Do you understand what I mean by undermine? The fact that there are a bunch of other outfits that match her personality is good, but the fact that one or more doesn't is the point. Why does it need to be there? It does nothing but alter her character in a negative way. There are enough cookie-cutter 'sexy girls' in the series; we don't need Lightning to turn into one too.

I'm frustrated because everyone is content to hand wave it away as not a big deal when sexism in the video games industry is rampant. That Feminist Frequency series, as flawed as it might be, tried to highlight the issues and the chick was threatened with rape and death. I think that by giving gamers strong female characters that don't need to turn the sex appeal up to 11, we might see a little bit of a shift in mentality as younger gamers grow up.

But even apart from that, retaining a little bit of artistic integrity when it comes to character design would be nice. Why bother giving us Lightning for the third time if she's going to be altered?

And my last comment was intended as tongue in cheek; forgetting to add the appropriate smiley obviously confused it for the tone of the rest of my post. I am just disappointed that Square Enix and apparently its fans are more than happy to reinforce stereotypes without batting an eyelid.