
Final Fantasy II - Fem Heroes
A downloadable hack
I did it again. As with FF1, I've made the main characters of FF2 women. Note this applies only to Firion (now Fiona), Leon (now Leona), and Guy (now Gal) -- the temporary party members are not adjusted.
I'm using the FF3 White Mage style of 3/4ths view for these characters as well as adjustments to Maria and Leila to match, same as I did for FF1. Text referring to the edited characters has also been adjusted as well -- Fiona gets referred to with she/her, Maria calls Leona her sister, etc. When I made the FF1 edits, I didn't plan on doing the same for FF2 as it features actual characters rather than blank slates, but then I thought about the possibility of a textbox that says "Gal speak beaver" and so I had to do it.
Given these are unique characters rather than generic Jobs, I intentionally deviated from the Fighter design I used in FF1 for Fiona -- while her armor design is "Fighter with new details" like Firion before her, I've given her longer hair to differentiate her and a bandana to very lightly reference the Amano design that was used as a basis for all future releases of 2. Likewise, as Leon has the same head as Firion but with shorter hair, Leona was given the hairstyle of my FF1 Fighter design instead to match that design difference. Gal was also given some consistency tweaks in frames where Guy still had the FF1 Thief's elf ears, which should be normalized across her sprites now.
This particular hack was made with great assistance from https://zeno.itch.io/ who had actually played FF2 before and helped me find the text banks I needed to change and assisted testing!
The patch is meant to be used atop the Chaos Rush translation patch for Final Fantasy II. Aside from pronoun changes and altering one instance where the translation was hardcoded to say Guy rather than referencing the player-entered name, there have been no changes made to that translation, with one exception: the story in the Mysidia bookshelf about the man in the hot air balloon is now about a woman.
This is currently early access for the FF2 patch! I am not yet done with my test playthrough, but I've played enough that I feel okay letting the public at this patch. If you experience any issues, notice any textboxes that need pronoun fixes, or anything similar, please let me know and I'll look into it asap.
| Updated | 15 hours ago |
| Published | 2 days ago |
| Status | In development |
| Category | Game mod |
| Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings) |
| Author | firemtn |
| Tags | 8-Bit, Female Protagonist, JRPG, No AI, Sprites |
| Content | No generative AI was used |







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