/vr/ - Retro Games

Replaying the game myself, and one thing came to mind.

If the Weapons in FF7 were the Planet's guardians, created by the planet in a time of crisis who make sure nobody fucks the planet up, why didn't Ruby or Emerald go down to the Northern Crater to slap Sephiroth around and stop all this madness? I mean, both of them could easily beat him. No need for Cloud and company to do a damn thing.

Why did the Weapons leave the northern crater in the first place and go fuck humans lives up anyway? Shinra is bad, I get it, leeching all the planet's lifeforce or whatever from the ground, but can't the Weapons understand that its small potatoes compared to Sephiroth who is trying to ram a fucking meteor into the planet destroying everything?

Are Weapons mind controlled by Sephiroth or some crap? I don't think that was ever implied. And at the northern continent, you learn from Professor Gasts videos that Weapons were originally made to counter Jenova, but then the Ancients did it, so Weapons were useless and just went to sleep or some shit.

TL;DR Weapons in FF7 make no sense whatsoever. Or am I missing something?