Turn-based RPGs where the main character is a woman, excluding create-character?

For spoiler reasons Tiz is like the most main character of anything that has ever main charactered.

For spoiler reasons Tiz is like the most main character of anything that has ever main charactered.

For spoiler reasons Tiz is like the most main character of anything that has ever main charactered.

FF6 doesn't quite commit hard enough for me to be comfortable saying it is.

I'm borderline on Maelle from Expedition 33. I think it just barely makes it.

Sadly I think they all have some sort of asterisk:
* 2/Echoes - Alm and Celica share the spotlight with Alm being the main focus overall.
* 7 - Eliwood is the main character even if he's the least popular of the lords.
* 8 - Eirika and Ephraim share the spotlight. Eirika is a bit more important overall though, but not by enough to definitively be the main character.
* 10 - Micaiah starts as the main character but Ike takes over pretty definitively.
* Awakening/Fates/Three Houses/Engage - All feature customizable avatars where you choose their gender. Plus Awakening has Chrom competing for the main character slot.

Trails in the Sky 1 & 2

FF6 but this one people do claim is an ensemble cast with no real main character but then when you actually play the game the story beats you over the head with "this is terra's story"

WoB = Terra is the clear protagonist
WoR = Celes takes over that role

Either way both are women.

No it's still Terra even in WoR. She literally shows up at the end even if you deliberately go out of the way to avoid recruiting her.

She's far less connected to what's happening in the WoR than Celes.

Admittedly a lot of what's going on there is disjointed because of how they set it up, really not a fan of the second half of that game, WoB though is a damn masterpiece.

How is she less connected than any other character? Like, what does Celes do after getting the airship in WoR?

Not much because nobody does much at that point since you can just go beat the game then.

Exactly. How can you have a main character in a story where nobody does anything?

Exactly. How can you have a main character in a story where nobody does anything?

WoB = Terra is the clear protagonist
WoR = Celes takes over that role

Either way both are women.

She's far less connected to what's happening in the WoR than Celes.

Admittedly a lot of what's going on there is disjointed because of how they set it up, really not a fan of the second half of that game, WoB though is a damn masterpiece.

SE DO NOT SPLIT THE GAME INTO PARTS IF YOU REMAKE IT PUT IT ALL TOGETHER IN 1 GAME LIKE ORIGINALLY DONE

Atelier

Celes is the one you start WoR with and shes the one who starts the process of gathering the squad, so shes the closest thing to a main character for the second half of the game. I agree that the game kinda fumbles the plot in the second half

As I understand, FF6 was originally planned to end with the WoB scenario

- Princess Minerva

never heard of this one is it good

Indivisible.

never heard of this one is it good

We could restart that endless argument of who is the main character of Final Fantasy 6.

celes is the POV for like an hour in the WOR then you get the airship and she is no longer relevant
where as terra is the only character that has to be in the ending and will still be the sole focus
its her story. celes is important but nowhere near as central to the plot as terra

The only required party members to beat the game are Celes, Edgar, and Setzer, and the game makes this blatantly clear since one or all three of them appear in everyone else's snippet for the ending sequence. Terra showing up regardless does not make it 'her' story when you can kill the final boss without her.