Xenogears

She melees better too, which is depressing.

Honestly, I never used her for anything but melee. For being the big "spellcaster" in the game, her offensive magic sucked balls.

That was honestly my only complaint about the game, is that the specialized characters weren't any good in their own bailiwick...

No love for Billy? His attacks were decent and he's a good healer. I used him all the time. If I didn't feel like being cheap, he took Citan's place in a Fei, Citan, Emeralda party.

You know, everybody I know doesn't like Emeralda but she freakin powerful.

Actually, I always used Fei, Citan and Billy until I got Emeralda. By that point, you had most of your characters' uber-powerful elemental Deathblows and as such, healing in hand-to-hand battles became pretty much obsolete.

I like her. Billy was rather weak, and didn't fit into my play style very well.