Prove me wrong.
Prove me wrong.
I like Kuja, he is deep characterized. I prefer Seifer to be the best villain, but he is not that deep characterized and there's much he could have done in Final Fantasy VIII. I am not FFVII fan, but I think Sephiroth is much worse (if you look his style and ambitions) and better villain than Kuja.
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Although, I don't know who I personally think is the best villain, I certainly don't think it's Kuja.
Actually I think I'd say 'Best Villain' would be Kefka.
He is a good villain, but I prefer Emperor Mateus better. I love his intelligence and the sinister aura around him.
Dycedark Beoulve. We're playing the hipster FF fan game here, right?
FFXI truly has the best villains, I would argue with you about it, but not enough people have played it for it to be fair. But seriously, the absolute best villains.
OP, "If I can't live, no one can" is LAME. That's some lazy trout villain motivation. Pretty much end of story.
Psst, Matthew, I like Gilgamesh too.
I like Kuja, he's up there, but Kefka is best.
I thought his character was very well done and his motivations were wonderfully sinister, and only became moreso as we learned more about them. Then his motivations changed, and he became a clichéd "if I can't live, no one can" villain, as chionos has said, which is a bit lame. He didn't get the send off he deserved, I feel.
Bloody marvellous theme, though.
Kuja is a great villain, but I think they really could have pushed his character a lot more.
"... and so I close, realizing that perhaps the ending has not yet been written."
I always thought that Kuja was sorta the finished result of Kefka and Sephiroth. Let's be completely honest, they're all very similar.
Shadow Lord was the big bad for a while when the game first began. I loved that he was brought back in Dyna-Xarc, too, and that for a while he was one of the premiere challenges of the game.
I guess you could see the dilution of villains in the game as a fault, but personally I like that each storyline has its own villain, even if there's no big baddy to tie them all together.