I guess I'm the only one that actually liked the characters in FF12. Nobody was truly emo nor angsty. I would say that Ashe was the only angsty one, though I'd call it rage more than anything. The characters were great all around besides that. Even if Penelo was useless as far as the story went, her character/personality were actually pretty decent. Vaan was the lovable idiot pretty much.

I'm sure most people already know where the problems in 12's storyline stem from though. The fact is that Basch (awesome) was the main character originally, but Square-Enix (gay) didn't think he was pretty enough to sell. True story, and it is just one of the many that caused 12 to not fulfill its potential.

I still loved it more than any other #FF besides FF4, mainly due to the fact that Basch and Balthier were fucking badass and that the gameplay (battles, world, controls) was leaps better than the FF garbage they had been putting out, and the music brought me back to when I first played Vagrant Story.