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X-2 being less than 50% is wild when it's the girl pop game

Shocking that x-2 doesn't break 50% but also that VI is so low given that the main character is a woman (that said a fairly terse one) and another one sings an entire aria.

FFIV and the male urge to go to the moon

This doesn't seem right for X-2. All three party members are female, the villain for the first couple arcs (LeBlanc) is female. Just by glancing at the script there is not a whole lot of male dialogues

https://www.neoseeker.com/finalfantasyx2/faqs/69600-final-fantasy-x-2-script.html

Maybe Brother's word count is double-counted? Brother speaks in Al Bhed and the subtitle would show both the Al Bhed and English translation

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.

It's pretty funny that even in 13, where the MC is female and there are other central cast members who are too, it's only in the third installment where they creep just over the line on this chart.

I'm convinced if VI gets a good proper remake and a marketing blitz to showcase all its positive aspects, including the banger opera scene - they should make a full opera score too. Drag Nobuo Uematsu out of retirement and partner him with Lorien Testard and Alice Duport-Percier exclusively to make a complete opera score. And probably a soundtrack remix because why not at that point. - and i believe it'll be a hit to draw in the masses.

Tactics missing and I bet it does better

I agree the core issue is less female characters of course, but I also know that JRPGs tend to be plagued by long-winded male monologues, especially from villains.

EDIT: Was just thinking, I’d be curious to know how Chrono Trigger holds up regarding this. I remember the game having pretty great writing for the female characters and even had an openly ~~non-binary~~ gender non-conforming character which was neat for a 90’s SNES game.

X-2 suprised me there

"I wish FF4 had more feeeeeemale () dialogue"

[A FINGER ON THE MONKEY'S PAW CURLS]

The Magus Sisters now have an unskippable 45-minute FMV cutscene

Seriously, though; what the hell is with Rosa's abject lack of characterization? I guess you could blame the lack of space on the ROM, especially if some stuff was cut from the English translations, but even then I really doubt Ted Woolsey had all that much to work with. I'm not mad, just disappointed. Be better, 1990s Japan.

For a split second I was truly shocked that any of the games managed to top X-2 then I realized it was Lightning Returns. Makes sense haha

My final fantasy is that my stupid wife who I hate quiets down so me and the boys can talk about where we're going to allocate our stat points

Hm, I've only played 7 but if you keep Tifa / Aeris / Yuffie in your party the whole time surely that number goes up?

FFXIV does not have proper statistics, but it does have a very large page of analysis, and I have a definitely unbiased opinion that it would score well. There are more "neutral" characters than one would expect, and a lot of them in an almost gender-fucky sort of way? Which is very cool. XIV stays winning.

looks like XIII went woke. thankfully XV was redpilled to make up for it and provided an almost female-free experience

I always wondered why I found FF games so unsatisfying. This might be a large part of it. Which makes me wonder if a single one passes the Bechdel Test...