Poll: Ultimate PlayStation Character Tournament: Top 8 - Match 121

We getting super cereal now.

Cloud Strife all the way baby. The protagonist of my all time favourite game.

Not sure PlayStation would be what it is today without our boy Cloud...

Aloy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah....Aloy was great, but Cloud helped define the PS1 early days.

Huntress flame hair over soldier boy blonde bedhead for me.

Until I see better evidence of progress on the FF VII remake, I can’t in good conscience vote against Aloy.

Aloy!
No one cares about Cloud...boooh, get out!! (Don't murder me pls)

Only on this trash-heap of a website could Aloy be considered a better PlayStation character than Cloud.

Please find a new community. And hire some new editors while you're at it.

Come on Aloy you can do it

I know what Cloud means to a lot of people, but Aloy is a much more interesting character, in my opinion. Hope the new face of Playstation wins.

Sorry Cloud, but Aloy wins for me!

I voted Cloud, as he was the definitive characters that first got me into PlayStation. Aloy is fantastic too though!

I do feel like I'm getting a bit old now though, doesn't feel that long ago that you'd put good money on Cloud winning a competition like this without breaking a sweat! But PlayStation has changed a lot since then and it's exciting to see a new character capture people's imaginations. Very interesting to see who wins this!

Cloud for me. Between FF7, Kingdom Hearts, Dessidia, the Advent Children movie and other related spin offs, Cloud has certainly done more for the playstation brand. Questionably properly kickstarted the West's interest in JRPGs. Aloy is a great character, but it's just one game.

Tough vote. I'll go with Cloud.

@ShogunRok damn son so much salt you should change your name to KFC

@Clutch_Nixon Great now I'm pissed off and hungry.

Since these are both 1 hit wonders (so far) I had to go with Aloy. When in doubt go first party, right?

Anyone who votes for Cloud because they were so important to PS1 had better have voted for Crash and Spyro...

CLOUD!!!

My vote goes for Cloud

I voted for Cloud because I have yet to play Horizon. And because he's a better character than given credit for.

I would have voted for Cloud if Square Enix hasn't been trying so s hard to turn him into a Nintendo mascot.

@ShogunRok these jokes never get old.

I loved ff7 and really liked cloud but Aloy is just such a better character.

Aloy so sorry Cloud you where my favorite character but then FF7R happend with the new Square Enix.

Woow that confirms what I was saying last time, the community on this site is really young !

I'm currently playing Horizon and Aloy seems like a very interesting and likeable character but please, we're talking about a legend here. Cloud and FF VII defined J-RPGs on PS1, and video games in general.

Ellie vs Nathan Drake is coming up. That's not fair!

@bpomber
Agreed, talk about an impossible decision.....thats going to be a flip of a coin for me, I might even abstain 😁

As for this round, Aloy all the way for me, I loved Cloud and FF7 back in the day, but upon replaying it a few years back, it's funny how one dimensional Cloud is. Maybe it was more difficult to make complex characters back then given the limitations of the platform, but Aloy just seems much deeper and more realised than any character I can think of from the PS1 era.

Cloud. FFVII is the only Final Fantasy game I've played, but I loved it. Horizon Zero Dawn hasn't managed to hook me.

@Cornaboyzzz I'm 38 and voted Aloy. Cloud hasn't been truly featured in a game in 25 years, and while the game was great he is a very nondescript character. Aloy was a great character in a great game that came out much more recently, and that we will definitely see again. It isn't about age, it is about how Aloy is a better PS character at this point.

Vengeance for Croc, you spiky haired piece of nonsense!

@Simon_Fitzgerald comment of the section and only 2 of us have acknowledged it.

Maybe @ShogunRok is right about the community lol.

@ShogunRok Hasn't even played Horizon so he doesn't even know what he is missing.

@Splat If I play Horizon and think it's a better game than Final Fantasy VII, I'll... I don't know what I'll do.

Aloy, without a doubt!

@get2sammyb Hello, Sammy. When is the Top Games of May feature due? It's my favorite buying guide every month and love reading the trophy winners. OTOH Go Aloy!

While Cloud is a bona fide gaming legend, he isn't a PlayStation exclusive character anymore. Meanwhile, Aloy and Kratos are the biggest names to still be exclusively Sony.

I predict the whole tournament will come down to those two!

@Simon_Fitzgerald Man, I can tell I’ve had a long day ... I kept staring at your comment, knowing there had to be a joke in there somewhere, thinking that surely an editor knows how to spell “allowed” ... then I finally got it. Man, this high brow humor goes right over my head sometimes.

Aloy FTW!

Came only to vote against Cloud, a terrible character from a mediocre Final Fantasy that's overrated because of casuals.

And we all know that Kratos will win, even though he's as overrated as Cloud, but at least he's a PlayStation character.

@Tasuki what did I said that's inappropriate?

NO WAY!!! Aloy cannot ever in any way or form be better than Cloud. I am gonna lose it if she pulls an upset over this tournament.

Team Aloy all the way. Have never played a Final Fantasy game or any other role-playing game. HZD was my first.

@jim_bob_89 Cloud is the probably the most overrated character ever made.