FF7 Play Arts Vol 2: Sephiroth & Vincent

I collected them last week and finally took them out of their boxes. Yay! Between the two figures, I think I like Vincent better, if only because he seems more sturdy and steady than Sephiroth. His Silver Hair Highness is rather stiff, and his body seems to lean to one side (?), AND I can’t seem to move his legs. I also noticed some teeny weeny white ‘paint’ (?!) on his left arm. Argh. The good point about both figures though, is the face sculpting, definitely much better than the Advent Children version. Here’s proof!

There is also brown highlights in Vincent’s hair, most notably at the front bangs and the piece of hair that goes under his red head band, so its not totally black.

Nice hair! Advent Children PA Vincent’s hair looks lame in comparison… There are 2 parts that make up his hair, so it’s not just one lump of plastic. ^^;

Lovely red cape. The red paint job was nice in my point of view. Compared to AC PA Vincent’s cape, it is VERY HARD. You can’t bend it even if you want to. The cape is my favorite part of Vincent, aside from the head.

The claw.

His sexy legs.

The gun. What was the name again?

I think this Vincent PA is probably the 2nd best among the Play Arts that I owned. His chest area has added articulation! The best one in my possession is Squall, my only FF8 PA among his FF7 counterparts. ^^;;…

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Now for Sephiroth

The hair looks great! Its like a silver gradient, instead of the dull flat gray for AC Sephiroth. HOWEVER, I found out that the paint can be scraped off easily with your finger nails. -_- At first, I thought there was a dirty ’spot’ on his hair, so I tried to scrape it off with my nail and voila! I realized what came off was the silver paint. I had actually made it worse… So in actual fact, that dirty ’spot’ was the part where the paint had come off. I’m trying really hard to ignore that teeny ’spot’. >_<

Another side profile. Really nice face, don’t you think?

I don’t have more pictures of his Silver Hair Highness, because I was a bit tired by the time I got to dear old Sephy. I would like to point out that AC Sephiroth has better articulation than Game Sephiroth. It seems his waist can’t be twisted and his leather coat can’t be removed, which just makes articulation that much worse. They’re restricting his legs, on top of his already stiff legs in the first place. Or is it just Unlucky!Me that got a defective figure? >_> It’s too bad AC Seph suffered from poor face sculpting and less than dazzling hair than his Game version. Another thing, Game Sephiroth came with a masamune that is even longer than AC Seph’s masamune. O.O The hilt was nice though.

The 2 of them. Eh? Sephiroth is taller than Vincent?