Also, the FFXII party almost never breaks up once you get the entire party, so it's hard to say "Vaan is the character that is followed throughout the entire game" because the entire party is "followed."
And "almost all of the story is shown from his point of view?" There are quite a few major cutscenes where Vaan is background noise joking around with Penelo because he has virtually no bearing on the story at large.
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