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legendarylemur posted...

Darksaber310 posted...

He gets better. It's a good payoff.

Yeah this is true. In terms of character development, he's easily the most developed MC out of all the Tales. But the obvious problem is that they started too low like idiots. They should've shown some of his more positive qualities earlier on

That's just it though, Yuri was already like 23 when he was the main character. He was grown and had a developed personality and worldview, but his main growth was opening up to others and trusting them to the point that he would put himself in danger for them or trust them to handle things. It's why the whole Schwann ordeal really hurt him so much, even if there'd been times before that where the group suspected something bad was coming they almost always got pleasantly surprised.

But to expect an adult like Yuri to suddenly change his personality and worldview after the journey, it's a bit unreal. A teenager like Luke changing after witnessing things around the world and learning the truth about himself and whatnot, that definitely works. Compare that with Edge from star ocean 4 though, where a teenager suddenly gets put in charge of such a massive mission and all the stuff that changes him, it went several steps past melodramatic.
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