I really liked Jihl, and I really liked Rosch, too, it would've been better to have them both as recurring side villains like rufus and the turks in FFVII. But the fact that they were under the flase leadership of the Fal'Cie makes the plot too concentrated for an FF which usually has tons of memorable side characters.

I mean I just feel the entire time this game had no real villain. There's no iconic antagonist who you're really supposed to hate or love. Yes, there is Barthendalus, but he just seems to be someone else's agent the entire time, but it's really just him, or maybe it's actually Orphan he's acting on behalf of, (SPOILER)or maybe he and Orphan are the same, oh wait, Orphan is something weird now, so what the hell has been happening this whole time?

I'm one of the few here that really, really enjoyed FFXIII, but it's obvious how rushed the game was. Some of the concepts just aren't fleshed out enough (some are fleshed out too much with the menu text-supplement) and Jihl seems to have been a casualty of that.

She was hot, though.