I would say this one was a surprise, but I actually EXPECTED to love this game. I just didn't know I'd love it... as much as I did. Is FF6 your favorite Final Fantasy? If not, what is?

I played FF6 for the first time in my 30s and it blew me away too ...such good characters and depth and humor for an SNES game. Omg and the music.

For the algorithm! And man, if Shadow’s theme is your favorite because you like the western vibe you would LOVE the music from the first few Wild Arms like I was telling you lol, just insanely good western music. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Chrono Trigger as well! As much as I love and highly respect FFVI, I’ve always been more of a CT guy myself. Can definitely see how someone could prefer one or the other though

My dude is back with another one! Lets go!!

My friend in highschool lent me FF3 in 1995. I was blown away. It's my favorite FF title. There's one thing about this game that some people don't talk about. When it came out by the end your characters were small gods. Rpg tiles like lunar upon release talked about in their game your characters are more grounded not becoming small gods by the end of the game. So other RPGs where trying to do the opposite with the character power levels. But it was necessary to be super powerful to kill kefka.

First game I ever finished. I was in 3rd grade and my parents told me if I got all As I'd get my own tv and system. When I brought home that pristine report card my dad set up the SNES, sat me down, popped in FF6, and said make sure you read. Since then I've played pretty much EVERY ff game in existence.

Fantastic video to one of the best RPG games. I have Kefka in my FF tattoo sleeve too cos hes so fantastically brutal and unforgiving 😅

One of the things that really blew my mind when it came to this game was when I saw someone comment that it's presented to the player like an opera. We clearly have a narrator going over the magi war at the beginning, each and every character has an introduction going over them a bit when we first meet them, and the game ends on a curtain call for everyone as well. Obviously because it's a SNES game a lot of events have to be presented in an "over the top" kind of way for the player to understand what's really going on, such as having characters literally say what they're thinking because the graphics limit their expression, but I think framing it through the guise of an opera or a play really adds to the experience and is a clever way of presenting it at the time.

Excellent work, great explanation. 👍4

When I first played FF6 there were two major key points for me. First the Celes cliff scene, when it happened I stopped playing for a month, because I needed to put myself back together. Then when I got to Kefka in the tower, it was almost 4 am and I was glued to the screen, paused the game every time (going to magic menu) and just listened to the songs of Dancing Mad, especially the last part. My mom woke up and wondered why I am still up and I was in awe.

Oh shit, I'm famous! 😂 I knew you'd like it, especially that soundtrack! Also, not sure if I've mentioned this but I definitely thought I was at the end of the game when I rented this as a kid and had to return it before beating the opera house... Then some kid at summer camp told me I wasn't even halfway and I went out and bought that shit asap. Also, definitely had to call Nintendo power hotline my first and only time for this game when I got stuck on wrexsoul haha

I am also Gamer & Musician ✌ Keep up the great work! You deserve to have 10K subs right now

The giant NO on the thumbnail made me think "Oh, I bet I'm gonna hate this guy." Oh. The video length covered up the "stalgia" part. You tricked me!

Final Fantasy 2/4 was my first experience so that's always going to be one of my favorite games of all time. But 3/6 was so epic it cannot be denied. I remember I went around to all of my friends who are not even into RPGs and showed them the game. Next thing I know three or four of my friends were playing the game along with me and we would compare notes and talk about certain scenes at lunch or at the bus stop. Such a memorable experience

Love the music. First off drop, got hit with the serpent way remix. Absolutely amazing work.

Hello, not sure why this showed up in my recommendations as an “ad” but they’re not wrong. This video is definitely for me. Great video, glad I got to watch it.

Another incredible video my friend!!! Some of those mode 7 scenes have such a unique flavour to them.

Awesome production value, totally didn’t expect that from a channel this small but I loved the video! I also played FFVI after already playing all of the 3D games in the series, so I get how it is to step back in time in that sense. VI was really FF’s first truly amazing installment imo and it still holds up as one of the best, one of the boldest stories I’ve ever seen in a JRPG even today, hard to believe this came out almost 30 years ago now.

