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I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating— Final Fantasy VI is a masterwork of the 16-bit gaming era.
As indebted to Wagnerian Opera as it is to the Gnostic Gospels, the minds at work behind this game achieved peak artistic expression in the shell of a J-RPG, giving us characters that felt flesh-and-blood despite fitting into 32×32 pixels, and a story so breath-taking that its graven upon the memories of all who played the game in the years immediately following it’s release.
By 1997 the game would be obsolete in terms of both graphics and game-play; I don’t know if it will ever hit anyone the same as it hit us back in the day.
But here is my chance to help it live on, and ensure that it is never forgotten.
It’s almost embarassing endorse a child’s video-game as some kind of legacy item, but I can’t shake the overriding belief that this game is a great work of art.
Locke Cole
Locke Cole is a bad-boy adventurer, but don’t call him a thief- he’s a Treasure Hunter.
Locke Cole is the first of the Returner’s that we meet-
The Returners are an underground movement that seeks to undermine and circumvent the encroaching power of the sinister, machine-driven, slave-making Ghestalan Empire.
Locke Cole is a star-crossed lover. When you finally learn what’s been eating away at his heart this whole time- The Cave of The Phoenix arc is some of the mot satisfying character development in the history of video game narrative arcs.
Over and over again, Final Fantasy VI delivers real emotional impact.
…and do you see how cool this dragon looks?
Celes Chere
Setzer Gabbiani
Kefka Pallazo
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Drawn directly from the visceral dark fantasy of Japanese OVA’s from the late eighties, god-form Kefka was hands-down the most intense boss encounter on the video-game market in 1994.
Can anyone say ‘Tetsuya, the Iron Man’?
Terra Branford
Mr. Typhon/ Ultros
“Hanlon’s razor is an adiche or rule of thumb that states: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”.
At a certain level, though, ignorance becomes it’s own form of malice.
…do Mr. Chupon and Ultros represent the Burden of Nescience?
