r/FinalFantasyVI

Did you guys know this absolute gem...

So I've decided on the final rule set for my next challenge run. Every time I get a character (intro black screen) I roll to see what their class is. Which will dictate what they are able to do for the rest of the game. The jobs are as follows.

Warrior: Can only attack and defend.

Black mage: Can only use black and grey magic.

White mage: Can only use white and grey magic, and allows use of menu healing.

Merchant: Can only use items, and allows use of menu items while in the party.

Specialist: Can only use their class skill.

Magic knight: Can use attack, and grey magic.

Red mage: Can use both white and black magic, but only up to level 2 spells.

Ninja: Can use both attack, and item commands.

Monk: Can use class skill, and up to level 2 white magic.

Those are the 9 classes. I'll be playing the pixel remaster on console, so these rolls will have to be done and enforced by myself. I'll probably also stream it.

A few mentions. What is level 3 magic? Anything obviously 3rd tier such as thundaga, as well as big spells such as meteor, flare, holy. What if Terra gets her class skill? If so, I'll go by the rule that she can attack and use all magic, but only while transformed. I think that's a fair balance, considering that will be useless for a lot of the game. Umaro? No sorry, you just can't give him a job, so I can't use him. If Gogo gets specialist, then he can only use mimic.

Temp characters don't apply to the rules (won't grab the ghost) and of course, if I simply have to break a rule to get the plot going, I will. Such as giving Gau dried meat, even if Cyan and Sabin can't use items.

One last question for you guys. Normally, when I do a challenge run, I keep notes of events, and after it's all over, write up the whole tale on here. Should I continue that? Or do it in parts as we currently see the Cyan solo runner doing?

I'm following a few guides to make sure I get all trophies in one run. The main Platinum trophy guide says when the floating continent appears it's the first point of no return and to clean up all bestiary and chests. It's telling me to make sure I get everything in the Cave to the Sealed Gate before I fly to the floating continent but the Cave is gone

Please tell me I'm missing something

So we had a rough start here .

Celes needed power leveling so I took the advice I got on here genji gloves and flame tongues . I did around 100 damage per swing and I had around 300 hp with her . This wasn't good at ll but with the power of black belt and me using a high potion every tunr we eventually managed to get our first level . And with the bonus 2 to strength we managed to eventually snowball the leveling to a massive 21 .

Then we collected Sabin headed over to" Gerad"

And began our look into Figaro

What a section

We started with the usual grab every item we can anything for an advantage

And then the tenticles . Oh boy .. what the hell

So we had our magitek knight who can't use magic swinging two swords at the bottom left tenticle ( thank you to the guy who told me they have a weakness to fire ) and I used Edgar's bio blaster (also thank you to the guy who told me they are susceptible to bio)

And we started the fight pretty good and then we died

Again . And again... And again you get the picture .

Well here we go

I can't grind Edgar and I didn't but the drill or anything for him

Edit:posted too early haha

Eventually rng favoured me and we clutched a win . Praise RNGesus

Onto the Daryl's tomb . We grab the growth egg and regal gown and leave to go straight to dragon neck coliseum Wager a royal gown and get a Minerva bustier We also wagered something else I can't remember for an ice shield Finally we got a rename card which we will soongo back and get something else from ( I remember that it was something good I think )

Fighting the boss in daryls tomb was a nightmare . I had celes swing twin flametongues . And I had Sabin with ice shield using chakra/mantra

I had Edgar try and hit with a 3rd flametongue but he didn't really get much in Setzer died immediately so that happened

A battle of attrition. As celes did a whopping 350 damage per swing .... Yeahhhh He froze her maybe 4 times so Sabin just spammed his heal since he only ever got hit with ice he was full health . But she eventually whittles him down and we secure a win

Onwards with our new airship I got to follow a pigeon over to the town that then sent me to zozo .. this was the point of realisation. I'd be struggling with random encounters this entire time. And maybe 4 steps away from getting to the end I realised I had smoke bombs 🤦.... Moving on wr got the legendary mustache man himself back in the party and called it a day here .

Wooo that's alot of text thanks for all the support guys

FFVI love? Good. AI slop? Bad. How is this hard?

The air force was a nightmare 😭

Just getting through the mobs was easy enough . But typhoon and ultros were definitely a problem for me . Especially when they would get me low then snort me away as the following fight was hell

I have never ever had a problem with that shark looking jet in my life usually thundara it into the afterlife . But jeez I had to go grind the speed at which atomic ray missiles and lasers were abusing my health is crazy

Even dragon barely kept me alive in the end and only due to the fact it targeted the smaller parts each time thank you RNGesus

But the floating continent.

