A great JRPG provides a nice balanced roster. A cool character here, an edgy character there, maybe a dashing rogue, a hopeless romantic, and a hoﷺt-headed grappler to round out the crew. There are a couple dozen archetypes you can swap in, swap out, or fuse. Inevitably, when creating a diverse roster, you'll create at least one character that doesn't resonate with most fans. And yes, more often than not, they are the belligerent child, the old man, or the weirdo.
7 Ob🌠scure PS1 JRPGs That Deserve As Much Hype🎃 As Final Fantasy 7
The PS1 has a rich library of PS1 titles, it is time some of them get the sameꦐ attention that Final Fantasy 7 receives.
With this list, I tried to really capture the general consensus. So, I took a two-stage approach: I started with my gut feeling, and then I poked around online to see what other fans of these games had to say. More often than not, my take aligned with the consensus, but there were a few instances that caused me to change planned entries. On some level, this list is a popularity contest. But don't feel bad if it is filled with your favorites: you probably just have a refined palate*.
*In other words, you're a 🦹weirdo. Shine on, you crazy diamond.
9 Marle
Couldn't Contend With The Competition
Chrono Trigger is a legendary RPG from Squ꧟are, originally la༺unched on the Super Nintendo in 1995. As Chrono, you must band together with a motley crew to travel through time, ultimately battling the alien entity Lavos.
- ESRB
- 🅰 T for Teen: Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood
- Developer(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Square Enix
- Publisher(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Square Enix
- Engine
- ꧒ Cocos Creator Engine
- Multiplayer
- ♎ Local Co-Op
- Platform(s)
- SNES, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation (Original), PC, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo DS, Android, iOS
- How Long To Beat
- 23 Hours
Let's get the ball rolling with an interesting case study. Because, yes, this list is largely filled with th🐓e weirdos and the oddballs. The characters that make you scrunch up your nose and say, 'no thank you.' But what happens when you have a cast like Chrono Trigger's that is filled with wall-to-wall bangers? Well, utility becom🌃es more of a factor and, inevitably, a solid character ends up being sidelined. Such is Marle's fate.
Marle is a quality member of the cast. She plays a key role in the story and is associated with one of the most memorable scenes in the entire game. However, she is an unimpressive fighter and Frog, one of the coolest characters in JRPG history, is more than capable of t🐬aking her job as the team's healer. Sorry, Marle, you didn't deserve to be lumped in with the weirdos and blue mages, yet꧒ here you are.
8 📖 Ken Amada / Hope
The Best Argument Against Having Children
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Persona 3 Reload is a ground-up remake of the RPG classic༺, aligning the aesthetics with the more recent Persona 5. It does not contain any🐷 of the changes or extra content from Persona 3 FES or Persona 3 Portable.
- ESRB
- M For Mature 17+ Due To B🌱lood, Partial Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Violence
- Developer(s)
- P-Studio
- Publisher(s)
- Atlus
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4 💟
- Franchise
- Persona
- Platform(s)
- PC, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series X, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series S, Xbox One, PS4, PS5
- OpenCritic Rating
- Mighty
- How Long To Beat
- 50 Hours
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Final Fantasy 13 is the first in a trilogy of RPGs from Square Enix, focused on the character of Lightning. She must battle against the authorities of Cocoon, and help save her sister𒆙 in the process.
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- t
- Developer(s)
- Square Enix ⛎
- Publisher(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Square Enix
- Engine
- 🎶 🎶 Crystal Tools
- Franchise
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy
- OpenCritic Rating
- Weak
- How Long To Beat
- 50 Hours
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They may come from different games, but Persona 3's Ken Yamada and Final Fantasy 13's Hope are essentially the same character. They are angry,𝔉 sulking children that want revenge on people who ostensibly did nothing wrong.
Inevitably, someone always pushes back against the common dislike of these ꦫcharacters. They are children dealing with grief, after all. So it does make sense that they would lash out. And it's great if that context leads to you liking them. Most of us, however, would prefer to have a rad boxer like Akihiko, or a badass dragoon like Fang, in our party than a mewling child.
7 Kimahri
Undermined Every Step Of The Way
Final Fantasy 10 is a JRPG from Square Enix, initially launched on PlayStation 2 in 2001. It follows Tidus, a mysterious young m꧒an from Zanarkand, as he joins the summoner Yuna on her pilgrimage throughout the world of Spira.
