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Well Emil is a Mary Sue too. I described him in another topic as "fifty shades of self-insert fanfiction where a weakling Mary Sue can transform himself into an infallible badass, meets all his heroes, and gets a waifu voiced by Laura Bailey who gets wet at the sight of him." You may remember where. Is Rose as bad as that?

Well, when I did my giant Tales character ranking, I had Emil at #90 and Rose at #94, one spot out of last place. Now, granted, Emil got a little bit of that bump because I at least find him enjoyable to play in combat, but I do think Rose is still a worse character, if only due to circumstance - Rose single-handedly and completely ruins Zestiria's worldbuilding in multiple ways, which was the one part of the game that was actually promising before she showed up. Everything she does works out for her, her actions dont have consequences, and the rest of the party all treats her as infallible. The rules of Zestiria that apply to literally every other character simply don't to her. AND it's all so obviously forced that even if you aren't previously aware that development of the game was entirely overhauled midway through to give her this starring role, you'd probably suspect it.

Emil just has the, uh, good fortune to be in a title that was doomed no matter what kind of character he was, so I don't find his failings quite as egregious in comparison. But we're talking about two bottom-six characters in a series with over one hundred now (without even counting Japan-only games).