So are all 4 Party Members Male?

[Vambran]

I thought in the 3DS version one of them was a female ( Refia ). Just trying to pick the right names. Dont want some guy ( Sprite )named jill.

[HexGramarye]

RamenJunkie původně napsal:

I named my party Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde but got disappointed when the colors of the Onion Knight class didn't carry over to the individual classes.

That's one of the mods I want most for both this and FF1. It would be so cool if duplicate jobs had color-swapped versions of each other and not straight-up clones of each other.

[SC_Nikki]

Sir Gramarye původně napsal:

RamenJunkie původně napsal:

I named my party Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde but got disappointed when the colors of the Onion Knight class didn't carry over to the individual classes.

That's one of the mods I want most for both this and FF1. It would be so cool if duplicate jobs had color-swapped versions of each other and not straight-up clones of each other.

Just imagine... green warrior, pink red mage, blue bard. I'm all for it! ^_^

[Zunnoab #931]

SC_Nikki původně napsal:

Escorian původně napsal:

they are nonbianry originally, just some sprites look male and some look female to people.

This is true. So it's pretty funny to, say, change from a Monk or a Warrior into a Bard, and so on. There are people who vehemently believe (or at least, used to believe) white mages are supposed to be female (ahem, Minwu), and I think they used this to great effect with Arc in the DS version. As white mages, he and Luneth have their hoods down, like Bartz and Galuf in FF5. But as a Devout, Arc's hood is up... because at that point in the game, he's come out.

You could give one or two characters female names and maybe only choose the feminine-looking jobs for them, if you wish, or just not worry about it. Indeed, Refia was added to the DS version for some "representation" of sorts, I suppose, but this evidently wasn't so important when the original game released in 1990.

What I find fascinating is that, in another series long ago (Ultima), they actually removed a female character in a console port of the fourth game (they changed the Tinker, Julia, to Julius). This is interesting because the cast was evenly split before they did that. I guess it had something to do with the male-dominated console demographic, as opposed to the more neutral PC market of the time.

That's weird with Ultima, but indeed it used to be considered a sales risk to cast female characters in games. It was a big spoiler that Samus is a women in Metroid.

[SC_Nikki]

Zunnoab #931 původně napsal:

That's weird with Ultima, but indeed it used to be considered a sales risk to cast female characters in games. It was a big spoiler that Samus is a women in Metroid.

I haven't actually played the game, but it's my understanding that you, the player, are cast as the character that matches your ethics/personality based on a test administered at the beginning of the game. It could be that Julia matched the choices of enough male players that they changed her into a male character. Or they just did it to satisfy the demographic, I don't know. In any case, being a tinker, she was kind of a precursor to Lucca in Chrono Trigger, and that's very cool.

[HexGramarye]

SC_Nikki původně napsal:

Zunnoab #931 původně napsal:

That's weird with Ultima, but indeed it used to be considered a sales risk to cast female characters in games. It was a big spoiler that Samus is a women in Metroid.

I haven't actually played the game, but it's my understanding that you, the player, are cast as the character that matches your ethics/personality based on a test administered at the beginning of the game. It could be that Julia matched the choices of enough male players that they changed her into a male character. Or they just did it to satisfy the demographic, I don't know. In any case, being a tinker, she was kind of a precursor to Lucca in Chrono Trigger, and that's very cool.

Oh, I love Ultima. Not sure why the NES version made Julia a man; probably because Julia's a tinker (engineer) which is a male-dominated field and sexism or something. This might explain why only Julia was gender-swapped but not Mariah (mage), Jaana (druid), and Katrina (shepherd).
You don't get matched to particular characters, you make your own character (either boy or girl) and the personality test assigned you to a job class and starting area.
Ultima 3 is cool, though, in that it was the first-ever game where there was a specific option to make a nonbinary character. Most games still don't do that.

[nohman]

The game just calls them 4 youths. I actually went with the four male names I used to use on FFIII Famicom. I just consider this and FFIII DS alternate universes of the same story, especially when games like Dissidia, FF TCG, and FF Record Keeper (I think?) acknowledge Luneth and Onion Knight as separate people.

[Dekoma]

Much like FFI, they're whatever you want them to be.
You want 1 male 3 female party? That's fine. All male? Its good too.

This is the reason why i love the earlier FFs. Especially I and III. Its up to your imagination on who your characters are and what they're like.

[Isaac Cahn]

To be Honest, i say it doesen't matter in the sligthest. they can be an all male, all female, or any number of genders. its really up to what the player thinks of them as.

[GRRz|Snake]

Based on colors for me they are 3 males and 1 female (the pink one).

Even tho, it's on classes/jobs mostly... for example i went with 3 male names and 1 female name... since i wanted a White Mage and the White Mage looks female-ish to me.

My other Party members are Knight - Dragoon - Dark Knight , all males.

[UnBlessed]

I was wondering the end is Princess Sara married all 4 Onion Knights.

[SC_Nikki]

UnBlessed původně napsal:

I was wondering the end is Princess Sara married all 4 Onion Knights.

Well, these days... ;P

GRRz|Snake původně napsal:

Based on colors for me they are 3 males and 1 female (the pink one).

Never forget Fuchsia Link in Four Swords! :D
Funny story, it used to be the other way around. In times ye olde, pink was the boy color and blue was for girls...

Even tho, it's on classes/jobs mostly... for example i went with 3 male names and 1 female name... since i wanted a White Mage and the White Mage looks female-ish to me. My other Party members are Knight - Dragoon - Dark Knight , all males.

That's great, that's the freedom this game gives you! :)

[Hobo Elf]

All four party members in my game were male but that doesn't mean that people in your party were all male.

[SC_Nikki]

Sir Gramarye původně napsal:

Totally agree. I will never not believe Arc is a femboy icon. Most people miss Refia in this version, but for me it's Arc.

I know, right!? The kid wore his Devout hood so proudly! It's not just that he's gay with Alus, he has at the very least a transfeminine gender identity. And the fact that he's insecure in the beginning, but gradually comes to terms with himself and finds courage in so doing, is so dang beautiful I could cry! ~.~

[CrescentMouse]

SC_Nikki původně napsal:

Sir Gramarye původně napsal:

Totally agree. I will never not believe Arc is a femboy icon. Most people miss Refia in this version, but for me it's Arc.

I know, right!? The kid wore his Devout hood so proudly! It's not just that he's gay with Alus, he has at the very least a transfeminine gender identity. And the fact that he's insecure in the beginning, but gradually comes to terms with himself and finds courage in so doing, is so dang beautiful I could cry! ~.~

"haha boy become cat boy" - Me

[SC_Nikki]

CrescentMouse původně napsal:

SC_Nikki původně napsal:

I know, right!? The kid wore his Devout hood so proudly! It's not just that he's gay with Alus, he has at the very least a transfeminine gender identity. And the fact that he's insecure in the beginning, but gradually comes to terms with himself and finds courage in so doing, is so dang beautiful I could cry! ~.~

"haha boy become cat boy" - Me

Big talk for a little mouse, hmm? ;P