As I became an adult, I realized I was more and more like Celes than any other fictional character out there. I feel alone quite often, thoughts of despair take over, and there are a lot of days where I don’t want to be alive. Yet she somehow found her composure. She found a reason to live, to fight. This is what I have to do daily to ensure my survival: find a reason to live. That’s why she will always be my favorite fictional character ever. She has given me the strength to keep going most days.
It's beautiful how she's impacted so dearly... I hope you find your light, please never end your journey early. I believe in you, reach for the stars!!!!
It's a testament that a simple 16-bit character can make you cry. You can't even see the face that well but you don't need to; it's the music combined with her hopelessness that makes you feel for Celes in this scene. Even though she's just a sprite she can convey such sadness to you, the player. And you really can't blame her for what's she's going through. Sometimes you don't need complex graphics to have an emotional moment.
Totally agree, as a kid who played the original game. I didn’t understood celes but I know what she’s going through As someone who has undergone depression and attempted s*icide a ton of times. I must say that I cried today rewatching this scene cause I felt like I’ve been into Celes’ shoes for a while. It crushes me from the inside, now that I’ve rewatched and understood Japanese (Which I learned recently), It indeed moved me to chills. After a long artist break, I am thinking of coming back to game development one of these days. It is indeed difficult but I know I can make it through^^
You conveyed my sentiments exactly. It's extremely difficult to bring out such emotional impact on a 16-bit game, but damn! They did it. You felt your heart break for Celes in this section. The poor girl lost so much. Her character theme ranks up there with Aeris's. Both embody the respective characters perfectly.
(Don’t have PR, did play original FFVI) This scene, this music and this character nearly broke me as a teenager. When she fell, I couldn’t take it and shut off my SNES. My sibling then asked me why didn’t I keep playing and I explained that I couldn’t take it. They rolled their eyes at me and said, “She lives.” And I had to go through it all over again (from save point, I’m not a fool) and carry on. But this scene is just hard to take, and imagining taking it as a young person just a ball of feelings, I’m surprised I kept it together as well as I did.
So even with the "leap of faith" dialogue (Ted Woolsey was probably forced to change it due to Nintendo of America's content policy at the time), you knew what was really going on. And you probably weren't the only one.
I think the part of it that is beautiful is that it's in 2D pixels, and players had to use their imaginations. It switches the focus to the aesthetics of the music and story, and players' imagination, which is the point of the whole "fantasy" genre. I don't like the modern FF which the characters have plastic emo teen faces, kinda ... i don't know how to explain... don't hate me.
Sadly they would censor a lot of the scenes in the game kinda like FF7R, like imagine when Kefka destroyed the world and there's a moment when the continent separation smashed some civilians
Yes. As a character i enjoyed more Celes. But whos the Heroine of FF6? Its Terra…the story starts talking about esper /magic, and ends talking about this. But Celes’Knight visual is 10/10, so for me, both deserves the 1th together.
Nah, Terra is the catalyst of the story, but she's not the main character. Celes is. The fact that Terra is broken and you have to repair her in order to bring her back (meaning she could be left out of the story entirely after the breaking of the world and you'd still be able to finish it) proves it. Celes, Sabin, Setzer and Edgar are the only characters you have to have to beat the game and the other three wouldn't be around without Celes.
I saw it as equally divided between Terra, Celes and Relm. Relm especially because she knew nothing except the World Of Ruin but still approaches it with cheer, hope and perseverance. Which is about the biggest “Fuck You” Kefka can receive in the late game.
It’s my very first time playing FF6 and I arrived at this part of the game, I’m a 25yo gamer and it’s been many years I did not feel that much in a video games, I felt so many emotions there, just before this point of the games arrive you’re only you and your friends looking to beat the empire’s ass, it sucks yeah, but you’re not alone, then all of sudden, boom, nothing but desperation. And it’s insane how much I felt alone there, you and only the brave Cid trying his best to survive and put a smile on Celes’s face.
One piece Nico Robin leaving Ohara as a kid scene With the vice Admiral telling her to go and that somewhere Friends are waiting for her, gives so much the same vibes this scene gives.
Why didn't this scene happen in my playthrough? In mine, Cid survived and showed Celes that he had been building the raft every time she went out to catch fish for him. When she returns to the island on the Falcon, Cid is still alive and well.
