Quote Originally Posted by Melithea View Post
To be fair, that's pretty much the exact same as he was in FF12.
To my knowledge (FFXII's terrible english voice acting made my ears bleed, so I couldn't make it past the first half-hour), aside from Ashe and maybe Basch, the FFXII cast was your run of the mill group. No special fate, no blessings from stuff way outside the norm, no prophesies or anything along those lines. All they had was plot armor.

Gilgamesh's role so far is textbook "bad guy with power/skill is causing trouble, good guy with power/skill comes in and single-handedly takes him down". The dueling aspect reeks of stuff like this. Replace the town of Agua Fria with Eorzea, Texas Red with Gilgamesh, and the arizona ranger with the player character.

After all the trouble the writers went through to build up the player character in the story between whatever abilites they have, the power of the echo, the backing of Hydaelin and so on, having 4/8 people gang up on a guy that's been introduced as a duelist simply doesn't make much sense.