Game Pile: Final Fantasy VI
Oh hey, it’s Talen a PC gamer who didn’t have a console through the 90s talking about a classic of the form in a genre he’s normally pretty condescending towards and it’s an iconic masterwork of the genre so there’s a checklist of things you kind of have to talk about on the way through before you get to talk about whatever it is you want to talk about well guess that means we gotta blaze through the outline.
- Brilliant classic
- Inventive mechanics
- Iconic music
- Lively cast of interesting characters
- Innovative MODE SEVENING
- What’s the DEAL with how the first half of the game was a JRPG and the back half, a WESTERN RPG?
- Did U Kno The American Release Was III?
- Girl Hot
- Other Girl Hot
- Other Other Girl Hot
- Boy…? Hot? Maybe?
- Playstation port bad!
- Steam port bad!
- GBA port okay, really!
- Suplexing A Train
With that list of the key and important details that are necessary to cover I have hopefully cut down a chunk of the mandatory word count for this article. After all, where will we be if I treat Final Fantasy 6 as something that you may already know about, or as some subject that you already probably can find other sources to explain?
I intend to spoil things about this game but I don’t imagine I actually will? Like, you may view it as a spoiler to mention ‘there’s a character named Effuzio in the story’ and that’s fine, but I don’t particularly plan on talking about the main thrust of the plot. Besides, if it helps you at all, the story of Final Fantasy 6 isn’t really that important, or even that interesting. Not the single, big, core narrative that runs from instigating incident to attention arrival to conclusion to denoument, no, that isn’t important. What’s important to me is the sequences of smaller stories that make up the whole of experience of this multi-hour JRPG mammoth of a story, the characters that are Final Fantasy VI.
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