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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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[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Looks like all Al Bhed dialogues might be double counted. The script there contains:

Brother: Duu cmuf! (Too slow!)

Brother: Cbrana fyja yhymocec lusbmada! (Sphere wave analysis complete!)

Brother: Haqd cdub: Gagazet! (Next stop: Gagazet!)

Gippal: E ryja ymnayto ehdanjeafat people. (I have already interviewed people.) Uha uv oui kioc dyga ujan. (One of you guys take over.)