7 Optional Characters You'd Regret Not Recruiting

One character that really should have been an optional character is Beatrix from FF9. Honestly she is my second favorite FF character and would have been a great character to have in the game, Freya is my favorite.

Yuffie always felt a little too essential to be so easily missed. Not necessarily because of her mechanics, but because the Wutai side-quest feels kind of necessary for FFVII's story-line. It fill in some of the consequences of the Shinra-Wutai war that's an important backstory element for Aerith and Sepiroth among others, it gives you closure on Don Corneo's plot line, the Turks further on-screen development, and it really develops the themes of imperialistic capitalism with the culture and pride of the Wutai people reduced to an exotic aesthetic for rich Midgardian tourists. All while giving the player a bit of levity and breathing room in a narrative which goes from one heavy story beat to the next.

I do enjoy the fact that Yuffie and Vincent have tools that either greatly increase Item Duping efficiency or can straight up break the game like Death Penalty.

I'm glad that Vincent and Yuffie are being fully integrated into the Remake Trilogy's story.

"I...so happy." - Quina's line in IX after the wedding of her and Vivi. This is still one of my fav FF lines of all times and makes me giggle each time still all these years later.

You forgot to say that Yuffie's ultimate weapon can do max damage with the "Morph" command making sources farm less tedious.

yuffie actually did a lot more damage than people thought, her dexterity which was massive, added to her dps and actually put her around barrets dps despite having less strength, she was basically a red 13 that could sit in the back line

Shadow will forever be my favorite character in FF6

A personal favorite optional character of mine is Worker/Construct 8 from Tactics... I don't know why, I just love the Robot.

My first playthrough of ff7 I was fighting Ultima Weapon and put Vincent in Chaos form just before my party got killed. Vincent controls himself in his chaos form so I watch a epic battle between him and Ultima Weapon. Every time Ultima used his strongest attack Vincent would heal from it due to his lighting resistance. The battle went on for a solid 3 minutes before Vincent came out on top. Vincent Valentine's the greatest.

I can't believe that freaking Terra and Locke are optional recruits in the finale of FF6. Who in their right mind would skip them? Terra, Locke and Celes are a MUST for the final battle imo. They are the main characters.

Balthier was an absolute monster in War of the Lions. His base job was a better version of Mustadio mixed with Thief and had ridiculously high speed. He was especially dangerous mixed with the Dragoon's Jump ability since he could use Lances and with his absurd speed would land almost instantly for huge damage.

I miss missable optional characters, I remember missing both Yuffie and Vincent on my 1st playthrough cause back then my English was still very basic...then I spent a weekend at my friend's house and noticed he had 2 new characters in his party that i've never seen before and I was so excited to get them myself on a 2nd playthrough. I miss those days 😩

Missed Vincent completely first time around. Only noticed after reading the manual after and thinking “who was that?”

Its Yuffie, hands down. Morphing sources is reaaon enough, but her sidequest has good rewards including Leviathan materia.

I feel also Yuffie is better in terms of people who are temped to use them at first possible chance. The next boss bottomswell Yuffie can reach...Vincent materia keeper his limit break heals him. Also fun fact you can recruit both Yiffue and Vincent when Tifa and Cid are leading and get different dialogue. Recruiting Yuffie with Tifa is especially funny. Also the Wutai sidequest can be done with Tifa or Cid as well.

Really been liking all the content lately. Thanks for the video

There's so many steps to getting cloud in FFT, and when you finally do, hes level 1, so you gotta grind forever to even make him useful.

cloud as a side character in tactics is skippable as hell worker 8, boco and beowulf are more useful

I never knew quina wasn’t mandatory until disk 2. I’ve always just recruited her in the marsh. Learn something new every day.