The ULTIMATE Recap of Final Fantasy VI (RECAPitation)
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
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Fun Fact: 'Cyan' is a localization abbreviation of his original name 'Cayenne' just like 'Atma' is an localization abbreviation for 'Ultima' in this game.
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Edit: Btw, fun trivia fact, Cyan is short for Cayenne, hence why I say Cayenne (look it up).
For the record, this is my overall favorite Final Fantasy installment. I hope this recap allows others to share my enjoyment. :)
***** Good call! In FF6 my favorite character is Gau, too. He's definitely among my top 5 Favorite FF characters, too.
You should've used the video from my channel haha.
+Oni Black Mage I saw that on the wikia that if you bring Gau to Zozo by himself he'll have a unique dialogue with Ramuh. I looked everywhere on RUclips and the Internet and I couldn't find a video. All I could find was text from the SNES version. I had an Gameboy emulator so I was the first one to make it haha.
+Oni Black congratulations, dude, amazing videos!! Please, do FF Tactics, it is such a good game : DDDD
11:20
"Through sheer strength, Sabin suplexes the train"
The fact you made this the focus of that encounter makes me soooo happy.
that is funny i had always used a phoenix down on it in the first 10 seconds
DeadCrescendo I think he might be aware about that meme
Why would you phoenix down it before suplexing it? It's like a rule man!
Same lmao
Now that I know about this, I want to replay it just to supplex the train.
I have to hand it to Kefka, out of all the Final Fantasy villains, he's the only one to have succeeded in taking over the world.
Detective Thursday well ik this was a year ago but if you’ve played 15 then you would know but Ardyn takes over the world for a while and puts it into darkness for about 10 years
Min-Song Kim Ardyn's felt so forced though almost like they wanted too just copy ff6 for the sake of it.
Detective Thursday as much as I love kefka I have to say wrong. In final fantasy 2 Emperor ruled over the world heaven and hell. Even tho I feel kefka is the better villain, Emperor wins that one hands down.
Cloud 7k Well it was only hell in the original and he didn't necessarily destroy the world more like ravaged towns to nothingness and did an outright war alive and was planning to resurface from hell + heaven in the remake with an army even greater than his previous one though that does question how was he that successful to be ruler of the two since death?
Victor Davila well I mean to die and take over two Astral plains is impressive. Like I said I favor kefka. But you have to be fair. Kefka ravaged the world but didn't destroy it. If you want to get technical shadow made the balance between the statues even worse than kefka when he first moved them. And honestly not even kefka knew what offsetting the staues would do.
The ghost train, an opera, the Phoenix story, an actual cataclysm WoR/WoB, there are so many iconic elements in this story. Many great games have one great moment. This has so many. A perfect 10.
Absolutely, a real ten
I personally have to disagree. The story is stunning, yes, but WoR’s gameplay became unbearably tedious. If anything, you kind of need to juggle 14 or so party members, at least 4 of which have a somewhat sad reason of joining. Mog, Umaro, Gogo, Gau, and so on. My favorites were definitely Terra and Locke due to battle viability and excellent story, Edgar purely for battle viability.
Really, the gameplay truly dims the story too much, and videos like these make it sound like it actually is a masterpiece, and that’s what a game with such a story for the most part deserves to be called. 8/10 game.
I've purchased this game about 5 times on separate platforms. What a undying masterpiece.
And that soundtrack...beautiful
snes, psone, gba, IOS....which platform am i missing? is this on steam? is my ff6 collection incomplete?
Zed Not Zee Yeah But the PC version is an exact rip of the mobile version so it’s really odd
I just played it 1000 times on SNES.
My SNES never stops working.
GREATEST FINAL FANTASY GAME EVER CREATED even better then FF7, FF7 would be the second best after this one. Mad respect to its CREATORs :) !!!!!
@@SixHundredandThirteen,
I have a fondness for FF4.
But I think FF7 was probably the best.
I think FF6 has my favorite ending though. Really fits the tone of the game, giving everyone closure.
FF5 was also pretty epic.
"This is sickening.... You sound like chapters from a self-help booklet!"
That moment when your rooting for the guy that destroyed the world.
If you rooted for Kefka, you need mental help.
@Alexis Eronmwon yes, he's an excellent example of insanity... megalomania, and several other disorders.
He's an amazing character in a story, but if you identified with him or rooted for him... you're nuts.
@@Meop79 I liked his ideas, amateur honestly, why stop at this mud ball? There IS a whole galaxy.
