How the *** can anyone take lightning returns seriously when she can be dressed as a *** miquote with pink glasses during important cutscenes
It's fanservice. I thought that was the whole point of the game.
I still find the lightning character like looking at a sister. I just can't get into the character even though she's a bad *** character.
I just found her character to be an unlikable attempt at making another Cloud, but where Cloud was depressed and having a bit of an existential crisis, Lightning was bitchy and rude, selfish when it came to her sister's engagement and had a tendency to blame Snow because he wasn't present to save his fiancé, as if he isn't beating himself up about it.
This is all going by memory of what I've actually played, character development vs linear gameplay took too long and I never found any redeeming qualities in her. Even in her Dissidia appearance she was moody, rude, and unlikable and at no time has a moment of humanity that I can recall.
EDIT: Before anyone asks, I prefer a female protagonist.