Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/rebeccamwrites.bsky.social/post/3m6a62btty226
Here’s the dataset and their website if you are interested, there’s more games beyond Final Fantasy that they’ve looked at.
Main findings
- 35% of words were spoken by female characters.
- 29% of characters were female, which suggests the imbalance is driven by a lack of female characters.
- 94% of games had more male dialogue than female dialogue.
It’s pretty funny that even in 13, where the MC is female and there are other central cast members who are too, it’s only in the third installment where they creep just over the line on this chart.
Same for X-2. How do you not crack 50% when all the principal characters are women?
That one got me. How?!
Brother and the Shinra kid talk too much. Also most of the generic npcs are men. Beyond that I don’t know.