'Hearing your stories has added upon me yet another sin,' he moans after Cloud fills him in on their mission. Vincent is one of the most melodramatic characters in VII, and that's saying a lot in a Final Fantasy game. That is until Cloud and the gang free him and he joins them on their quest to save the world.
After a series of events involving a woman called Lucrecia that are far too long-winded to go into here, he locks himself in the basement of the Shinra mansion in Nibelheim, spending his days sleeping in a coffin and lamenting his sorry existence. Thanks to the genetic meddling of the villainous Professor Hojo, he can transform into powerful monsters including DEATH GIGAS, a weird Frankenstein thing that has a move called GIGADUNK, and HELLMASKER, a chainsaw-wielding dude straight out of an '80s slasher movie with an attack called SPLATTERCOMBO.Īside from all that wonderful silliness, there's a tragedy to Vincent too. Sullen, brooding, and draped in red, Vincent is one of the two optional party members in Final Fantasy VII.
