| Do ylestatdark said: @jneul You're right about that, the idea of Vaan did come out in the last moments, the original main character was supposed to be Balthier at the start of the game development, then focus shifted towards Basch. They only decided to use Vaan as a main a few months before the game launched in Japan, so that's why he's a bit rushed. |
Do you know why they made this sin? Balthier is a much better character than the emotion-less Vaan.
I like FFXII, the problem with the plot is because we can differ 2 different moments pretty easily
In the beginning when the world is presented it's just "WoW". When the party is formed, and the game really start. Til there it's ok, but, once you go after the stones the game just dies, many things were initiated in the beginning of the game were just are leaved to the stone hunt, like the romance between Vaan and Ashe, the development of Basch, their fight with Arcadia, everything was just forgotten to hunt stones, and the stone hunting was just going into a dungeon, solving some (silly) puzzles and defeating a boss.
And then the end was so rushed, I mean, the Bahamut thing was so an unnatural way of ending the main quest.