I discovered a new hatred .

Dragons would be a problem right they snort me away so no exp ... Nope that was easy

Behemoths ? Not a problem

Throat jabbing gigantic body builder

Bit of a challenge

Apocrypha . Yeah level 5 death did me a bit dirty but eclipse saw to them easily enough

But those bloody brainpans

My lord above they did nothing but spam smirk I had like a 15 minute fight against 3 of them because all they did was smirk at me . I managed to go make breakfast. From here on I will make it my mission to exterminate them on every consecutive play through I ever do

. Ultima weapon was gonna be a problem so I hit the grind once again . And in the end I leveled a bit far but I'm sat at 45 currently. Maybe too much grinding here but once I'm in wor I'm going straight to kefkas tower so I needed the levels here to help me power through

The end of world of balance

And now the struggle

Overcoming the world of ruin .... With a sub level 10 team

Too your advice and decided to move onto the next part of the story. Surprisingly you was right it is not plain sailing . The sealed cave has its own . Challenges

Everything inside is undead this reversing the affect of dragon meaning we have to use items but sparingly

I did however farm the Ninja spawn because I could get a free heal from him with dragon surprisingly effective .

However a new challenge now presents itself . I have to do the esper cave without cyan .

A level 7 locke and level 12 (seems to have scaled up ) terra and shadow ( presumably 12 ISH aswell)

Against level 24 (I think so could be higher or lower)

Enemies . And with magic banned on this run it would appear I have to use shadows throw ability and pray for rng that we get some easy fights before we get our beloved cyan back . Especially since round the corner we have the thamasa boss fight

Well it was all built up for nothing really . Easy cake challenge in the end turns out you can just press dragon and leave it on auto battle to win ... Kind of a let down really but hey ho. Run ended at level 27 . Guess maybe I didn't need to do any str leveling after all I did 5 for magic from zozo to ifrit then had no choice but to grind one more level so I didn't die to level 5 death . After that smooth sailing through element master and the final challenge 128

Edit .just found out the Galypdes enemy in phoenix cave( enemy 167 in bestiary) has a celestraid for steal .... What the hell is that about is that new ? I thought it was only from brachy

I've experienced a lot, but not all of the FF series. Going VII-XV and then playing I and II.

VII and IX are easily my favourite of the series so far. And with hold a huge place in my heart for video games, I have very fond memories and have dien multiple playthroughs of them both.

I thought it was finally time to get around to VI, seeing as I've always heard tons of arguments from VI fans about how it's superior to VII. I initially held off because I felt I heard too much about how great this game was and wanted to go into it without too much expectation.

I'm playing the pixel remaster, currently just finished the opera scene.

Wanted to give my initial thoughts so far.

The characters I find very charming, and humorous. I was also caught off guard by just how many characters there are overall. Feels very different from the other titles in the franchise where it's usually driven by one main protagonist.

The pacing im finding a little quick, the story telling could maybe be a little better, I feel like I'm zooming from one moment to the next. I've heard a lot about how Kefka is the vest villain etc. But I'm finding him a little underwhelming up to this point. Having said that, I do love the little extra scenes diving into the characters past, fleshing them out. Might just be that the cast is so large I haven't really had the time to connect with any one character (yet), other than maybe Locke. I'm hoping that changes as the game progresses and gets deeper into the story. After all im only about 7 hours in or so.

Combat is pretty dull so far, but I do realise I'm only just entering the magic phase of the game and it's probably going to get better. The encounter rate is insane though! Like what the hell haha, I refuse to change it as I wanted to play it how it was intended.

I'm having a great time, for me right now I don't think it quite lives up to the hype, but it would crack my top 5 even at this early stage.

What I'm hoping for is for the combat to really open up and the story start pulling me in more.

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One of the best games I've played. This is what I've always wanted from an RPG. Never thought I'd be so immersed in the RPG mechanics on this game like SMTV:V.

Anyway, here's my endgame party. They cleared the Soul Shrine and as well as that final Kefka gauntlet.

I barely used Umaro and Mog in Vanilla but here they are gods.

Umaro carrying with his high stats (although the belly attacks are troll at times) and being able to use espers and magic to boot. I thought about benching him again had it not been for his Red XIII skin that gave a massive boost to his speed. The Grand Helm here is an oopsie for me since he already had max HP without it.

