@Sinbad: Kamen Rider Build... 2018... Hmmm... Touché, my good man. < Gaim was written by Gen Urobochi wasn't it? Same person behind Madoka Magica, Toei must have told him "Look pal, this
is aimed at kids after all, so please measure the darkness here"
By all means I say give it a shot if you have the time. Everything is looking great for the Remake, I am personally crossing my fingers and being cautiously optimistic, but trusting they can pull this off.
@Lancelot: Agreed, Kamen Rider is such a darn good franchise and it's fascinating to see what new spin in themes, setting, powers and motives will bring each new entry every year, at least from my noob-ish point of view >_>. Same with Super Sentai.
On topic: Well, yes, surprinsingly. Sephiroth has many abilities to get the upper hand in a fight without resorting to simply overwhelming his opponent. In the original game most of his plan relied on using his abilities to manipulate and control others to get them where he wanted and Jenova destroys civilizations by tricking their inhabitants by seeding discord and chaos rather than nuking them. In the final battle, Sephiroth uses a lot, a
lot of status ailments and debuffs (with ocassional buffs on himself and dispellings on the party's buffs) to gain the upper hand and the reason why he stopped using his Jenova abilities against the party is because growing strong enough to escape Sephiroth's influence and gaining the determination to endure the Lifestream is a major part of the final arc of the story and the grand closure to Cloud's character arc in the original game.
@Akreious: Sephiroth does list Memory Manipulation in his resistances, though, and it elaborates how it got stronger as the story went on. Essentially, he kept his memories when the Lifestream
disintegrated his whole physical body. And when he got defeated in FFVII, he later got his very spirit destroyed by Cloud and the Lifestream kept trying to
erode his memories when his soul barely came back from that, yet he withstood that as well. He did have to resort to mutilate his memories himself, but it was due to the extremes circunstances of having to survive from the death of his very essence while the Planet was essentially erasing his individuality. Not to mention that sacrificing his memories
created a core of sorts that made his will stronger than ever and said core had a focus of Sephiroth's own choice to keep going after his objectives.