This fight used to be hard

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[@aliasagosta]

I want to study the brains of kingdom Hearts players. For science.

[@Venouru]

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[@aliasagosta]

@@Venouru Don't mind me, doing science

[@parttimelazy4593]

​​@@aliasagosta You may ask us questions but stay back, something something darkness and light. I haven't played Kingdom Hearts in a while, I don't know how they talk anymore.

[@aliasagosta]

@@parttimelazy4593 Ah yes, dark and light... So wich one IS kingdom heart btw ?

[@parttimelazy4593]

@@aliasagosta As a fan and fanatic of the lord, I can tell you it is both and neither at the same time.

[@youseenednedisdead]

when i was a kid playing this on ps2 i died so many times in this fight i started crying and it was normal mode

[@coolgameriguess]

i couldn't beat it on beginner as a kid💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@Kaiidox]

me too! i owed it to my 12 yo to replay the game and try to beat this guy. but as this video suggests, it took me 5 tries. once you know his combos its really managable haha

[@Dr.AvenVon]

for all I know, they actually nerfed him in the FM versions. so, don't feel too bad

[@haydes1285]

Sephiroth asking the real questions “what is cloud” indeed

[@mobgabriel1767]

Cloud is a miserable little pile of secrets!

[@Sonicfalcon16]

They put so much tech in this game for the demographic it's focus towards is insane. No 10 year old would master this game.

[@jonathansotelo4877]

My ten year old self couldn't beat it. I'm over twenty-five and I beat it during a night shift at work, I practically shouted over this over fifteen year old grudge. It was toward the end of the fight and I knew I needed one more good combo to finish him off. When he did that reaction command block I went, "YES! YOU'RE MINE!" Because that was a huge opening.

[@dogballs4271]

@@jonathansotelo4877 watched too much anime cringe

[@eXperianceHD]

Not true. I used to run this fight at the end of base game over and over because I had a save right before with nothing else left to do.

[@Sonicfalcon16]

@@jonathansotelo4877 in the final xemnas fight where you had to mash X and triangle. I would get tired from the mashing so my brother and me had to take a button each to mash

[@ImaPizzaK]

@@jonathansotelo4877 watched too much anime not cringe

[@smugkip6635]

He just wanted to know what a cloud was

[@XMONVID]

yeah fighting him when you first meet him is really hard, but tbh i think everyone can agree that once you get all your drive forms maxed out this guy is a joke. now the optional Terra fight lol.....thats another story lol

[@clownworld1017]

This isn’t critical 🥱

[@SimCon02]

Nah, he is still easy even in the first time you fight him if you are at decent level. He is the only superboss I defeated on my first try alongside data marluxia (both on critical mode). He is very hard on lv1 crit but that is another story.

[@parttimelazy4593]

In all fairness, you walked into this fight with *everything.*

[@whyshouldi1943]

How else should i face him lol, even then on my previous playthroughs he was significantly more of a challenge to me when i had everything

[@kevinburke1325]

Yeah, Sephiroth on kh1 was way more challenging.

[@danielesquivel9326]

​@@whyshouldi1943Huh? You titled this video "this fight used to be hard," but you're saying you need Sora's full combat kit to fight Sephiroth because he poses a significant challenge? Make it make sense to me

[@whyshouldi1943]

@@danielesquivel9326 I don’t think you understood my comment so let me rephrase, on previous playthroughs it was difficult even when i had everything.

[@dogballs4271]

@@whyshouldi1943 then you are straight up garbage at kh but thats ok

[@thembigstonks7016]

Man, this fight is so much easier when you’re not on Critical Mode. I remember fighting Sephiroth on Critical Mode without Second Chance and it was just pain since 90% of his attacks one-shotted me.

[@Diego-lr6xe]

When I was a teen I remember I had a friend over and we just spent the whole afternoon trying to beat Sephiroth and just getting our asses kicked repeatedly, those were some good ass times

[@LackOfCreativiT]

Bro's using Dodge Slash against the most infamous target that it whiffs on

[@selassieaspen9940]

Yeah, but then you realized this isn't KH2FM, but the vanilla version of KH2, which has no other option to get rid of those orbs. Since Risk break isn't in this game version.

