KH2FM - Is KH2 Sephiroth more difficult than KH1 Sephiroth?

NOTE: Read description if you don't know what's going on in the video.

This is something that people argue about a lot. So I made this video to sort of simulate if KH2's Sephiroth is harder than KH1's Sephiroth. I mean, sure you, you can say "Just Reflega spam" and whatnot, but you can't do that in KH1, so I evened the playing field by making Sora only have abilities that he had in KH1. So no High Jump or Aerial Dodge or Aerial Recovery or any of that jazz.

It's not a perfect simulation, but there's some things that can't be helped. Like in KH1 you can Curaga spam yourself to death with MP Rage, or just with MP in general, which by the time you get to the end of the game, makes you almost invincible. And then there's the Limit issue, where the only way I could use Limits is to be in Limit Form and it doesn't work the same, and then his combos would change, etc. The other debatable problem is Counterguard. It works way differently in KH1 than KH2. In KH2, it stuns the enemy pretty much almost no matter what. Doesn't stun the enemy in KH1. So I didn't count it in.

The video plays a little like my no ability challenge, but after the first form it gets tricky. Since there's no Reflega in KH1, I can't use that. So to get rid of the orbs I had to actually attack them. That's a very risky method with my KH1 setup. If Sephiroth decided to do his slash combo while I'm attacking the orbs, I'd die. You get Second Chance in KH1, but no Once More. What this means is if you're hit by an attack that'd kill you, instead you go to 1 HP. But without Once More, if you get hit again after going to 1 HP, regardless of if you control Sora, you die.

Oh, and about Glide, I didn't equip that either because it's waaaaaaay too fast in KH2, it wouldn't be fair. It's pretty slow in KH1, no need for it anyway in either Sephiroth fight anyway. And about the meteors, you can dodge roll that, it didn't come to mind though while I was playing, I'm used to High Jump + Aerial Dodging it. But do remember you can't Aerial Recovery out of combos, so if Sephiroth upper slashes you into the air, you're dead.

So I would venture to say KH2 Sephiroth fights harder than KH1 Sephiroth and generally IS harder. Keep in mind that I was LV99 too and almost died a couple times, depsite how well I know Sephiroth as you've seen from my other videos. Compared to how easily I can dispose Sephiroth in KH1 at LV100. I don't think you'd even be able to take on KH2 Sephiroth with KH1's moveset at anything lower than like...LV80. But who knows.

Abilities:

Guard
Aerial Sweep

Dodge Roll

Scan
Combo Plus x2
MP Haste abilities (can't get this perfect, but generally doesn't matter since it works diff in KH2).
Second Chance

LV: 99

Look at end of video for rest of stats.

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[zingodoom]

Sephy isn't easier in Kh2, Sora's just ridiculously stronger.

[dixtremo]

In my opinion, they're both hard as fuck.

[Essential25x]

@zingodoom Do you understand the logic of why he made this?

[finalkamehameha1]

IMO KH1 Sephiroth was much harder, he did a lot of damage and his attacks were unpredictable, Like Descend Heartless Angel in KH (or Sin Harvest) was very hard because Sephiroth became incredibly annoying. In KH2 he is predictable and easy to kill. Also, in KH1, I beat him at level 100 and still had trouble, while at it in KH1 Sephiroth is MUCH faster and he spams a lot. But what beats Sephiroth is the fucking Phantom. He is the HARDEST boss I fought, because it is air based which I hate.

[Blazekid1906]

Kh2 was based on the triangle buttn

[Blazekid1906]

Let me just say this I beat seph kh2 at lvl 66 proud mode 10th try now kh1 its been almost 4 years he is still not beat

[IwantmyMTVback]

I thought KH2 Sephiroth was harder because you couldn't re-challenge him to find his weaknesses or patterns; you had to go through deaths to figure him out.

[AdrianKurono02]

I personally think the KH1 version is harder. I beated him at like lvl 65-70 (don't remember right now), but had the ultimate equips. You almost died because you wanted cause you'd hit him when he was casting the Sin Heartless Angel attack

[CypressDahlia]

Though arguably both are equally hard if the player actually imposes a challenge on themselves, since in RPGs difficulty is inversely related to player's level. I fought Sephiroth at level 54 in KH1, so it was much harder for me. Almost OHKO on every attack.

[CypressDahlia]

Sora is just stronger, making Sepphy easier by relation. Also lol @ "both are easy" responses. ITT twelve year olds bragging about how good they are at Kingdom Hearts, while failing to address the question.

[LoboFan1000]

kh1 sephiroth is much harder because sora isnt as agile and has shittier controls

[ShiningBlader]

In kh2 you have:

Reflect

Quick Run and Dodge roll with i-frames in the FM version

Faster glide and aerial dodge

better camera controls

better combos

Better guard and counter

I don't think it is a fair comparison to say which one is the hardest.

Its like comparing 9/16 and 4/10 : Unless you put them on the same denominator, you can't compare them. Same logic applies here: we can't compare unless we are talking about the exact same battle system with the exact same abilities which isn't the case