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TMOG posted...

I say this a lot, but most of Cross's cast are just a fun bonus to recruit if you want to go for completion. You still get your cast of core characters that are story-based recruits, but somebody like, say, Skelly is optional for a reason. He doesn't matter, but he's a fun reward for doing a sidequest.

I agree, the whole 'cast is too big' issue is way overblown and misunderstood. Having not read his post, I'm going to assume Fake Vegy's rebuttal to this is that having a large cast of recruitables totally took time and energy away from developing the core cast. In that case, which one? The mute protagonist? The heroine who's either absent or comatose for half of the game for story reasons and is developed perfectly adequately when she's onscreen?

The argument loses its water when you remember that any plot-related dialogue the 'useless' party members have is the same stock dialogue filtered through an accent program. The dozen or so party members who aren't useless to the plot - Radius, Fargo, Viper, Karsh, Riddel, etc - get about as much onscreen time and character development as your average non-Terra / Locke / Celes party member.