Quote Originally Posted by JaymeNoel View Post
The problem with XII is that there is no closeness there between the cast. Sure, there's the small closeness between one or two members (Penelo and Vaan, Balthier and Fran, Ashe and Basch, Balthier and Vaan), but overall you don't see the group being the typical Final Fantasy cast.
That's actually a very good point. You basically have three camps within the entire party:

Vaan / Penelo, often just staring in the background twiddling their thumbs

Fran / Balthier

Ashe / Basch

There are other smaller ones, like Vaan and Basch, but really, the party is very disjointed. Say what you will about XIII, at least they knew how to put a party together.