Various stuffs about FF

[Great Rumbler]

Capcom: panty flashes jiggly tits, special costumes for more nudity and/or jiggle, check

Square: panty flashes, jiggly tits, full nudity, special costumes for more nudity and/or jiggle, check

Sega: panty flashes, jiggly tits, special costumes for more nudity, check

Tecmo: hahahahaha ;D

Which, no matter how you look at it, is a blatant exaggeration. Since we're going to make a big deal out of this, I'll list some of the major titles from each company and break them down.

Square-Enix

Final Fantasy 7
-Gameplay: You can have three different female characters in your party, two of which have a major impact on the story.
-Presentation: Aeris is basically a nun who more or less gives up her life to try and save the world. Tifa, while certainly not lacking in important aspects, plays a very large role in the story, sticking by Cloud when he's all wacked out and generally beating people up. Yuffie...well...you're supposed to hate her because she's a liar and a theif.
-Conclusion: Hardly a representation of sexism, given the roles played by female characters in the games.

Star Ocean 2
-Gameplay: Aside from the female characters you can recruit for your party, you can also play the game from Rena's perspective.
-Presentation: Rena, although somewhat naive, is still a fairly tough character who, in the end, saves two whole worlds from destruction. Other female characters also act as more than just damsels in distress or sex objects.
-Conclusion: Not much sexism here either.

Man, this taking a lot longer than I thought it would.

Capcom

Resident Evil 2:
-Gameplay: You play half of the game as Claire.
-Presentation: Claire wears conservative clothes and fights zombies hoards.
-Conclusion: Sexism? Not really.

Breath of Fire series:
-Gameplay: Nina is a playable character in every BoF game, along with other female characters.
-Presentation: Nina is always a close companion and confidant of Ryu, the main character in the series. She fights bad guys and stuff and helps you out a lot.
-Conclusion: Same as above.

Nintendo

Metroid series:
-Gameplay: You play as Samus Aran, a female, who's the toughest and baddest bounty hunter in the entire galaxy. The Federation would likely be in ruins without her.
-Presentation: Yes, under all the armor Samus Aran isn't exactly wearing a berka, but this is hardly a string bikini:





It's actually fairly conservative for that kind of dress. Of course, it's all in the presentation though and, aside from that one shot in the opening of SSBB, it's not something that's overly emphasised.
Conclusion: Not much here either.

You're best accusation for this one would be with Princess Peach, whose entire purpose in life is to be captured and then rescued. Zelda gets captured a lot, but, especially in the later games, her role is more developed and she actually does stuff. Plus, you've got Midna, she's pretty cool.

Tecmo

Xtreme Beach Volley Ball 2:
-Yeah, they made a second one. Just...man...what a company.

Again, my point wasn't that it didn't exist, but to say that it's prevalent, and BLATANT, in every Japanese game with a story is completely absurd.