yes, well the thing is Rydia won't be using Rydia stats, she's just going to be kain-clone she-dragoon. I dunno, it just sounds a bit lame to me, if you were actually to keep the character's attributes and rewrite the story a bit it might be more like a real hack but this sounds more and more like. "I want to be teh gurlz" of course I could be gravely mistaken, but it just seems a little superficial in nature.

I used strong words there but I mean no personal disrespect, nor am I trying to smack-talk your work. In all honestly I can't make any observation till I see the final product, I'm just worrried that it will be less than it COULD be.

It's supposed to be superficial.

I notice you used the term "she-dragoon".  Are dragoons male by default?
If you were going to "rewrite the story a bit" around the switch, what aspects would you rewrite?
What is wrong with "wanting to be teh gurlz"?

Oh, and I just thought of something amusing... if this was done, Edge would be commenting that Cecil and Kain are hot boys when he joins the party and be hitting on Kain the whole game instead of Rydia.  Maybe it would be easier to just switch Cecil and Rosa since Cecil is the main character.  Then I'd just have to switch that line of Kain's after Tellah kills Golbez to avoid making him gay.

You are going to use a copywritten story, so you are basically "hacking" the script. That is as illegal as hacking the rom.

It's copyright, not copywrite. He would be using a copyrighted story. And he never said he was going to use the story from FFIV. I assumed he was going to write his own.

That reminds me of Final Fantasy Tactics, where this is also true (essentially). However, in many RPGs, the stats for female characters usually aren't as high in the areas of strength or HP as the stats for male characters are. Usually that leads people to leave the magic classes for the women. In FFT though, you get rewarded with two extra classes for training a man down the magic path and a woman down the warrior path. Granted those two classes kinda suck, but still, they exist. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

It was the way HOW they were presented. Sailor Moon like "transformations" and other "cool" moves to show off their asses and their busts. Gamers can like female heroes too, if they are presented in a non sexist and non cheap way. An example of an excellent female lead would be Dreamfall - The longest journey.

yes I know, I meant the whole package


supposed to be superficial? why? and of course all dragoons aren't male, haven't you ever played Final Fantasy IX? Freya is a dragoon. also there are many other ones where you can set any character, male or female, to the dragoon class. I just said what I did because she wouldn't really be Rydia, she'd be Rain (1 part Rydia 4 parts Kain, without ANY other changes)


I would rewrite it so that the stuff that the lead characters say sounds like their personalities, Rosa does not = Cecil's personality, the same with Kain and Rydia, the way they relate to the other characters is different too. They could be a Dark Knight and Dragoon too, but I also think they could be their original classes and still play the lead. You could still have Edge hit on Rydia too. I think what I don't get is that I already thought the characters WERE strong, both socially and within the game combat system, Rydia especially.


nothing, as long as they aren't suffering from guy identity crisis


could be, but I never played them like that, in fact, Faris was by Knight, and Lena was my berserker. By the end of the game you are playing with 3 girls and one guy so....


it was because it was somewhat rushed, a side game, and not like the main FF games, people wanted a serious story. at least some people, everyone is different. I don't think people cared that the characters were girls so much that the entire game was written for 10 year old Japanese girls.

also I don't know of any specific hacks, as Deathlike said.

like I said, I don't have any problem with girls, but if it's just a sprite swap then it feels half done, if you really want to switch the characters then alter their dialogue and personality too, As said before, Rydia and Kain are NOT the same, and neither are Rosa and Cecil.