I did it, Dad. Sonic's dead again.

Johnny broke his 9-year record of his longest video yet. His final fantasy 10 review will probably be a 10 episode Netflix series

Something that took me a long time to realize about the saving Cid thing. When you enter the house, you always see Cid moving into the bed from the left side for some reason. As a kid, I thought this was some weird mistake in character programming or something. But if you think about it: the secret passage to the basement is on that side of the house. With the raft. Cid was going into the basement, despite his illness and weakness, to work on building a raft for Celes. That’s why he can die so suddenly; he’s working himself to the bone because he doesn’t *actually* believe it’s all hopeless. He wants Celes to have a future.

At first I was impressed that he finally beat his "longest video" record. Then, I was impressed that his plot summary alone rivaled Sonic 06's entire run time.

He did it folks. He beat Sonic 06’s runtime. History in the making right here 🎉

*Johnny breaks his Sonic 06 record for longest Vs.* Johnny: “I did it?” Elliot and Mark: “He did it.” His subscribers: “He did it.”

I was totally engaged to this review for the entire hour. Amazing stuff, John and congrats on finally dethroning Sonic 06's runtime.

22:30 "You can't beat that coincidence." I did. On my first playthrough I named the characters different names. I accidentally named Celes Maria. No, I had no knowledge of the game prior. Beat that.

A one hour long SomecallmeJohnny review, this is a historic moment

World of Ruin summarized: "If we can't save the world, then we'll damn well avenge it."

I never skip the plot summary, I love hearing you describe the story Johnny, from the actual plots to you geeking out from time to time in certain games, that and I love to watch the whole video your voice is so soothing man.

33:46 I totally understand how Celeste's suicide attempt was extremely important for gaming, specially considering the era. It was not everyday that a "game for children" could channel actual emotions on people, and put that on the forefront. This was video games taking it's first baby steps as a form of art (not wanting to sound cheesy and pretentious but sounding anyway) Video games started going past the "game" aspect of just master the rules and win. It became more, it actually started making people FEEL things and make that it's main goal. Crazy to think they'd pull so much of that emotional impact again later with FF7

It happened, folks. A Johnny Vs video has officially surpassed Sonic 06 in terms of runtime. Welcome to 2022.

Johnny the fact that you put so much love and care into every video you make means the world to me. You are one of the very few youtubers who can get me to watch a video about a series I know nothing about and make me interested about said series. So yeah, just thank you for introducing me to a bunch of cool shit 🤟

Love how uncle silver is pretty much a gaming sage in some call me Johnny lore

39:29 I played Final Fantasy VI for the first time in 2021, which felt like a very dark time for my own wellbeing. It is fitting that I finished this game in December as it managed to tell me a message that I needed to hear, and it concluded such a dreary time of my life.

haven't watched yet (just came out lol) but just wanted to say Johnny if you're reading this I've been watching you for like 5 years and you're one of my favorite creators its been really great seeing you grow as a creator

He did it. It took 9 years, but he did it. A review longer than Sonic 06

10:14 Actually, the whole "accidentally giving up her child" was just a mistranslation in the SNES version, presumably because the original was too dark and cruel. In the original Japanese version and the GBA translation, he just murders the poor woman in cold blood and takes her baby for himself. There are other moments like this that were also edited in the original SNES translation, which is why I hope the upcoming Pixel Perfect version uses the GBA translation.

1:07:06 watching this channel for like... 9 years that moment is just so satisfying to watch

I don’t skip the plot summary myself because I don’t see myself playing these on my own anytime soon so I’d get to hear how the story goes under the eyes of someone passionately explaining how much they love it.

Dang he really broke the hour cap for this one! I haven’t even divulged into the video yet but this is excites me. Not long after FFV too! Guess having Lewis as a co-editor alleviates a lot of time for recording and such.

I really got to give you props, Johnny. I knew nothing about FFVI before watching this video and the way you told the story where you gave explanation, humor, and slowed the pace down for the more somber moments got me really invested in the story and that hour passed fast. Bravo, man.

Mog is actually really heartbreaking. His story is entirely context, but is probably one of the saddest to me.

