Armor Is Useless: Difference between revisions

** ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'': The only "armor" you can buy for any character is "bangles," which are essentially large, heavy bracelets. You can see the characters wearing them, and occasionally even making motions as if they are trying to block or deflect attacks with them. As for how well this works... the way the game calculates damage means that defence stats in general aren't really worth the effort to improve (the most effective armor work by halving damage from physical elements), a glitch means that mdef ignores what armor is supposed to contribute to it, and you can cause your defence to role over if you raised your stats high enough.

** ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'': While most ''Final Fantasy'' characters equip armor, even if only in inventory, here characters do not wear armor, visually or no. In-universe they're covert operatives who often go undercover, and wearing heavy armor would blow said cover pretty quickly. Besides, with Guardian Forces and junctioned magic, they don't ''need'' it.

** ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' has this rule too, to a certain extent. Nobody wears armor, aside from the crusaders, who are practically the ''[[Redshirt Army]]'' of Spira. Any playable character in the entire game, however, can only equip a weapon and an arm-guard.

** ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'': Subverted in the opening sequence. Some poor sap had a gaping hole in his armor, right in front of his throat. Three guesses where he was shot, and the first two don't count.