Long story short: Final Fantasy XV (fifteen(!!)) becomes the first Final Fantasy game in the franchise to have the trademark Cid character be a female.
Knee-jerk reaction: It’s sad to think that Cid, who has always been somewhat a symbol of integrity, importance and sometimes humor, has been reduced to a token pile of tits for this one. I’m not saying that she’s not going to be possibly important, possibly humorous and possibly have integrity, but she’s still going to be paraded around like a pile of tits.
It’s seeing things like this that make me tell myself that I really wish the franchise would go with its namesake, and actually finalize the fantasy, and stop making them. Obviously that will never happen, because the franchise is a veritable printer of money, but it’s still a sad state of affair that the series continues to go down this bumpy slope, even if it is reflecting and attempting its hardest to appeal to modern ideals.
I understand that change is sometimes necessity and change is sometimes inevitable, but to not only just swap genders with Cid, but to basically wave the slutty wand on her too? I basically give the :/ emoji face at this thought. I am not impressed.
So I guess it’s only a matter of time when there’s Final Fantasy XVIII has a female character who has an alternative outfit that’s the equivalent of “sexy moogle dancer” who races Chocobos for a living, who’s named Cid.
Honestly, I just don’t care about the franchise anymore. It’s just sad to think that the franchise where I couldn’t wait each successive game, where I had subscriptions to two video game magazines with hopes that news, screen caps any information about them would be available, and I’d draw characters and imagine fan fiction about, would eventually turn into this putrid series of fluff over substance, pandering over delivering, and characters with cool hair and attractiveness over being able to tell a god damn story.
