Longest attack animation in a videogame

Japanese RPGs are known for elaborate boss fights and complex attack animations. In the penultimate battle of Final Fantasy VII (1997) the boss Safer Sephiroth’s SuperNova attack starts a cutscene that takes a record 2 min 16 sec to unfold. This is gaming’s longest wait between the start and end of an attack, and cannot be skipped through. By comparison, in Borderlands 2 (Gearbox, 2012) some automatic weapons work quickly enough to produce 2,400 individual attacks in the same time it takes for just one SuperNova cutscene to finish!