JRPGs led by the ladies

Seeing the thread title I thought this would be about JRPGs whose lead developers were women, and although I realized my error, I'll mention the game that came immediately to mind, which also somewhat fits the prompt here.

Fire Emblem: RADIANT DAWN

Tradegood has sung the Fire Emblem song, and I would add a harmonic line to it. Radiant Dawn (FE10) is indeed a direct sequel to Path of Radiance (FE9), which regrettably does not fit the theme as nicely (and is a 40-hour prologue for its sequel). As mentioned, one of FE10's main protagonists is a girl, Micaiah, but you also take control of a number of other factions throughout the game, with several leading ladies among them, including:

  • the queen of Ike’s home state
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  • the queen of the wolf tribe
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  • the leader of the mercenary band from FE9
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  • the leader of the royal pegasus knights
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  • the empress herself (there is no emperor)
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You want strategy? You want queens? This is your game.

And a bunch of other cool characters of course. There is also a secret super woman later on. Don‘t want to oversell the game on a false premise, half the main characters are men, but this game here’s got a secret spice going on. Worth looking into I'd say

In any case, when it came to mind I was thinking not of characters, but of the developers:

  • director: Taeko Kaneda (director of FE7, game designer for FE9)
  • assistant director, lead level designer, character designer: Sachiko Wada (director and character illustrator of FE8, portrait artist for all GBA games, and level designer for FE9)
  • sound supervisor: Yuka Tsujiyoko (composer of every track in the first six games in the series, and most of the tracks in 7 (the remaining ones in that case composed by Saki Kasuga))
  • character illustrations, portrait design: Senri Kita (character illustrations in FE9)
  • music composition: Chika Sekigawa, Naoto Miyatake, Naoko Mitome, Yoshito Sekigawa (:male_sign:)