This game is good enough to deserve an hour long review.

As someone who started watching since Month of Metroid (that was back when I was in middle school, and now I'm a fully grown adult in the military God where did the time go?) and has watched all your videos and streams since then, watching you grow as a content creator I can definitively say that you are my favorite one on this platform and it isn't even close. I'm beyond happy that you finally topped your Sonic 06 VS video and it's a game you're passionate about and love to death. Can't wait for the Final Fantasy 7 video, my first and favorite Final Fantasy. Cheers to you.

nope, I never skip plot summaries I wanna hear the whole thing, so I enjoy your videos as a whole, no skipping plots for me

This was a delight to watch after coming back from my night shift. Great video, John. Only played this game once bout 15 years back via the PS1 port & thoroughly enjoyed my experience. At the time I hadn't known anyone else who played VI but hearing your take and thoughts, especially on the 2nd act where I recall there was something that felt lacking for me, post Celes scene and thought did I do something wrong or misremember that part, so hearing you talk about it and myself being taken back to that part of the game alongside opening up my memory on it, it helped understanding what it was that left me like that and I appreciate it. Again, great video dude!

1st ever Final Fantasy I beat, thanks to my dad telling me to play it since it was his all time favorite FF. Unfortunately he's no longer here anymore but he got to see me beat it when he was. Hope your doing alright Dad and get to see this video .

So glad to see Johnny best his review length record post-Sonic 06. Can’t wait to see what he does when the FFVII review comes out.

Ah, yes. My Favorite FF. I always loved the character stories, all of them being very engaging to me. Terra was always my favorite character, and I always had her and Edgar, which I always loved his tools, even late game. And that boss battle theme is still my all time favorite boss theme of any game. I always over leveled by coincidence just because I would always give every character all the spells from all the magicite. Can't wait for this game to get the pixel enhancement remake.

Sometimes, I regret how much time I spend on KZfaq but watching an hour long Somecallmejohnny video that's entertaining, informative, and no filler? I do not regret spending an hour like that in the slightest.

It finally happened, the longest review in the Johnny vs Series!

We finally have it. A Johnny vs video longer than Sonic 06

You've done it John - my favorite video game of all time!

To me, the second half is what truly makes this game work. I love the theme of each and every one getting over their depression, finding purpose and joining you for the epic finale. I love the atmosphere and the open-ended structure. The first half was good, but it always felt like a slightly better FF2 to me with the empire vs rebel thing, no crystals, etc. But since it was all buildup, it makes perfect sense.

It was a glorious day when Johnny blessed us with a video that was over the 1 hour mark. Seriously, I binge watched this man’s videos since 2020 and Johnny does amazing things!

Johnny got this up less than two weeks after the Final Fantasy V review. He must REALLY love this game. Can’t wait for the Pixel Remaster soundtrack. I hope the opera scene has actual singing, that would be amazing. Edit: IT HAS SINGING

Besides the obvious throne toppling, this whole video is just perfect on it's own. Kudos Johnny, love everything you keep doing.

All through my childhood I had NO IDEA you could save Cid. Until when I was in my mid 20s or so, revisiting the game after so many childhood playthroughs. And I saved him BY ACCIDENT. I was actually getting annoyed because his health was improving and I wanted to just get the tedious 'fishing minigame' part over with. Then to my shock he actually lived. I agree though that story wise, Cid dying is more interesting. The scenario where he lives feels honestly tacked on. He doesn't play into the ending, he doesn't have a scene where you can bring the party back and talk to him or something. He just hands over the raft and does nothing. Pretty underwhelming.

It is always a good day when Johnny post a new video.

My favorite game of all time. Even if all the subsequent FFs are technically superior, I still awe at the narrative, presentation and emotional resonance that this game conveyed for the hardware it was on. It truly transcended the SNES itself

The excitement I felt seeing this in my subscriptions and seeing that one hour length cannot be described in words, and it was as much of a delight as I thought it would be. All your videos are amazing and high in quality but you can really tell when it's a game you're passionate about, and it's always extra fun to watch those

I finally had the chance to watch this all the way through, and I gotta say, your ramble about your nostalgic connection to this game perfectly summarizes how a lot of people (myself included) feel about the first big rpgs they got into as kids. In my case, that being the first two Pokemon Mystery Dungeons. Still looking forward to the eventual Sky video, btw.

