Basically this.
Though, I have to admit I thought he was pretty cool back in the day. Then my brother introduced me to Metal Gear Solid, which coincidentally came out the same year as FFVII. You could pull a name out of a hat from its entourage of villains to find one cooler, better written, and better executed than Sephiroth. That game holds up today, and was eons ahead of its time.
