Regular Jessica Who? reader Lena Sayers informed us of a cross-dressing scenario from the PlayStation One game “Final Fantasy VII”. One of the main characters, Tifa, is kidnapped and being held at Don Comeo’s mansion. However, no men are allowed in, so as Kloud you must acquire several articles of women’s clothing, get in drag and convince the bouncers that you are a woman.
There are several possibilities according to which clothes you pick up, including being chosen by the Don for the night!
Copied from Lena’s comment
After you talk the drunken clothing store owner into making a dress for the most masculine guy ever, you’ll decide that dress on its own isn’t enough. You need a wig. Someone tells you that you should go to the gym where there are “more people like you” who can help you. If you do go, you’ll have the chance to win the wig in a squats contest from a guy who’s so ambiguously weird about his sexuality you have no way of knowing if he likes to put on ladies’ panties once in a while or if he has a full recreation of the My Fair Lady stage set in his living room. At any rate, the sooner you finish your business and get out of this gym, the better.
There’s a few things Cloud can get to add to his drag ensemble that will work in his favor once he does make it into the Don’s mansion, but they are optional items. For example, if you go to the Wall Market bar, a guy will send you to a vending machine for a suspicious object.
Later , you have the chance to either get lingerie or bikini briefs to complete your costume, but the price of being mentally scarred for life may come with that choice. Before you choose your own room to change, you can peek into the two occupied rooms. You’ll learn that President Shinra apparently jacks it to girls in suits of armor if you do, which is disturbing enough on its own, but it’s once you get to choosing your room that the real terror begins. I´m not going to spoil you but let`s just say that what’s going on is very murky and undefinable.
Finally, when you are already in-femme you have to stand in a lineup of girls and possibly be chosen as a potential sex partner for the evening.
Whether or not the Don chooses you as his lady of the evening is based on how many of the special extra items you acquired. If you just went with the wig and dress, he won’t choose you, but if you tarted up with lingerie, cologne and makeup, he likely will choose you. Then you get to go to his bedroom and be pawed by an overweight, self-important douchebag who thinks you have a vagina. Hooray.
At least, after the rescue is done, your party threatens to cut a guy’s balls off. Enough said. LOL
I have never played this Final Fantasy and after checking eBay for a copy, I probably never will. However, finding these videos on YouTube showing all the action was certainly a boon.
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I love this game and have played it almost all of the way through. I would have beaten the game but my final disk ended up scratched and would not play past a certain spot. This happens very early in the game.
I’m usually not a big RPG fan though I have an enormous respect for the genre. Interestingly enough, my first time playing through one was Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.
This game was one of my favorites, and I always thought that section was pretty bold for 1996, when I think it came out. I never thought of Cloud as “my” character though. I always named Tifa Lockeheart after myself in FF VII parties. One really funny thign about that scene is the dress maker’s complete surprise and shock at the idea of “making a dress for that tough looking guy?” Because Cloud actually looks somewhat androgynous even in regular clothes.
The FF series has a history of presenting highly androgynous male characters. Usually the male leads, and even to a greater extent their villains. Even as far back as FF VI and forward, at some point in each story the most formidable advisory turns out to be a highly andogynous male, who is almost always very beautiful and vain. In FF VI, the cross dressing scene freaked out some parents, but thegamers themselves were always talking about Sephiroth, the game’s gorgeous villain. Some guys found the way he was portrayed to be very scary. Very much a love him or hate him sort of character, he was the game villain of the year despite all the controversy.
Squaresoft finally pushed the trend too far for most male American gamers in Final Fantasy IX, with Kuja. Searchin’ Youtube….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3dw74XNavI
There!
He dresses very feminine, seems completely disinterested in women, and is built more like a girl than a guy. Even his mannerisms are incredibly feminine. The lead character in the game, Zidane, comes from a genetically engineered race that look like humans other than having a tail. At one point a minor character asserts that Kuja also belongs to this race and “hides his tail”. Double meaning perhaps?
In the end he turns out not to be truly evil and Zidane saves him from an exploding structure. As I recall there is a scene where he picks up Kuja Hollywood style, with one hand at the small of the back and the other in the bend of the knees. I thought it was adorable! Of course, Zidane ends up with a more conventional girl; the game’s female lead Princess Garnet. Still Kuja could be video gaming’s most obviously classically transgender character. Poor girl, born into a world without SRS.
As I said above, I never have really been into RPGs, though it would have blown my mind if I had played this game and happened upon that part. The Final Fantasy series has always been in my head ever since I bought the movie (Spirits Within) on DVD
Thanks for the information on the Kuja character, much appreciated
off topic but I was wondering if you’ve ever covered lolita clothing? I love to wear it and it doesn’t show much skin
Hadn’t heard of Lolita before, send me an email with the details