Admittedly I had forgotten the tidbit of Edea demonstrating a phasing ability. *sighs* I admit your point there, and that honestly I've likely lost any right to argue after not playing the game for nearly ten years. Yet I cannot see it as a reason to admit that substituting a shounen-esque 'charge in, sword swinging is all we need' ploy would have worked any better for VIII as a whole.

The Deling Abduction Plan, now someone correct me if my memory has faltered again but the part which actually went wrong was the monster acting as Deling's body double. Questionable though the effort to forcibly re-junction the train car was, I recall that part working...