@@TheDrakorSynn seek help...
Yeah... no. Although I do appreciate the amazing character that is Kefka. There's no one on earth in their right mind would side with him. I love the character because he was a perfect villain for the story. I mean he's basically Joker for the Final Fantasy story. The final battle music definitely helped me with his character. But that's it, he's a character!
I love how this story recap is easily the longest of the RPG's he's ever done
except for xenogears
Game recognizes game
"...with blows so fast, he didn't know, he was already dead." I get it :)
+Grafiction ;)
For those curious, it's a reference to a series called Hokuto no Ken.
Searching for " Kenshiro vs. " on youtube will make you get the reference right away hahah.
PS: Great video, mate! I've just found out your channel and I'm loving the content!
"omae wa mo shindeiru"
Hhhiiiyaaaa!! Wuuuhaaaa!! Waaaapaaa!
ATATATATATATATA
"Ultros was horrified by how bad he looked from Relm's portrait."
What, Ultros had never looked in a mirror before?
50mins????? LOL Let me go grab some popcorn and soda because this is what I'll be watching later tonight instead of some random netflix movie.
JK, great job on the vids man. FF has some of the most complex stories of any game out there and its always great to see you break these down.
Yea I don't watch movies anymore I can't stand movies
I love the additional back story you covered that is missable in the game such as Shadow's dreams and the Figaro brothers scenes.
20:20
Setzer: "Ya know what really grinds my gears? Thieves!"
Locke: "That's 'TREASURE HUNTER!'"
Suplex the train! :)
Then make it eat a Phoenix down!
Lol
+PhoenixHelix Ah, yes, Sabin, the original Brock Lesnar. Then again, Sabin's still king, unless Brock can suplex something bigger than the Phantom Train....
PhoenixHelix Sabin would win because Gogo doesn't mimic stats. :)
If you don't suplex the train you're not a true Final Fantasy Fan
*Starts suplex city Chant*
The whole of Sabin's scenario has to be my favorite section of any story I've seen so far. It's so rare to see such a perfect balance of action-packed adventure, hilarious comedy and cutting drama.
The Cid-Setzer scene is by far one of the easiest to miss out on.
RELM IS SHADOW'S DAUGHTER?! HOLY SHIT!
Rewatching this, I can't help but notice how many elements of 6 were recycled in 7,9, 12, and 15. It's crazy how similar those elements are too.
It has been said before that FF6 was the first coagulation of everything the saga has been afterwards as we know it today, including the deranged fakeout villain with a flamboyant personality that ends up becoming a multipart boss.
I don't know what it is about Final Fantasy 6 that gets me every time....
Probably something to do with how heartbreaking the story actually is, the feels, the music - everything.
+Akira Jane ooya.
Even watching speed runs of it on twitch is great www.twitch.tv/puwexil
My childhood.... and I haven't revisited it in any capacity for years and now watching this I actually had a tear when Locke's and Rachel's music comes on....such a sad story....even in 16 bit...What an amazing game.
Great story, diverse characters, amazing gameplay, beautiful graphic, magnificent score, plus the opera maria and draco. These are why FF VI is the greatest FF of all time and FF IX is a close second.
On vacation in Arizona, I lucked out with a SNES and this game in our cabin. I remember loving this game more than I did seeing the Grand Canyon. Incredible game.
I LOVED THIS game and to me it's still the best RPG of all time.
My favorite entry always alternates between VI and IX. VI was my gateway to the franchise as a kid, whereas IX is easily my most played and the one I'm most versed in.
I'm the same as you, I think there's a connection for people who came into the series really appreciating VI and then liking IX more than VII or VIII in the Playstation era of FF.
same here. VI was my gateway, and easily my favorite, but IX is so close a second as to almost be tied. Playing through the IX re-release on PS4 now, and besides the several iterations of VI i own, i always keep a rom of it on my phone
I’m the opposite but I also bounce between those two. They’re simply the best.
I think they're the two strongest titles in the series, followed closely by IV. FFIX's battles play a little slow and the final boss is terribly lame (oh hey, random character we've never heard of till now); and there are a lot of nonsensical plot elements that never get explained in VI (looking at you, Ultros and Ziegfried) -- but these games are definitely the least flawed in the series. Both masterpieces of jRPGs.
likewise, this was my first FF.
