Quote Originally Posted by Kawaii Ryűkishi
It isn't an anticlimax so much as it is the triumphant return of the greatest character in the series.
Truth. I think that they brought him back to make up for basically every single damn character in the game dying during FFII. They kind of overhauled it with FFIV, you know, reviving every character for no apparant reason. Maybe they knew all along that in 10 years they'd make a remake where you could use your not-so-dead characters.