Character Spotlight: Selphie Tilmitt

[darkchrono]

Selphie was one of the few perky characters of the Final Fantasy series that I learned to appreciate.

Final Fantasy VIII manages to make use of its small playable character cast to put every character in a position of leadership at some point. Selphie takes charge on the mission to stop missiles from hitting Balamb Garden and, as the player, this forces you to feel a bit of camaraderie with her. We see her in various emotional states throughout the game besides being happy and positive all the time. This helps lend credibility to her character as someone who is a positive thinker yet realistic in light of the circumstances around her.

I think that if Final Fantasy VII had done this with characters besides Cloud, Tifa, and Cid, then other members of the cast would have been received slightly better: Cait Sith, Yuffie, and Vincent come to mind.

Yuffie and Vincent were not even characters that you had to get so it wouldn't of made much sense for them to wrap an entire mission around them.

When I played FF8 I played it soon after I got finished with ff7 so it was hard for me to appreciate Selphie's character because her personality type seemed almost identical to Yuffie's. And in my opinion ff7 had far supperior character development then ff8 so whenever I saw Selphie on the screen I was thinking of Yuffie's character and not Selphie.

[The Fat Bioware Nerd]

Whenever I saw Selphie on the screen I was thinking of Yuffie's character and not Selphie.

I think the big difference between Yuffie and Selphie is that Yuffie's kind of mean-spirited at first because when you meet her in the game she challenges you to a battle, casts a magic spell on you that transforms you into a frog and she steals some gil from you because even though she's rich she can't resist stealing money from the people who really need it.

[Depression Moon]

I guess her superpositivity and her nunchakus ( this makes her token ninja)

Ninja. She's more of a gambling black mage isn't she?

The pigtailed girl isn't even good enough for a name

What pigtailed girl?

[I Don't Need A Name]

Selphie was one of the few perky characters of the Final Fantasy series that I learned to appreciate.

Final Fantasy VIII manages to make use of its small playable character cast to put every character in a position of leadership at some point. Selphie takes charge on the mission to stop missiles from hitting Balamb Garden and, as the player, this forces you to feel a bit of camaraderie with her. We see her in various emotional states throughout the game besides being happy and positive all the time. This helps lend credibility to her character as someone who is a positive thinker yet realistic in light of the circumstances around her.

I think that if Final Fantasy VII had done this with characters besides Cloud, Tifa, and Cid, then other members of the cast would have been received slightly better: Cait Sith, Yuffie, and Vincent come to mind.

Yuffie and Vincent were not even characters that you had to get so it wouldn't of made much sense for them to wrap an entire mission around them.

When I played FF8 I played it soon after I got finished with ff7 so it was hard for me to appreciate Selphie's character because her personality type seemed almost identical to Yuffie's. And in my opinion ff7 had far supperior character development then ff8 so whenever I saw Selphie on the screen I was thinking of Yuffie's character and not Selphie.

Final Fantasy 7 didn't even understand the term character development. They're all as single emotioned throughout the whole game! (other than Cid)
VIII has always been my favourite for interesting characters, and Selphie topped it for me in that game, she's just amusing. And i agree, I've never liked Irvine. Selphie+Zell

[black orb]

>>> Im surprised no one has complained about Selphie's haircut style. I mean she has the most disturbing hair in ff history.

[Roogle]

Yuffie and Vincent were not even characters that you had to get so it wouldn't of made much sense for them to wrap an entire mission around them.

Yes, I think it was a mistake on the developers' part to make them optional characters. The other games in the series firmly establish the characters as permanent party members and allies of Cloud, and because of their optional nature, there is no way for the developers to effectively utilize Yuffie and Vincent in the normal game.

[Depression Moon]

>>> Im surprised no one has complained about Selphie's haircut style. I mean she has the most disturbing hair in ff history.

I was going to mention it. it's not disturbing at least to me. Looks like some old 50's doo.

[Jessweeee♪]

>>> Im surprised no one has complained about Selphie's haircut style. I mean she has the most disturbing hair in ff history.

I like her hair. I would do mine that way if short hair didn't look weird on me.

[Tuhkasieni]

>>> Im surprised no one has complained about Selphie's haircut style. I mean she has the most disturbing hair in ff history.

I kinda enjoyed kickin Seymours butt, his hair is actually superannoying...

Selphies hair is okay...

[Lumina]

I was never a big fan of Selphie, but she's okay. I loved her limit break, though. The End was epic.