I think the quality of your RECAP videos are great. No-nonsense, bs-free, to-the-point kind of recap, my kind of stuff. :thumbsup:
I feel really bad for Shadow. He was one of my favourite gaming ninjas. *sniffs*
Yeah he’s a real one ☝️
Quite possibly the best storyline in any game ever
True
VII
This is an amazing summery, and timing the music to the stories does so much, great job!
What a great story. Thanks so much for putting this on. My favorite game of all time!!!
new to your page, thank god this exists. best 30+ minutes of my life
The BEST Final Fantasy.
There are so many things they didn't have to do, but did anyway (in a good way), like a whole opera scene and even some really interesting side quests like at 45:45.
FF6 is the best FF of all times.
MambaNegra right
FF4 is still my favorite, as it was the first one I played on my SNES (as Final Fantasy II), but FF6 (or III) was very close, and had a much more expansive story, so it's a toss-up for me. But yeah, they're the two games I keep going back to. Might be nostalgia, but I also loved how Nobuo Uematsu made each game feel epic. Working through Final Fantasy V now... never seem to be able to find time to complete it, but hope to soon, finally.
Seems like the first FF someone plays is their favorite. VI is amazing, but just wanted to put in that 2 cents(my favorite is honestly between X and VII because those are the ones I have the most nostalgia)
Well, I believe 7,8,10,12 are all better than 6. I never have understood the total love fest for 6. I played it growing up and loved it, but it certainly isn't the best.7 was most certainly head and shoulders better than 6, in story and gameplay.
why do you think 7 is better than 6 in storyline?
Wow, I thought you had hundreds of thousands of subs. You're a really underrated channel. Love your videos man!
I'm happy to see he didn't leave out the suplex to the phantom train.
I took a break from playing for a pretty long time and by the time I wanted to go back and continue from the point I stopped I forgot some of the story. This video really helped me, thank you!
Very well done. This was my favorite game growing up as a kid, and it will always be. :)
I want to illustrate scenes from this game, but I haven't played it in years and I never actually finished it. Thank you for making this video so I can refresh my memory!
You do a wonderful job of recapping. You're overview of game functions in the beginning was amazing.
I love how you incorporated optional stuff that can be tied in to the story like Mog, Umaro, and Gogo. Wish you could do the Chrono series too (Trigger and Cross).
This is so awesome.. I've had this feeling for a long time that I wanted to play through FFVI again, but I could never do it with such patience like I had as a kid.
Thanks to you I could revisit the story-progress again.
Thaaaaaank yooooooooooou! :D
I love that you included Sabin suplexing the Ghost Train as a plot point.
Of all the FF series, VI is the one with the most complex story where good and evil fight against each other is like roller coaster.
I love how you included the train suplex as part of the story narrative!
you have no idea how happy it made me that you made a point to mention sabin suplexing the train lol
I just finished it on ios. Absolutely fantastic. Unfortunately, I finished it over a period of 3 years and therefore by the time I finished it, I almost forgot the first half of the game. This video is just perfect as a reminder of all the great moments.. Well done.
You just retold the entire story of my favorite game of all time. Thank you so much. I didn’t even feel the hour.
how does this not have more likes. you just got me so emotional.
The best RPG ever made!
Amen to that.
Between this one and Chrono Trigger...though choice
You right
Emperor Gestahl always looked like a shih-Tzu to me...
i agree some kind of dog wonder why they made him that way though?
Kefka's dog. lol
i always thought he was a dog
I love how you canonized the Train Suplex for the video.
I found an old save file of ffvi where I left of in the ruined world in the middle of collecting friends and wanted to know what the hell happened so far & what I should do next 'cuz my memory is shit. Great video :3
I played this for the 1st time in my life early this year and it easily became my 2nd favorite Final Fantasy behind IX..
Your recap videos made me understood FF games more than any other videos in RUclips! Thank you so much!
A friend of mine in high school drew a picture of Ultros with that Dos Equis beer from that one commercial (most interesting man in the world)... I'm not always purple, but when I am... I'm Ultros. That 5 minute to drop the weight line was hilarious, btw.
Oh, and the ability to switch in party members and seeing them all in the main boss final fight made me think the fight would be super hard. Easiest final FF boss I've ever encountered.
You know how much of the player base in FFXIV was disappointed that suplexxing the train wasn’t an option? 😂. It was literally my 1st thought when the train was teased in an upcoming patch a while back
Ohmigosh thank you so much!!! I was halfway through the game when I played last and this caught me up to pick it back up today!!!