THE 06 TIMELINE HAS COME TO A CLOSE CONGRATULATIONS JOHNNY

Final fantasy VI is an absolute masterpiece. This is about as good as it gets for a 2D turn based JRPG

When it comes to Johnny’s plot heavy reviews I usually watch through those videos as that feels like the meat and potatoes of his longer videos: A plot synopsis/Analysis and it’s interesting to see him describe his feelings about a plot and it’s characters even if I don’t fully agree with his points, like on the existence of Xion in KH 358/2 Days and Solid Snake’s struggles that he goes through in both MGS1 and in MGS4. Johnny I’ve been subscribed to your channel since your Sonic Adventure review and thanks to both your Kingdom Hearts and Metal Gear marathons I’ve been a fan of those series. Thank you so much and looking forward to your Mortal Kombat retrospective later this year and your eventual Devil May Cry marathon that’s one of my favorite series of all time, keep up the awesome work my friend!

Great vid as always! If anyone wants to hear Johnny's extended thoughts on this game, I highly recommend watching his lets play on the SGB channel.

My favorite game of all time! It left such a huge impression on me when I first played it in 1994, and it still amazes me what they were able to accomplish with this game back then on a small SNES cartridge. Incredibly endearing characters, a great story and fascinating world, an outstanding villain, some of the best scenes & moments out of any game, and god-tier music! To add on to that, it's just a seriously fun game to play as well -- I love the esper system, the relics, and multi-party dungeons. I think the huge cast in this game is part of what makes it so special, even if some of the characters don't get quite the same amount of development as others. I pray that one day this game gets a proper remake! Seeing scenes like the opera scene, the phantom train, Darill's tomb, the Catastrophe, just.. any scene with Kefka, on modern platforms would be phenomenal!

Great vid, my favorite game of all time and was an enjoyable watch :). A couple things to throw out: - Agreed on the World of Ruin's shortcoming being a lack of character-specific dialogue. I'd chalk it up to technical limitations myself; adding those moments of optional dialogue in terms of event coding has the game run a check on your current party members to see who is in the party, and if there's someone there who has different dialogue, it loads a separate dialogue box. If I had to guess, either due to time or data space, they stopped doing this after a while. I'd loved to see this expanded with mods to allow the characters to have more specific interactions. - I'd say that Kefka's inaction and simplicity of motivation is part of the game's theme. The second half of the game is all about the characters finding the will to live and what makes live worth living, but Kefka, symbolizing nihilism and despair, is devoid of such things. He won, he got what he wanted, and...he has nothing left to do but blast the ashes of the world when he gets bored, and wiat for the party get to him. I agree he's not the most complex or well-written villain, not at all, but he works well in VI's narrative to embody the game's central themes and contrast them against the antagonist, giving them an external threat to mirror their internal conflict. - Agreed 100% the game is too easy and broken. It's one of the game's few blemishes, character skills become obsolete and most enemies can be wiped out in one round. My preferred way to break things was the Offering and Genji Glove on Locke with the Atma Weapon and ValiantKnife; since both weapons ignore defense, Locke gets 8 ridiculously powerful attacks a turn, and you can cast Quick on him to boot. - Terra having more abilities when she's riding Magitek Armor is actually explained in supplementary materials. There's some passage in a guidebook that mentions only someone with a magical infusion can tap into the full potential of Magitek Armor, so that's why Terra has more moves. That SHOULD mean the party gets those expanded skills in the World of Ruin once they've had espers, but that would probably be a pain in the ass to code. - The Men in Tights clip was hilarious. Long live FF6! Cannot wait for the Pixel Remaster release.

Theres something about the ending that is so satisfying. Seeing such a passionate review about a game you truly love push aside an infamous game that held a channel record and lived in "channel lore" for so long just felt so right

For the Strago talking Shadow's past thing, its ON THE CARTRIDGE but not implemented that Strago asks Shadow to drop his mask just once so he can know, "for her sake" and then is satisfied once he does.

