Babes of Gaming: Tifa Lockhart

Designed by Tetsuya Nomura, Tifa Lockhart is considered to be one of the hottest and toughest Final Fantasy babes of all time. She joined Cloud’s party early on in Final Fantasy VII and was the only human character that used martial arts to defeat her foes. She competed with Aerith for Cloud’s heart, and won him in the end. Maybe Aerith’s death had something to do with it.

Her design was pretty simple, but her massive boobs left a big impact on gamers, and many girl gamers wanted to be like her. I’m not being sexist, just take a look at all the Tifa cosplayers around the world.

Tifa owned a bar called 7th Heaven, because it was located in Midgar’s Sector 7. It also served as a secret hideout for the anti-Shinra resistance group, Avalanche. It was here that Tifa reunited with Cloud after seven years since Sephiroth’s attack and massacre in their home town of Nibelheim.

The hot ass-kicking waitress has also appeared in the 1998 arcade and PlayStation One Namco fighting game Ehrgeiz as a playable character, in an odd Japan-only board game called Itadaki Street for the PS2 and PSP, and had a small cameo role in 2005’s Kingdom Hearts II. You can also enjoy her in the computer-animated film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, where she helps Cloud accept his past and enjoy his present, as well as taking care of sick kids infected by the geostigma plague. Here she has an awesome fight with Loz, one of the three main bad guys of the film.