Sorry if most of you disagree with this but I think the NPC Reconstruction Patch is just a little more important. I'm sorry but I'm kinda against the whole Swapping Sephiroth and Cloud thing (unless the final version completely changes the story...a story just for Sephiroth durring his early life, durring the Shinra VS Wutai War and what was going through Sephiroth's mind durring the Nibelheim incident where the story ends, the final boss representing his insanity in the form of himself, a battle impossible to win...as a cutscene dramatic like Cloud VS Sephiroth....though this would require an extensive amount of Coding, something nor really possible to complete anytime soon).
To me, this patch kinda harms the story of Final Fantasy VII! the NPC Reconstruction patch, on the other hand, does nothing to the story and updates the game to make it look better, replacing the low poly block characters with higher poly characters to match the Battle characters and the FF7's engine can handle much higher poly models, maybe even close to Advent Children quality!
My stand is that maybe the focus should be on the NPC Recontruction Patch, then get back to this Sephiroth Patch when NPC V1.0 is completed and released (all models done) as:
1. it seems that the NPC Patch is meant to go with the Sephiroth Patch
2. The NPC Patch seems to be near completion anyway and less headaches to complete
3. A true FF7 fan would find the Sephiroth Patch kinda insulting...even though the ideea of being Sephiroth is pretty cool.
Sorry ice_cold513 but I guess overall, I believe that the NPC Patch be complete before the Sephiroth Patch for I fear the NPC Patch won't be completed if you continue the Sephiroth Patch...though the choice is yours...