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> Before that scene in Final Fantasy VII, Hironobu Sakaguchi served up a shocker of equal magnitude in Final Fantasy VI. Halfway through the game, the bad guys
by PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
> Before that scene in Final Fantasy VII, Hironobu Sakaguchi served up a shocker of equal magnitude in Final Fantasy VI. Halfway through the game, the bad guys win despite your best efforts and the world effectively ends, leaving your party wandering through a post-apocalyptic World of Ruin like the characters in a Harlan Ellison story. The effect this had on some players’ emotions could verge on traumatizing — heady stuff for a videogame on a console still best known worldwide as the cuddly home of Super Mario. For many of its young players, Final Fantasy VI was their first close encounter with the sort of literature that attempts to move beyond tropes to truly, thoughtfully engage with the human condition.
I do believe FF6 is probably the greatest JRPG ever made, but I also think the most emotionally charged moment in the FF franchise happened in FF4. Palom and Porom.
- cubefox 3y agoI thought it was commonly accepted that Chrono Trigger (another SNES JRPG) was better than FF6.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoI guess it turns out I'm a rebel then.
- smoldesu 3y agoLive A Live, Super Mario RPG and Seiken Densetsu are also solid contenders. It really depends on what you wanted out of an RPG at the time - pretty much all of SquareSoft's output on SNES was magnificent. For my money, FFVI is the best game of the lot. It's a very close call but I just prefer the story it tells and the way it does it. You'll certainly find people out there who disagree, though!
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoyep, same here. It doesn't take away from the other games, chrono trigger is absolutely an amazing game, then and now. But FFVI was special.