Are we really the good guys?

[kyuven]

Words.

Exactly. Which is another reason 13 is a little odd. Lightning's gender is mostly inconsequential to the plot (of the first game at least) and the role normally given to characters like Rinoa, Tifa, Aerith, etc. is instead given to a character that never fights in the first game and in fact spends the vast majority of it as a statue. Her relationship with Sera is important, but it feels more like she's Sera's sibling, rather than sister.
It's a good and bad thing, and given FFXV is going to have zero playable female characters...maybe it was a bad sign, or the writers just didn't get it...
I know as someone who's a fan of strong female characters in video games, FFXV isn't looking all that appealing to me. Four bros on a road trip and all that.