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THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

Like it's a weird criticism, but they almost fleshed them out TOO much?

They did? I must have missed it. As near as I can tell, they spent a bunch of the story on them that resulted hours of excess fluff, but never actually got around to, y'know, giving them any actual characerization.

Like... you can literally sum up their entire character in a single sentence each:
Biggs: The "cool guy" who helps out at an orphanage in his spare time.
Wedge: The overweight kind-hearted cat lover who is the butt of everyone's jokes.
Jessie: The former actress <s>whose father was rendered comatose by Mako poisoning after working in a Shinra reactor</s> who desperately wants Cloud's buster sword in her Materia slot.

...aaaaand that's it. That's literally all there is to those characters.

And, I mean, it's fine if NPCs don't get a lot of development. In the original game this trio had even less characterization than that, but still managed to serve their role just fine and add a bit of emotional impact to Shinra dropping the plate and killing everyone in Sector 7. But the original game also didn't pretend that they were major characters. If you're going to have us run around with these people for hours, at least, y'know, make them interesting.