Preview

Guest post by "Daedalus"

Afraid I'm going to have to cry foul over a few points you've brought up in your nomination of Lightning.

Firstly, final fantasy 6 did arguably have a female lead, Terra, a half human and half esper and one of the other central characters was also female; Celes who had her own little bit of the game after everything broke apart, final fantasy 6 also had an ensemble cast and while we were introduced to a relatively strong male main character in Locke, I still consider him a secondary character as we started out with Terra, several of the main plot points concerned her directly and she had a personal connection to hte main villain, she had to come to terms with being part-esper and what that meant in this world that essentially used them as magic fuel, she was burdened with massive powers almost beyond her control and she had to do all this as a teenager to boot, hell, even Squeenix recognsied this and brought her on as the hero to represent her game in FF-dissidia .

What's notable is that when we lost the party we had gathered when the world fell apart, it was Celes, that gathered them again, meaning that both she and Terra were together the most important members of the cast, and they far predate Lightning as strong female leads, even if they both did have to be rescued at times... but then again so did other members of the ensemble cast.

I could go on, but I think that's enough to get the discussion rolling, I just couldn't let it pass without comment...