Originally Posted by
crazybayman
Macho guy with a sword. MY GOD, ITS SORELY MISSING THIS.
In other FF's we had:
FF1 - Fighter
FFIV - Cecil
FFVI - Cyan, Edgar, Locke, Shadow
FFVII - Cloud
FFVIII - Squall
FFIX - Steiner (even monkey-boy had daggers)
FFX - Auron, Tidus (regardless if he's whiny and looks like Meg Ryan, Tidus is a testosterone-fueled dude with a big sword).
FFXII - Basch
(I left out FFs II, III and V because I have yet to play them)
It seems like its all about the macho chicks in FFXIII. Just entering Ch. 10, it seems like Lightning and Fang are your two best fighters (from a physical attack perspective), and Lightning is the only one who carries a sword. Though in fairness, Lightning's attack style is sh!t-hot, and fawkin' cool to look at. IMO, its too bad they didn't have a dude who also did something similar.
And Fang.....ooooo, wow is she tough. "Hardly worth the effort" is starting to get on my nerves. I should have Fang in my party, but instead I have Snow. I have enough tough-girl in my party in Lightning. And yeah, Snow is your typical manly hero, but he punches! PUNCHES!! While he b!tch-slaps his enemies, everyone else slices with a sword, lance or shoots. Punching seems hardly effective to me.
Hope is a mega-sissy with a boomerang (oh no, a BOOMERANG!!), and Sahz is a shooter, but to me he's a mage, first and foremost.
I'm not obsessing over swords here, and I'm not being sexist, but it would really appeal to me more if it had a macho dude with a sword, who completely beats (or slices) the crap out of most everything in his path. Every Final Fantasy needs this.
GAWD.