If Square clothed Rikku and Yuna in skimpy outfits for marketing purposes, then kudos to them. Perhaps it is 'slutty' as people have put it. However, don't pretend it's unusual. Let's face it: for as long as women have fought battles in videogames, whether they be fighting games, rpg's or anything else, they've done that fighting with large breasts, and in skimpy thongs. It's the nature of videogames. One shouldn't expect videogame heroines to cloth themselves like Puritan Princess Toadstools.

Square isn't selling out by putting its females in their underpants. It's following the norm. Square's not doing anything different than it has in the past. The first FF heroine was Maria of FF2, and she wore a skimpy bathing suit and showed cleavage when wounded. FF4's two ladies wore the same, as did the ladies in FF6. I don't remember what the girls of FF5 wore. In FF7, Tifa wore a miniskirt (that might as well have been a belt, it was so thin). Yuffie wore just as little. FF9 has Garnet prancing around in a skin tight spandex bodysuit. Rikku in FF10 also dressed scantilly, and Lulu is well known for the sexy nature of her outfit.

In nearly every FF, the females have been dressed sexily. FFX-2 isn't going overboard. It's not even unusual. Sex sells. When you think of the percentage of sexy women in feature roles in videogames in general, it should make you question why FFX-2 is being held to such a different standard. It's denying everything that videogames have been about since the dawn of the 8-bit NES.