The Role Of Summons? Important or Not Important?

[Ryu-Kentoshii Hirokima]

They Will Surely Be Of much Importance. I just hope they can Also Kick Major Ass during Battle As Well as off The Battle Field.

[Noctis Lucis]

i no 1 thing that ta animations 4 ta summons look amazin hopefully the ssummons are jus as amazin

[Locke4God]

I don't think the modern games have perfected the concept of an interactive summon just yet.

X had a good shot at it, but then it's truly powerful Aeons were just too powerful, doing nearly 100,000 points of damage. Really? XII toned down the interaction, but left you with nothing to do but heal your Esper as it just ran around doing it's thing. It was odd.

Still they're trying to get it right in the new era of interactive summons.

The old school games essentially had perfected them. They were simply one shot attacks, that were very powerful, but not outlandishly powerful, and their use was limited.

X & XII's summons haven't a middle ground yet. They're either useless or overly helpful.

What needs to happen is for there to be summons that still leave your party vulnerable. Perhaps they are summoned as an extra party member than works as an NPC delivering Elemental attacks, or healing status ailments. That might work better than hauling out Bahamut to deal 10's of thousands of damage, or using him as a simple shield.

[Kisuke]

of course summons are important they are the thread that ties all FF's together without them the game would not be the same...

[Mr.Marzipan]

I'm pretty sure that I read something somewhere that said the Eidolons were important to the main storyline. It may of been on the Wikia though so whether or not its true is debatable.

[ANGRYWOLF]

aeons were too powerful while in FFXII they were too weak...

I hope FFXIII is in between those two extremes...