Famitsu’s 50 Best Characters of All-Time

1. Snake

2. Mario

3. Cloud Strife

4. The slimes from Dragon Quest

5. Sora from Kingdom Hearts

6. Link

7. Yuri Lowell from Tales of Vesperia

8. Amaterasu from Okami

9. Pikachu

10. Sonic

11. Kazuma Kiryu from Yakuza

12. Kirby

13. The Felynes from Monster Hunter

14. Toro, Sony’s PlayStation pseudo-mascot in Japan

15. Professor Layton

16. Yuna from Final Fantasy X

17. Sakura from Sakura Wars

18. Luigi

19. Tifa Lockheart from FFVII

20. Tidus from FFX

21. Sephiroth from FFVII

22. Mega Man

23. Dante from Devil May Cry

24. Aerith from FFVII

25. Shiren from Mystery Dungeon

26. The Chocobos from FF

27. Zidane from Final Fantasy IX

28. Roxas from Kingdom Hearts

29. Squall Leonhart from Final Fantasy VIII

30. Ryu from Street Fighter

31. Leon S. Kennedy from Resident Evil

32. Vivi from FFIX

33. Auron from FFX

34. Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII

35. Bayonetta

36. Kuro, Toro’s sidekick

37. Zack from FFVII

38. Adol from Ys

39. Chihaya Kisaragi from The Idolmaster

40. Chris Redfield from RE

41. Shantotto from Final Fantasy XI

42. Raiden from MGS

43. Ryu Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden

44. Locke from Final Fantasy VI

45. Miku Hatsune, virtual idol and Internet sensation

46. Nene Anegasaki from Loveplus

47. Alena from Dragon Quest IV

48. Yuffie Kisaragi from FFVII

49. Luke from Tales of the Abyss

50. Rikku from FFX

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