After the traumatic events that followed he adopted the persona of his friend, Zack Fair, who had actually been the elite member of SOLDIER that Cloud aspired to be. It would take several paragraphs to tell his entire back story so let’s settle for the short version, shall we? Cloud told Tifa he would leave their home town of Nibelheim and become an elite soldier when they were both kids… only he failed. Cloud Strife takes the cake in this regard. 3) Tifa LockhartĪs we’ve seen time and time again in this series, Final Fantasy protagonists tend to come with a whole lot of baggage. The strength and resolve he finds in himself to get out of that coffin and finally do something about it is what makes him a great character. The shame and regret that Vincent holds onto, for all of his unwitting parts in the terrible state of affairs the world currently finds itself, leads to the coffin bound exile he is in when you first find him. His love interest, who would eventually commit suicide, gave birth to Sephiroth in a laboratory. As we learn through his various side quests, Vincent once worked for Shinra where he was betrayed and murdered by Shinra’s resident creep in chief: Hojo. In truth though, what makes Vincent such an effective character isn’t all of the theatrical elements, it’s his more human struggles. All of that nonsense aside, he’s also got a very cool outfit. He also has the ability to turn into JRPG versions of the classic Universal monsters of yore. Vincent Valentine sleeps in a coffin in a haunted mansion. Now we’re on to the really cool, and totally ridiculous, characters of Final Fantasy VII. With that in mind, if a fellow were to, say, rank the characters from a whole bunch of Final Fantasy games, this would almost certainly be the game to start with right? 9) Yuffie Kisagari Sure, there is a bevy of other reasons why FFVII has remained so iconic and everlasting for RPG fans (not the least of which is that it finally made them seem sort of cool) but when most people talk about what they love about this game, it usually has to do with the spectacular cast of characters and the journey of self-discovery they undertake in their quest to stop a certain androgynous test-tube baby.

Perhaps this is a central reason to why Final Fantasy VII still holds such an enduring place in gaming culture. If you’re going to be spending a significant amount of time with these people as your main driving force for going through a 40+ hour journey, you had better be interested in them, and you certainly are in Final Fantasy VII. Undoubtedly one of the key elements of the Final Fantasyseries and its success as a franchise is found in the strength of its characters. Who is the best character in Final Fantasy VII?

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