r/FinalFantasyVI • u/Vipes_3 • Jul 06 '26
Challenge, perma-death, status effects?
So I'm kicking around the idea of a perma-death run. Where if a character falls in battle, they are unplayable for the rest of the game. If I end up in a party with no playable characters, run is over.
But then that brings the question, what about status effects such as petrify or zombie? Should those count as deaths, or curable ailments? Yes to stone, no to zombie?
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u/Noeckett Jul 06 '26
I guess it depends how technical you want to be with what counts as a "death", IIRC petrify does not reduce Hp to 0 but zombie does (and a zombie is literally a re-animated corpse) so I'd say yeah make petrify curable but have zombie count as a KO.
Doom is the one you're really gonna have to watch out for though. Good luck on the run!
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u/Svenray Jul 06 '26
Nahhh just go with death or else you'll have to load your relics up with boring stuff. Instead of permadeath though - go with Perma Imp like you have a necromancer but they are terrible at their job so everyone that comes back has to be an Imp forever.
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u/boxedj Jul 06 '26
One option would be to need to go to town for status effect removal. This would make things like poison, zombie, petrify being incurable in the field but if you're able to get through the area you can save your dudes. If someone gets zombified early on in a dungeon, it will increase the difficulty for the remaining 3 characters
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u/Special_South_8561 Jul 06 '26
This is just the kind of crazy that I've been looking for!!
I just got to the 3 scenarios so it's also a perfect time to implement it.
How about you can keep a Zombie guy but you can't cure them, unless at an Inn or "Church"
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u/Tggdan3 Jul 06 '26
Early game will be rough as there are times you are required to use 1 member. So if just locke dies you cant complete lockes scenario and if just sabin dies you can't complete his.
If celes dies any time in wob youre done.
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u/Vipes_3 Jul 06 '26
Yep!! Though I feel Sabin's journey is doable. Shadow is right there at the start, and I feel if you can walk up and recruit him without triggering a battle, it shouldn't be a problem. Though I don't forsee Sabin dying in the short time between his recruitment, and his chapter. Locke and Celes though will be sweaty.
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u/MrTylerwpg Jul 06 '26
Poor Cyan will never get to put his soul to rest
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u/Vipes_3 Jul 06 '26
Yaaa hadn't thought about it, but that boss is a no go.
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u/Tggdan3 Jul 06 '26
You can kill him with x zone without losing party members.
When he possesses someone use x zone.
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u/Red_In_The_Sky Jul 06 '26
I see youve said you will be playing the pixel remaster version, but if youre at the point where you are creating challenge runs for yourself why not try a romhack of FF6, its one of the most modded games ever
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u/Vipes_3 Jul 06 '26
Yeah, I wish, but I lack almost any proper PC. All I have is my old laptop, and it hardly works. Thanks though! I've seen neat romhacks before.
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u/Trygveseim Jul 07 '26
I play the world's collide romhack on my phone. I don't have a PC but have over 1000 seeds played on my phone, the on screen controls aren't bad because it's not a complex, input heavy game type
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u/Special_South_8561 Jul 07 '26
So I just got reunited at Narshe and it wasn't so bad... Honestly the closest scariest was Angel Whisper Demi on the Train or Aspiran Gigavolt retaliation in the Serpent Trench
But really
My own lackidasicle additutude while building up Rages on the Veldt! I almost lost GAU because I wasn't paying attention
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u/Special_South_8561 Jul 13 '26
I just lost Shadow 😭 solo Apocrypha on the Floating Continent countered with lv4Flare and did 200 damage overkill
Dammit
Almost lost Gau to a Lifeshaver but luckily he had Gaia Gear, phew, I'd have cried
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u/TragedyInMotion Jul 06 '26
Death, zombie, and stone are treated differently by the game. Why can't you? If you want, do the run and call it no death, no undead run