Anybody else sorely disappointed with Seifer as a character? Personally, I think the game could have been much more interesting if they had gone deeper into stuff like:
1. Seifer's relationship with Rinoa
2. His rivalry with Squall
3. His multiple motivations for becoming the sorceress' knight
It seems to me that these ideas are introduced in Disc 1 and then pretty much forgotten about for the rest of the game. For the duration of disc 1, they make Seifer out to be an interesting and wildly complex character with all these conflicting ideas, emotions, and dreams. I felt for the guy when he never made it as a SeeD. I felt for him when Squall stole his woman. I felt for him when Edea used all this frustration to manipulate him. And I thought one of the greatest parts of the game was when all this erupted into Squall and Seifer's mano-a-mano battle atop the sorceress' float, which instantly reminded me of the duel in the opening cutscene. But after disc 1 ends, Seifer's character seems to get blotted out by all the other stuff. He becomes a plot device, a tool simply used to find the Lunatic Pandora, hand Rinoa over to Adel, and fight the party a couple of times. Seifer was one of the key characters to FF8, and the game lost a good bit of its appeal for me when he ceased to matter. Just curious about what everybody else thinks.