Nice vid, peak game. Some quick points: @ 12:40: Cyan's dream is not a throwaway "juvenile" scenario. It's a dream sequence where the player enters his soul. It's about him excercising his demons for failing to protect Doma, and, ultimately, it's about helping him finally letting go of the torment that eats at him for what happened to his wife and son, and his inability to stop it. The dream sequence is his story arc resolution. Also, my guess is the difficulty spike when getting to the floating continent is intentional. You're supposed to feel the impending doom, where you think it's the final dungeon to beat the game. Much later in the game, battle psychology is implimented well when fighting Chadarnook and Goddess, where the battle mechanics of those two fights feel like you were enticed by beauty, only to have it feel like a trap. They thought of so much stuff. I replayed it for the first time in about 10 years and was amazed at all the messaging and mature concepts they packed into a SNES game.

18:13 You totally should do a video on just the music :) I'd love to see you really dive deep into this masterpiece of an OST

Fantastic video. Definitely earned my sub

FF6 is my favorite game of all time! It's oozing with charm and some of the most endearing characters and events in any game I've ever played. And what it accomplished in 1994 is truly phenomenal. Praying for a full blown 3D remake! Such amazing potential!

This is a great video, I’m a huge fan but always nice to hear new stories and such! Can’t wait to watch more of your stuff, I can’t tell you how much I liked this!

I love FF6. It was so amazing when it came out. You still had to grind to gain levels. I once spent months grinding in fights in the caves in Narshe, yes the first time through them, I broke the game by getting Terra up to level 99 fighting rats and… I think slimes… I can’t remember what all was in there. But I basically started at level 99. That was weird. I also would spend hours on the Veldt setting up Gau with his attacks, don’t remember why but he was my favorite at the time. Him and Realm both. The Genji Glove exploit where you could give Cyan 8 attacks in one turn. With the right weapons you could kill Kefka in one round. Great game! Glad you liked it.

When I was younger, I don't think I was able to truly appreciate the latter section of the game. I felt so defeated and didn't even finish the game. As an adult, I will have to revisit this game.

Had to follow. I’m 38, still love my turn based rpg’s. Loved FF and when you said Suikoden 2, I knew you were GOAT. Wish they would release Suikoden series on modern PS or make a new one.

Great content man. You earned a subscribe from me

Hell yeah! Love the video! Really hope you give chrono trigger that look soon. That game and FF6 are my all time favorites.

Just finished the game. Loved it. Only beef with the graphics was some of the important objects or doorways weren't obviously visible and were found only after some frustration and wall-bumping. Learned Epitaph on piano, love the music. Agree with the "what now" aspect. The game leaves you not knowing where to go, and without a guide, it results in a lot of being annoyed with combat proccing while you're looking around.

Thank you for the very well done video. You've earned my sub. I look forward to seeing more from you.

FF3 (6) was the game that got me into jrpg, still my favorite to this day.

One thing the Pixel Remaster missed out out on is that it doesn't transition between parts of Dancing Mad. It just abruptly drops the current movement and starts on the next part. On the SNES it waits for a good transition point before starting the next segment. Might be worth watching an SNES playthrough to see what I mean.

This has been my favorite ff all along I had ff3 for the snes still my favorite to this day

Ahhhhhhh, Kefka. Love him, man. He was such an iconic villain that any other villain had to work hard in my memory to be so memorable as him. XD And this game has several of the most memorable NPCs I encountered (not mentioning Genshin Impact where I really love and know the NPCs as well). Ultros was the best "villain" ever. Vargas was also a cool dude, and the playable characters are also awesome. Gau will never not be funny and I spent several hours on the Veldt to let him learn stuff. Sabine and his Pummel, Edgar and Sabin and their sibling stuff, Celes and Locke (whom I ship very hard XD ), Terra and her way to find information about her origins, Shadow, Cyan, all the others and their backstorys!

I bought FF3 for snes from toys r us in like 95. Been hooked on the series ever since.

