Quina and it isn't even a contest. Literally remove her from the game and nothing changesBlu Magic is very powerful fam
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Blu Magic is very powerful fam
Blu Magic is very powerful fam
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I think for me it's Eiko. You already had a summoner character.She's very important to the story and helps Dagger
Implying FF 9 is hardImplying any FF game is hard
She's very important to the story and helps DaggerAll being able to be done as a npc.connect to her birthplace.
8 - It's been a while since I played it, but maybe Zell? I don't really remember him actually doing anything besides being there.
9 - Quina, easily.
10 - Lulu does absolutely nothing for the plot of this game besides exist and spout exposition every time Tidus is confused about something.
Lulu has a lot of really good character moments but they are all optional and missableIf every aspect of a character's backstory and contribution to the plot is optional and/or missable, that means the character doesn't actually matter to the story of the game
So if you don't seek those scenes out she is just the exposition character
If you do seek then out you learn things like how she lost her parents when she was young
How her and chappu were going to get married
How she failed her first pilgrimage as a guardian
13 - Hope.Hope had the best and most realistically written character arc in 13 and had that scene where
Quina and it isn't even a contest. Literally remove her from the game and nothing changesExcept a lot of the funny scenes and lines go bye-bye.
And you didn't ask but
2 - Guy
Except a lot of the funny scenes and lines go bye-bye.
But he speak beaver!That was literally his only contribution to the plot
wtf is with the Quina hate? I always love the blue mage and he's fine. Amarant is the one that's super forgettableBroken speech comic relief gobbledygook kind of characters just ain't for everybody. It is what it is.
Surprised no one's mentioned Freya, since we're on the subject of how plot-irrelevant the latter half of 9's party members are. She's fairly focal for a brief window, but after Cleyra she could literally fall off a cliff and no one would notice.Freya has a 9999 fixed damage attack.
7 - probably Vincent. Entirely optional and has no actual role in the current plot events, with only a tiny bit of side content dedicated to him. Yuffie has more memorable moments and at least has the Wutai events, even if she's similarly unimportant to the plot.On paper I agree with you, but then its like in general vincent always has been propped up since being associated with hojo, lucrecia and sephiroth even in the og game where he was optional is a pretty huge deal (like, not for the in-game story, more like just a huge deal for the fanbase in general), and then he actually gets his own lead game in the next console generation. Vincent is popular enough among the fanbase just because of that relation to bad boy sephy's
Vincent's problem is that his backstory is similar to Cloud:Vincent's problem is that he joined the party for absolutely no reason, contributed absolutely nothing to the overall plot or any other character's story, and didn't get any personal character development until the very end of the game when you pick up his ultimate weapon/Limit Break.
An ex shinra army that's been experimented by Hojo, joined the party in pursuit for Hojo and Sephiroth