[@concept8192]

​@@selassieaspen9940this is final mix. You can tell by the widescreen and watermark in the bottom left that it's being recorded on a PS3 or PS4

[@RemyGunbreaker]

"Sin... heart- oh ugh oh ugh oh ugh!"

[@TemplarBlonic]

I’m pretty sure that with enough time even Groundhog Day Bill Murray would beat Sephiroth to death with a spoon.

[@imcasualjimm]

I saw decisive pumpkin and knew it was over

[@Illinaut552]

I recently beat the game on critical mode, although I haven't done all super bosses I have done sephiroth. And after looking a a guide for like 5 minutes I understood what to do immediately and it was a pushover of a fight. I struggled on roxas for 2 hours and beat sephiroth in like 20 minutes. Critical mode really does make you get good at kingdom hearts instead of mash buttons.

[@TheAzulmagia]

KH2 Sephiroth was always like this. He's significantly more demanding than pretty much every other fight in the game since he has high damage output with big attack radiuses, you can't hit him with most magic spells, and he has that HP to 1/MP to 0 Heartless Angel move, but he's a pretty straightforward and easy to learn fight which balances him out pretty well. I just wish he was a repeatable encounter.

[@SimCon02]

He is harder than the average kh2 boss for sure but still easier than the data fights and lingering will by a huge margin. He is the only superboss in the series that I managed to beat on my first try alongside data marluxia (both on critical).

[@Blueballthornton]

I use reflect on the flame pillars, cuts through his HP like butter

[@reuellucas7187]

This was nostalgic because I had almost everything this guy had beating him the second time, but the first time I've beaten him was when I had less abilities so the victory was more cathartic.

[@davibookman4536]

“Le wa dar su merry crismas” -sora (probably)

[@dragonslayer3552]

As a child he took me months upon months to beat and i remember screaming upon winning... Nowadays i just casually deatroy him on max difficulty on relatively low level... His patterns have been ingrained in my mind at this point

[@PlatedGuy]

i never played ps2 ver, but on ps4 version(first playthrough, critical) I think he was literally the only late game boss i managed to beat on my first try

[@d4rksonic474]

Compared to the data bosses and especially Terra he's piss-easy.

[@NewTypeDilemma01]

The first time I ever came so close to winning this fight, I was in my teens. The _one_ thing that kept me from winning was the KH2 required you to hit with a Combo finisher, and I had "Berserk Charge" active and was killed mid-charge.

[@MrMassiverhino69]

I did notice it was significantly easier. I just thought my teenage skills sucked lol

[@FantasticJay3582]

Now how about a challenge? Try this in critical mode at level 1, using the weakest keyblade in the game.

[@noelkurosaki190]

I think that everytime I fight against him. ofc when I havent played in a long time i might need a few trys. But it mostly doesnt take longer than a couple of minutes

[@niklasw.1297]

the funniest way to fight Sephiroth is to fight him before Roxas so you can clap Roxas with Fenrir.

[@Ventus2077]

Sephiroth is one of those boss fights that gets easier by time and practice. So that’s exactly what happened here

[@alexw4482]

Take off dodge slash and arial sweep (use arial dive). They’re both bad abilities and dodge slash can drop your combo.

[@yoboyonova]

i defeated him on critical a few days ago so nice job

[@Rantandum]

*Looking back and realizing how many Elixirs I wasted to Sin Harvest* 💀

[@mbrillon765]

What is Sin Harvest?

[@rinoiya]

@@mbrillon765 I think he's talking about heartless angel when he says "descend, heartless angel"

[@RondoOfBloodX]

@@mbrillon765In KH 1 Sephiroth is voiced by Lance Bass (yes THAT Lance Bass) and he says Descend Heartless Angel but he says it so fast and with the music being louder than most KH music it sounded to many players like he was saying Sin Harvest which is honestly a more badass name IMO. But yeah that’s the story there.

