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Games with majority female roster

Let's see what I can bring up. I think I've weeded out the ones that have already been mentioned.

More Pandering examples

Koihime Enbu
Monster Monpiece
Shadowverse
Smashing the Battle
Tera (Kind of. All the expansion classes are female only)
Vanguard Princess

Less Pandering examples

Abyss Odyssey
Assault Android Cactus
Croixleur Sigma
Crypt of the Necrodancer
Fortune Summoner
Dream fall: The Longest Journey
Momodora (Series)
Odin Sphere
Phantom Breaker: Battlegrounds
Recettear
Sanctum 2
 
Touhou has already been named but I'd like to add some facts:

- there are two (2) male characters starring in the games itself: one (Genji) belongs to the older series and thus his existence has not been canon for the last 15 years, the other one (Unzan) is a pink cloud with moustaches and giant fists. Both of them have an helper role

- the other male character with an actual design (Rinnosuke) is maybe the weakest named character in the entire canon outside of literal human children (Akyuu, Kosuzu). He is the main narrator of a series of stories tho, that's pretty unique among the cast

- Touhou might have the most non-sexualized female cast ever made in a videogame: this is a fact. The very very very few instances of sexual fan services all come from the fighting games, made by another software house. It's worth to notice that the fightans are still 100% canon and were supervised by the original creator (ZUN) though

- I'm going to be very disappointed in everyone who's gonna say that Touhou is generic anime bullshit. I wish this kind of bullshit was generic
 
ctrl+f "Sakura Wars" 0 results

Yet again no mention of the best, most varied,most beautiful, not sexualized female roster in a video game
ever.

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Of all 31 character slots, 25 feature (at least) one female and 7 feature one male.
Disregarding alternate forms of the same character, there are 12 females and 5 males.
Notable for being one of the few fighting games where all the females have a normal/practical unsexualized costume.
 
BreezyLimbo said:
That cant be right.

Silent Hill 2 had performance capture. Unless you mean facial capture.

Oh Silent Hill 2 fits the thread.
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Performance capture means everything was captured at the same time, including the face and audio.
 
Platy said:
Like WTF are these poses ? Is everyone on this game suffering from Scoliosis ?
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Those are mostly strong but not unusual
contrapposto poses, used in figural sculpture for millenia.

It's extremely notable that most of the examples in this thread--even ignoring the haremy ones--are Japanese. It's a bad look for western developers, and suggests some reasons why the video game audience and workforce are less woman-friendly than they should be.
 
Liabe Brave said:
Those are mostly strong but not unusual
contrapposto poses, used in figural sculpture for millenia.

It's extremely notable that most of the examples in this thread--even ignoring the haremy ones--are Japanese. It's a bad look for western developers, and suggests some reasons why the video game audience and workforce are less woman-friendly than they should be.
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I'd say that having "female majority" games like Senran Kagura, Dead or Alive, Neptunia and eroge VNs look way worse and are way less woman-friendly than games like FNV, Uncharted LL or Shadowrun even when they have one or two male members more, but you do you
 
Keinning said:
I'd say that having "female majority" games like Senran Kagura, Dead or Alive, Neptunia and eroge VNs look way worse and are way less woman-friendly than games like FNV, Uncharted LL or Shadowrun even when they have one or two male members more, but you do you
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This is very poor reading comprehension. Did you not see where I said "even ignoring the haremy ones"? I'd say that the best western examples are likely to be better about representation than those from Japan, given the comparative progressiveness of cultures. But that doesn't mean the full slate of western titles is something to be proud of. We're talking about the output of the entire world versus one country, and look how many counterexamples you have. One of the games you mentioned isn't even released yet!
 
Liabe Brave said:
This is very poor reading comprehension. Did you not see where I said "even ignoring the haremy ones"? I'd say that the best western examples are likely to be better about representation than those from Japan, given the comparative progressiveness of cultures. But that doesn't mean the full slate of western titles is something to be proud of. We're talking about the output of the entire world versus one country, and look how many counterexamples you have. One of the games you mentioned isn't even released yet!
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I'm just not up to doing list right now (early in the morning) but i can bet i get more titles with better representation from one country only (could always just list brittish or american games) than you can get "non-harem/sexualized ones" from japan. Even FFV falls into that category the way Butz and Galuf oogle all over faris when they discover she's a girl.
 
I totally forgot about Trails of Cold Steel II!

Near the end of the game, you have access to 18 playable characters.

12 of which are female, and the 6 others being male.
 
Keinning said:
I'm just not up to doing list right now (early in the morning) but i can bet i get more titles with better representation from one country only (could always just list brittish or american games) than you can get "non-harem/sexualized ones" from japan.
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Then please make and post that list when you have time. I don't play anywhere near enough games myself to make the determination. My comments were based on the consensus of posters in this thread, not my own experience. If you have information to refute them, it's important to do so.
 
