| I see your point, and I had not thought of that angle before, that the society of Yevon itself, the religion of Yevon, that every aspect of the person, faith, and belief in general would be considered the true evil of the game itself.
Truthfully I was speaking more of a central being though who steps forward as the final threat to the game to uphold the evil presented to the players. Although Jenova and Hojo certainly were a major influence, Jenova was more a source of evil, and Hojo was an instigater, possibly in the same league as Seymour himself, he had more of the true evil intention but did not have the bite to back up his bark, in the end Sephiroth however rose up and actually posed a viable threat, wanting to use Meteor to ruin the world and steal its lifestream and ascend into the ranks of godhood, although you're right, it certainly gets shakey in quite a few of the Final Fantasy games.
in Final Fantasy III Xande is considered the threat throughout the game, but then Cloud of Darkness comes out of no where and offers the true final threat of evil, same with Golbez/Zeromus from FFIV, and Kuja/Necron from FFIX. Some games have obvious villains, Choas, Emperor of Hell, Ultimecia is pretty much the villain for most of the game, although Edea and Seifer are used as tools much like Jecht was. It seems there are quite a few villain/evil types in Final Fantasy, in FFX we get the Power (Sin), the Tool (Jecht), the False Villain (Seymour), and the Root (Yu Yevon) but it seems none of them in the end rise up to be that real "Final Threat Epic Battle" that we usually get at the end of Final Fantasy games is all. |