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Top 5 Final Fantasy Characters
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March 29, 2009 at 6:26 pm
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March 29, 2009 at 6:26 pm
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As a huge Final Fantasy fan who is fiending for the next adaption of the series, I thought I would pass a very small amount of waiting time by constructing my Top 5 list of the best Final Fantasy Characters. This list is based on my own opinion, but I like hearing from fellow fans so let me know what you think, either in the comments below or by emailing me at Gswaby@thekoalition.com.
5. AURON
Auron (Final Fantasy X) rarely left my party as his attacks were brain smashingly effective.
He was your typical badass, he didn’t talk much, he instead let his sword do the talking.
4. TIDUS
Final Fantasy X’s main character was very likable for the fact that he was so unaware of the games proceedings. You and Tidus pretty much had to learn what the hell was going on together as he is inconveniently thrown into the amazing adventure which took place in Spira.
3. CLOUD
Cloud (Final Fantasy VII) has to be the best main character in a Final Fantasy to date. His story is just so deep and has so much history that you cant help but wanting to know more. Plus Cloud’s aggressive nature makes other main characters such as Tidus and Vaan look like crybabies.
2. YUNA
Yuna (Final Fantasy X/Final Fantasy X-2) has to be one of the cutest Final Fantasy characters ever. When Tidus fell for her you couldn’t help but feel like you was falling too (no matter how sad that sounds). She was such a great character that she became the main character of the FF10 sequel FFX-2.
1. SEPHIROTH
Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII) is the baddest character there is in final fantasy. There isn’t another villain that has managed to capture the deranged and psychotic characteristics that Sephiroth possesses. If Final Fantasy isnt your cup of tea as far as gaming goes, then check out the movie Advent Children, which is an adaption of the Final Fantasy VII story. You will see how great of a character Sephiroth (as well as a lot of the FFVII characters) is.
Remember let us know your thoughts on this topic too, Final Fantasy has had a lot of interesting characters so seeing some more Top 5 lists would be mad cool.
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um Yuna over Tifa? and Cloud?
You cant really rate final fantasy characters, it kinda just depends on which one you grew up on or connected with the most.
Where in goodness name is Kefka!?
Wheres Kefka? and Terra? or Exdeath?
i agree with hurricangautam it just depends on when you grew up and what you played imho i think tidus shouldn’t even be on this list…hes pretty much the most pussified character in the ff series to date and then id have to say vaan is next and the end of your article is wrong just so you know because advent children is not an adaptation of ff x story line its final fantasy VII story continued. figured id just let u know im sure its just a typo tho
lol, only two Final Fantasy series.
C’mon now Firion and Cecil should be in that list.
cecil & exdeath??
You know, there were games other than 7 and 10. 4, 6, and 8 had some pretty great characters.
Hell, Kefka should beat everyone on that list.
Wow. Someone’s in love with FFX.
Sorry, this list doesn’t cut it. No, Shadow? Kefka? Sephiroth, the whiny bitch is #1? Hell, Garland is a better villain than him.
Auron is cool, but Sabin, Locke, Kain, Rydia, Gilgamesh, Ultros, Vivi, Steiner and any Cid are better than some of these.
you´re crazy. Were the hell is garland better than Sephiroth? -.- He´s the nº1 villain for sure. I´re nuts -.-
As with everyone else… This is a horrible list. Obviously you are younger and grew up with Final Fantasy X universe. Then jumped on the FF7 bandwagon, without ever really (most likely) playing the game itself. If you did you’d have up more FF7 characters. Including, Tifa, Aerith,Barret and Vincent.
Also, its a well known fact that since FF7 all the characters have become bland and mundane. They are all Teenage High schoolers who look for an adventure with a ’save the world’ mentality.
Terra, Cecil, Locke, Sabin, Edgar, MOG!! Celes… The range of characters from older games is much more appealing as far as story is concerned. They weren’t all “cookie cutter” characters.
Tidus is the absolute worst character, until they revealed VAAN lol. Like it was even possible to get more gay and more bland.
Hopefully the FFXIII universe will change their pursuit of ‘mainstream’ appeal and actually create a worthwhile cast of characters with a fitting story.
