Well... maybe it's the answer everyone'll groan at, but you gotta love Cloud. i mean, hell, for someone who ends up being rather mental, he's a pretty likeable guy. Plus, he's got sufficiently badass spiky hair to avoid that whole "Sonic the Hedgehog" look.

Then again, he's not really my favorite character... that'd have to be Squall. Squall's surprisingly dynamic, in a game where all but a handful of characters fall rather flat. Or at least, don't do well with such a jerky story. He grows and matures throughout the entirety of FF8, in a noticable and only slightly cliched sort of way. Score.