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.


There are still quite a few important non-party characters who are female I think. Queen Leene, Schala, Queen Zeal, Queen Azala, off the top of my head. The gurus and characters like The Chancellor, Ozzie have a lot of dialog too though from what I remember.