My first RPG ever was FFX. The story was GOAT. Who cares bout all you all old heads talkin about the glory days of that 4 disk of a pokemon rpg know as FFVII. How about everyone list there list of top 5 characters if this one is not your cup of tea.
FFX was the FIRST Final Fantasy that I stopped playing halfway through because the story was so boring.
I have played all of them, since the very first one back in 1990. Trust me. I know what I am talking about.
And calling FFVII Pokemon is so funny, since FFX is the one with the Monster Hunter quest…EPIC FAIL.
you have to remember that this list is based on my own opinion, it’s not like i’m announcing this as an Official List…which is why I mentioned that I am happy to see other peoples own personal lists.
I agree with “give me a break”
It’s obvious that you’re young (my best guess is 19). Most “True” FF fans realize that this franchise has been flushing itself down the toilet since VII (IX was the only game on PS worth playing and X would have been decent if it wasn’t for #4 on your list). Do yourself a favor kid… FIND VI and PLAY IT!!!! It’s available on SNES (FFIII), PS1 (Final Fantasy Anthology i believe), and Gameboy Advance (FFVI Advance). That was the last truly great FF.
My List:
5. Vivi IX
4. Celis VI
3. Kain IV
2. Sabin VI
1. Kefka VI Villain (also the only FF Villain to succeed in ending the world. eat your heart out sephiroth, you whiney white haired bytch)!!!
im apologize that my list consists of characters from 2 games, but those two had the characters that I came to love the most. remember that this is an opinion piece…
Ive played FF1, FF2, FF7, FF8, FF10, FF11, and FF12
there are ones I have not yet had the oppertunity to play, but based on the ones i have…i love these characters the most, thats just the way it is. It has nothing to do with age….please make your own lists just like Higwa did.
i havent yet played X, but i dont agree wit ppl about IX. IX was unique, but the story was bland and its play was super easy. I dont really think age really matters about what games you have played. I’m 19 years old and i have played FF6 thro FF9. You should def play FF6. That game is beautiful. I wished that they upgraded the graphics instead of just upgrading the software. My favorite 5 are:
Cloud, Aeris, Celes, Terra, and Locke. My two top favorite FF villians are def kefka and sephiroth. Both are creepy and evil!
man your missing out , 10 is the worlds best game
Mine:
5. Cecil Harvey
4. Zack Fair
3. Cloud Strife
2. Tidus/Yuna (You can’t have one without the other….. If ya take one out, the other wouldn’t be as interesting. They count as one, at least for FFX)
1. Sephiroth (Like him in VII, and then found myself liking him in Crisis Core, even though he was good in most of it. Just an awesome villan for the ages.)
As for give me a break, give ME a break. It’s a list of five. It’s very difficult to list all the greats, so naturally, you go with you favorites from those you have played. I could name off Auron to Ultimecia, and from Garland to Tifa. That’s for the top 25 list….. so piss off and let those enjoy the games.
its true that youre just stating which characters youve bonded with(creepy) but who hasnt in the ff universe. ive played 1-12 and ds,gb,and ps1 tactics games. the list of mine would have to be
5. Auron ff10
I agree that auron is a great character,but like so many others he ranks down here.
4.Red13 ff7
in ff7 red 13 is my favorite character,good limits,stats are good if trained right, and he has that vibe ya know?
3. Zack ff7 crisis core
this is the big man, the second wielder of the buster sword after angelo. clouds best friend, but they killed him.
2.squall ff8
do i even need to say anything? with the rite items,gfs,and equipment, squall can whip some.
1. Cloud ff7
ive heard on many forums across the web agreeing with me on this one. clouds story made others think it wuz them doin wat he wuz doin. it was deep,magical,and hes a great character to play as.
I know im probably gonna get smack for this list but in m y opinion these deserve the top five. hey gary next time do a top ten and take all of our advice.
I got nothing to bash about it. Its a fine list. Give me a break is just another stuck-up person thinking that if you don’t agree with him, you must be so horribly wrong that he has to insult you, instead of just doing his list and explaining why he thinks his are the best five.
Jesus you people need to cool your jets.
Crud , it’s this persons opinion on his favorite characters.
It’s nice to list yours but don’t bash someone elses. It’s like telling a christian person to stop going to church.
The list is fine because it’s your opinion. While I have yet to play any of the games.
