My brother's favourite character in all final fantasys is vincent. he loves the backstory and his personality etc, that he gets him as soon as he goes to nibelheim. i personally dont like him though lol. i find him difficult to use but my brother seems to have a way of making him own every monster that gets in his way!! at the end of the game, my brothers vincent is doing 2000 more than cloud. god knows how but he does it. he isnt all that useless in battle at all i guess if you have patience with him