Board 8 > Save Viso's Favorite Final Fantasy Characters: RESULTS [svfffc]

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First up, write-ups for our final two:

16. Kefka Palazzo

Despite Kuja outranking him, Kefka is right up there in contention for the title of the series' best villain. While Kuja feels more of a lawful evil psycho, Kefka is very much a chaotic evil psycho, and both of those approaches offer different and enjoyable flavors of evil psycho. Kefka is definitely the more memorable and memeable of the two characters though, what with his annoyance at getting sand on his boot...in a desert...and requiring his underlings to deal with that for him. Or, you know, poisoning an entire fucking city just because that's how he fucking rolls. Kefka's brand of violence and evil is just FUN to watch, and it's a great contrast to an admittedly big cast of playable characters that have almost too much diversity in their goals and personalities. For just being memorable and having a fuckton of personality, Kefka makes my list.

And:

17. Galuf Halm Baldesion

Long before spoilers happened in FFVII, there were a pair of deaths that felt MUCH more impactful to me as a player than that of some girl who honestly could've been excised from the plot and it wouldn't have mattered a whole lot. The first was Tellah, but in FFIV, there are so many characters fake-dying that he kinda gets lost in the shuffle. But Galuf in FFV is the one that actually hit me pretty hard. We first meet him and he's an amnesiac after being hit by a falling meteor, so he starts off as a general tag-along to Bartz and Lenne. But he fills the role of kindly old man well enough.

Eventually though, it's revealed that not only is Galuf surprisingly badass for an old man, but he's actually been the King of Bal the whole time. Whether because of his amnesia or not, he's still very humble about the whole thing (although it's kinda funny that Bartz, this random dude, is the only PC that's not royalty in some fashion.) But Galuf's one goal in life was to serve as a Warrior of Light alongside his comrades, all of whom fall defending the world against ExDeath. And like them, he sacrifices himself to save the new quartet of warriors, including his granddaughter. It's a noble sacrifice and it comes from a character that we've spent the whole game getting to know and love, which makes his death feel more noteworthy than some of the others in the series.

Galuf, along with Faris, really elevate FFV beyond the generic tropes that we saw in FFIV and earlier, so he earns a ton of love from me for that.
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Now, the end results. By a score of 72 to 61, we have a champion for this long, and certainly popular contest. Bow down before your new overlord, peasants!

THE WINNER [1]:

Kefka Palazzo

ELIMINATED [24]:
2. Galuf Halm Baldesion
3. Oerba Dia Vanille
4. Vincent Valentine
5. Tifa Lockheart
6. Celes Chere
7. Jecht
8. Lightning
9. Setzer Gabbiani
10. Balthier
11. Locke Cole
12. Auron
13. Edgar Roni Figaro
14. Zidane Tribal
15. Oerba Yun Fang
16. Kuja
17. Fran
18. Cid Highwind
19. Edward "Edge" Geraldine
20. Terra Branford
21. Faris Scherwiz
22. Sazh Katzroy
23. Freya Crescent
24. Hope Estheim
25. Penelo

TOP 25 RANKINGS:
1. Faris Scherwiz
2. Zidane Tribal
3. Oerba Dia Vanille
4. Celes Chere
5. Balthier
6. Sazh Katzroy
7. Cid Highwind
8. Edgar Roni Figaro
9. Fran
10. Auron
11. Freya Crescent
12. Kuja
13. Oerba Yun Fang
14. Tifa Lockheart
15. Terra Branford
16. Kefka Palazzo
17. Galuf Halm Baldesion
18. Jecht
19. Locke Cole
20. Edward "Edge" Geraldine
21. Hope Estheim
22. Penelo
23. Setzer Gabbiani
24. Vincent Valentine
25. Lightning
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vis in case you didn't realize I felt like logging these results so

http://gmun.moe/b8/savemython/results.php?cfilts=smfffc2;smns;smt;smfffc&mode=4

1. Final Fantasy VII: 68.00%
2. Final Fantasy X: 66.00%
3. Final Fantasy VI: 64.00%
4. Final Fantasy V: 58.00%
5. Final Fantasy XIII: 46.40%
6. Final Fantasy XII: 34.67%
7. Final Fantasy IX: 33.33%
8. Final Fantasy IV: 28.00%
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Bump.
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Would have been cool to see Galuf win something, but Kefka's a good champ, too!
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hooray

i guess

;_;

I'd say Kuja is more Neutral Evil or even possibly Chaotic Evil that only looks less chaotic compared to Kefka. Neutral is probably accurate as he's basically just evil due to being selfish and not having any regard for life.

Definitely don't see any real lawful aspect to him in any case-- he doesn't really follow any sort of code. Best example of Lawful Evil in the series is probably X-Death actually. Or Vaynr or Barthandalus but it's hard to really call them best anything and feel good about it.
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Nice. Never would've thought Galuf could make it anywhere near a finals, and he managed to keep it reasonably close.
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Boo Galuf is better!
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Galuf is a great character. I wish he normally got this level of appreciation!
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Would've loved to see Galuf win, but to FFVI's credit, Kefka is at least a new and reasonable winner.
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