The pinnacle of Final Fantasy and my favorite childhood game. I can't say what others have already said...but I will share this. I was obsessed (this was my second FF after FF1) and I got dragged to the beach for summer vacation. I took my SNES and my FF3 cart looking forward to the week ahead. My mom stopped at a thrift store along the way and inside...I found the Final Fantasy 3 Complete Forbidden Secrets book for like $10. I begged and cried until my mom bought it and I read it for about 3 hours until we got to our destination. I found the chainsaw that night. GREAT memories from a great game.

This is by far the best video you've made in my opinion. You managed to keep me engaged for an hour, even though I'm not an RPG guy in the slightest. I've been marathoning your Versus videos recently, and I wanted to thank you. I'm going through a difficult time recently, and your laid back videos make me feel at home. Seriously, thank you so much.

I love your reviews. Any time I feel down in the dumps and I find not only a new vs, but one hell of a long one, I get a smile because I know what my next free hour will be spent on. Thank you and keep it up!!!!

I don't skip the summaries. When you explain the stories I haven't experienced it helps me understand more when I finally experience it.

If the ffvi review is an hour long, I can only imagine the beast that the ffx review will be

So long Sonic 06, long live the new Johnny VS King!

Final Fantasy VI, the very first RPG I ever played. It remains, not just my favorite JRPG, my favorite Final Fantasy, or my favorite SNES game, but my favorite game of all time. I may have ended up spending far, far more time on XIV than I ever could on VI, but the memories I have from VI, when I simply knew it as III, I cherish to this day. And that final bit at the end, where you have the VI box knocking against the Sonic '06 cartridge, had me snerking so hard.

Chagrin "Sabin becomes pals with Gau much to his charging." Never change, my good man hahaha

I never skip the plot summary since you always manage to make them really entertaining.

FF6 was the first game I played that really gave me a cinematic vibe. I was invested right from the title screen and it never let up.

Aww, it's so cool that you've bested the run time of the Sonic 06 video, where you talked about all the things that were wrong with it, where here you got to talk about all the things you loved. I've only ever played FFXV and VIIRemake but the menu tune at the end made me emotional, I can't even imagine how touching it must be for people who have been playing for so much longer than I have. Always appreciate your content, man.

At long last, a review more worthy of having it be the longest among all the videos. Great to have it be a game you are passionate for, Johnny

Incredible game, I first finished it on my SNES Mini a few years ago and I was shocked how it not only lived up to the internet hype, but surpassed it. Can't wait to watch this.

My Favorite Final Fantasy LET'S GO! Umaro wrecks cultist tower

1:07:09 DeTHRONED 😆🎉 Also, I never really skip plot summaries on you videos, UNLESS it’s the rare occasion where you happen to be talking about a game that I’m getting into sooner or later.

I was given this game on my 10th birthday right after its initial release. I was so sucked into it when I first played it. When I beat it for the first time, I looked at the time played on my main save slot... it read 71 hours, and I remember thinking, "WOW, I will never spend that much time in a video game again! That took forever, but what a story." Boy, was I wrong! It still holds the slot for my favorite game ever. Mainly leaning on it was the first RPG I ever played by myself all at my own pace. Oh, the hours grinding Dino Forest. Great video, my man.

He finally did it! An hour long too, damn this video is gonna be deep

This was my gift to myself for passing my exams back in 2002. Yeah it was the Playstation version but I didn't care. It was worth the wait . . . especially since I went cold turkey on gaming to revise for said exams, and FF6 was the first game I'd played in five months!

Just from looking at the thumbnail, I can tell this is making SomeCallMeJohnny history. Finally, a Johnny Vs review that’s longer than the Sonic 06 review.

I love the continued usage of dissidia opera omnia's artwork in this video

Favorite game! At least as of now. EDIT: Now I want to make footage of Dragon's Den and Soul Shrine one day...

Legendary review. Really makes me wanna pick FFVI back up.

