Honestly I was super hyped about this game for the longest time. I even spent many a day browsing, posting, and speculating on the gamefaqs board about which characters would be included.
I remember 50% of the arguments on that board were between who would be the FF rep. Cloud (fan wanted) or Lightning (Square jamming her down our throats). Turns out everybody was wrong lol.
I was there for the leaks from the beta. Hell I even looked into some of the files myself. I have a fondness for many of the characters in the game but honestly. The lack of ANY Jrpg character REALLY pissed me off and forced me to stop caring about the game. I know that may sound silly but I was really hoping that if Cloud didn't make it then at least Dart from Legend of Dragoon or Ico/Wander from the Team Ico games would have made it in. But nope, nothing.
Basically I had the game preordered and when it came out, I didn't even go pick it up. I wanted this game to do well but the cast felt lacking to me. I played the beta a few times at a friends house and it seemed alright. The stages were pretty cool too. I just couldn't get past there not being any characters from my favorite genre involved in the game.
