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.
Hm, I’ve only played 7 but if you keep Tifa / Aeris / Yuffie in your party the whole time surely that number goes up?
I think this counts all the words in the game files, not based on playthroughs.
As chgxvjh says, I’m pretty sure it’s analyzing entire scripts. I did notice in the linked research article on their GitHub that they took a look at that as well though.