Or you know, you could just not min/max everything and just play the game [Editorial disclaimer: please make sure your seat is in the upright position and your seatbelt is fastened for this may blow your mind] to have fun and use the characters you enjoy using rather than who might be best for any given situation?
Stop trying to be reasonable, Auly. The children are arguing.
She is useful for all bosses, why on earth wouldn't 4 limits be better be better then 3? The reason I am posting in this thread is to prove that she is useful the whole time she is in the party, tell me exactly what everyone else has that she lacks in terms of fighting. I am not trying to get you to say "Oh, wow I didn't know that, I think I will use her next time" all I want is for you guys to admit that she is good enough to pull her own weight in any given battle, be it boss or enemy group...Originally Posted by Skyblade
Given all the battle data I have put into this thread arguing otherwise is just silly. Like her or not, she IS a great fighter.
Oh and ftr, I would love to see any of the other people in the group try to stop Meteor.
Sure she can hold her own. Like I said, she was designed to be useful and have cool limit breaks so it would hit you harder when she left. If she sucked, a lot of players would care less.
I used all of my characters pretty much equally, but if I had played based on preference, I very rarely, if ever, would have used her. And you can make it through the game just fine without her.
I generally picked my characters based on where I was. So if I was going through Cosmo Canyon, I always had Red XIII in there, likewise during the Coral visits. This actually means that Vincent is sort of left out, though I did include him during the Hojo stuff.
That's pretty much how I did it anyway
I'm sorry.Stop trying to be reasonable, Auly. The children are arguing.
This still rules Aeris out of every scenario!
streme Wheelie
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Aerith is a great character. As a healer, she's unmatched and that came in handy in a few boss fights.
My 97 playthrough, I not sure I remember entirely but I believe I had trouble (died at least once) with the following bosses: Aps (probably), Hundred Gunner/Heli Gunner (maybe), Motorball (I'm pretty sure on this one), Zolom* (definitely, unless I got thrown out), Materia Keeper, Godo, Demon's Gate (obviously), Jenova Death, Ultima, Carry Armor (bitch and its grabby arms meaning it only has to kill one party member because being picked up qualifies as being dead)... yeah.
*I know Zolom isn't a boss, but I'm pretty sure it was something that gave me a lot of trouble.
Jack: How do you know?
Will: It's more of a feeling really.
Jack: Well, that's not scientific. Feeling isn't knowing. Feeling is believing. If you believe it, you can't know because there's no knowing what you believe. Then again, no one should believe what they know either. Once you know anything that anything becomes unbelievable if only by virtue of the fact you now... know it. You know?
Will: No.
If Demolition Man were remade today
Huxley: What's wrong? You broke contact.
Spartan: Contact? I didn't even touch you.
Huxley: Don't you want to make love?
Spartan: Is that what you call this? Why don't we just do it the old-fashioned way?
Huxley: NO!
Spartan: Whoa! Okay, calm down.
Huxley: Don't tell me to calm down!
Spartan: What's gotten into you? 'Cause it sure as hell wasn't me.
Huxley: Physical relations in the way of intercourse are no longer acceptable John Spartan.
Spartan: What? Why the hell not?
Huxley: It's the law, John. And for your information, the very idea that you suggested it makes me feel personally violated.
Spartan: Wait a minute... violated? Huxley what the hell are you accusing me of here?
Huxley: You need to leave, John.
Spartan: But Huxley.
Huxley: Get out!
Moments later Spartan is arrested for "violating" Huxley.
By the way, that's called satire. Get over it.
Oh I forgot about Zolom. I know you were supposed to use the chocobo to cross, and I did, but I came back RIGHT after and fought him about 5 times until I finally killed the thing so that Red could learn Beta.
I think the problem a lot of people here are having is that they can't justify using Aerith because she isn't available past a certain point in the game. But obviously the game wasn't designed for the player to know that she gets killed. It was designed so that it'd be a surprise. Her limits seem really useful when you consider that you expect them to be usable up to the end of the game.\
I like to use her in the game with that in mind. I don't really care that focusing on using her is rendered pointless when she dies. I think of her healing abilities as the training wheels in a game where, as many have mentioned, healing isn't actually necessary. Once you lose her, having a potent dedicated healer in the party is over, and you have to make it work with your other characters picking up the slack.
Yes but given that that is the case (player not supposed to know that she dies), they wouldn't necessarily level her up to get all 4 limit break levels and most likely -wouldn't- use her in the main group unless they had to just because healing is pretty much all she's good for.
And yes, I do think that if someone were to go into this game with no clue as to what the story line is or a walkthrough to help them, they wouldn't necessarily use Aeris.
Seriously? Given all the info I have provided, proof that she can hold her own in battle, the stealing of the Striking Staff from Eligon in sector 7, her all powerful magic, the Umbrella and everything else and you still think healing is all she is good for?
*sighs*
What? I just don't like her! And I'm not gonna grind her out and waste all that time when she kicks the bucket anyway!
The fact that you have to spend probably hours just to get her to a place where she's useful in a role other than healing doesn't really say that she can "hold her own."
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