Ogre Battle 64 is a very good game
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One of the interesting things about the game is that it has pretty good representation of women, which is something you might not expect from a war drama. Women serve as soldiers and leaders in the game's armies just about as much as men do, and a lot of the plot-important characters are women, albeit not as many as men. Unfortunately, unlike the first game, you can't choose the gender of the main character
On the other hand, aside from a few exceptions, classes are almost entirely segregated by gender. A woman can never be a knight, and a man can never be a cleric, etc. This does have the side effect that you need about equal gender representation to have a well-balanced army, but it does seem to kind of betray the point of equal representation. For whatever reason, Tactics Ogre (which was released earlier) was much better about this with most classes not being gender specific