Lightning is the worst character in the history of Final Fantasy

[dayrinni]

I beat the game a few days ago.

I am very impressed with Lightning's fighting skills. They are very entertaining to watch I must say. It was the main reason why I kept playing the game.

My quick thoughts on Lightning as a character:
(SPOILER)When I first started playing, I had no clue what the characters were talking about in regards of Pulse/cocoon/focus/etc, and all that jazz. After beating the game, I went back and started to watch many of the cut scenes on youtube to understand the beginning better. I dunno, I guess her personality just grew on me after watching them. She seemed real to me. I enjoyed her reasoning for changing her name. It is childish, but she was young and immature at the time and had to grow up fast. It was nice seeing her admit that to Hope. She has a lot of walls up and there is other scene whetr she is with Snow on the cliff there, talking about Serah. She let some of those walls down. So she does have something inside of her but keeps it buckled up. I wish the game had less characters (I think this for all FF's), so the story could focus heavily more on them. So...if they had less characters (or just did a better job in the story telling) in FF13, I'm sure Lightning (assuming they kept her) would have been a much more interesting character. They tried to show it but it wasn't really enough unless you really thought it about/watched the cut scenes back to back.

Just my opinion/perspective on things.