Garnet/Dagger almost has the same exact hair as Tifa for most of the game
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In all fairness, all three had very different personalities and even classes
Garnet/Dagger almost has the same exact hair as Tifa for most of the game
In all fairness, all three had very different personalities and even classes
That’s really true and a good point about race being nebulous in Final Fantasy but I personally always assumed everyone was Asian, with some notable examples like Barrett or Cid.
So I also always thought this made sense for them to depict love interests with commonly East Asian characteristics. Of course, Asia is massive and includes people with blue eyes, and so on, but I think this is very based.
As Z_Poster365 said, it’s way better than the unrealistic, cartoonist way anime depicts Asian women. Obviously, neither is real. One is a video game and one is a cartoon of sorts so they have fantastical liberties I don’t think should be denied them but this is great. The less men have some fantastical and unrealistic expectations of women the better. I mean, Tifa already is a bit of an unrealistic expectation in, uh, certain aspects, but I think this is generally a good way to depict Asian women who are love interests in a game mostly targeting and set within an Asian market.
Better they did this than pander to Western love interest tropes which for so long were necessarily some White, blue-eyed, blonde. I’d take a Rinoa over Trish (DMC) in a game any day.
How come Cid is white but Cloud and Aerith are Asian???
I’m still not convinced Tifa, Rinoa or Garnet/Dagger/Sarah is supposed to look Japanese. Yuna from FFX reads as much more Japanese-coded to me because of her name but mostly because she’s dressed like (and sort of is) a shrine maiden. She also looks very different from her immediate predecessors with shorter, lighter-coloured hair and heterochromic blue/green eyes.
He was clearly supposed to be White because they made him such a loud, rude, arrogant bastard.
Yuna is definitely more Japanese-coded, I agree about that, especially with the clothes. I don’t know but I think pre-X they just didn’t have the hardware to make them look more detailed so they just end up looking kinda ambiguous. Rinoa definitely looks the most like a real, normal Asian woman to me though, and she’s coincidentally the one of the three I predominantly crush on but mainly because I go with Aerith in the Aerith/Tifa debate, but I still think they are all supposed to be Asian.