Long dark hair? Brown eyes? You're probably the love interest in a PS1 Final Fantasy game
Long dark hair? Brown eyes? You're probably the love interest in a PS1 Final Fantasy game
Garnet/Dagger almost has the same exact hair as Tifa for most of the game
East Asian women generally have dark hair and brown eyes. Not sure why it would be surprising that a Japanese game would portray Asian women as the love interests. I find it a lot better than the modern anime trope of a harem of copy-paste women with different bright hair colors like blue, green, red, yellow, etc.
It's pretty whack that anime women often can be accurately described as one of three personality tropes like tsundere. It really feels like a "Make your own barbie doll" for Incels and they get to pick its factory settings personality and hair color to personalize it.
Have I mentioned I generally don't like anime?
I just think it's interesting that a series that has a huge variety of character designs put characters with very similar vibes in the same exact role three times in a row.
Also I'm not sure how many FF characters are meant to be explicitly ethnically Japanese or Asian outside of maybe Yuffie, though. Race is kind of nebulous in anime and FF* in general so it's hard to tell
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.