dtgreene: I think I might have to go with Elminage Gothic, even though I ended up quitting late in the post game because the difficulty got ridiculous even for me.
(Also, there's the fact that, for no good reason, much of the best equipment can only be equipped by male characters; if I go back to the game, I am seriously thinking of modding the game to remove all gender restrictions on equipment except for the one weapon that can only be used by third gender characters.)
paladin181: Gender is an asinine restriction period. Why would you keep the one for third gender characters? I thought you were all about gender equality and such.
It's more the novelty.
I did come up with a different idea: Instead of being gender restricted, the items with those restrictions would be Innocent-only (in other words, they would be unusable by class changed characters or monsters recruited with Spirit Pact), with the exception of the Holy Sabre (the third gender only weapon), which I would give what I call the Bicorn property (except that I would need to actually *check* what that property actually does first and see if I like it).
There are other things I am able to mod in that game as well.
paladin181: Gender is an asinine restriction period. Why would you keep the one for third gender characters? I thought you were all about gender equality and such.
Telika: Actually, I'd love a RPG with gender restrictions that apply to some characters only.
"I am not wearing this feathered helmet, these are for GIRLS."
"Okay, I'll take it instead, I don't mind that."
Many JRPGs with pre-made characters do this kind of thing, where you might have items that are mostly used by characters of a certain gender.
For example, in Final Fantasy Tactics, Ribbons are mostly usable only by female characters, but Cloud can equip it despite not being female.
In Paladin's Quest, since there is only one male and one female character that you can equip, shops describe equipment as being for males or for females; however, mercenaries don't always follow the rules (there are a few male mercenaries that use boomerang-type weapons, for example).
There's also the reverse; for example, in Lennus 2, many female characters can equip the Sexy Dress, but not all of them (in particular, Lovie, who is married, can't, and neither can Joynus, who is still a child).