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.
But how many of them pass the Bechdel Teat?
Almost all of them as far as I'm aware. Definitely all the ones I'm particularly familiar with (7, 10, 13, 14)
This metric feels like a parameter that extends the Bechdel Test.