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Final Fantasy VI (Advance)

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ScrambledGregs:
With the re-release of Final Fantasy VI for the GBA (with added content, a new translation, and some notorious bugs and exploits fixed) I figured what better time to talk about this game.

Personally, Final Fantasy VI is up there with my favorite RPGs of all time, and easily my favorite in the FF series. I remember when I bought the game for the SNES years ago and being completely obsessed with it. I always got the sense that there was more to the game and I was somehow missing out on items, weapons, espers, etc. The fact there were about a dozen characters you could get, a handful of whom you can either accidentally or purposely miss getting, was even better. The story, of course, is one of the biggest draws to the game, and is paced and told very brilliantly.

SPOILERS
The transition from the World of Balance to the World of Ruin is one of the most note perfect and chilling parts of a game I've ever played, and I'll never forget knowing that Cid died because I couldn't get the right fish
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There seems to be a generation divide where people either say Final Fantasy IV or Final Fantasy VII was what got them into RPGs, but for me it was Final Fantasy VI.

guywithoutsocks:
WARNING SPOILERZ LOL

I always thought that this was a very good game, and I enjoyed it a hell of a lot more than FFVII.  (I am adamantly in the 'FFIV' camp.)  The story is fantastic, and the transition to the second half of the game (and the events pre/post-ceding it) was exceptionally well done in my opinion.  I thought that the World of Ruin could have benefited from a little more structure.  Specifically, if it had four or five more dungeons that became progressively available as you found more of the characters,that you had to clear in order to access Kefka's tower, I think I would have enjoyed the second half of the game much more.  I can understand that the freedom in this half of the game appealed to a lot of people though.

Hopefully this thread won't spoil the game for anyone, but it was released over ten years ago (I think).

/SPOILERZ LOL

Johnny C:
I never played FFVII so this one stands in my book as my favourite Final Fantasy (next to, oddly enough, Tactics Advance).

Narr:
Wow, we've come full circle.

I credit FF6 with my ability to read.  I was just a little kid at the time, and it's really what drew me into gaming.  I started to read a lot more after beating that game, too.

I'll pick it up just to own it, probably.

Storm Rider:
Final Fantasy 6 is the best Final Fantasy game, period. IV and VII were both great, and I actually enjoyed XII a lot more than I thought I would, but nothing approaches VI.  The characters are incredibly deep, the combat system is simple to understand but varied to the point where it doesn't become rote, and there's tons to do beyond the main thrust of the story. I am definitely picking up the GBA port soon. As far as I'm concerned, FFVI is with Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, and the original Super Mario RPG as the best RPGs ever made. It's kind of a shame the genre seemed to peak about 10 years ago.

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