I bet the only woman in his life is his mother, so it wouldn't shock me so much as make me sigh if he were to continue using that problematic characterization that exists nowhere in our reality. Well, nowhere except maybe in those with battered person syndrome.

Oh my God! Amigo.

They can publish this stuff for younger players, absolutely! But the key thing is they shouldn't do so exclusively, not to the detriment to other demographics. The way Toriyama brushes off the argument of players being dissatisfied with his work with a profoundly tone-deaf declaration that Westerners just have poor…

Mr. Fahey, while you're leaving take this article with you.

I laughed.

The inspired strokes of brilliance of world and character design in XII, even just what still remained after Matsuno's sudden departure and their subsequent glossing over by Square-Enix unfeeling board members, are something I want to see in Final Fantasy again.

In my mind Lost Odyssey is the true Final Fantasy XIII, and I will hear nothing otherwise out of any of you LALALALALA.

I would love to see that. Toriyama is to female characters in games as foot-binding was to real women many years ago.

"One's practical worth isn't really looked at, but rather, personal friendship is how merit is assessed."

Hey, did you know that a koala's appendix is about two meters long?

Whether it's a good or bad thing, Square knows how to work your emotions. Sure wish a Final Fantasy with more solid writing can come sooner rather than later for a one-two punch like the old days.

Why does he remind me of Junpei from Persona 3?

Woah woah woah. Woah. The writer for Toy Story 3 also worked on Little Miss Sunshine? That's bigger news to me than the article itself.

Oh, I know about Cavia. I can't help but feel bad for people like them or even that Kikuta fellow who produced the grim and comparatively subdued Koudelka at Sacnoth for SNK before they went on to develop progressively sillier, sometimes middling Shadow Hearts games.

To be frank, I don't see nearly as many Japanese game developers being as frank or providing of constructive criticism of their own industry like Western devs tend to do (Keiji Inafune notwithstanding). If more people with clout speak out against Square-Enix by name, they might become marginally less awful and like…

I can't fairly rip on him being feminine-looking, that would be a small-minded thing to do. However, I have no qualms about jumping to a different conclusion based on his appearance; He looks like one of the most phenomenally shallow and fake-looking douchenozzles I've ever seen.

I do! Good to something of ours representing in mask form.

I never liked Tootsie Rools. :( The fruity ones are about all I can enjoy from the product family.

I never thought that a miniskirt could get any more "mini". Ugh.

Why doesn't Capcom make good sprites like this anymore? ;_;