[@UniversalAero]

I did this fight with zero experience after not playing KH for probably 8 years and won on my first try. Veterans have their muscle memory.

[@saltysoxy]

Reflega spam in a corner when he fire pillars one shots him fyi, found that out casually on my second attempt :D

[@WhiteMageBenoni]

PS2 Sephiroth: The Hardest Optional boss causally, even on harder difficulties, Reflectaga can't save you even with Decisive Pumpkin PS3/PS4 Sephiroth: Show me your strength. *Limit form, Reflectaga being massively OP, Dodge roll and Decisive Pumpkin walk approaching Menacingly* In all seriousness though, during my PS2 runs of KH2 back as a teen, when I first fought good ol Sephy, I was confident after beating Xemnas, and seeing Sephiroth I thought, *Okay, optional boss easy* Literally days of grinding up to LV99, getting all the Orichalcum+ to make Ultima Weapon, and getting more mats to get more strength and defense, and I still lost. After I beat him, I felt drained and accomplished. Now as I replay KH2: FM for videos and gag runs and I see him, I remember how much respect I have for him, and now he can be considered a sort of Joke Boss. I don't mean that in a bad way, he's still fearsome for lots of new players, but the tech has evolved so greatly that he has nothing on LW or Yozora, but still have that burning image in your mind that you have fought him before all of this, and you had a bad time. And the victory was well deserved. Tl:Dr, Sephy was a force back then, and he's a pushover now. But he's still fun to fight even with restrictions.

[@Drayg0Fire]

so this is why the Mamma's boy is scared of Sora good let him know FEAR

[@TavhariJones-zr8mb]

this used to be hard, S was challenging fr fr. I beat him when i was 17. Now im 28! damn time flies via KH4, KH5, and KH6 I am excited for. if the studio decide to create 5 and 6 though but 4 for sure I am in anticipation for.

[@spencergamer5201]

Try on Critical Mode fight is worth your time

[@treycat7629]

You can stun him out of heartless angel?!

[@Thewaterspirit57]

This is what years of practice do to you :P Same deal happened with me and the secret man boss fight in KH1FM, I beat him in one try lol…. Then again, I beat Sephhy before him lol (though that took 5 tries)

[@wwalton]

Everyone probably already knows this but if you think your over leveled for a fight or just in general and want stuff to last a little longer turn off Combo Boost and Air Combo Boost, alternatively if your trying to grind turn that shit back on

[@SimCon02]

He is one the easiest superbosses, he always has been (except for lv1 crit but that is another story) A lot of people considered him hard because they fought him when they were kids or just years ago when players weren't used to this kind of gameplay.

[@Tume_K5]

Why didn't he reflect the fire pillars though

[@Yozora_Verum_Rex]

Bro has maxed out gear, learned Sephiroths whole skill set and then goes on to cry why he wins

[@gianmarcopellegrino9731]

after yozora and terra armor this boss is a cakewalk😂

[@randyhale4732]

Limit Form made it so much easier

[@reckszkingzactivitiesrkat.4134]

Yeah they made This fight easier since the final Mix version of Kingdom hearts came out 🤷🏾‍♂️ Before it was much harder & you never had a drive form to turn into back in the day either so you were handicapped on this matter but it made it challenging 🔥.

[@DruKageYT]

What is Cloud-

[@OneBoredCatbug]

This doesn't look like level 1 critical to me- That being said I still died on this fight endlessly when I was a kid in vanilla KH 2 on normal, no such thing as critical mode or level 1 back then.

[@OmegaChase1002]

Was this fight ever really hard? Or are we just grown up now?

[@Dtibs82]

Quit fighting him on level 100 with max. And achieve beating him on the lowest possible level with the bare minimum gear

[@nuabe8285]

I’m completing my first Kh2 fm Critical run and I run into this fight without any elixir nor the Ultima and I almost defeated him first try, imo he is easier than the KH1 fight

[@Damien_Bathory]

You can beat him on level 70 on Critical dificulty, I don't really count level 1 runs cause it unlocks certain things that make Sora op. But yeah, try doing this on critical, with almost nothing, fight will be extremely hard.

