So, Aerith

[chionos]

...Socially inept? What? XD

But regardless, she's there for most of the first disk. I would still argue that was more then enough time.

I have yet to see a character type that one cannot make interesting and enjoyable within a few hours of game time, at most.

Any character that can be made "interesting and enjoyable" within a few hours of game time is a shallow and likely stereotypical character, at best.

However, my point isn't really that the time Aeris was on-screen wasn't enough time to develop the character, but given what we did see, had she stayed in the game I think the character would have evolved into something more enjoyable.