I don't think your opinion is unpopular. Speaking from a mechanically optimal standpoint, most of the content in the game is "useless" (most Magic, character abilities, Rages, Lores, etc).

However, the game also doesn't demand optimal play at any point, so you can play around with those toys if you're having fun. You can't force me to stop fielding Cyan! I don't care how many calculations you show me!

Originally posted by zephydel:

Possible unpopular opinion. Do not get all of the Rages. Most of them are useless. Most of them are clutter. Most of them will just make it harder for you to find the useful Rages.
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Considering the only thing you gain on level up is hp and mp (and maybe some small stats based on the equipt magicite when you level), you can entirely ignore almost every aspect of this game and still beat it with little to no difficulty, because much of this game is an exploration of world building. Gau, while having a short burst of story significance early in WOB (Mog, too), has no other part in the story so is basically an optional character after your first encounter (shadow, umaru, and gogo are entirely optional). I'd say most characters are optional in fact, aside from terra, celes, edgar, sabin, and locke.

Everything else, finding magicite past what the story gives you, ultimate weapons and armor, 70% of the magic (all you need is the teir 1 and 2 elements and heals, and if you want to get fancy, maybe some time stuff), any skills for Gau or Strago, most tools for edgar, 95% of the relics, 99.985% of the items, like 80% of the WOR bosses, and by my calculations, 9/14 of the cast of characters are entirely useless clutter.

And yet for some reason this will probably be my 30th or 40th time doing a 100% run....

All valid points and I agree paxtheconfused. This is the reason why I continue to say FF2/4 is the best in the series. It is a smaller condensed game but because of that, almost every single aspect of that game is great. Translation was subpar but nothing game breaking. It is hard to find something objectively wrong with it. I did find that dungeon having to fight all the doors kind of tedious though... With that being said, FF6 development had a short development time back in the day. I think this is the reason there are some "underdeveloped" aspects to it. I still really like the game but again, I think FF2/4 is the best for me.

I wanted to obtain all of the rages, but missed Ninja