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Again on the Characters though, I thought some were high and some were low. IX's versions were very useful and fun. Vivi was the best, and both Zidane and Garnet were enjoyable leads. The Knight was fun, but I'm on the fence with him as he was a bit of a blockhead for so long. And I did enjoy the use of temporary characters which had been missing since Final Fantasy VI, where I loved using such a large cast.

Games like IV, VI, VII, & X had far better characters. In IX, the Rat Lady, Quina, the big Red-headed dude, and the little girl summoner at the end, were all toss in characters. None of them really mattered that much to the larger story, and the Red-Headed dude esspecially was introduced with a lot of haste that made little sense. I'm not really even sure why Quina was there, although again she was fun. Compare that to VII, where every character mattered, or VI where all 14 characters mattered.
Ahem..

First, of all the 14 characters, only 6 really mattered (Strago, Sabin, Relm, Shadow, Gogo, Gau, Umaro and Mog, although cool, did not have anything really to do with the main plot. True, most of them helps you at some point, but that's it.) Terra, Locke, Edgar, Setzer, Celes and Cyan are the only characters with main plot related stories.

Also, You said that there had not been Temporary characters in FFVII and VIII? Aeris, Seifer, Laguna, Ward Kiros and Edea are all sad now