...had summoned monsters as part of the story? I can think of:

-FFVI, where Kefka sought to control the espers through their magicite forms (and one of your party was part-esper)
-FFVIII, where the GFs cause several of the characters to forget their time spent together at the orphanage
-FFIX, where Queen Brahne extracts Dagger's eidolons for her summoner powers

What other ones are there?

On a side note, the best name for summons (IMO) was "aeons" from FFX. The worst would have to be GF's. Everytime I saw that I thought "girlfriends" instead of "guardian forces." Similar in FFVII, where PHS always made me think "PMS."


I guess we could make this into a game of sorts. After this topic of summons is exhausted, someone can start on some other commonality.