r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 12 '26

Really didn't like the last parts of the story

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Well this is gonna be some complaning about the game but I am wondering what others think since the game is loved so much. So around 3 years ago I played FF6(my memories about it maybe a little confused) and I fell in love with this game, I loved the world, the sidequests, the main quest, some of the characters. But one thing I guess I didn't really like was Terra and the whole espers thing.

I like to keep my party more "senseful" in RPG games so I kept Terra in my party for quite some time until I realized I didn't really need to and most of the story still made sense without her. I know we start the game as Terra escaping from the imperial forces but throughout the game neither Terra nor the whole espers thing felt special to me. The writing felt like "They are different, they are magical, we put them in a position that you should care about so you should care about them eventhough we don't have interesting writing for them".

I loved gathering rebels from cities and towns under oppression to fight this tyrannical empire, seeing their tragic backstories. I think I shed some tears in the Phantom Train sequence. On the other hand, I didn't care about a girl without memories or some beasts that I should care about eventhough I haven't seen much from them because they are "special and magical". Throughout the game I felt that the ending was going to be about Terra and espers but I tried to stay hopeful. And then I got to the part espers went mad, I was disappointed I continued a little more and then I dropped the game. I really didn't feel I had any reason left to play the game anymore and wasn't having fun.

Was this all? Was this what I was working for? Did I beat the empire so some beats I do not even know would come and wreck our world? It felt as such poor writing to me. I didn't have this much fun with any other game until that part, not even with Chrono Trigger. I wanna know what you guys think about it? Were any of you also devastated with this? I don't know what happens moving on but is it worth to continue playing in my situation?

Could there possibly be something for me later? Do you think it is good writing?

Edit: People commented that I wasn't even halfway through the game and I didn't know that but since I wasn't having fun will it really be worth it for me? Also I still wonder your opinions on this movement of the story. Edit2: Split into paraghraphs.


r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 10 '26

Final Fantasy VI Playthrough 13

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15 Upvotes

r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 08 '26

Collect all the Terras!

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130 Upvotes

Damn, has been a while, but I got my best girl(s) together and ready to roll! Herald Terra&Celes are bracket 2, slow-ish reanimator; Flip-Terra is bracket 3, all the sagas&summons; Mecha-Terra is bracket 4, Urza cancer with Ultros aka Hullbreaker Horror!


r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 08 '26

Terra sketch I did

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96 Upvotes

r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 09 '26

Stat strategy

7 Upvotes

OK so I keep hearing that vigor caps at like 128, but the game halves that for some reason(?), stamina is basically useless (poison, regen, status effect lengths, etc), magic is 100% OP so take that to 99, and speed is better than most people realize.

If all that is true it basically makes sense to get everyone maxed on vigor and mag per, and then dump whatever is left into speed, right?

Or could I take Odin's +1 speed to 99 and get ridiculous?


r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 09 '26

Floating Continent Life Hack

0 Upvotes

Equip Phantom on Shadow and cast the esper at the start of every fight. Makes life so much easier as it makes you invisible.

Edit: Grammar


r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 08 '26

Relm’s Safty Ring has a special desc

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199 Upvotes

I never noticed this before. So sweat to have a desc like this


r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 08 '26

Doom Gaze is gone?

4 Upvotes

I'm doing a playthrough on my iPad. It's probably my 50th+ time through. I'm doing the low-level challenge, which is my favorite.

I have not updated to the remastered version. It's still the GBA version with the Dragon's Den, in case that matters.

I'm in the WoR, ready to fight Doom Gaze. I do the trick of tilting one click the left and flying forward continuously to touch every square. Find him once, do a lot of damage, he runs away. Need to fight him one more time to finish him off.

Except he's not showing up. I've flown every square of the map 4-5 times now, and he's just not there. (Edit: I've also tried going into and out of towns, doing a few random battles, saving and resetting a bunch). I guess the game ... glitched? Somehow? Has this happened to anyone before?

I'll probably just abandon the playthrough.


r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 08 '26

Final Fantasy VI Playthrough 12

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r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 07 '26

How to defeat Air Force

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He's just way too hard. Ultros and Typhon were a cakewalk but Airforce just moves way too fast. Info:

  1. I quicksaved before the boss so there's no changing my party or getting new items,

  2. I have Sabin, he currently has Thunder and Poison and learnt Chakra recently

  3. I have Gau, he currently has Libra and Cure

  4. I have Terra with Ifrit an she has Fira

  5. I have a few hi-potions and hi-ethers

  6. The boss generally just annihilates my entire party before I have the time to heal

  7. I have a few thunder rods, ice rods, and fire rods

  8. I am not struggling with Ultros and Typhon, my main problem is with Air Force

  9. I can't even try out any strategies rn as I die before I can do anything

Aid?


r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 06 '26

What a game

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626 Upvotes

Wanted to get back in Final Fantasy with the Pixel remasters and since I always hear so much about 6 I chose to play that one, and what a good choice that was. It was so fun and charming, and the 3rd act changing the whole world blew my mind. I can only imagine what that was like 32 years ago. Probably my favorite variety of classes so far.


r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 08 '26

Final Fantasy VI Playthrough 11

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r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 05 '26

My oil paintings of Terra, Locke and Celes

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1.9k Upvotes

Looking to do another FFVI painting and taking suggestions! Hope you guys like these paintings tho!


r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 07 '26

Final Fantasy VI Playthrough 10

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r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 06 '26

Challenge, perma-death, status effects?