In short. The greatest Final Fantasy game ever.
True
I cannot argue with that. As much as I loved 4 and 15. This has to be hands down the best
glad you mentioned the suplexxing the train
I have always "liked" your videos, and just subbed, soley on the bases that you never ask me (us) to at the end of your videos
I love how he adds Sabin suplexing the train in as SOLID CANON
lol the Train Suplex xD
People Want final fantasy 7 remade. Plz this game deserves a true remaster.
+TheMrMeff i would definitely buy a full HD remade-from-the-ground-up version of Final Fantasy 6
That is actually happening already.
6's graphics aged much better then 7s.
Nowadys everyone could make decent looking 3D models that would look better then FF7 since 3D was just starting back then.
Pixelart is still a thing but most of these games look like shit compared to FF6.
Yeah you're right but i specificly meant the kind of indie game that tries to look retro but ends up with pixel art that would be concidered horrible even by SNES standards, especially the RPG maker ones for 5€ on steam that have horrible sprites and use non pixel character portraits that also look horrible...
Might be just my bad luck but i didn't seee much good stuff like this
TheMrMeff they all do except 2
Gotta love how the meme of Sabin being able to suplex the fucking train made it into the recap! XD
And this is why I love to play this game since 1994
Thank you for recapping one of my favorite childhood games. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Enjoying all your ReCapitation videos. Any plans for Chrono Trigger or Chrono Cross?
+Brendon Swartz Absolutely
+Oni Black Mage Sweet!
yesyesyes got my sub for life lol.
Incredibly well done! I'm glad to see you even include the famous glitches into the storyline, as a video game story narrator should! :)
"Leave us. The Dog eats strangers." - Shadow
Tim Muraoka
Love that line... lol
Tim Muraoka
"He'd slit his momma's throat for a nickel!" XD
Good thing Relm isn't a stranger!
Explains why Interceptor liked Relm the first Time he saw her :)
By FAR the BEST F.F. of all time and my favourite SNES game of all time, with all the best characters and back stories in ANY FF game. I'd buy ANY console that this game was released on if it was a full remake HD full 3D version. I nearly pee'd my pants when FF7 remake creator said that he would have preferred to remake FF6, LMAO!
Thanks dude I really enjoy your videos. Ive finished this game so many times 15 years ago. Its crazy how I forgot about some parts.
I had put this game down for a while. Jumping back into it, I needed this recap. Impressively put together! Well done!
OMG, this made my day! Thank you!
Good job. This had to be a lot of work. Thank you for this video.
Great explanations for those who are new to FF WORLD.
One of my favorite games, wow man! this was well put together. Great Narrating and visual aids were both synced well together. Thanks!
Can they just remake this full HD.
Margaret F Yes please.
Margaret F it is good to see bright young people ingoying this game
enjoying*
Eh... I love these graphics. I just have a love for 16 bit stuff.
I heard a rumor once from game informer that they were going to remake it for ps3
Guess we see where that went sigh
One of the best stories in a video game. The best Final Fantasy for sure.
Man, what a perfect damn game. I knew it was landmark, but had no idea just how many firsts it featured that later became standards.
I really enjoy this series and with that said, I am surprised square hasn't taken these videos down.
This game came out in the same year that I was born!
I feel old right now.
Man this game brings back so many memories...SO many grammatical and spelling errors on SNES lol. This game was such a masterpiece, the multiple paths in which you are playing as different groupings (it did what Chrono Cross couldn't....FULLY flesh out every single character...maybe not Umaro and Gogo, but still). I loved the story so much in this game, probably my favorite of all FF games of the main series. FFT is my favorite FF game overall, so that's why I say in the main series. I didn't think about it until watching all these videos for the FF games, but there are A LOT of King's that are master fighters lol. Like EVERY single game features at least one: king/queen/princess/prince in the party as a main character (that kicks ass). I even count FFT because Delita becomes King eventually...which is basically the entire story, his quest to rise from commoner to noble. Delita is the main character of the game, it took me a while to realize that. As a kid I could not get past the fact that Ramza was a man, I kept referring to him as a "she" lol. Like especially when he is in the first chapter with his pony tail. Delita is the shit though. They should have made a complimentary game/sequel in which you played as Delita and saw what he went through on his quest for power, thus filling in the gaps.
Clearly the best Final Fantasy. Just saying.
+elementfayt You're absolutely right.
elementfayt It's one of the most overrated games of all time.
