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Games where the majority of playable characters are female?
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Don't forget the giant cucco, which is playable in a mode akin to Ganon's special mode. It is based on hens (female chickens) after all, so still more female characters
Can we not count chickens in a thread clearly intended as asking for representation of women.
I'm surprised this is not the first post, but I guess the OP set the tone of JRPGs.
Sadly most games that focus more on more female party members do it for waifubaiting purposes so its hard to think of positive examples
Props for the ikenfell mentions though, and of course FFV, which is probably the only where i remember the game ending with only one male in the entire party but not making a harem out of it
probably because launch skullgirls was all girls and wouldnt fit the point
big band only got added way later
isnt the first and second game like 50-50%
Props for the ikenfell mentions though, and of course FFV, which is probably the only where i remember the game ending with only one male in the entire party but not making a harem out of it
probably because launch skullgirls was all girls and wouldnt fit the point
big band only got added way later
isnt the first and second game like 50-50%
If the "robot rule" counts, Slay the Spire counts. 2W 1M 1R. Some Borderlands games would count as well. Borderlands 3 certainly would.
Wait, did i miss a secret character?
There's 6 playable characters in Ys8, no? Adol/anchor big dude/edgy sniper for boys and Danna/rich girl/green loli for girls.
You say that but I'd much rather see more hens in games than characters like those in Senran K (which someone mentioned earlier).
I mostly remember LA2 as the one where you have a lead male character able to enter into 'engagement' with a harem of witches (complete with wedding dress imagery of the special move), while another character was directly described as an otaku paparazzi, eternally perving on the girls as the embodiment of the shitty 'team pervert' trope. It was pretty grim.
Oof, I forgot the sequel had that wedding dress stuff.
I mostly remember the first game, it sort of felt like a harem, but the main character was only into the heroine and only had "good friend" interactions with the rest.
Yeah the first one was a by the numbers SRPG, the second one was hyper focused on the otaku fanbase to the point of making one a playable unit. I was like 'WTF…'
DoA, Neptunia, Atelier, Skullgirls, Senran Kagura, Genshin, gacha and harem games.... yayyyy for representation /s 🤮
For a real answer: The Last of Us Part 2
For a real answer: The Last of Us Part 2
*tumbleweeds*
Pocket Fighter was the first mainstream fighting game to have a majority of women and one could arguee that not even Morrigan is objectified in it
Just because I'm struggling to find games I'm gonna cheat and say RE1.
I don't think we should count games where only women are playable considering the nature of the thread, because the bigger point I feel is that the second there are playable male characters in the game, they're pretty much always in majority! And it's in the OP.
I don't think we should count games where only women are playable considering the nature of the thread, because the bigger point I feel is that the second there are playable male characters in the game, they're pretty much always in majority! And it's in the OP.
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade has 3 women and 2 men that you can take control of, correct?
My point is more that games like SK have such awful representation of women that even a female chicken would be better. Obviously games can and should do better than chickens.
Dammit. I came to the thread to say Overwatch, but I doublechecked and the roster is 47% women / 53% men. So close.
Maybe Overwatch 2 can rectify this.
Maybe Overwatch 2 can rectify this.
Puyo Puyo series, mostly depending on the game.
While I'm cheating here, the main protagonists that drive the story are most often female.
Yeah Ryza has 3 female party members and 3 male. The sequel has 4 female party members out of 7 though.
There's the rub.
It's great when girls are represented, but less when half of them are in battle bikinis
Wild Arms 2. The permanent party members are 3-3, but you get 1 temporary female character and 1 temporary genderless divine wolf.
Atelier Escha & Logy. 4-3 in the original and 7-4 after the expansions.
Corpse Party. 3 female and 2 male in the original. 6 to 3 in the PSP remake and subsequent ports.
Hyrule Warriors, I *think* ended up at more female characters than male - by my count it's 15/28. Although do note that that count of 28 does reflect multiple forms of the same character in some ways (Midna and Twili Midna, Link and Young Link, Zelda and Sheik and Toon Zelda) - although given the nature of HW's narrative, they are still distinct characters... so not quite sure how you unpick that one!
Interesting to note that if you split that into heroes and villains, the villains are overwhelmingly male, which means there's a lot more women on the heroic side - I guess a natural side-effect of the Zelda series as a whole having very few female villains.
Interesting to note that if you split that into heroes and villains, the villains are overwhelmingly male, which means there's a lot more women on the heroic side - I guess a natural side-effect of the Zelda series as a whole having very few female villains.
Holy moly, these posts so much 1000%!... Also sorry for quote wall, I came in the thread wanting to say these myself, but decided to quote instead.
I'll add a couple of PC indie games from 15 years ago both published by Carpe Fulgur:
Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone is a cute action JRPG about a few schoolgirls going on a fantasy adventure and GETTING THEIR FUCKING ASS BEAT BY THE INCREDIBLY HARD COMBAT JESUS CHRIST. The controls take some time to get used to and the AI is not the dumbass lumbering AI you find in other games--your party members will put you to shame and the enemies fight strategically. Pretty fun game that I'd recommend if you're into that older, more punishing RPG style where it's also possible to get a bit lost (or if you're willing to use a walkthrough). It might be easier on the lower difficulties but I had a lot of fun getting destroyed by Hard.
Recettear is a game many of you probably know, about running a shop and looting the occasional dungeon to repay the crippling debt your dad left you with. You'll buy and sell items from customers, negotiate, remodel the shop to attract different clientele, meet new characters who become adventurers you control in simple dungeon crawling, and get your combo ruined by that goddamn little girl who keeps trying to buy the most expensive thing in the shop on her 300G allowance.
I'm...um wow surprised because of how much H touhou stuff I have seen lol. Is it really all confined to the fandom? 😅
Timespinner, it also has the most LGBT (all the letters) representation I've ever seen in a game