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.
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