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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.
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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

wild to think that x-2, xiii and xiii-2 all have more male than female dialogue, makes me think that maybe there's an error in the data.