The reason for me saying that isn't because its a Sequel/Spinoff, it has to do with the way the characters of both games are set up. In FFXII, Vaan and Penelo takes a backseat, learning from the much more important characters who are more relevant to the story (Ashe, Balthier, and Basch). So that way, when time elapses (IE: Time shifts past FFXII and to Reveant Wings), Vaan and Penelo are ready to lead the way as plot important characters. Balthier's persistence to be 'the leading man' in FFXII, and the way in RW, he's (mostly) stopped accentuates it well.Originally Posted by champagne supernova
I would agree with you as if they were planned as one long story seperated into two parts (like the Lord of the Rings movies were one story split into three seperate movies). But Revenant Wings is a spin-off. It's kind of like saying that one can't talk about VII's character development without playing/watching Advent Children, Before Crisis, Crisis Core, Dirge of Cerberus and Last Order (or whatever the last one is called); or judging X on X-2.In my opinion, you cannot comment on character development in FFXII until you've played Revenant Wings
Anyway, FFXIIRW showed maturity and change in the characters, where AC, and X-2 raped the character development.
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