This game was my first RPG and the reason i improved my learning of the english languaje. i stil feel teary eyed when i listen to the ending after the long battle with kefka. I had to translate the dialog to my siblings and it was one of my happy memories sharing my love for this game with them. Final Fantasy 6 is the best RPG i have ever played. You did a great video that made me remeber those times, I also used the jump to avoid being killed by the magic master. Thanks

THIS game, it introduced me to Jrpgs and the final fantasy series for that it will always hold a special place in my heart.

I love Final Fantasy 6! Still my favorite and is absolutely amazing.

Over an hour of Johnny talking about one of the best games ever made? I am so here for this!

I was saving this the last couple days for my night at the track where I try to really log some miles and John as a fan since 2010-2011 range ? Whenever the Mario review with the yellow shirt was can’t remember the year all I can say is thank you . Thank you for so many years of entertainment , wether it’s long drives , runs , cooking doing dishes or just before bed I can always rewatch videos of yours and it’s like the first time all over again . And congrats on breaking Sonic 06’ . And while I love FF6 FF7 is one of my favorite games of all time and I am salivating at the thought of the video

I remember watching the sonic 06 review for the first time. I was 12 or 13 years old. I discovered your channel because I watched chimeyswift and Johnny did animations for his channel. I’m now 20 years old and in my second year of college. I grew up on this channel. I love you John here’s to the next record breaking review 👏🏼

37:34 The kick part made me giggle

He finally did it! He finally beat Sonic 2006!

20:11 That look johny gave off reminded me of that meme of the rock looking at something while the vine boom sound effect plays

This was a fantastic watch, your love for the game was plain to see throughout - and that's rad! Also I did not know you could save Cid. Guess I'll be saving him once the remaster drops!

He did it. After almost 10 years, he finally beat his record

Over an hour long review? The Omicron gave John so much free time that he made an entire movie!

Playing IV, V, and VI is definitely on my to-do list and your videos are making me want to play them sooner, rather than later. I've long admired the soundtrack for VI even though I haven't played it. The Black Mages versions of Dancing Mad and some of the battle themes definitely caught my attention. I heard an OC Remix of Terra's Theme, grabbed some random tracks on BearShare and just fell deeper and deeper into loving the music from the game. It was the eventual Black Mages version of The Opera that finally got me interested enough to check out the soundtrack proper and it has some certified bangers.

1:30 oh yea, that's the good stuff. Put that music right into my veins 37:26 a monument to non-existent. That's what sets Kefka apart from other villains.

I can’t wait to play this game. I’ve beat FFI and FFIV, and currently making my way through FFVII. Probably gonna play FFV before as it’s on Steam. I really like this series so far. I know this is a top 5 game in the series, so I’m looking forward to it

Congrats on your longest review yet, John! I only skip the spoiler sections on videos that I deliberately intend to play and FFVI is one of those games. I'll probably wait to see how people feel about the pixel remaster as that seems like the most accessible version for me, but however I play this, I'm looking forward to it.

On one hand, I'm gonna miss Sonic 06 being Johnny's longest video. On the other hand, I'm glad it's Final Fantasy VI that broke the record. I love this game so much. I hope that once Final Fantasy VII Remake wraps up, then hopefully VI will be given a similar remake treatment. Hell, re-release the old school SNES/PS1 version but in HD and for current consoles, Square. Wishful thinking without a doubt, but hey a guy can dream!

such subtlety. there was a train being suplexed in the background, and he did not mention it, opting for show not tell.

I’ve played a little bit of this one on the snes classic, it’s good but I’m not used to these old rpgs and have trouble finding my way around sometimes

How the hell did they make one of the greatest JRPGs of all time in just one year? That’s insane

Also I dont skip the plot synopsis because I love listening to how you retell the events of the story. you are pretty funny john.

I legit thought you weren't going to bring up Dancing Mad. Glad I waited.

And he did it! Congrats John

I feel like THIS is the best final fantasy game. I mean 7 is great, but this one is just so amazing!

Wow! What a great video! Definitely going to check this out once the pixel remaster comes out. As a long time fan, was pretty cathartic to see a video top the sonic 06 review, nice job Johnny!

I was so looking forward to this review! Not only because this is more or less my favorite game, but because you've mentioned it's one of your favorites as well. And over an hour?! Hell yeah!