I’ve heard some people complain about Jill tbh. But admittedly it sounds like a plot thing where the plot struggles to include her then stops even bothering.
More or less. There’s a small arc that focuses on her and then her relevance kind of dwindles. Not to a horrible degree, but it’s still noticeable to the point that people wish she’d gotten to do more.
Tbf Clive, Joshua and Dion were basically going on a suicide mission, so I think that’s the reason why. The fight against Ultima was personal to each of them and Clive obviously didn’t want to put Jill at risk when this was the guys’ score to settle.
I didn't want to just out and out blurt the spoilers like that, but yes I know and I'm aware of the reasoning why, but it still also sucks and kind of defeats the "ride or die" purpose.
Obviously it sucks but that’s how they wanted to do it, lame or not. Would it have been nice if they had come along? Sure, but it wasn’t necessary.
Well, it's one of my gripes.
Jill’s only really relevant to the plot when you go to the iron kingdom. Other than that there’s not really much going on with her. At least she had a much bigger presence than Luna, I guess.
I think it goes without saying that most people would've preferred if she did. In the context of the game, she probably knew that it wasn't her fight and that's why she didn't insist, but I guess they wanted to milk the angst for all it was worth by having her stay behind. When you couple that with Clive's promise of returning, it makes the ending hit extra hard which, again, seems to be what they wanted. If she had gone, they still could've thrown in angst, but part of the decision most likely had to do with coming up with a reason to have Jill pray for Clive's safe return again.
Was it for nostalgia? Typically the PSP remake is considered the best version. I can't remember if it has all the GBA content too or not though.
I believe it did
It wasn't for nostalgia, I played it because I wanted to finish it 100% (or as close to 100% that you can for a NES game).
Ultima is pretty one-dimensional, he's essentially just another god villain who wants to reset the world. Haven't seen anyone call him particularly challenging though, the difficulty is about what you'd expect for a final boss.
He just doesn't emote. There's a brief BRIEF moment where he starts to lose it but by then the fight is practically already done. I get what soulless attitude they were going for but it worked too well.