It is incredibly appalling and frustrating to see Lightning, of all characters, treated like this, when she started out as an anti-fanservice protagonist. I already have LR on preorder, but this is it for me. I have no desire to play ffxv which seems to be pushing an all-male party.

What's so maddening is that FFXIII seemed to be the best title to date in terms of complex female characters who were people first (still some eye candy, but nothing gratuitous or gross.) What happened?

Toriyama is truly appalling.