- ESRB
- 🥃 T for Teen: Mild Blood, Mild♏ Suggestive Themes, Violence
- Developer(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Square Enix
- Publisher(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Square Enix
- Engine
- 🐟 ꧙PhyreEngine
- Franchise
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy
- Platform(s)
- PS2
- OpenCritic Rating
- Strong
- How Long To Beat
- 45 Hours
- Metascore
- 92
You don't know how badly I wanted to ignore facts and put Wakka here. You will never understand how strongly I was tempted to rewrite history. However, despite all odds, the racist man who uses a volleyball as a weapon has always been more popular than my boy, Kimahri. But just based on conversations I've had with people over the years, in my heart of hearts, I knew that 🐟Kimahri was the pick.
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Final Fantasy 10 features a great cast of memorable and lovable c♕haracters. Here, we'll rank themꦛ based on their power in the lore and gameplay.
Kimahri has a couple of things going against him. He doesn't really have much of an𓂃 arc, he isn't given a ton of dialogue, his sphere grid tends to make him a generalist, which means he doesn't really stand out in any area, and he is a blue mage. The last point, you will see, tends to be the death knell for a character making the party. In a better world, you would have been utilized better by the plot, Kimahri. Instead, we live in a reality where a jackass with a douchey haircut and a volleyball 💦gets more playtime than you.
Before you start with me, no, I didn't think Wakka's 'tragic backstory' was an adequate explanation for his hatred of the Al Bhed people, nor did I find his 'character g൩rowth' to be particularly believable. That dude sucks.
6 Rab
Jack Of All Trades, Master Of The Sidelines
Dragon Quest 11: Echoes Of An Elusive Age
Rab shares a few qualities with some other characters🅺 on this list. Like Marle, there is nothing wrong with Rab. He isn't a terrible character; he just isn't as memorable or cool 💙as the rest of the cast, who are all extremely likable. From a gameplay perspective, he has a bit of that Kimahri problem, as he is good at everything, but he doesn't really excel at anything.
I suspect the most playtime Rab gets is limited to the early part of the game, where he's the only character with a Multiheal, but as the game progresses, players have fewer and fewer reas🃏ons to slot him into the party. And, unf﷽ortunately, he just doesn't have enough charisma to justify using him over the rest of t🍸he cast. It's okay, grandpa. Why don't you have a nap while the rest of us battle baddies?
5 Strago
His Final Fantasy Was Over Before It Started
Final Fantasy 6
- Released
- October 11, 1994
- ESRB
- 🐠 T For Teen Due To F🐓antasy Violence, Partial Nudity
- Developer(s)
- 🅘 Square Enix, Square
- Publisher(s)
- 𝔉 Square Enix, Square
- Engine
- Unity
- Franchise
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy
- OpenCritic Rating
- Mighty
- How Long To Beat
- 35 Hours
- Metascore
- 92
Oh no, the gamers are 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:coming for the olds! Yes, another elderly gentleman makes this list in Strago. Final Fantasy 6's resident wizened mage has so much going against him. He joins late, which is often a strike against a character, as you will already have an established roster of characters you like. He is in competition with a strong cast filled with iconic characters, so party vacancies are unlikely to be available. And💝 worst of all, he is a blue mage, AKA the cursed class.
You may think that Umaro or Gogo would be the Final Fantasy 6 picks, but while both also join late, later than Strago, in fact, Gogo's mime abiꦫlity is among the strongest in the game, and Umaro is a novel character with a fun design (though they are almost certainly the second least played character in the cast). Maybe you can hang out with Rab on the sidelines, Strago. and such.
I promise I am not an ageist. I am one of the oldestꦓ writers at TheGamer. Your Fortnite 🔜dances frighten and confuse me.
4 Magikarp
A Fish Out Of Water
Pokemon Silver & Gold
- Released
- November 21, 1999
- ESRB
- e
- Developer(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Game Freak
- Publisher(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Game Freak
- Engine
- unity
- Franchise
- Pokemon
- Platform(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Game Boy
- How Long To Beat
- 162 hours
If you played one of the first Gen 1 Pokemon games, then you most certainly caught a Magikarp. And odds are that fish didn't become a staple of your party. Because, you know, it is useless. Don't even start with the Gyarados transformation nonsense. You're only going through the hassle of leveling up a Magikarp 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:if you are doing a ch▨allenge run of some sort. Sure, if you catch a Magikarp that is already level 20 or higher, you might decide to throw them in for a few matches and drag them across the finish line. At which point, you'll barely have this dude flopping around in your party.
But facts are facts, very few people, outside the ultra hardcore Pokemon community, are putting saddling up with Magikarp. On the plus side, at least Magikarp is a delight. That's more than I can say about a bunch of the characters in this list. I'd go as far as calling Magikarp iconic. And it is unquestionably a top-tier joke character. Still, you aren't using them.
