Kain's magic.

Has anyone been able to figure out why Kain has a casting gesture in
FFIV?
I've always wondered if there was some sort of Dragon Magic they were
going to implement but decided against it (or ran out of time).
Or maybe it was just regular magic...
(for those who've never seen this, dig up info on the "walk through
walls" code for FF2A and use Twin with Palom paired with Kain [there
should be better explanations of this somewhere])

-==Kensu==-

So says Chris Schumacher:


Kain can use items that have magical effects. I think they may cause him to go
into the casting gesture.

- Avenger

Saint Avenger wrote on 06 Jan 04 21:25:

No, using items invokes the standard Parry/Wait-For-Attack/Do-Something
pose.

I'm not sure why Cain has a chanting pose, as battle commands are
hard-coded to the class. I suppose it's because all the sprite sets in
the game are separate from the actual actors, and Square just wanted to
keep all the battle sprites in a standard format. The justification for
this is evidenced in the previously-mentioned bugs (albeit, induced bugs).
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Also I imagine making a casting sprite wasn't too tough of a job and it
keeps the character options universally open. I mean if everyone else has
them, how hard is it to make then for one more character. Then if they
decide to allow him to cast magic, they don't have to go back and remake the
sprite.

I imagine this is what you just said only using different words.
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