Final Fantasy 15 has two types of Magic, Director on role of women in the game

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sc94597 said:

I am still not seeing why there can't be a comradeship with a female character or two unless their view of a female character is a stereotypical love interest/feminine female. Representing genres as archetypes is bad writing. And I don't think the road trip trope is necessarily new to the genre. It just never was explictly represented as an actual road trip. 

 

There could be, and there's nothing wrong with that. Each Final Fantasy is different, and I think having an all male party is just one way this FF is trying to be different and stand out. All of their personalities will be decidedly masculine... what is the point of swapping a character's gender if they're going to behave more or less the same anyway? Just for the sake of diversity? Sorry if I'm misunderstanding you. And "representing genres as archetypes" does not automatically make for bad writing. It depends on the context.