It depends on what type of fish you fed Cid with. Each fish has a different description where it tells you how it tastes when it's fed to Cid. If you want Cid to die like in this scene, keep feeding him the foul-tasting fish. It increases your chance of getting this outcome. I personally went for this because it gives Celes a better character development, but it doesn't really impact the outcome of the story. It just gives you another reason to shed tears over Celes.
@@MilenskiF.E. Oh interesting. I was just annoyed that I was having to go back and forth to get fish for like 10 minutes that I was completing it as fast as I could without much thought.
@@MilenskiF.E.Yeah. Story-wise, killing Cid will bring a better story. But as a kid back then (tho guess it's still the same now), I just can't make Celes suffer more. And so, I will always save Cid. But I also always make a save file at this point. So I can see this sad scene. Imo, the story will be better if they add a proper plot about the scenario where Cid is still alive. It doesn't have to be a big one. Just something like Celes and Cid can have some father-daughter interactions whenever we decided to revisit the island will be nice. Or maybe adding a special ending cutscene where Celes comes back to the island to meet Cid. That way, at least while this scenario is not as good as the one where Cid die, it can still be a more canon main scenario instead of treated like a minor side quest like now.
@@justawanderingoldman7699 Yeah, I also prefer to save Cid instead of letting him die. Here's my question about that one, though... Since the "let Cid die" branch has Celes find Locke's bandanna wrapped around an injured seagull after her failed suicide attempt, this raises the question: In the "save Cid" side of things, how then does Celes come to possess Locke's bandanna, since she's seen accidentally dropping it during the escape from Kefka's tower but not seen noticing it and picking it up as she prepares to part ways with Cid and drift to the mainland on his raft?
Why people said this is canon. She is suppose to represent hope in world of ruin, killing herself isnt exactly the message she carried later... being able to help Cid shows her that is worth having hope.
I think it showed how real and dire the situation was/is. Its something not a lot of games were doing at the time and it really left an impact, even if it didn't really fit what she was suppose to represent. The world is in ruin, kefka is ruling the world, cid is the only person left with her on a small island and everyone else might as well be dead. This scene really hit that emotional chord for people. Her living from there suicide attempt is used to show that It wasn't the right choice and that there is so much more life to live.
L take. Cid dying inflicts a personal hardship she needs to overcome like everyone else in the world of ruin. She had no particular attachment to anyone else before except Locke who she has every reason to believe is dead. Celes needs to have something to lose and then actually lose it for the glimmer of hope in the shape of Locke's bandana to be meaningful. The audience needs to have her despairing state communicated to them. It also demonstrates Cid's compassion for Celes taking all the time to build this raft while ghastly ill and suspecting or knowing he will not survive to join her on it. Cid just going "Hey thanks for feeding me btw I've had this raft ready this whole time lmao also I'm just gonna stay on this island all alone even though I don't need to" is absolutely stupid in comparison. Square should have made it impossible to save Cid.
I still think Cid's death should be the only option. Not because I hate a happy ending (haha... sorry) but more because it's more impactful. If you save Cid, then yay happy... but this version of the world isn't happy. It's chaotic, dark, filled with death and destruction and Cid's death portrays that tragedy perfectly, for Celes' character at least. Celes, gone for a year, on an island, alone, then the only person she loved aside from Locke dies. Impactful. Other side - she believes her friends are dead, Cid survives... it's just unusual for that to feel happy... kinda out of place.
The thing is, if you couldn't save him, his death would be less meaningful. Both outcomes need to be possible for the sad option to have any weight to it.
@@SeppelSquirrel not really. The relationship between them had been established both through his affection for her in the world of light and their final bond in the world of ruin. The rest is just irritating fish catching. There cannot be a happy ending in the world of ruin because it defeats the emotion of that world.
@@silversidewinderreacts On the contrary, the world of ruin is about finding hope and joy even when faced with a dying world. Life will go on! There will always be people, and dreams!
