You can usually expect there to be at least three playable female characters and four playable male characters within any Final Fantasy game (outside of X-2 ). If you have yet to see the film and don’t want to be spoiled, step away now.įinal Fantasy is a series that has typically split playable characters 50/50 in terms of gender and background characters are largely divided in a similar fashion. However, Kingsglaive is a mess of a film, riddled with confusing dialogue, poor pacing, and lazy writing, but its most offensive crime is its treatment of female characters.ĭisclaimer: I am about to discuss major spoilers from Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV. ![]() In fact, I’ve loved their previous two forays into the movie business: The Spirits Within and Advent Children. Ultimately, it’s a marketing attempt to get more people interested in FFXV. It’s meant to set the stage for the story within the game, giving gamers a chance to learn and explore the realm, the wars, and the history before playing. Kingsglaive is a movie set in the FFXV world, years prior to the start of the events of the game, and focuses on the war between the evil Empire of Niflheim and the good guys in Lucis. I highlight this long-winded character background because I need to prove that above all else, Final Fantasy is a series that has historically done great things with characters, especially female characters. Which is why I am so utterly disappointed in how female characters were treated in Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV. There’s so much more to all of these characters in the Final Fantasy universe, male and female, than meets the eye. Rikku in Final Fantasy X is loud, bratty, and over-the-top ridiculous, but her character belies a darkness that you only realize halfway through the game. Celes in Final Fantasy VI starts off as cold and untrusting, but by the end of the game, after letting down her guard and then participating in the opera sequence, one of the most beautiful moments in video game history, she’s a changed character. Sure, I could lump every female character into one of those three categories and it would seem like Final Fantasy just writes stereotypes, but play any one of these female characters and I doubt you’ll feel that way after. Of course, this is a quick over-generalization of the female characters in the series as a whole. ![]() Spunky, anime-esque character : Rikku, Selphie, Penelo Kickass, kind of mean character : Tifa, Celes, Lightning Kind-hearted, quiet character : Aeris, Yuna, Rydia In any of the Final Fantasy games, you could count on at least one of the three different types of female characters: You see, RPGs gave me something that other video games didn’t: female characters. Having played every game in the series, I mean it when I say that I love them all in their own way (even the Lightning trilogy). Since my earliest days of playing video games, I have always loved Final Fantasy.
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