AvecAloes
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There were like 2 or 3 battles over the course of the game that I ever felt like I needed a Sentinel.
I actually used Fang as a Sentinal fairly often, and there were a couple battles late in the game where I used the Tortoise paradigm. As for Vanille being the lesser of the two evils....well, as far as my style of gameplay went, Hope was better in my preferred party. I'm not saying I liked him don't freak out :-P