hero character. Angeal: The responsible one who has to keep the others in line. I’m surprised Shinra lets them use the holodeck. Also surprised the only damage is a few loose panels and broken wires on the wall and not a few huge freaking slices out of the floor.

Seeing the scene again is really cool, but I honestly think that all of the new voices are worse than the old ones. The voice acting in general sounds much flatter here than it did in the older version of this scene.

One of my favorite lines from the game is “how can I not when you’ve beaten it into my head” just because the way sephiroth said it and it just doesn’t sound the same but not bad nonetheless.

I just love the fact that sephiroth cut that metal as if it was butter.

I think the old Genesis voice actor was delivered way better than this current one. All of them seem... less emotional in this.

1:26 So basically what you’re saying is Sephiroth……Got it memorized

DUDE THE VOICES! I feel like the way these actors deliver their lines isn't as good. I dunno doesn't sound right. Is it just me?

I am so excited for this. This is one of my favorite FF games even though it wasn't a mainline entry.

I don't want this video to spoil anything for me but please let me know-how many FPS can you achieve with the setup of this game? 120Hz??

Maybe it's just because they're using obviously different voice actors, but it kind of sounds like they're half-assing the lines. I only got to watch videos of the original, but they sounded like they had so much passion for the game itself then. I hope the entire remake isn't like this

No matter how many times I watch this the voice acting really feels off