Also there was a bit of a "Finally a REAL Final Fantasy for GROWNUPS" thing going on when it came out that always rubbed me the wrong way.
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It is nice that the Bravely Default and Octopath Traveller games have basically become the "What if the pixel FF games had kept going" series.
aug 30, 2025, 6:46 pm • 2 0 • view
This has been "Darren Loves the Final Fantasy Games but Has Opinions"
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Please enjoy this portrait of Cyan Garamonde, A.K.A. "Mr. Thou" from FFVI, the best Final Fantasy.
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FFVI is a straight-up masterpiece! No wonder people inside Square-Enix are pushing for a remake (either in 2D HD or 3D). Although I understand Kitase being afraid of the scope of such a task. If FFVII trilogy took 10 years for the whole thing (2017-27), how long would FFVI take to be remade?
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I have mixed feelings about a remake but would definitely be interested. If nothing else, we have the pixel remasters.
aug 30, 2025, 10:32 pm • 2 0 • view
"FFVI, the best Final Fantasy" Objectively true. Also, I loved Cyan more than is probably rational, given that he's not one of FFVI's "big guns".
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VI was overstuffed and lacked dramatic direction! Final Fantasy IV is the true best.
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Near-theoretical levels of wrongness.
aug 31, 2025, 2:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, keep in mind, i was a Story Whore rather than a Grindmonkey. I thought the World of Ruin was the dullest, most boring thing... no more magical adventures with Terra, Locke, and Edgar, just grinding and taking on Kefka at your leisure. Honestly, the first time I got to the end of his...
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...junky tower, I thought okay, beat Kefka and then the next chapter opens up! But as the fight went on, i realized... wait, is this the end already? I'd leveled up my party so much it was too easy. Over too soon. Bleh. But FFIV... I guess i was just younger, because i LIVED with that game...
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...for years. Getting to the center of the moon to face Zemus was EPIC. That shit was my Star Wars, bro. Golbez was my Darth Vader. Memories of FFIV are just unbeatable. I'd give anything for a version of FFVI where the story wandered off into magical Esperland rather than the World of Ruin. : (
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Fair enough. I agree the finale tends to be a bit anticlimactic. I went through almost exactly what you described with FFT as well. Was too ready for the final battle and just walked right through it.
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This is so good! VI and IX are my favorite too. Cyan looks just like my dad so I always changed his name in my playthroughs.
aug 30, 2025, 8:15 pm • 1 0 • view
I named all of the characters after myself and my friends at the time so I still tend to think of them as those people (Cyan became Brian). 🙂
aug 30, 2025, 8:21 pm • 1 0 • view
I have some friends who feel the same way. On the other hand, I was a prejudice little shit who didn’t know anything about rpgs, so I always dismissed them for having “bad graphics” /tiny sprites, so FF7 was my first and I was like “no one told me these are cool story games!!”
aug 30, 2025, 6:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, I'm not sure what exactly it was that turned me off about FF7 at the time. It was visually very dark and felt kind of claustrophobic because of the pre-rendered backgrounds. It still has a lot of the FF series wackiness to it and I've come to appreciate it more with time.
aug 30, 2025, 6:59 pm • 1 0 • view
As someone who resented games jumping from beautiful SNES 2D art to really assy-looking 3D on N64 (& later the jump to better but brown muddy "realistic" 3D), I get this. And yeah, the palette in FF7 was very dark, particularly the first Midgar parts of the game.
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