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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.
I'm convinced if VI gets a good proper remake and a marketing blitz to showcase all its positive aspects, including the banger opera scene - they should make a full opera score too. Drag Nobuo Uematsu out of retirement and partner him with Lorien Testard and Alice Duport-Percier exclusively to make a complete opera score. And probably a soundtrack remix because why not at that point. - and i believe it'll be a hit to draw in the masses.
Now THIS is airship racing
Ff6 remake made by the frogs to include several mini games that are nods to other great and infamous games. One of them will be Star Wars Episode I: Racer
And you're not allowed to progress past ~~Locke's~~ Setzer's flashback sequence until you can beat ~~Rachel~~ Darill in ~~a podrace~~ an airship race, and she's basically movie-Sebulba
The whole flashback includes about 12 hours of Gran Turismo-esque tuning for your airship as you go around ~~looting and pillaging dead people's belongings~~ treasure-hunting to fund your airship modification journey, including "stage 3 weight reduction" which is literally just throwing out the casino staff and the roulette tables
Edit: I just 100% fucking conflated Locke and Setzer, didn't I
And that's purely "optional" side content you gotta do to reach the true ending. Mayne throw in some ass creed X being a deadbeat dad dogfather for shadow, Splatoon or Passpartout for relm, magicka or mage arena for Stragos, WWE for Sabin, satisfactory, that "Like a Dragon" mini game involving talking to women but failing every time but as an FMV CYOA with someone famous like Chris Carmack playing Edgar getting clowned on nonstop.
What else should be done for the other characters?
Edgar dodging Epstein allegations in court a la Phoenix Wright
Recettear minigame for a random merchant NPC in South Figaro
Dynasty Warriors sequence for Cyan's battle against General Leo
Terra's esper form turns combat into Child of Eden
Squeenix right now seems to want to chase success over acclaim. Real heads k ow Final Fantasy 6 was Square's announcement to the world that a golden age had begun. People like to point to 7 because of the sales numbers, but that's just when the public caught on to what was happening. You could make a case for 4 too, since it was a big step up in storytelling for the genre. But 6 is when Square seemed to realize the full potential of the medium and the genre to build a more complex story and genre.
It would sell, but it doesn't market itself as readily as 7 does. Theres not the same nostalgia factor in play for as many people, and square would have to work harder at the hype.
I agree 4 walked so 6 can run, firstly.
And secondly I agree, that the nostalgia-bait runs strong for the privileged Playstation petite bourgeois, enough so any money vampire would have to have their nose cut off to not smell the metric shittons of cash they'd make off of that nostalgia. But I make the case that they can make possibly even more money by cashing in on both the more limited nostalgia ff6 has and combine it with the internationally recognized prestigious acclaim the frogs made with their final fantastical expedition 33.
I'm praying E33 has ushered in a new golden age for jrpgs
Honestly the graphics are also a major limiting factor. FFVI just isn't anywhere near as engaging once you've played 7+. It's why I would love to see a remake - I totally believe that it's great but between the menu based gameplay and the graphics it just doesn't capture me.
Imo FF6 looks much better than 7, with one being close yo the peak of a pixel art era and the other being the rough start of the polygon. Admittedly, 6 does look much better on on a CRT monitor and the remake's color chpices are very questionable. If that's your first exposure I kind get it.
But 6 and 7 both have menu-based gameplay. Or were you were referring to 7r?
7 has absolutely beautiful hand rendered backgrounds, as do 8 and especially 9. The repetitive, tile based fields of 6 really don't come close. Yes, the sprites are nicer in 6, but they're just... Nothing. They're irrelevant. There's nothing in 6 that compares to climbing the graffiti covered wall leaving the slums, or the bizarre architecture of the city of the ancients, or even things like the golden saucer etc.
They both have the menu based gameplay which of course is great once you get the hang of it, and yes, 6 does better at the stuff pixel art really excels at. But 7 is set in a beautiful world, while 6 is set in a series of repetitive assemblages of tiles.
Gonna have to agree to disagree on that one. 7 is more varied, but IMO not a great looking game
FF IV remake starring Joachin Phoenix as Kefka.
Dang that would be a good idea. Method acting with those silly tight spandex suits with the light bulbs on em might make for good cinema with him dancing madly
Hell just collab with sandfall to remake it.
Took your recommendation the other day to start ff6 and am really enjoying it so far! It gets surprisingly in-depth story wise
Also I tend to “mad lib” character names without any context/knowledge of the game - which makes it very hard to track what people are talking about - but has made for an interesting storyline lol
See also: “it’s me King Figaro of Figaro!”
And his twin brother, Figaru; as well as DAAVE! the ninja, Fleebu the feral child, and surely others I’ve forgotten… I have a highly cultured sense of humor