There's few things more damaging to a man's sense of masculine worth than being forced to play a small furry female thing. With pigtails. And then having a massive bugger in a suit of armour come around and sit on your head every while other people egg him on and type 'LOL' a lot.

But this is exactly the situation we found ourselves in when we popped round to Square's office to try out Chains of Promathia, the expansion pack for Final Fantasy XI.

Yeah, so it's been out in the UK for a good few weeks now, but Square figured we'd like a little tour to see the new features, the new monsters, and the new parts of Vana'diel Chains exposes. And to have the most effeminate, wimpy avatar ever, obviously.