@@SeppelSquirrel This is true, but not at this point in the game. At this point it's hopeless, bleak, dark and depressing. She doesn't know if her friends are alive, and laments Locke harder than anyone else. Hope trickles in, but doesn't completely show until Terra finds herself. So why put hope where it doesn't belong? And then leave it on an island alone for the rest of the game, not even coming back to the island except to retrieve an esper later on? His life makes no sense and his survival would not be a thing.
Why do people think that there is a second half to this game? Celes is dead the other Half is us Playing Tom Cruise in Vanilla sky. They are all dead and in Kafka Magitek esper dream machine. Like Kefka said why do you continue to play knowing you are dead... look at the color of the sky in the game now go watch Vanilla sky. You are welcome and Yes your childhood is ruined, mine isn't... I knew the truth and stopped playing. KEFKA won. Best Final Fantasy game Ever.😂😂😂
This remastered song never fails to make me cry. Very beautiful
As I became an adult, I realized I was more and more like Celes than any other fictional character out there. I feel alone quite often, thoughts of despair take over, and there are a lot of days where I don’t want to be alive.
Yet she somehow found her composure. She found a reason to live, to fight. This is what I have to do daily to ensure my survival: find a reason to live.
That’s why she will always be my favorite fictional character ever. She has given me the strength to keep going most days.
It's beautiful how she's impacted so dearly...
I hope you find your light, please never end your journey early. I believe in you, reach for the stars!!!!
@@mayoinokii you’re so sweet. Thank you so much! I hope you reach past the stars and find happiness in life! ❤️
It's a testament that a simple 16-bit character can make you cry. You can't even see the face that well but you don't need to; it's the music combined with her hopelessness that makes you feel for Celes in this scene. Even though she's just a sprite she can convey such sadness to you, the player. And you really can't blame her for what's she's going through.
Sometimes you don't need complex graphics to have an emotional moment.
Totally agree, as a kid who played the original game. I didn’t understood celes but I know what she’s going through
As someone who has undergone depression and attempted s*icide a ton of times. I must say that I cried today rewatching this scene cause I felt like I’ve been into Celes’ shoes for a while. It crushes me from the inside, now that I’ve rewatched and understood Japanese (Which I learned recently), It indeed moved me to chills.
After a long artist break, I am thinking of coming back to game development one of these days. It is indeed difficult but I know I can make it through^^
You conveyed my sentiments exactly. It's extremely difficult to bring out such emotional impact on a 16-bit game, but damn! They did it. You felt your heart break for Celes in this section. The poor girl lost so much. Her character theme ranks up there with Aeris's. Both embody the respective characters perfectly.
The Celes jump gives me "End of Disc 1" vibes
Man, it's been a loooong time since I've played this game, but at 0:15 I could already feel that _feeling_ welling up behind my eyes.
(Don’t have PR, did play original FFVI)
This scene, this music and this character nearly broke me as a teenager. When she fell, I couldn’t take it and shut off my SNES. My sibling then asked me why didn’t I keep playing and I explained that I couldn’t take it. They rolled their eyes at me and said, “She lives.” And I had to go through it all over again (from save point, I’m not a fool) and carry on. But this scene is just hard to take, and imagining taking it as a young person just a ball of feelings, I’m surprised I kept it together as well as I did.
She lives and meets friends, one of which may become her boyfriend or husband later.
@@GamerMusic1239 I know, thank you.
So even with the "leap of faith" dialogue (Ted Woolsey was probably forced to change it due to Nintendo of America's content policy at the time), you knew what was really going on. And you probably weren't the only one.
I just wanted to see how Celes theme looked like on this version. And now I'm crying. Thank you, I guess
Imagine how powerful this scene would be in 3d, especially along with such bgm, I'd be crying a river 😢😭
I think the part of it that is beautiful is that it's in 2D pixels, and players had to use their imaginations. It switches the focus to the aesthetics of the music and story, and players' imagination, which is the point of the whole "fantasy" genre.
I don't like the modern FF which the characters have plastic emo teen faces, kinda ... i don't know how to explain... don't hate me.
@@alexlau2312 Haven't they had plastic emo teen faces since FF8?
@@date5960 That doesnt make him wrong you know?
