slightly off topic "jedi knight" stuffQuite simply, whether one's attempting to be "metaphorical" or trying to be literal, simply calling someone a "knight" doesn't make them one. i.e. you can call them jedi "knights" all you want, but that doesn't make them knights. Oh sure, technically you can call any member of an order a knight if you want, but as a literary archetype, you need more than that to actually make one. And that's what we're talking about, literary archetypes.

Jedi knights are not visually knights, and if you want to get super technical they're not knights of any kind, because they're appointed by council not by a monarch or single head of state.

But I think I'm getting off track. My point is that just calling a character a knight doesn't fill this role that some of us are looking for in these games. When I think of "knight" I have certain things in mind that I want to see. It's not a name that I want, but an idea. My point is that the star wars version of the "knight" doesn't fulfill what I want to see, and neither would a similar style of character in Final Fantasy. A few of the things that I've been vaguely referring to:

Armor, a shield, a crest, chivalry (or rather some strict structure of conduct), no mind powers, nobility, a mount (choco obviously), a sword (lightsabers don't count).

Mind you, I'm just talking about what I, me, just me, want to see. I'm not talking about anyone else, or what FF needs to do for fans or anything, just what I personally want to see in a Final Fantasy.