Why is Cait Sith a hated character? (Serious Question)

[MJN SEIFER]

I have an ongoing project to remove this character and replace him with a new one (Skoll Iscarit) that I have made. The reasons I hate Cait are:

I have respect for you, and I am a fan of your project (the translation one, NOT the Remove Cait one) so I will try to answer as respectfully as I can as I value your opinion - I just don't agree with it.

1. His story is absurd. We have here a talking mechanical cat and a stuffed toy roaming about in what is supposed to be a reasonably realistic story. Look at how he enters your party for starters "I am coming with you no matter WHAT you say" to boot with a flimsy Fortune Teller story.

It's harder to tell with the way FFVII designed party's, but I see what you mean about this, however - concider that the place they find him is the Gold Saucer, so it can be assumed that he is an attraction like those "chocobos" they have running around (could be guys in costumes, then again could be robots) so Cloud and co, shouldn't be too weirded out by him, once they get over the initial shock - on the other hand; they may assume he is "alive" at that point, they already have one talking animal in their party, why should this one be any different? I agree that the way he kind of forces his way into the group is a bit strange, but I let it go I think we're supposed to assume that he follows you and your second character, and they joins you later. Also the fortune telling is for forshadowing later scenes. And I think that if you go with the fact that he COULD be part of the Gold Saucer, and Shinra later told Reeve to regain control of him to spy on Cloud - he could be originally made for fortune telling, alternativly it could be Reeve who tells the fortunes?

2. The idea this cat would be used by Reeve is silly. The idea that your party would converse with it is even more silly.

Again, they already have an animal in the group. Reeve may have used that to his advantage, further more I strongly believe that Cait was originally made for the Gold Saucer - it's even got pictures of him! I think this was the easiest way Shinra could have entered with out sending someone themselves, also it helps with the Black Materia problem - with out a character like Cait the whole thing goes wrong, and you can't get it.

3. Cait looks stupid and is obviously a marketing ploy to sell stuffed toys.

Never seen any Cait Sith toys, but isn't that true for most "animal" characters - they've got the WHOLE cast of Pokemon for one thing.

4. He has 2 limit breaks and they are worthless (aside from the very hard "All Over" [game over] which will destroy your party should you line it up wrong)

Well personally, I find Slots pretty helpful its moves are fun to do, and I just love the randomness of it - it's fun not knowing what you get sometimes, the only problem is I wish "Toy Box" (or whatever it's called for you) did more damage - I know it's a penalty, but...

He is a completely useless, unrealistic character (and by unrealistic I mean you cannot suspend disbelief).

Well... Concidering all I've said, and the fact that a controlled toy COULD be made in a world like FFVII's, I CAN suspend disbelief very easily.

That's my opinion on the matter.