Ff13 is my favorite I never played ff6 but I want to try it seems like it will be fun , great video gamersician keep up the good work ☺️

The beginning credits where to be like StarWars. From my old sources.

I just dusted off my copy of Final Fantasy "III" I got back in 2010. I grew up with a PS1 as my first system and didn't get to play FF6 until I was in my late teens(I was born exactly one year before the Japanese release lol). I got to the Ultros boss fight I believe, and just didn't have enough time to keep playing long winded RPGs like I used to at that point in my life since so many things were happening then. Now at the ripe age of 30, I am truly giving it another shot since I inherited a pretty fancy mid 2000s tv with S-video and component capabilities. I am an hour in and it is gripping me way more than it did when I first tried it(It looks so pretty too on this tv ;w;). The main things I am looking forward to is suplexing the ghost train and hearing dancing mad on og hardware for the first time.

FF7 is a classic, its like Super Mario world, it will always be fun to play eve when it's 100yrs old.

The amount of characters was the best thing. #WhoTFIGogo

This game blew me away when I played it back then, and picking up the pixel remaster last year it was STILL one of my favorites. I still remember this game Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger being my big three favorites on the SNES.

Fellow Kefka fan! He is my favriote final fantasy villain, and probably villain in general too. Thanks for putting some respect on his name!

So fun story, I live in the middle of nowhere and none of the local video stores got this when it came out so I had to mail in order it from a magazine. Totally worth it.

I played this for the first time on the GBA a couple years ago, and it's a masterpiece, I didn't have much trouble finding my way around the world without guides, but I also habitually talk to every NPC, and I'm not sure if you do the same. An interesting thing about the party leveling is that (in the GBA version, at least) your reserve party members seem to stay within 3-5 levels of your main party so if you need to switch it up, you're not in for a horrendous grind, I also played Chrono Trigger in a similar time span, and it holds up just as well, except the additional area they added in the DS version is crap.

First ff I ever played, traded megaman x for it when it first came out. Best trade ever and will always be one of my favorite rpgs

Final Fantasy III(FF VI) was my first and I fell in love with the series. Final fantasy was my shit. After this one I got FF VII, VIII, IX, then FF X and X-2. Beat all those games and absolutely loved them all especially VII. I haven't touched XI and XII. I got out of gaming for years but when I got a ps3 I got FF XIII and XIII-2. I finally broke down and got a ps4 merely to play FF VII remake lol(which is so amazing). I've also picked up FF type 0 and FFXV but for whatever reason I haven't played either at all yet

Thanks for the shining force shout out, I was 10 in 94 and had a genesis as well… Our Generation had the best shit , I know every generation. Says this , but …. It’s true we did.

FF4 is my favorite, though I admit nostalgia has a lot to do with it. It still looks, sounds, and plays amazing for it's time, and you can definitely see the evolution of each FF entry. FF4 also has an iconic cast of characters, some of my favorites in the whole franchise. When it first came out in 1991 (I was 10), it was such a huge step up from the original on NES, it instantly felt like a masterpiece to me.

FF7 was TS. My first game I ever beat and played was FF2 lol. But earth bound was the #1 in my opinion. I was born with a SNES, the only one I haven't beat is Super Castlevania. If I could recommend one it would be SNES Shadowrun. Idk if you've played it. This is the first video of yours IV seen. ^^' Thk you I enjoyed it.

Still my favorite game overall of all time

I also played FF1-10 on my 20s 0:15

I honestly don't want the opera theme voiced. It was amazing what they did technically to make it sound like they were singing. Also the original had an easy mode as soon as you learned vanish and doom.

Da Music!

