This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Yoshi348: Removed the a mound of Natter. Seriously, it's like an Overly Long Wiki Animation or something.
- This troper is somewhat amused by the fact that Sephiroth summoning a meteor with a sigil and random mathematical equations to destroy the world is the exact thing you're fighting to prevent from happening, but then hey, he just goes and does it anyway in the middle of the battle. No one seems overly concerned about it though.
- This troper is somewhat
traumatizedamused by the fact that she had to sit through two whole minutes each time, and despite said meteor wiping out half of the solar system, never seemed to kill her. - Yay for percentage based attacks!
- This troper is very amused by the fact that he's seen Sephiroth do this attack twice. Apparently you can destroy the solar system as many times as you like. It's never gonna stay destroyed. What are the heroes trying to do anyway?
- This troper notes that this is just the American and International version. The original version (before Square USA "punched it up") is only twenty seconds long and much less impressive
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- And finally, this troper is just sitting there wondering what Cloud and his crew are DOING during that two minutes... I'm pretty sure I'd have killed Sephiroth in that time...
- Mars survives the attack!
- As well as Neptune and
UranusHerschel! - This troper always tried to reconcile it in that Final Fantasy VII doesn't take place on OUR Earth, therefore, not in OUR solar system. Because the solar system Sephiroth is blowing clearly is ours, their world is fine. The explosion caused by a sun going supernova is (apprently, in game, this troper doesn't know if it's actually applicable, though judging by the dispersal of galactic radiation certainly seems plausible) enough to cause damage to people in another galaxy, especially in a place as radioactive/energetic as the North Crater. Just goes to show that Sephiroth is so badass he's willing to waste other star systems to achieve his goal. Still doesn't explain why he can do it more than once to the same solar system, though...
- This editor has a much simpler way of thinking when it comes to long spectacular summon sequences like Super Nova in FFVII or pretty much ANY summon sequence in absolutely ANY RPG that has Summon sequences: The visuals displayed on screen during any game's summon are just pasted there to try to convey to the audience that the bad guy's hitting the party with a magic attack that's very powerful, while to the character's eyes the actual magic attack most likely doesn't actually look like that. Maybe the only "real" part of the Super Nova sequence is the part when there's a huge orange wall of flaming energy that creeps towards the party. (If that's not acceptable, then it's also entirely possible that while Sephiroth bombards the party with a huge magic attack that's probably no more than just a really big fireball in reality, he's also using his powers beforehand and during his attack to display illusory solar-doomsday imagery to the heroes in an attempt to thoroughly intimidate them into reacting "OMG he's destroyed EVERYTHING! WE FAILED! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" and flinching. Hey, it wouldn't be out of character for someone like him.)
- What difference does it make if you flinch against a fireball? Besides, does Sephiroth really expect them to fall for it multiple times?
- Essentially, they'd be all the more intimidated by the visuals of the solar system exploding so that they're all the less ready to "brace themselves" against what looks like the same fireball shortly afterwards, in however way Materia-users in that 'verse react and brace themselves when about to get hit by magic. But actually, Sephiroth does appear to make them fall for it multiple times; one of Super Nova's in-game side effects is afflicting everyone with Confusion, which happens every time he casts it. (Which might suggest he's using the lengthy procession of visuals as a vehicle to manually mess their minds up even if they're seeing it for the third time in a row...)
