As far as I'm concerned, Balflear has great potential to be an awesome character. He appears to be the game's "tough guy" and could quite possibly turn out to be pretty damn cool.

Though from what I've seen of him in the trailers, and the few lines we've heard him say, I can only base my opinions of him on assumptions, so for all I know he could flop and turn out to be a horribly annoying supporting character, like Wakka.