Wish we could have gotten some opinions from some black men in the article instead of a white guy named Paul and another white guy named Tim.

I echo your feelings on Barret, Brandon. Except from the point of a Hispanic teen.

The fact that Barrett exists at all is a damn miracle. A octa-dimensional man with complex values and motivations and relationships with a foul mouth and a chip on his shoulder, from a Japanese game publisher whose only other black man in a FF game as a main character is Sazh. And people griped and moaned on about him…

I don’t think the Barret in the new video is Beau tho, it doesn’t sound like him at all. I believe all the VAs were replaced.

Great article.

And what about the quiet majority who loved Barret then, love Barret now, and have no problem whatsoever with him? What about those of us who in fact think he’s one of the more memorable FF characters of the past twenty five years, and still cherish him? They should just all fuck off?

I really don’t understand why you are being so insulting. I, speaking as a married man WITH a daughter, probably have more say in this than you do. And how you are going about this is just completely wrong. This goes back to the age old argument from back in the day “Who is to blame, the video game or the parents?”…