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Originally Posted by EVILNess
Counter-Counter-Rebuttal: Every successive Final Fantasy game throws out most of the previous design choices.
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Counter-counter-counter-rebuttal: this is neither a main-line title, nor has the information released so far indicated a shift in spirit as much as a technical shift. Also, design choices not being recycled lends itself to the inclusion of new mechanics or major updates to sufficiently old ones more than recycling them in the context of the next subsequent iteration. ;P
In all seriousness, we have no way of knowing anything for sure right now. I'd prefer to leave that argument alone in part because the more I have to argue about Seifer, the more I have to think about a character that I both dislike and begrudgingly pity. Seifer would be slightly more sympathetic if he were at all likable, but the truth is that the tragedy is mostly lost because he brought it upon himself because of his arrogance, ego, distorted values, outright amorality, Oedipus complex, sociopathy, violent tendencies, and especially distorted self-image which he uses to justify it all even after there's nothing left for him to cling to but his rivalry with Squall, abandoned by even his closest allies for his irrationality and with no more pretense of a higher cause to serve as an excuse for all he's wrought on the path to his own ultimate and inevitable destruction.
...As evidenced by how much I actually ended up writing, I think it's clear I think he's an ass. If he makes it onto the side of Chaos, he'll be the only one who's in it for all the wrong reasons, which says something in the context of villains. Out of all the villains in the series, none of them are nearly as misguided and willfully ignorant of their own wrongdoings and self-destructive behaviors as Seifer. He's the only villain of the series who would toss aside redemption if it were offered, which is the only reason I feel sorry for him, because he's also the only villain who it would be offered to and the only one who could truly appreciate and reap its benefits if he weren't too much of a wad to accept it.