@@date5960 not FF9 for sure
Sadly they would censor a lot of the scenes in the game kinda like FF7R, like imagine when Kefka destroyed the world and there's a moment when the continent separation smashed some civilians
She made granddad proud indeed…
I honestly think this entire pixel remastered OST of FF6 is the greatest catalog of music in the franchise
Yes. As a character i enjoyed more Celes. But whos the Heroine of FF6? Its Terra…the story starts talking about esper /magic, and ends talking about this. But Celes’Knight visual is 10/10, so for me, both deserves the 1th together.
Nah, Terra is the catalyst of the story, but she's not the main character. Celes is. The fact that Terra is broken and you have to repair her in order to bring her back (meaning she could be left out of the story entirely after the breaking of the world and you'd still be able to finish it) proves it. Celes, Sabin, Setzer and Edgar are the only characters you have to have to beat the game and the other three wouldn't be around without Celes.
I saw it as equally divided between Terra, Celes and Relm. Relm especially because she knew nothing except the World Of Ruin but still approaches it with cheer, hope and perseverance. Which is about the biggest “Fuck You” Kefka can receive in the late game.
It’s my very first time playing FF6 and I arrived at this part of the game, I’m a 25yo gamer and it’s been many years I did not feel that much in a video games, I felt so many emotions there, just before this point of the games arrive you’re only you and your friends looking to beat the empire’s ass, it sucks yeah, but you’re not alone, then all of sudden, boom, nothing but desperation. And it’s insane how much I felt alone there, you and only the brave Cid trying his best to survive and put a smile on Celes’s face.
thanks for sharing. i cannot end this because of my time but i love this
Cid is so cute in his little bunny suit thing, I just can't let him die. Besides, I think he and Celes have really been through enough already.
One piece Nico Robin leaving Ohara as a kid scene With the vice Admiral telling her to go and that somewhere Friends are waiting for her, gives so much the same vibes this scene gives.
This scene hit me hard
Someone needs to make a few hours loop of this music, be nice to fall asleep too
I just want to point out this is dark for early nintendo 1:24
And THIS is why Celes is the main character.
This guy coming in with the patrician opinions we need. Begs the question though: Where do we get more of them?
I consider Terra and Celes co-main characters. Both have very satisfying arcs.
@@JohnnyDIles Kinda like sisters of hope in a world of ruin. They represent life while Kefka represents death.
Terra for world of balance
Celes for world of ruin
But I think overall it's Terra bcs espers are the main part of this game
For reals! I love Celes more than Terra.
Why didn't this scene happen in my playthrough? In mine, Cid survived and showed Celes that he had been building the raft every time she went out to catch fish for him. When she returns to the island on the Falcon, Cid is still alive and well.
It depends on what type of fish you fed Cid with. Each fish has a different description where it tells you how it tastes when it's fed to Cid. If you want Cid to die like in this scene, keep feeding him the foul-tasting fish. It increases your chance of getting this outcome. I personally went for this because it gives Celes a better character development, but it doesn't really impact the outcome of the story. It just gives you another reason to shed tears over Celes.
@@MilenskiF.E. Oh interesting. I was just annoyed that I was having to go back and forth to get fish for like 10 minutes that I was completing it as fast as I could without much thought.
@@MilenskiF.E.Yeah. Story-wise, killing Cid will bring a better story. But as a kid back then (tho guess it's still the same now), I just can't make Celes suffer more. And so, I will always save Cid. But I also always make a save file at this point. So I can see this sad scene.
Imo, the story will be better if they add a proper plot about the scenario where Cid is still alive. It doesn't have to be a big one. Just something like Celes and Cid can have some father-daughter interactions whenever we decided to revisit the island will be nice. Or maybe adding a special ending cutscene where Celes comes back to the island to meet Cid. That way, at least while this scenario is not as good as the one where Cid die, it can still be a more canon main scenario instead of treated like a minor side quest like now.
@@justawanderingoldman7699 Yeah, I also prefer to save Cid instead of letting him die.
Here's my question about that one, though...
Since the "let Cid die" branch has Celes find Locke's bandanna wrapped around an injured seagull after her failed suicide attempt, this raises the question: In the "save Cid" side of things, how then does Celes come to possess Locke's bandanna, since she's seen accidentally dropping it during the escape from Kefka's tower but not seen noticing it and picking it up as she prepares to part ways with Cid and drift to the mainland on his raft?