You're thinking Ff7.
elementfayt No that games quality is justified as proven by its success, that it has successful spin off games, a successful movie and people had been begging for a remake for years.
VI is just a good SNES game. It has the same cliche story involving an evil empire and an orphan main character as the previous games. It has too many characters that meant most were forgettable except for the villain. It has an incredibly repetitive combat system. Most the towns have the same generic design as the previous games. There's no mini games. The game falls apart in the last third and much more.
scabab That story arch is the basis of every single final fantasy game from 2 and on. Not just 6. Your beloved 7 is included. 6 is notorious for having the best villain, some of the greatest characters and music in the series to date, and terrific game play in an amazing world. Every final fantasy has repetitive combat. It's a staple of the genre. It has one of the best mini games (Colosseum) but that is hardly anything to even consider for why it's the best Final Fantasy. FF7 is a great game, no doubt, and my 2nd fav in the series, but it stands on the shoulders of what FF6 did for the genre. The biggest leap forward it had was simply due to technological advancements in graphics. Materia is an evolution of what Espers brought to FF6, the character design in FF7 was actually a step BACK. The secret/hidden characters were again lifted out of what FF6 brought. Cloud and Terra certainly have a lot of similarities in how their stories unfold. "Limit breaks" are an evolution of the desperation attacks also brought into the series with FF6. Much more. FF7 is a great game, no doubt, but to disregard FF6 for the turning point and ground breaking venture that it was is a disservice to the series in general.
Damn! This is my favorite FF game... this video is such a HUGE NOSTALGIA BOM for me. The video is amazingly edited and narrated! Thank you so much, truly! ^_^
Hmmm... I think I'm going to re-install that SNES emulator... lol. XD
always keep an ff6 rom on my phone
I honestly wonder what this game would look like as a full remake.
It would be really difficult I think, but if pulled off right it could be incredible.
Kefka laughs at the corny speech they just gave
....
I can relate.
IKR. I also feel the same way after hearing similar speech from every good guy from any jrpg
@@tjongdavid1921 Yeah I think he told the party "You sound like the chapters from a Self-Help booklet" My reaction: "Uh..Im sorry guys but Im with Kefka on this one" xD It took them so long to make another snappy vilain like him xD
My first ff exposure was 7. my first ff gameplay was 5. tried 4 and ended up loving 6 more than everything else. No game has ever done anything like what 6 had done, with each character with so much personality and dynamic. When the game was over, I felt so satisfied and yet felt that the void of my ff 6 gameplay has never been filled till this day. (I only play pc, don't have a proper console other than a 3ds)
Beautiful video man. You bring all the things to the table that made this game the best in the series.
Great video man, I like your narrative. Do Chrono Cross.
A continuation of a surviving shadow would make a great new game
One of the first truly cinematic games ever. It's an amazing thing when 16 bit sprites can make you feel something
This is hands down my favorite in the series. The story was amazing and you cared for the characters.
There should be a 3DS remake for this. I'd totally buy it again.
Or switch.
I don't want to lose the graphics though. They've almost perfected 16 bit graphics, maybe a 32 bit game, NO 3D.
i was dying for this agme to get the DS treatment 3 and 4 had gotten
Bravely Default Style?
Lesten Truth Octopath style or Bravely?
Or put it out on all platforms if it’s gonna go that route
Gosh watching these makes me realize how many bosses/ideas are used in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. Pretty neat :P
Mad PROPS for showing the Train Suplex Sequence. A run through FFVI isn't complete without it!
I played this game for over 10 years along with Breath of Fire. :D
Breath of Fire I, II, III, or IV?
There Was a V too
Hands down the best Final Fantasy.
this channel deserves way more subscribers keep up the good work! Ps Ff9 is my favourite
I love how you say things like 'Baron suplexes the train so it allows them to ride it' with a totally serious inflection.
Favorite FF game, and probably my favorite game ever. I'll never forget when the world was torn apart by the goddess statues. I flipped my lid, sincerely thought i fucked something up and this was game over.
I remember when interceptor was friendly towards Relm I had this silly grin on my face and I was like... Oh mah gawd it's her !!!!!!
this is the masterclass on how to write a great-balanced-fully fleshed out 14 PROTAGONISTS
I'd say it's more like 11. Mog, Umaro, and Gogo really don't get any development beyond "yeah sure we'll come why not?"
Doesn't take away from how good the game is though.