Samurai

[karateorangutang]

See, this would be an argument for such a thing if past FF games had stuck anywhere close to historical Samurai, but they don't, not by a long shot. Samurai in Final Fantasy has been more abstract in implementation than even Dark Knight who has a lot of consistency between games. Samurai does not. Not within FF that is. And if you go for historical accuracy then as others have stated, they wouldn't even use their swords.

Yes, they have strayed from the formula but a Samurai in FF has always wielded a 2 handed weapon. I'm just stating that is unlikely to change.

In Final Fantasy games, sometimes Samurai are heavy armored brawlers, sometimes they have a collection of supporting abilities, sometimes they're lightly armored quick attackers. In fact, the only thing they really have in common is the name samurai, and that they can equip weapons labeled as "Katana", but even then there's examples that stretch this, such as Auron who while his weapons are classified as Katana, they are almost all Broadswords or Greatswords in appearance. Dual wielding Katana are still using Katana and the argument for Samurai dual wielding is pretty much for the sole purpose to counter the argument of there being a supposed overlap with Dark Knight's Greatswords which is a pointless reason to not implement Samurai as potential Tanks.

At least samurai aren't running around casting magic spells at things. Auron was a vast exception due to the nature of the setting. You find me a single character outside of Yuna and Lulu that even slightly resemble some kind of medieval ideal. We have to take into account the world settings that they are in and timelines, as well as levels of technology and sciencentific knowledge. For all we know the alloy that Auron's sword was made out of an alloy with a weight similar to that of a classical katana. I have no delusion that FF Samurai are even close to the historical fact ( this is true of every single job in a fantasy game), but at least there is a historical knowledge to pull from. Samurai once existed, the knight who pulled dark power out of his soul to shape it and use it against his enemy did not.