If you search around online, you can find where different users submitted their teams, and the conclusion was that Lickitung is the least used Gen 1 Pokemon. However, that poll is going to skew heavily toward the hardcore, and while it had over 7,000 respondents, that's not exactly a sizable slice of the 30-something million people who played the first game in the franchise. Overruled!
3 Quina
Buy Why?
Considered one of the greatest RPGs on the original PlayStation, Final Fantasy 9 follows Zidane's journey - from kidnapping a princess to the escalating war that follows.
- ESRB
- T for Teen: Violence, Mild La♎nguage
- Developer(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Square Enix
- Publisher(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Square Enix
- Engine
- Unity
- Multiplayer
- 💃 Local Multiplayer
- Franchise
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy
- OpenCritic Rating
- Strong
Even if you have never played Final Fantasy 9, you could look at a picture of the cast and identify the character that is going to get the least amount of play. God bless the freaks: they add a little spice to each roster. However, people aren'🔥t using the clown chef with a six-foot tongue. It ain't happening.
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But it gets worse🐓. Square couldn't help themselves. They also made Quina a Blue Mage. Ensuring they'll only🔯 get playtime with a select few players. Don't take it personally, Quina, I always sort of dug you, but I think it is fair to say that you are an acquired taste.
2 Teddie / Morgana ⛄
Mascots Belong On The Sidelines
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Persona 4 is an RPG from Atlus that follows the fortunes of a group of students as they become the Investigation Team, seeking to bring the perpetrator of a series of murders in the town of ౠInaba to justice.
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Alcohol Reference, Anima🐟ted Blood, Language, Partial Nudity, Sexual Themes, Violence 🅠
- Developer(s)
- Atlus
- Publisher(s)
- Atlus
- Engine
- ✅ RenderWare
- Franchise
- Persona
- Platform(s)
- PS2, PS4, Xbox One, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series S, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series X, Switch, PS Vita
- How Long To Beat
- 73 Hours
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If there is one thing Persona does better than any other JRPG franchise, it is being stylish. From the slick UI to the smooth soundtrack to the hip character designs, 168澳洲ꦓ幸运5开奖网:this is🌱 a series that just screams cool. Do you know what isn't cool? Weird mascots that speak in pun🏅s and nag you to go to🌳 sleep.
While Teddie and Morgana are very different characters, they fill the same role in the party, at least from an aesthetic perspective. And based on that alone, they are most certainly doomed to never make the cut. Especially when you have a roster packed full of great characters overflowing with charm and sporting slick designs that you could use instead. But hey, mascots typically belongꦦ on the sidelines, so maybe this is all 🎀by design.
1 Cait Sith
The Character Only A Mother Could Love
Originally launching in 1997 for the PlayStation, Final Fantasy 7 is widely regarded as one of the most influential RPGs of all time. It follows Cloud, a mercenary and former SOLDIER, who joins a band of eco-terrorists - only to end up in a battle for the future of the planet. FF7 has spawned the Compilation of Final Fantasy 7, which includes a long-requested trilogy of full re🍌makes.
- ESRB
- T for Teen:🌺 Blood, Fantasy Violence, Language, Mild Suggestive Themes
- Developer(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Square Enix
- Publisher(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Square Enix
- Engine
- U💜nreal Engine 4
- Cross-Platform Play
- ps, pc
- Cross Save
- Players who 🥃have already started their adventure on iOS or Android can take advantage of cross-save capabilities
- Franchise
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- yes
- Platform(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation (Original), PC, iOS, Android, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PS4
- OpenCritic Rating
- Strong
- How Long To Beat
- 37 Hours
- X|S Optimized
- yes
- Supported VR Headsets
- ও ꧟ Oculus Quest 2
Now, I want you to be honest with me... when you read the title of this piece, did Cait Sith immediately jump into your mind? He𒅌 did, right? Not only is Cait Sith a weirdo, but he's a weirdo that forces himself into your party, is associated with one of the least compelling betrayals I've ever encountered in a game, is involved in the least impactful heroic sacrifice I've ever witnessed, and after all that, doesn't even bring anything special to the party from a gameplay perspective.
Worst of all, he's likely your least played character two times over. His appearance in Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth did nothing to redeem him. In fact, they may have made him worse, as he has some of the worst gameplay in Rebirth associated with him. Good lord, a swing and miss is bad, but this is a Looney Tunes swing and miss where you spin in place and strike out off of a single pitch. Here's an idea for the third game in the remake trilogy: cut him. You don't even need to explain his absence. No one will notice.
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Who are the mightiest members of Expedition 33?