This definitely needs to be their next modern remake

I have a comment and a question. One of the things you mention is how good it looks. I think you should look at the original. The looks are basically the same but just a higher resolution. I think you'd be impressed at how good the original looked. My question is... did you wait for Shadow? :D

I am going to share a story. In May 1999 my best friend died. He died from huffing paint in his garage. Surrounded by kids when he huffed, they ran out of his house when he started to choke on the fumes he inhaled. He died alone. Later that summer a friend moved away without telling me. Then another changed schools. And by the fall another moved to another city. By the end of the year I had lost my entire friend circle. I was 13 and later 14, at the time, and it was one of the worst years of my life. It didn't help that there was talk of the world ending soon. Because of my experiences I started to withdraw from socialization. Video games and anime were my friends now. The church didn't care, my school didn't care, my family kind of cared but didn't know the full extent. I say all of this because that fall Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy Anthology were released for the PlayStation. They were all I was looking forward to that year. I read every single preview of FFVIII and it's by far, to this day, my most anticipated game of all time because it was released in a time when I desperately needed to get away from the real world. I deeply recognized myself in Squall. I couldn't understand how a video game could get me so much. Then Anthology came out and it was bundled with V and VI. I loved V but I really took a liking to VI. I played it and VIII side by side. I was struck by how despite the fact VIII was more advanced, VI could make me feel more despite it being "obsolete" and by that point in time five years old. I was shocked how colorful and expressive these 2D sprites were in comparison to modern graphics. More than that, I was inspired by Cyan. The year I lost just about everything I was introduced to a character that did lose everything - his wife, his child, his king, his kingdom, even his knighthood. I couldn't understand how he could keep going and how he could keep fighting. He really inspired to keep going despite loss. The older I got the more I connected with the story and characters. When I was depressed I understood what Celes was going through and her attempt to live in the face of her adversity has inspired me to keep going no matter how tough life got. Ever since I was introduced to it Final Fantasy VI has helped remind me that life is worth living and to keep fighting despite all of the battles we face. Not bad for a video game, huh? The older I get the more I manage to appreciate about it. I think it's the greatest Final Fantasy because it's the most balanced. I categorize Final Fantasy games into story FF's and gameplay FF's. FFV is clearly a gameplay oriented FF; the story is secondary to the gameplay. FFVII is clearly a story oriented FF; the gameplay is secondary to the story. Only FFVI manages to have such good gameplay (open-ended WoR, amazing dungeon design, good battles) combined with such a hard hitting story. It's such an excellent package even in 2023. Then there's the music. A lot of people talk about Dancing Mad but I considered Balance Is Restored to be Uematsu's magnum opus. The blending of each characters theme is genius. A 22 minute long song on the super Nintendo. Gaming music has never been able to top it. The highs of the Shadow Theme remix, the blending of Locke and Celes' theme to solidify their relationship and their ability to finally trust each other to fall in love. I get goosebumps just talking about it. Even more importantly, it solidifies the game as a masterpiece. The ending is so good that it turns a great game into one of the greatest games. Terra undoing her hair, with it flowing in the wind able to be free to be whatever she wants, without any notions constricting her as the Prologue plays gives me goosegumps. What a game! The legacy of this game is unreal. 2D RPGs have been cribbing its look since 1994. It - not FFVII - started the modern era of FF. If you Google Final Fantasy VI and suicide you'll see lots of stories of how FFVI saved people or helped them deal with depression. Lovely video Paul and I'm so glad you got to finally experience it.

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The only SNES RPG that can compete with FF6 is Chrono Trigger.

FF6 > all.

FF6>FF7

Kefka 10x better than sephiroth. Its insane how much depth the game from snes could have. Nowadays final fantasy games are trash with good gtaphic

If you think this is good, Chrono Trigger will change how you look at video games.

You call yourself a gamer and never played FF6.. yeah, nah brah

Whenever I talk about the magic of video games, I talk about suplexing the ghost train 🚊

By far my favorite numbered game

Doesn't anybody save Cid God damn.... feed him the fast and normal fish not so hard... at least you didn't let shadow die...

I would say if you have not played 1 2 3 4 5 you should because I gotta tell you man the earlier games were waaaaaayyyyyy more epic and emotionally moving to everyone not just girls ff13....

Actually the tower is made from the magitek facility the esper cave and many other places from he planet the nut nob ripped them all out the ground and smashed them together to make his tower just for us because he knew we were coming the crazy bastard said so himself when you finnaly reach him gloating about the entertainment he provided 😆 🤣