I'm stubborn...
Yes all enemies, even a few bosses were terribly easy, but only if you trained/leveled up/ grinding before a tough boss battle. (never heard of grinding before).
If you were one of those impatient or speedrunning folk, you might had a bit of challenge.
I said "Fun" earlier, because it was fun with the materia combinations and enemy skill usage. To see that Ice3+All was pleasing to the eye. To put Deathblow+Preemptive with Cloud was thrilling. It wasn't how easy you killed a monster, but HOW you killed the monster.
The only reason Seph wasn't more threatening than the earlier versions of FF's villains was due to his imprisonment by the planet. The way I see it, he could have ripped apart the world if he could. But his crystal prison/Mako comatose made him seem almost docile while we were adventuring with Cloud.
It might be the fan in me, but I see Sephiroth the most dangerous one of all villains. His lack of action was what partly made him dangerous, [bad analogy] you would say that a inactive volcano is not-so-dangerous as well, right? [bad analogy].
Character growth? What are you asking for?
Seph is the bad guy. We started with him as the bad guy, and he continued to be like that until the end. He's not like Seifer from 8! Once good, then bad, then in the end good again?
I agree with that. I was sorely disappointed, I was expecting an uber fight of galactic proportions...
But again, the way I see it: Seph was imprisoned by Planet for years, he might had grown weaker while Cloud had grown a bit stronger with his adventuring.
Let's put this aside...
It is his best, but there will always be new music that can beat it.
I'm quite fond of FF8's soundtrack...
I'm considering it...
Didn't they?
Didn't Barret see his errors in his raging and blowing up reactors, the many deaths he caused?
Didn't Cait Sith aka Reeves see that what Avalanche stood for?
And finally, did we not go through Cloud's childhood and saw him change after his lifestream - experience?
They did change Jay, perhaps we couldn't see it due to the poor graphical facial expression. (blocky face)
I'm gonna stop here before this turns into a P.A.I.N.S. battle, you are well beyond my FF-experience and I'm sorely handicapped here. The only way I could beat you in this is if I had played as many versions as you have had.
Let's call it a draw :P