The epic plot wanders all over the place the flexibility of the skill system turns the entire adventure into a total cake walk few of the dozen or so party members demonstrate any real depth of characterization the linear and open-ended portions of the quest are segregated awkwardly into separate halves of the game and. Release Date: April 1994 (Japan) | October 1994 (U.S.).USgamer's Daily Classic for February 11, 2014: Final Fantasy VI.It might have seemed a bit pretentious to roll the credits during the introduction of a video game, but these guys earned it. It has an epic, driving, central story a mad villain with a mindless urge to destroy for destruction's sake a highly flexible skill system a huge cast of diverse characters immense player freedom within the constraints of the Japanese RPG design model extraordinary graphics and music and elaborate story set pieces that far surpass anything seen in its contemporaries. (Or, for those of you still living in the Super NES era, Final Fantasy III.)Įverything that defines the name 'Final Fantasy' is present and accounted for in FFVI.

If Lightning Returns represents Final Fantasy taken to its weirdest extreme, you need simply turn the clock back 20 years and find its calm center: 1994's Final Fantasy VI.

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