Xbox had a sale in March with all of the Final Fantasy games at 20-60% off, so I bought all of them except FF14 and a couple other odd ones. The first one I played was FF6 only because wrestler and cosplayer Leon Chiro had such an amazing cosplay of the villain Kefka that I needed to play this. I had already beaten FF7, 8, and 10.
I didn’t read many strategies prior so I didn’t know I had to wait and save Shadow. I also didn’t know you can assign Tools, Blitzs, and Bushidos or whatever to Gogo. I kind of struggled in the last tower because I had one solid team with Ultima, Firaga, and Curaga on all four main characters (Mog, Celes, Terra, and Locke) while the rest didn’t have any of those and had low levels and HP. I had to take one main character and carry the rest of the group in the desert patch area to quickly level both HP and AP for Ragnarok, Phoenix, and other solid Espers.
The game had a lot of funny moments.
The opera was beautiful and I was surprised to hear voice acting. Was this in the original or in the Pixel Remaster?
FF8 was my first Final Fantasy and I immediately noticed Square’s mastery at the use of positive and negative space. Now I see they knew how to maximize simplicity even in FF6 in 1994. I can’t wait to see how 1-5 are.
This is setting up a cottage in the field, or world. But the transition is great. Each character has their own color and design for the tent.
Iconic Celes scene. But look at the use of space. Use of thirds rule. It’s just masterful. It’s a moment of mourning where her character is confiscated to a third of the screen and the majority is open with negative space.
I’m on FF2 now, having just beaten FF1. The fight scenes in 6 are really cool looking.
The transition of Kefka is interesting too. From poisoning rivers, to killing the emperor and eventually becoming a God with his own cult.
The last fight has you move up a totemesque group of statues named A through whatever until you reach the Renaissance style Kefka. I didn’t find him as hard as having to maintain top gear and spells on all characters. Apparently this was a first for individual storytelling of multiple characters. Each one was supposed to be a main one. Overall I loved it. I liked each character except Yeti and Gogo but they didn’t really have backgrounds that I know of.