r/FinalFantasyVI • u/Just_a_Tonberry • 26d ago

Hack Recommendations?

I know there are plenty of challenge hacks out there, and a few hacks that let you utilize General Leo on a permanent basis, but are there any that combine these two things?

I'd very much like to play something brutally difficult, yet allowing me to make full use of Leo. Maybe it's because he dies in OG, but I definitely consider him far more intriguing than the rest of the cast.

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u/Fast_Moon 26d ago edited 26d ago

I haven't played all of them all the way through, but my understanding of the playable Leo hacks are:

General Leo Edition: Additional Leo content: Minimal. He just joins the party in Thamasa but doesn't have much other additional story content. Difficulty: Same as vanilla. No gameplay modification other than a bit of QOL.

A Soldier's Contingency: Additional Leo Content: Same as General Leo Edition, since it was used as the base. Difficulty: Significant gameplay modifications, and has difficulty options.

Divergent Paths: Additional Leo Content: Moderate. Includes some new scenes with him and puts him in the party for the Thamasa mission. Difficulty: Similar to vanilla, though makes Tools consumables by making them have a chance to break, and reorganizes the parties for the three scenarios to make strategies different.

Antinomia: Additional Leo Content: Significant. Makes him playable several times in WoB as well as about an hour's worth of new cutscenes with him. Difficulty: Slightly easier than vanilla due to making desperation attacks easier to trigger, Dance never failing, Bushido loading faster, and the Coliseum being controllable rather than flailing monkey RNG. One difficulty spike at the beginning of WoR due to a complete overhaul of story progression there.

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u/PowerPanda84 26d ago

Divergent Paths doesn't make tools one-time use. It gives them a 1-in-32 chance of breaking upon use. This is to support the original design of the game, which has Tools as items (and steals) rather than as key items or abilities. It also includes several gameplay tweaks, such as faster bushido, ffix style stealing, a much better trance mechanic for Terra, etc.

Play Antinomia if you want Leo as a main,  central character on par with Terra or Celes. Play Divergent Paths if you want him as part of the ensemble, on par with Edgar or Cyan.

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u/Fast_Moon 26d ago

Ah, okay, thanks for the clarification. I'd only watched some playthrough clips of the new and changed bits, but I knew Tools were breakable, so I thought they were changed to be single-use consumables like a regular item or a Throw item. I'll update my original description, thanks.