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#1  I liked Edward. What is everyone bitching about? Even the first time I ever played this game, I did not find Edward useless at all, despite finding his Auto-Hide very annoying. Edward's in your party for a substantially short period of the game, and during that time he possesses the ability to either put enemies to sleep or confuse them by means of a basic attack, depending on his current weapon. And during that time, you've got a lot of enemies that take more than one hit to kill, so when Eddie confuses/sleeps them, they are not a threat to your more useful characters (ie Rydia and Rosa). And unlike characters who have to cast Sleep for 12 MP as a black spell or Confuse as a white spell for whatever it costs, this is free. The spells can fail, and waste MP. Edward's attacks can simply not have the effect, and NOT waste MP (mainly because he has none but still). I leave both him and Yang dead and naked during the Fabul invasion as Cecil's the only character who will benefit from it in any way whatsoever... and even then he's about to get leveled down to 1, so there is absolutely zero point in caring who's alive during that sequence. And after that he and everyone else gets Leviapwned so he no longer gets used. So what's everyone bitching about? He's a temporary character whose "useless" abilities happen to work perfectly on every enemy during his tenure as a party member. Sure he can't damage for crap and takes hits like a schoolgirl, but the same goes for Yang and nobody has a problem with that. Oddly enough, Yang also gets weapons that induce confuse! What, is Yang just a direct replacement designed to look more useful? Last time I proclaimed something useless in an FF game, people claimed I didn't know how to play it, so I'm therefore telling all those Edward-haters out there that they do not know how to play FF. *raspberry* I'm playing the US SNES version at the moment, and I'm really missing that Potion-splitter-thingy he can do. |
08-13-2008, 03:42 PM
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| Site Staff  | Well, what do you think? He's whiny and has a harp with low attack. While I personally don't mind him, it seems the main view of a lot of RPG players today is if they can't do a lot of damage or if they don't have a sword/axe/weapon of mass destruction, they're not cool. Not to mention hiding is a sign of cowardice, something that is a no-no in the mind set that all characters have to be ballsy men-of-steel. I mean, if YOU were approached by a big, mean, ugly monster and your only weapon is a harp, wouldn't you run and hide? Damn right you would. While I personally wouldn't use him later on in the game, he's good for what he is early on, and his attack sound effect is cool. I thought he was a creative character, but is more of a novelty character later on. (In terms of FFIV Advance). |
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08-13-2008, 05:35 PM
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 | He is a spoony bard. What else did you expect? In the SNES version i played, i dont think i ever had edward give an ailment, and only sometimes in GBA FFIV. Only in this DS one is he getting them decently. Maybe its just my luck, but when i have the option of championing paladins, troubled dragoons, sexy summoners, and the like...a bard with the skill of auto hide doesnt come to the forefront of greatness. |
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08-13-2008, 06:41 PM
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 | I can't argue about Bardsong being a good ability... but now in the DS version, I can give that to any character after I get the augment from him later. Edward's biggest problem is that he is weak and fragile. I think his abilities are actually quite useful, just not when he has them. By my third play through of FFIV DS with all the augments...Three of my characters will have Bard song(Edge, Rosa, Kain), and two will have Salve(Kain, Edge) another two with Hide (Edge, Rosa). THE JACKAL |
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08-13-2008, 08:18 PM
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