Genocide, suicide, and pregnancy are all major events within the game’s story, and it deals with heavy themes of shared trauma and having to move on from tragedy.

Each of the fourteen playable characters, regardless of how fleshed out they are, contribute to an overarching narrative about how people manage trauma.įinal Fantasy VI deals with a lot of dark topics for a Super Nintendo game. While the presentation is less bombastic and the storytelling is less fleshed-out than the later entries due to hardware limitations, Final Fantasy VI is incredibly rich thematically, and is more literary than anything else in the series. It feels like a collection of everything that made the previous Nintendo entries great while pointing towards the future of the franchise with its more involved story. Final Fantasy VI was the final entry released on the Super Nintendo in 1994, before the series moved to the PlayStation.

While Final Fantasy as a franchise is most widely known for its seventh, tenth and fourteenth entries, all of which are great games, it is the sixth entry that many critics correctly regard as the series’ true masterpiece.

There is a new definitive way to play one of the greatest RPGs of all time. Opinion/Arts & Culture Editor Photo courtesy of Square Enixįinal Fantasy VI is a masterpiece, and the new Pixel Remaster makes it more available than ever before.

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