But what about Summoner???

[silentwindfr]

The last 5 Final Fantasies have had summons as separate entities and most gave you control over behavior, so thats not really true.

actually quite untrue

FF8, you was calling the summon he was doing him attack and was disappear right after
FF9, same
FF10, you have a partial control of it
FF11, mmorpg bad example
FF12, you call it, but exept the big attack you have no control over him behaviour
FF13, like the 10.

only 2 of the last FF allows you a certain control over your summons, outside this...

by the way, they did this for make the summoner and the black mage different, since in the end often the summoner skill are principally massive AoE

ps: i don't count FF11 since a mmorpg will make the summoner a pet class generally. FF12 was made on a model of mmorpg, but i still count it.