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[Wolf Kanno]

Hope is someone who is seriously going to have to try hard to win me over cause he's just comes across super annoying in every story scene I've seen in the trailers. Not to mention his whole story in the party is a complete rip off of Ken Amada from Persona 3, its going to be very difficult watching his story unfold and not compare it to Ken (Whom I actually liked). Course I have to punch somebody cause Hope gets one of my favorite Eidolons in the series and I feel Sahz kinda got the raw deal.

Hope can pride himself on being the most realistic 14 year old teenager the series has seen so far, judging from the english-subbed story scenes I've seen on Youtube. He acts precisely as a boy his age and with his upbringing should when he's suddenly turned l'Cie and has to fight against the whole world. He's afraid, and he damn well should be. You may or may not like this, but for me I love him. He's my favourite character in XIII, coupled with Vanille and Sahz.

Characters I'll be using the most once I get the chance to choose my team for myself are without a doubt Hope and Vanille. Don't really have a preference as for the third party member. I like Sahz storywise, but in battle I don't like his weapon. Maybe Fang, Lightning or Snow, don't know yet.

Hope FTW.

Different taste, I generally hate "kid" characters and I really wish that a series try for once to ditch this concept of needing one. Hope may be "realistic" but that doesn't make him likable as I generally don't get along with kids and children of any kind. He's going to have to try really hard to impress me like Ken Amada did in P3 (Vermachtnis, you are officially dead to me) cause nothing sucks the joy out of a good story than watching a kid character whine around and retell the same "coming of age" tripe that "good" kid characters only seem capable of telling. The least they could have done was actually try to touch a new angle here, kid characters are always scared, coming to age through adventures, or a prodigy getting back in touch with their social age. Hope seems like he's hardly changing the wheel and as I said, any video I've seen of the brat has him whining around and making me wish that someone would just knock the brat out and just throw him into the bag of infinite holding until the adventure is over.