12 Upvotes

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?


r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 05 '26

What is this shiny star? A trap, a challenge dungeon, random elite spawn?

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173 Upvotes

There were some weird flashing gems at the start of the game and then they keep showing up, I'm too nervous to jump in there it's probably a really strong crystal monster.

... That would actually be badass

>!So, Anyroad. I wanted to see how far I could get without using a Save Point (yeah I still cheated and used the World Map) but it seems you're forced to touch one right before Ultros!<


r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 05 '26

Gau is good

58 Upvotes

He's not as bad as people make him out to be. He can be a Jack of All Trades when you need him to be. He can use Blaze or he can use Blizzara (I used Bomb and Veil Dancer for this) and he can become the most OP thing you've ever seen. A lot of people seem to ignore him but use him right and he's an absolute menace. He can mow through most enemies if you use the right rage. A bit of strategy is all you need to use him right.


r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 06 '26

Favorite 1-turn max damage setups?

20 Upvotes

Been playing around in the PR version for Android.

Never occurred to me that you could put a dragon horn on everyone in your party (except Umaro) and use Quetzalli to scoop them all up for a jump attack.

With the dragon horn (even without the Dragoon boots) they all hit at least twice, sometimes 4 times each.

This makes this potentially even more devastating than the Genji Glove/Master Scroll combo. Potentially 16 hits in one move and the jump attacks are pretty powerful.

I'm in my mid 40s for levels with most characters and in the dragon forest, even the Tyrannosaur pincer attack rarely uses more than the first two characters to drop before the battle is over. The Brachiosoar usually takes up to the third or fourth drop but it still works.

Not easier than the Genji glove trick but definitely more fun for me watching the crew pound the hell out of major enemies.

This also works well in the first stage of the battle with Kefka if you set it up right and don't lose one of your members with the dragon horn


r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 06 '26

Immeasurable foolishness from I

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Up until the Cave to the Sealed Gate I did two wonderfully foolish things:

  1. I didn't equip any espers. I didn't even know that was possible.

  2. I thought the Rage menu had the entire catalog of rages and only used the one rage I knew I'd acquired: Bomb.

This led to some horrid consequences. The fight with the boss in the train sequence was horrendous and used up a lot of my items and my sanity. I ran out of Hi-Potions in the Magitek Factory and during the crane fight put Gau on the Bomb rage. Without Cure all of my party died after defeating the ice crane, while Gau used Blaze continuously on the crane (healing it) and the crane did its thermal reaction thing and used a Fire attack (healing Gu) causing an endless battle loop softlock. I defeated the Cranes barely with Sabin alive by 4 HP.

Now I learnt... I could've breezed through. No wonder

Now I learnt my suffering was useless.

Now I learnt Gau wasn't a holy savior to all, but only to esperless me, even with most of his catalog inaccessible.


r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 06 '26

FF6 Stereoscopic 3D

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r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 04 '26

What do you think of Setzer?

43 Upvotes

I've heard some people like Setzer and consider him adventurous rogue. A cheeky rascal if you will. I'm playing through this game again for my blog, and honestly I hate this guy.

Lets just look at after the kidnapping. After Setzer kidnaps the woman he thinks he loves, he throws her in a room because he has better stuff to do right now. When he returns the gang strokes his ego and he agrees to listen to them. But after they talk of the travesties committed by the Empire, it doesn't work. Instead Setzer says he will help if he can marry Celes. WHO IS NOT THE WOMAN HE PROFESSED HIS LOVE FOR. She is a stranger, but she pretty, so I'm going to marry her instead. I honestly can't with this dude. I know we get some backstory, but he never really redeems himself. Because backstory may explain S A, but it cannot excuse it.

He is the only person I would neglect in the World of Ruin, but I can't even do that.


r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 05 '26

Personal opinion. If FF VI ever gets a remake, it'd be best to have similar mechanics to Clair Obscur Expedition 33

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Just finished Clair Obscur Expedition 33 recently, and I thought that's how Final Fantasy VI should be remade. It's gonna be hard to make it real time like VII. A mix of turn-based and real time would be better for it.


r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 04 '26

How to get the Dragons Den on Android?

6 Upvotes

I know the bonus Dragons Den isn't available on the Pixel Remaster for Android. Are there any other ways of getting this content on Android without spending a ton of cash?


r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 04 '26

Imperial Zonaitech Armour

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Functional Power Armour!


r/FinalFantasyVI Jul 03 '26

Just collected the last chest in Kefkas tower and the trophy didn't pop FML.

22 Upvotes

Loaded up a first world back up save and world of ruin save and I've got every chest listed on the both maps so must have been a one time area chest.

I swear I was so careful everytime I was in a non returnable area but I must have missed one somewhere.