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.
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.