Sabin FF6. He’s the only one who can suplex a train.
I love the character concept with Sabin, it was peak Street Fighter II days for me too, so doing the Bumrush with Sabin was so awesome
Gau is kind of a fun character to play if you get good with his rages
Lot of final fantasy characters I like but an underrated one I always liked was Kuja from FFIX
Knew he was predestined to die and still chose to fight against his creators to defeat them.
I know this is the ultimate cliche answer, but it’s gotta be Sephiroth for me. The original FVII just caught me at that perfect time.
Spoilers ahead…
When you play through FFVII (the original, that is–I haven’t played the remakes yet), you only just hear about Sephiroth at first. Then you see some of the carnage that he’s caused: the President of Shinra dead at his desk and the super difficult snake boss piked on a giant stake.
In one of the flashbacks, he’s doing freaking research. That sounds boring and bland, but it was a level of depth to a villain that most people (or at least I) had never seen before. In another flashback, Cloud as a new recruit is with Sephiroth, and the difference in power is incredible. Sephiroth makes child’s play of this enormous dragon.
The final battle(s) is fantastic, and his theme song–hinted at throughout the game by Uematsu’s classic score–is iconic. Phallic imagery aside, the Masamune blade is simple but super cool. And he freaking kills Aerith?! Can he do that?! A friend of mine stopped playing the game for weeks after he got to that part.
A lot of these things are super common in games now, and I know there are several games before FFVII that had characters with this amount of depth (FFVI comes to mind), but Sephiroth is just the coolest, man!!
Kefka the menace and Beatrix from FF9.
Kefka was bent on destroying stuff, but Beatrix, she does a 180.
Take a wild guess…
It’s Umaro, isn’t it?
GAU!
Bartz and Faris FFV
Cait Sith, Aerith FVII
Zach Fair Crisis Core
Squall, Rinoa, Zell, Quistis, Seifer, Laguna FFVIII
Vivi, Steiner FFIX
Tidus, Yuna, Auron, Wakka, Rikku, Lulu, Jecht FFX
Balthier FFXII
Vanille, Sazh, Snow FFXIII
Caius FFXIII-2
Ignis FFXV
Cid, Dion, Clive FFXVI
FFX
No one likes Kimari, lol!
The Red Mage from FF1. My first team was four Red Mage.
Gotta be Vivi. Just a loveable guy
