So far Laguna is my favourite newcomer. I'd say he's my new "Jecht" type character (ie: an FF character who I knew barely anything about, but quickly became a favourite based on what I learned of their origin from Dissidia). Of course, I'll still be using Jecht (even if I am only capable of doing the first stage of his combos out of luck). It's always been a tradition of mine to never ditch old mains of a game when they're still available in the sequel. In fact, I use them more often than the newcomers.

And although this isn't confirmed, I've got some somewhat bad news. According to this article, there won't be any new characters from FFI-III. Well, so much for characters like Leon and Xande.