The Best (and Worst) Female Protagonists

[Dice]

Another Tsundere, Luca from ArTone2 was at least cheerful and sweet before the hard-hitting emotions started to pent up.

How in the hell is Luca a tsundere?!  She starts out completely dere, and only later do you find out that she has some serious issues to deal with.  If Luca is a tsundere then the term has truly lost all meaning...

Goddammit whatever, I dont know all these Japanese personality types~!!!

[Commander Jubby Shepard]

I don't know if she was in the list or not (I couldn't read due to how spoilerific it was), but I think Yuna and Lulu from FFX were really great female leads. They were both strong without just filling male roles, and Lulu even acted as a mother. Although knowing the FF series, something at the end probably changed that.

[Alisha]

i think Luca for AT2 is closer to yandere.

[Dincrest]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundere Basically, it's a tough girl with a soft side, whose shell you have to crack.  

A lot of love-adventure and dating sim fans are ga-ga over tsunderes.  They seem to hold some kind of "moe" appeal.  I'm not a big fan of that archetype, but whenever I play a love-adventure on "auto-pilot" I always seem to get the good ending with the tsundere first.  

[Dice]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundere Basically, it's a tough girl with a soft side, whose shell you have to crack. 
A lot of love-adventure and dating sim fans are ga-ga over tsunderes.  They seem to hold some kind of "moe" appeal.  I'm not a big fan of that archetype, but whenever I play a love-adventure on "auto-pilot" I always seem to get the good ending with the tsundere first.

i think Luca for AT2 is closer to yandere.

How in the hell is Luca a tsundere?!  She starts out completely dere, and only later do you find out that she has some serious issues to deal with.  If Luca is a tsundere then the term has truly lost all meaning...

Nerds!

[Alisha]

thats Tsundere nerd to you! being called a nerd is like a badge of honor THANKS!

just in case someone doesnt know what Yandere means:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Yandere

[badsanta]

Another Tsundere, Luca from ArTone2 was at least cheerful and sweet before the hard-hitting emotions started to pent up.

How in the hell is Luca a tsundere?!  She starts out completely dere, and only later do you find out that she has some serious issues to deal with.  If Luca is a tsundere then the term has truly lost all meaning...

Thankfully, we have documents to preserve these sorts of things; http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tsundere

[Ashtrot]

Ley- Unless you're having fun, that battle isn't worth fighting.  Dude, she gave a thumbs up to Shion and a thumbs down to Alys (see page 2.)  Now, I try to be kind, tactful, diplomatic, and exercise professional decorum, but this was one case where this scene from Billy Madison ran through my head and I called it a night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0

Alisha just reminds me of this, since we're now using TVTropes. The problem with viewpoints like hers is that instead of being forward thinking, they seek to turn over the current perceived tyranny and replace it with another of their own choosing. Saying that "someone must do x or they are not y" goes against every single intent and meaning behind equality movements.

[Dincrest]

Fair treatment is not always equal and equal treatment is not always fair.

[Alisha]

i tried to explain this before but there is an aspect of jealousy at play here on my part. i want to be strong like the guys! it has little to do if anything with a feeling of being wronged.

[Prime Mover]

i want to be strong like the guys!

Then grow a penis, AND QUIT MENSTRATING!

[Dice]

i want to be strong like the guys!

Then grow a penis, AND QUIT MENSTRATING!

You spelled that incorrectly, I am offended.  How dare you now acknowledge our biology correctly, but you'd never MISSPELL BOOBS would you??!!!  You're just a male chauvinistic PIG!!

(I kid, I kid)

[MeshGearFox]

Them dang ol'... dang ol' boobies, man, I tell you what.

[Spoony Mage]

Back to Wild Arms female leads:

I have to agree with those that found Virginia to be weak. I was pretty unimpressed with how they handled her. There's some weird hypocracy in her character model that just doesn't add up. Other characters tend to treat her as a strong leader, but I found myself thinking she was uncharasmatic and indecisive. She just didn't have very strong leadership skills, yet all the other characters follow her lead as if she does. I just didn't buy it. Not to mention, I do think she falls into the same problem as many female characters do, where as they develop, they become less emotionally strong. When you first meet her, she's a badass vigilante, but as the game progresses, she's prone to devolving into sorrowfull Daddy's Girl. I'm not saying that it isn't realistic for a character to become emotional over personal events like that, but it's possible to have a character show emotion without becoming weaker.

In my view, Virginia was never meant to be the "badass vigilante" in the story.  That's Maya's job.  :P  Virginia was more the passionate, yet exceptionally naive, heroine wannabe with daddy issues, who makes her mistakes and learns her lessons and manages to stick to her guns without having to do a complete 180.  Oddly enough, I never considered that a weakness.  Not every heroine needs to become the next "Rambo".  I like the type of character who sticks to their core beliefs and outlook in life.  Call me weird.

Raquel, on the other hand, was exceptional. Great concept, great execution (I really need to finish the game one day, and find out what happens to her!).

Well, seeing as Raquel...

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...is dead due to her body finally breaking down by the epilogue after having given birth to Arnaud's daughter...it's sad that happens to one of the cooler characters in the game.

  I have to agree about the writing, it is probably my least favorite of the series.

[Ashtrot]

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Raquel's ending is fitting for her character, IIRC, she was traveling to find something of immense beauty before her death. In the end it turned out to be her daughter and simple life with Arnaud until the end.[/URL]