First Impressions (XII)

July 14, 2007, 4:43 PM

What were your first Impression on the Charaters of Final Fantasy XII? When you first set eyes on the main characters what were your thoughts about them and how'd they act and such. Explain.

July 14, 2007, 5:15 PM

I thought vaan was more of a tag along and boring character
Balthier was more of a joker and the 'cool attitude' guy in my opinion and gave some life to a few of th monotonous characters
Basch felt like a warrior and a helper since he chose to go along and protect ashe.
Ashe was the main character really and the leader so wherever she went the rest of them went
Penelo went wherever vaan went so she was more of a tag along
Fran just went along with balthier and she didnt play a big part in it anyway

July 14, 2007, 5:18 PM

i have to say the characters i liked more at first impressions were balthier and basch

balthier-his jokey attitude and his accent were great

basch-his overall loyalty and his badass attitude were really interesting for an ff character

the rest were more tag alongs than anything else

July 14, 2007, 5:45 PM

Vaan - ugh
Penelo - I thought she was going to be Hyper and make the story.
Basch - oh so I wasn't him that killed the king it was just his twin brother on another side. Why did Balthier fall for that?
Balthier - Pretty Humorous and Confident
Fran - I didn't know what to think. Her voice was annoying for the most part
Ashe - I thought she was going to be an overall good character. She just turned out to be a bitch.

July 14, 2007, 7:41 PM

First impression...hmm..this should be good.

Vaan - p*ssy
Penelo - Horny little tag-a-long girl that would tease Vaan.
Basch - Badass traitor that doesn't care about anyone. Turned out to be whipped by Ashe.
Balthier - My favorite...hes a smartass like me.
Fran - Sexy voice...bitch...sounds like my kind of girl.
Ashe - *sigh* another princess in a mini skirt.

July 16, 2007, 4:16 PM

I agree 100% with Kain Aldar.

Vaan- I have no idea why he's even remotely considered the "main character"
Penelo - Typical caster class at first I thought she was going to be part of the love triangle between Vaan and Ashe.
Basch - The Auron of FFXII he knew the workings of the Empire and was useful for information.
Balthier - Much more to him then he shows, I almost considered him the Hero of the game and Ashe the Herone just because Balthier had ties with everyone in every town and no one made a move without trying to bribe him into saying their was treasure where they were going.
Fran - The exotic, mysterious girl for all the fanboys to drool over.
Ashe - main character, she can tank and use magic all in a mini skirt. Needless to say as soon as she became a steady playable character Vaan never again returned to my top 3 party. If i'm going to play this game for 100+ hours i'm not gonna look at some 17 year old little boy, so Ashe won hands down. Plus most of the cut scenes revolved more around her then Vaan anyways.

July 16, 2007, 8:58 PM

Right off the bat it took me a while to get to know/like any of the characters from FFXII. I'd have to say I was very into Basch at first, but it didn't take long for him to tone it down a bit and they just stopped talking about him 'til the end of the game.

However, Balthier got really interesting for me and in the end he turned into my favorite character overall. His past, his attitude, his demeanor of doing things; great character overall.

August 15, 2007, 9:58 PM

Yeah, I'm not even halfway into this game and I'm already sensing a toning down of Basch in most cutscenes and the like.

Moreover, my first impressions of the characters were pretty much like the ones listed above. Vaan was that tag-along, annoying (yes, he annoys) character. Penelo the helpful, independent one. Basch the knight (tank?)....to spare you much else, I viewed the characters by their supposed backgrounds, if that helps.

August 16, 2007, 10:31 AM

I have to say that I prefered Penelo to Ashe personality wise. I don't understant why nobody likes Vaan. I suppose he didn't fit into the story very well but his personality wasn't too bad.

August 16, 2007, 10:37 AM

You know I could barely even have first impressions with XII there just wasn't enough background on them, or cutscenes for me to really get to know them but nevertheless:
Vaan - A less hot version of Tidus/Cloud with a more droning voice.
Penelo - A little girl lol grown up version of Eiko??
Balthier - ( I live in the UK..) "Oh dear god a character with an English accent" *huff*

Basch - kind of boring.
Fran - Lovely rabbit lady, from the moment I made her party leader, I've never went back on it

gorgeous voice tooooo!
Ashe - Looked young and carefree.. and just didn't live up to that expectation!