Girls’ Generation
Final Fantasy XV’s release saw no shortage of jokes calling Noctis and his troupe a boy band. Why not just lean into that completely with the next group of characters, while also doing a gender reversal? Previous FF games have had larger casts to work with in terms of party size, so eight women shouldn’t be an issue for them at all.
Who should they be in the story? Well obviously, they should just straight up be the protagonists, and even if they aren’t all together at the start of the game, they should come together organically. Using actual pop stars allow the series to just lean into the goofiness that’s been around in other titles like X and X-2. Make summons based on their best songs, group combos — all of that fun stuff. It’d be silly as all hell, but this series is used to that by now.
