Also how Aerith is completely busted against sephiroth and is the key to breaking his sword and wing in that fight because she's got some meta level power going on.
It was extremely disappointing to me because FF7’s Water Jenova fight was incredible in terms of gameplay story integration (in that the gameplay was meant to be reflective, sad, and non challenging to focus on her death) for its era.
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God of War Ragnarok and this game really refused to let the gameplay mechanics reflect the tones and themes of the game at all.
The last Thor fight in God of War is worse at this, but not by much.