Celes and Terra are the main heroes. When Terra dissapear Celes takes her place and then opposite.
what, they uncensored that part with the text, but censored when she's chained... weird..
llevo mas de 9 años q termine la versión de gba y este es el primer juego q me saca unas lagrimas llore con esta escena de celes
Was celes the first video game charater to attempt suicide
Zero blew himaelf up to save X.
@@BigguBosu117 you have good point i always counted that as self sacrifice but you do have a point
damn she fed him the poison fishes
So the letter magically appeared...
It's a drop and cid was lagging
😭😭😭
It is sad at first but she gets better and finally meet friends :D
Why people said this is canon. She is suppose to represent hope in world of ruin, killing herself isnt exactly the message she carried later... being able to help Cid shows her that is worth having hope.
So, too, is carrying on alone.
Trying to kill herself is perfect to show the dramatic world she lives in, World of Ruin. She then gets to represent hope by overcoming that dread.
I think it showed how real and dire the situation was/is. Its something not a lot of games were doing at the time and it really left an impact, even if it didn't really fit what she was suppose to represent. The world is in ruin, kefka is ruling the world, cid is the only person left with her on a small island and everyone else might as well be dead. This scene really hit that emotional chord for people. Her living from there suicide attempt is used to show that It wasn't the right choice and that there is so much more life to live.
L take. Cid dying inflicts a personal hardship she needs to overcome like everyone else in the world of ruin. She had no particular attachment to anyone else before except Locke who she has every reason to believe is dead. Celes needs to have something to lose and then actually lose it for the glimmer of hope in the shape of Locke's bandana to be meaningful. The audience needs to have her despairing state communicated to them. It also demonstrates Cid's compassion for Celes taking all the time to build this raft while ghastly ill and suspecting or knowing he will not survive to join her on it.
Cid just going "Hey thanks for feeding me btw I've had this raft ready this whole time lmao also I'm just gonna stay on this island all alone even though I don't need to" is absolutely stupid in comparison. Square should have made it impossible to save Cid.
Dissida references Cid's death iirc. Not that cid dying is good but this delivers a beautiful emotional gut punch.
The font for the remaster irks me to to end for some reason 😅
You can change it, thank god
I still think Cid's death should be the only option. Not because I hate a happy ending (haha... sorry) but more because it's more impactful. If you save Cid, then yay happy... but this version of the world isn't happy. It's chaotic, dark, filled with death and destruction and Cid's death portrays that tragedy perfectly, for Celes' character at least. Celes, gone for a year, on an island, alone, then the only person she loved aside from Locke dies. Impactful. Other side - she believes her friends are dead, Cid survives... it's just unusual for that to feel happy... kinda out of place.
Agreed..
The thing is, if you couldn't save him, his death would be less meaningful. Both outcomes need to be possible for the sad option to have any weight to it.
@@SeppelSquirrel not really. The relationship between them had been established both through his affection for her in the world of light and their final bond in the world of ruin. The rest is just irritating fish catching. There cannot be a happy ending in the world of ruin because it defeats the emotion of that world.
@@silversidewinderreacts On the contrary, the world of ruin is about finding hope and joy even when faced with a dying world. Life will go on! There will always be people, and dreams!
@@SeppelSquirrel This is true, but not at this point in the game. At this point it's hopeless, bleak, dark and depressing. She doesn't know if her friends are alive, and laments Locke harder than anyone else. Hope trickles in, but doesn't completely show until Terra finds herself. So why put hope where it doesn't belong? And then leave it on an island alone for the rest of the game, not even coming back to the island except to retrieve an esper later on? His life makes no sense and his survival would not be a thing.
身投げしたけど岸に戻されただけ？
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Why do people think that there is a second half to this game? Celes is dead the other Half is us Playing Tom Cruise in Vanilla sky. They are all dead and in Kafka Magitek esper dream machine. Like Kefka said why do you continue to play knowing you are dead... look at the color of the sky in the game now go watch Vanilla sky. You are welcome and Yes your childhood is ruined, mine isn't... I knew the truth and stopped playing. KEFKA won. Best Final Fantasy game Ever.😂😂😂
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@@luisrodrigues5507 lay off the weed
@@SEYEBOY no you
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