-FAIL-
I can’t sit through games like these for some reason but the story line interested me, maybe ill try playing them again later….
i havnt played any final fantasy games besides X and tactics advanced but my name is Titus so in the 10th one i actually felt like it was me in the game the whole time lol and yah i did fall in love with yuna ;D lol
It’s whenever lists like these appear that you can see the divides in the Final Fantasy fandom. The original kids, who grew up as the series grew up, stating that VI was the last great game, the second generation who started with VII and maintains that it is the greatest (though they admit the others were still great), and the new kids who think they know it all because they played X, and will never think twice about the older games and their incredible stories because the graphics make their brains hurt. (Y’know, those graphics that were groundbreaking and revolutionary in their time, without which we wouldn’t have our precious Final Fantasy X lifelike graphics and our ‘White Engine’ FFVII Demo and our FFXIII-using-four-of-the-six-internal-processors-of-the-PS3-it’s-so-graphically-intense graphics.)
Even though I haven’t played VI (and am a HUGE VII fan) I’m shocked that Kefka wasn’t mentioned…and equally surprised that you claim no other villain matches Sephiroth’s evil. I mean, Sephiroth is pretty dark, but Kefka is TWISTED in ways which Sephiroth could never be. Kefka is the sort of guy who kicks puppies into vats of acid for fun, the sort of guy who would eat a live kitten to prove how evil he was. He has no redeeming factors, unless you count ‘is a GREAT bad guy’ as a redeeming factor. Sephiroth has a freaking in-game FANCLUB, and is idolized by every young man in his world. He’s a freaking war hero. He’s not committing evil for evil’s sake, he’s on a divine mission, given to him by his ‘ancestors’ to carry out the will of his ‘god(dess)’ to become a new god. Kefka wanted to become a new god basically because it sounded good. You can almost sympathize with Sephiroth’s motives (almost being the operative word), but Kefka is impossible to redeem. It’s like comparing Two-Face (Used to be the paradigm of good and hope, fell into madness when great evil befell him) to The Joker (is just plain nuts).
Then there’s villains like Kuja in IX, who took Sephiroth’s looks and mysterious connection to the main characters and combined it with Kefka’s crazy and magic, (Kuja was the *second* FF villain to actually succeed in destroying a world, after Kefka, and he did it while looking FABULOUS. His motivation? ‘It wouldn’t be fair for the world to exist without me.’), and Seymour in X, who seriously thought the world would be better if everyone was dead, and was just about as creepy to look at as Kefka.
So, I guess my lists break down into heroes and villains.
Top 5 Heroes:
- Zack (The unsung hero of FFVII; without him, Cloud would have been nothing. Literally.)
- Aerith (Her strength came from her unyielding spirit and her ability to profoundly touch everyone she met. Another who smiled at death, who was willing to give all to save all. Again, without her, Cloud would have been nothing.)
- Yuna (‘Death smiles at us all. All you can do is smile back.’ Yuna is so like Aerith, except that Aerith didn’t know she was going to die. Yuna did, and was determined to die fighting to save her home. She accepted her fate with grace, and feared only failing in her task as Summoner.)
- Sephiroth (Once upon a time, Sephiroth was a hero. He somehow managed to overcome everything in his tortured youth and became a fiercely loyal friend to his comrades…so loyal, it was his own downfall.)
- Vivi (Another one for the Yuna and Aerith group, who bravely dedicated his life to his friends even before he knew he could die the next day. Plus, he’s a Black Mage, and Black Mages are awesome. Always.)
Top 5 Villains:
- Professor Hojo (Everything bad that ever happens in VII happens because of this man. EVERYTHING. And it wasn’t even some sort of ‘accidental evil’ that he committed, like ‘When he went back in time with his time machine, he stepped on a butterfly, and now the fundamentals of history have changed and we’re all going to die’. He was pretty actively evil to everyone.)
- Kefka (I’ve expounded on Kefka’s villainous nature enough in this post. You get the picture.)
- Kuja (A master puppeteer villain, who pulled the strings in all the right places, and yet he stayed clearly visible the whole time, unlike Ultimecia, who basially fell out of the sky at the end of Disc 3 of VIII as the ‘omg true villain’.)
- Sephiroth (Everything that made him such a great hero made him such a great villain when he fell. Plus, the guy has died three times now and keeps coming back. Just as he said, he would never become a mere memory.)
