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.
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