Rank the following lead characters by how much you like em, how important they were, and how useful they were in the story.
Alright, the candidates are,
From Final Fantasy
4 - Cecil
5 - Bartz
6 - Terra or Locke (I know there are a bunch of good be leads here but she's the focus. You can choose Locke as the alternate, but he's really never displayed as the central character)
7 - Cloud
8 - Squall
9 - Zidane
10 - Tidus or Yuna (You can choose Yuna as the lead as an alternate here. It was "their" story)
12 - Ashe or Vaan (Ashe was seriously much more of the central character than Vaan after you left Rabanastre, so we can put both up there.)
13 - I haven't played it yet, so rank away.
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My List:
1. Cecil-FF4 (He's the only Lead ever portrayed as a "legendary" figure. It is his and only his destiny in that game. Only the original game gives such a position of power to the characters.
2. Terra-FF6 (She just has everything. She can do everything in the game, and she's the strongest link there has ever been to espers in the game, and she does that in a game with the strongest story for espers of any game. She's loved, she's feared, she's a pawn, she's a threat, she's just everything. Check the seen where she becomes a nanny.)
3. Yuna-FF10 (I went ahead with the Yuna option. I do feel that she is every bit the main character that Tidus is within the game. It's "their" story. And she's really strong, really modest, really dedicated. What other character went into the story knowing they had such high stakes placed upon them from step one? How cool was it to find out what she was facing? WOW.)
4. Cloud-FF7 (This is kind of tough, because I don't know if I'm in love with the guy, but he is an uber bad mo-fo in a lot of ways, and his back story is pretty interesting. I liked when you found out that he was far less than he thought he was.)
5. Ashe-FF12 (I'm starting to get into ho-hum territory a little here with games I cared more about the minor characters in, but Ashe was a solid character. Again I'm going with a female semi-sub-lead character, but Ashe was a genuine A-Lister who was the star of the game more than Vaan. She doesn't have Yuna's likeable sensability, and she doesn't display Yuna's level of commitment either though, so she's significantly below some of the other female leads of the series.
6. Squall-FF8 (I'm not sure what to say about him. This is very close to my favorite game of the series, and I do like Squall's background, but it's not that complex or dire, and I didn't really get that he was quite as bad ass as Cloud or as noble as Cecil and so he's just a kinda alright character really.)
7. Zidane-FF9 (some of you will kill me for this, but the dude was just too flamingly happy. YUCK!)
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