[@csto6804]

lvl 1 just scales up his damage, you’re still eating a lot of damage, his lvl 1 damage isn’t all that especially since you’re dying easily

[@panduvandal]

What do you mean unlock certain things at level 1? You literally get nothing besides the abilities from crit

[@csto6804]

@@panduvandal i think he means the fact that you do scaled damage and eat enough hits that you aren’t always a one shot

[@panduvandal]

@@csto6804 yeah but that's false info he tried to imply. The critical mode in KH 2 only has scale damage, anything more such as defense or magic defense will still be at a point where boss attack will one shot you unless you wear armors.

[@SimCon02]

Lv1 critical sephiroth is very hard, you have to be almost perfect since you don't have last chance. Lv99 critical sephiroth was so easy to the point that he was the only superboss I defeated first try.

[@Mystika]

i recommend unequipping dodge slash, its bad

[@manofcorn5930]

What is Cloud

[@pythonking16.59]

It took me 10 years to beat him on the PS2 lol

[@pythonking16.59]

Like genuinely 10 years, I finished the game around 2019 and finally got to this in 2018

[@iimpact_3rr0r]

Now try it critical mode lvl 1

[@joelquintanilla917]

Wait wait wait wait wait WAIT DID YOU USE EXPLOSION AND THEN GUARD BREAK?!? HOW?!?

[@slotmoon]

The ability finishing plus lets you use more than one finisher. If you have guard break and explosion equipped as well, sora will do both.

[@joelquintanilla917]

@@slotmoon I know but I'm concerned how you managed to use explosion before guard break when it's supposed to be guard break then explosion

[@slotmoon]

@@joelquintanilla917 Oh, I get it now! Sorry 😅 It's because the game selects which finisher you'll use first based on some conditions. One of those conditions is how many "enemies" are around Sora. If there's only a single enemy, Sora will always use Guard Break first when on the ground. If there are many enemies, Sora will use Explosion instead. At that time, Explosion went out first because the dark balls are considered enemies, and they were too close to Sora. Guard Break went out after because the game doesn't let you use the same finisher two times in a row. Hope I helped :^]

[@joelquintanilla917]

Dang this game is sweet

[@slotmoon]

The combat system has a lot of hidden complexities like these. That's why people love it so much!

[@kurozkin]

bro isnt even on Critical mode 😭😭😭(W but still)

[@1010otep]

What is cloud

[@TotallyNotQFQNR]

No damage run

[@Prince100bill]

The KH1 version not this one

[@zetten4109]

Now do it at crit level 1

[@spideyfan300]

now record yourself versing him at the same level on vanilla kh2 ps2

[@destroyermcw626]

Played him on Proud mode PS2 version but left a save for this fight but forgot what level I was until I turn my PS2 back on again

[@martinshepherd4709]

That didn’t look right u did way 2 much dmg and he didn’t do any of that goblin combos jank he would do back on the original ps2

[@whyshouldi1943]

I cant speak on the original version, this is the HD remix version on ps4 if you wanna know, and proud difficulty at that

[@alannawalter7911]

KH2 Sephi has nothing on KH1...

[@brotatodgawd3232]

Try it at level 1 now

[@rdp805]

Try level 1 Crit haha

[@joelyjowell3]

This critical mode ?

[@TotallyNotQFQNR]

Critical limits your health soo obviously no, it’s probably proud

[@Soulsnatcher89]

He never was hard, and very easy to cheese, just choose how you wanted to cheese (Reflect was my choice)

[@aihara01]

KH1 sephiroth is harder tho

[@dinorex3464]

Definitely, but I guess that was made on purpose because Lingering Will exists XD

[@codenamexelda]

My brother actually beat this one.

[@hangetsukuzunoha2467]

you used to be a newb

[@scoresdonequick9849]

You're playing on easy mode. You gotta play critical.

[@clickbaitpolice9792]

lol with those stats of course the fight is easy

[@dolphindudelife314]

this game is so corny

[@shidac39]

First try