14th April 2005, 8:06 PM
The only problem I really had with FFVI was that it had too many useless party members with little to no story behind them. It also would've been nice if we could've learned something, anything, about Gogo. All we know is that he's mysterious. Kudos on the Shadow and Relm storyline, but can we elaborate on some other characters please?
The game basically had two types of playable characters: the ones who play a big part in the story (Terra, Celes, Locke, Edgar, Sabin, Cyan, Setzer) and the ones who were just filler (Mog, Gau, Umaro, Gogo), and I guess you could place Shadow, Strago, and Relm under either category. (They don't play very active roles in the main plot, but their characters are elaborated on a good bit.) Then again, there was that part where Shadow defected to the Empire, and there's the fact that Strago has a magical connection to the Espers.
Okay, I've gotten deeper into that subject that I wanted to, so... on the topic of FFIV, yes, Edward/Gilbert is very annoying. He can stay bedridden for all I care. He wasn't a very good party member anyway. FuSoYa was awesome though... it's a shame he had to die... or go into hypersleep. I forgot what happened to him, it's been about three years since I played through the entire game. (I did begin a new file a few months ago though.) Personally, I think Cecil was cooler as a Dark Knight than as a Paladin, but that's just me. Kain is awesome though. I heard it's possible to get Yang in your final party in place of Kain though.
What's funny about FFIV is that you're left to think that so many of your party members are dead, when in fact only Tella(h) kicked the bucket. Palom and Porom are de-petrified, Yang turns out to be okay, Cid comes back alive even though we clearly watched him explode... yuuuup.
The game basically had two types of playable characters: the ones who play a big part in the story (Terra, Celes, Locke, Edgar, Sabin, Cyan, Setzer) and the ones who were just filler (Mog, Gau, Umaro, Gogo), and I guess you could place Shadow, Strago, and Relm under either category. (They don't play very active roles in the main plot, but their characters are elaborated on a good bit.) Then again, there was that part where Shadow defected to the Empire, and there's the fact that Strago has a magical connection to the Espers.
Okay, I've gotten deeper into that subject that I wanted to, so... on the topic of FFIV, yes, Edward/Gilbert is very annoying. He can stay bedridden for all I care. He wasn't a very good party member anyway. FuSoYa was awesome though... it's a shame he had to die... or go into hypersleep. I forgot what happened to him, it's been about three years since I played through the entire game. (I did begin a new file a few months ago though.) Personally, I think Cecil was cooler as a Dark Knight than as a Paladin, but that's just me. Kain is awesome though. I heard it's possible to get Yang in your final party in place of Kain though.
What's funny about FFIV is that you're left to think that so many of your party members are dead, when in fact only Tella(h) kicked the bucket. Palom and Porom are de-petrified, Yang turns out to be okay, Cid comes back alive even though we clearly watched him explode... yuuuup.