Quina is pretty under developed ...

We don't know its gender
It eats frogs and wants to learn more about food
Is part of the tribe Vivi's Grandfather is from

... anything else?


Garnet was very developed. She changed a lot throughout the game.

Terra from VI I think is the most developed. She really grows through the story of VI. When you first get control of her with out the slave crown on, she's scared because she has no idea what the hell is going on and can't remember anything about her past. She meets Locke and in some ways attached herself to him. We get to see her become more confident in the WOB and she agrees to help the Returners. Then there's the part where she remembers who she is and she again struggles with herself. Story continues and we find out that she wants to find love.
World ends and we find her with the orphans and two other adults. She struggles again as she can't understand the feeling she has around the kids and loses her will to fight. So the party leaves her and when they check up on her the monster returns and when Terra sees that the children are in trouble again she's able to fight and realizes that she's found love in taking care of the children and wants to protect them from Kefka so she rejoins the party.
End of the game she knows that there's a possibility that she could disappear after defeating Kefka but she still goes in to fight him. When you get to Kefka she's the one standing up to him. A big difference from the begining of the game when she was scared and confused. She is no longer relying on Locke either.
And if you've played VI you know the rest of the story.

Least developed character. Probably Penelo. She was kind of just there and seemed to only be there because they needed a sixth character. The only reason I like her is because she has no point to the story. XD

I think the most developed character in the games that I've played is Cecil from FFIV. His transformation from being a Dark Knight who's confused about his king's orders at the beginning of the game to becoming a confident Paladin at the ending has be one of the most dramatic changes in FF history. Another possible choice for the most developed character is Terra from FFVI. I don't think I've even played halfway through the game yet, but she's already shown a pretty big transformation from the confused damsel in distress that she was in the beginning of the game.

As for the least developed character...hmm...I'm tempted to say any of the characters from FFV, but while they're mostly stale and unoriginal, they're all fairly well developed. To tell you the truth, in the three FF games I've played so far, I haven't really discovered any characters that I thought were underdeveloped.

I'd say Squall and Cecil are the most developed. Both have pretty clear childhood backgrounds and both go through life-changing transformations that don't happen overnight.

As it goes, I'd say that the other characters in the respective games (FFVIII and FFIV) were some of the least satisfactorily developed, at the very least in a comparative sense.

It seemed really incongruous to see Squall evolve, while hardly doing much to change Zell and Irvine. Quistis develops in her ability to self-evaluate and Selphie's minimal development can be tracked in her website updates (seen on the control panel in the classroom). However, Zell and Irvine are virtually unchanged.

In FFIV, much attention is lavished on Cecil, but Rosa doesn't really develop much - she officially joins the party by fainting in the desert in an attempt to find Cecil, and her last major moment is her decision to stay with Cecil. While the other minor party members (like the Lunarian guy and Tellah) are fine remaining undeveloped, Rosa as a a major character ought to have been further grown.