- Sorceress Edea (I know she wasn’t the ‘real villain’ of VIII, but she might as well have been. I have no reason to hate Ultimecia, because I already hated all the sorceresses she was controlling in my time, and I got over it because /I already defeated them/. Add to it that Edea was the one who ran the orphanage that most of the characters were from and was the one who envisioned the Gardens that trained them into the heroes they became, and her story as caring woman turned evil murdering sorceress just seems /better/ than the others.)
Frankly, Kefka was a great villain, but I don’t count him as the greatest simply because Spehiroth did it out of a lost sense of purpose and a twisted view of the universe that Hojo instilled in him by creating him. Kefka was evil, but Sephiroth was twisted.
My other comment on your recent post is I get tired of my fellow Pre-VII-ites failing to admit that Final Fantasy X was a great game, and while I love IV and VI, I don’t think they top it and are uber-better then X like most seem to scream to the heavens.
My top five:
5) Sephiroth
4) Ultimecia
3) Kuja
2) Exdeath
1) Kefka
I prefer the villains over the heroes.
wow, seems to me alot of you are stuck up pricks. the dude said it was his opinion so back off already if you dont like it go cry in a corner. although i will agree with him that final fantasy X was a great game and my favorite considering how you learned with tidus as to how the world worked.
as for my list i cant place my favorites although
Rikku is def my favorite just because of her crazy and jumpy personality
Zack Fair is my second. the dude is a one man army he was unstoppable till the end when he was finally brought down by oh 200 soldiers 10 helicopters probably a few tanks, and even then he killed most of them lol
as for the rest to close to call
Dude where is leon
Leon is just the name for Squall in KH
Oops forgot about Leon from FF II
Honestly, I’ve never played more than 30 minutes of the Final Fantasy series. But I can tell some people take these character rankings seriously…
yes sepiroth IS No.1
he ROCK for being an evil guy who never gives up ^^
and i see nothing wroing with this order it’s ok..
but even so i think leon should have ben ther from (ff8) he’s like No.2 to me :p
My top 5:
5) Cloud
4) Vincent
3) Terra
2) Kefka
1) Cecil Paladin
Actually,
5)Vincent
4)Kefka
3)Terra
2)Kuja
1)Cecil Paladin
I Think Cecil is a great character, a little whiny at the beginning and kind of emo, because of everything he is doing, and how it affects him, such as killing innocent people, and him being destined to be a dark knight, but after he became a Paladin, he began to kick some major fucking ass! ahha:P Cecil is an amazing character.
Oh, but i can’t agree that Cloud is a real GREAT character. Cloud is well kind of, depressive, and not nearly at all close to being the greatest final fantasy main character at all, IN MY OPINION. Cloud is kind of to arrogant, hard to get along with, and well, you said he makes the others seem like cry babies, well Vaan in my opinion is not a cry baby, in fact he rarely ever complained. He kind of just rants a little bit about things he did not like, and was very adventurous, like the teenager he is, and Tidus was trying to cope with everything in the world, but at least he had a positive attitude with his party, and tried to make things better one them, unlike cloud who seemed miserable through out the entire game, and didn’t work really hard at all give a positive outlook on the party, except for Aeries, and as soon as she died, he became the real cry baby of the final fantasy series. Cloud is cool, and a great character to some extent, but BY FAR NOT a GREAT character, just a decent character.
If your hometown and parents were killed by sephiroth, then killed yourself by him. Then brought back to life the same way that they made sephiroth. Then your best friend dies not to long before the one you love is killed by sephiroth, you would be a sad panda too. Not to mention every person he promised to protect was pretty much killed right in front of him. Despite his depression, its what makes him stronger to overcome the obstacles in his way(kinda like Goku) making a great character story wise.
Tidus FF X
Clad FF VII
Squall FF VIII
Edea FF VIII
Firion FF I
Fovorites FF :
+++
1. FF VII
2. FF VI
3. FF I (psx)
4. FF IV
5. FF V
6. FF III
7. FF IX
8. FF IV
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%$@# this list,:(, seriously, where is shiva, or bahamut, H*** even kefka is better, and it took me over 3 months to get past him
The list begins and ends with Shantotto. Total badass.