Luigiv said:
Wait what? The game clearly has 4 unambiguously male characters and the two remaining "ambiguous" ones are clearly intended to be masculine despite not technically being male. I'm not sure Arms really counts as majority female. At the very best (if we ignore the ambiguous characters) it's 50:50. And if we include the boss chracter/ first dlc Max brass, it shifts to an unambiguous male majority.
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Yeah, you guys might be right to be honest, I didn't catch the male references for Kid Cobra and forgot they refer to Helix as a "Man of Mystery". That might just be a localization thing? And you're right the robot is kind of masculine.

And the first DLC is male. So huh, that kind of sucks for my example.
 
Keinning said:
I'm just not up to doing list right now (early in the morning) but i can bet i get more titles with better representation from one country only (could always just list brittish or american games) than you can get "non-harem/sexualized ones" from japan. Even FFV falls into that category the way Butz and Galuf oogle all over faris when they discover she's a girl.
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I'm not really invested in this argument (though I'm more on your side if anything), but Bartz going heart-eyes over Faris doesn't automatically place FFV in the harem/sexualized category. I mean, it's not like the writing is exemplary but it's still hella female focused in a non-pandering way.

  • Faris goes back to crossdressing after the reveal and nobody in the group gives her shit for it
  • Faris and Lenna are major characters who receive tons of focus
  • Krile is basically Superwoman. She's outright integral in the 2nd half, haha.
  • The game doesn't even dwell on the fact that Bartz's party is majority female, which is cool
  • Not a single one of these girls crush on Bartz, which is extremely unusual in a game where the male protagonist is surrounded by women
  • Really, Bartz is literally just kind of there by the end of it
It's basically the polar opposite of FFXV. JRPGs nowadays like to play up to differences between men and women with silly setpieces (hotsprings), but FFV was really good at conveying the idea that they were all equal.
 
Final Fantasy XIV, despite being an MMO, has a lot of its major NPCs as female characters.

All three of the city-states in the base game have female leaders, two of which also serve as commanders of their armies (the only exception is Ul'dah's Sultana, Nanamo - the Immortal Flames' commander is a separate character, Raubahn). Ishgard, added in the first expansion, Heavensward, is the first one to feature a male head of state. There's a similar split with the proprietors of the city-states' various Adventurer's Guilds.

Among the organization to which the player character belongs, the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, is a predominantly-female cast.
 
I wanted to post Bayonetta 1 and two but if you include Lucas, Rodin, the kid ans the fat guy women are in minority but especially they mostly are Npc with a bit of importance to the story so I don't know if it fits.

And the left behind stand alone which is female only
and lesbian too which is also quitre rare (except for Life is strange)
I can't see any other game fitting that description right now
 
Eien1no1Yami said:
Well that character was the only exception in all of the series.

But all the other SWV girls are so great that you can kinda overlook it.
I mean a black female lawer in a video game, you don't see that every day sadly :/
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yes and that scene really ruined the mood.

In the Paris arc things are a little more suggestive. They drop the high culture stuff and are Moulin Rouge dancers. While one Czech beauty was a famous prostitute prior to joining the series.

OVA was funny in some scenes. Erica is not that smart in such matters.

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EMT0 said:
Modern Persona games are pretty close to 50/50 in terms of females to males, although I can't think of any that skew towards females. Maybe P3P?
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Persona 2 innocent sin has a party of 3 females and 2 males for most of the game's play time
one woman in the party leaves and her replacement is pretty much the only well written homosexual character in the franchise(if you don't count the main character as he is a blank slate)
I remember being super surprised the first time I played because i'd never seen a party like this in a game where women weren't there for the eye candy(and it's a pretty old game)
 
Persona 3, if you use the Female Protagonist. In the Answer too; the only new party member is also a female character and one of the male characters is gone forever.
 
Strip Fighter 2 is all female and the most sexualized I'm aware of. If you beat your opponent, she'll pose nude for you. It caught me by surprise, actually. I guess I wasn't paying much attention to the game title, lol.
 
Blue Reflection (Gust RPG coming out in September in US) is all girls and takes place at an all-girls high school. It also has some pandering.

Ao no kiseki has a large number of females on the cast, though playable. I didn't really notice until the beach excursion lol.
 
Fire Emblem and Suikoden feature many female characters, at least equal to the playable male character numbers I'd say. It is also often the case that the female characters — though not always the protagonist — are strong and useful units in both series.

Parasite Eve features a female protagonist & antagonist.

Mirror's Edge had I think more female characters than male.

Portal too, technically.

Soul Calibur has quite a few female characters as well, but it's more toward the DOA side of the objectification spectrum.
 
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