While Mog was the absolute tank with his set up above as well as dodging all those OP attacks from bosses with his jump. I also had him on Phoenix, so he could do clutch saves during wipes. Special mention to his Molulu charm for making the end-game dungeons a breeze.

Terra and Celes are good as in vanilla, so can't write anything about them. But I could have replaced either of them with Strago if I was just able to boost his HP without using Floral Cape 😞.

I beat kefka I'm marsh he was really easy level 15 might have been a bit much for him since I trounced him to be honest.

Made my way to jidoor got new gear

Had a suprise death to iron fist his stone inflicted confuse on me and I ended up hitting myself resulting in a game over

Attempt number 2 I made it to zozo and it went well managed to survive hillgigas magnitude 8 with about 8 hp remaining died once or twice to him but eventually figured out a strat . Got the first espers

Onwards to the opera house but first a quick trip north to grab the missed hero ring

And here comes the hardest part of the whole challenge .

Magitek facility and number 128 . This is basically the end of the challenge since after this I get access to bismark and we know how it goes from there . Str to 128 and tempest everything into the after life

Any tips for 128 I'd really appreciate guys thank you for the support so far it's been a good challenge so far

So I made it to thamasa and thanks to some good advice on here I slayed the giant fireball of doom

Turns out morph plus ice rod equals alotta damage .

Onwards to the esper cave and I was dreading ultros . And to top it off trance/morph wasn't ready ... Panic

But luckily I had 5 fire rods .

I had to do some grinding before we went in as I remembered his tentacles hit everyone pretty hard . Sure enough his first turn almost killed locke half hp for terra and strago I would have been dead straightaway had I gone in with the original 180 hp I had

So the fire rods do the damage needed to make relm appear and then I sketch him straight away... Except he absolutely slaps relm into oblivion In a single hit . Managed to get a phoenix down off and Res her and RNGesus blessed me because he used hailstone on locke next so I had time to get the sketch off securing victory .

Now back to thamasa where we play as a slight worse cyan . General Leo

So last night I beat phantom train today I'm going to start the next chapter . I imagine that the tough part will be doing the kefka narshe fight and probably ending at top of zozo

If anyone has any ideas for this segment from phantom train to zozo for a solo run please leave them below thank you to everyone who has helped so far

Streaming it @twitch.tv/quickskill17

Swing by if you want to watch or just help out below as usual

Been Struggling to find classic JRPG lofi to work to so Ive been making some instead. Here is some Final Fantasy 6 Lofi for everyone to enjoy. let me know what you think?

Tracklist:
0:00 - Overworld
2:14 Mines of Narshe
5:12 - Terra's Theme
6:56 - Battle Theme
9:45 - Locke's Theme
12:20 - Cyan's Theme
14:25 - Searching For Friends
16:51 - Phantom Train
19:15 - Decicive Battle
21:20 - Maria and Draco
23:26 - Kefka's Theme
26:30 - Coin Song
28:45 - Shadow's Theme
30:47 - Maria and Draco Reprised
33:05 - Overworld Reprised

Originally composed and arranged by Nobuo Uematsu

💻 The music combines AI tools and human elements made in FL Studio 🌱

What a game. I recently played the snes version on a handheld after always hearing great things about the game. I really enjoyed the game. I did not use a guide and wanted to play it and struggle through it. Some times it was hard to know where to go and some dungeons I had to reproach from a previous save point.

The storyline, characters, gameplay, and music were definitely up there among FFVII for me. So many great parts to experience for the first time that brought out different emotions. The ghost train, Magitek factory, floating continent, phoenix cave, and ultimately kefka’s tower and final sequence were so well done. Kefka’s tower and final sequence were really tough. I contemplated leaving and going to grind but I really wanted to finish. Took me about 5 times to beat the triad and Kefka. I was almost done for with just Edgar left but he did a final chainsaw and then I heard to crack.

Kefka kind of won though yeah? Pretty insane way to close a game.

Favorite characters were Terra, Sabin, Edgar, Locke, Celes, and Strago. Those were strongest characters at the end.

Will probably dive into the lore now that I am finished.

*Edit: loved how you had to essentially start over and find everyone in the WOR. Cool concept.

What was that ending?? “…and featuring Gau as…Gau!” NO KIDDING. And their idea of a satisfying ending is we get to watch as the characters make their humorous exit from Kefka’s tower? Suuuure. And then Terra pulls a Captain America to save everyone, the end. No, for real, I kept waiting for something else besides them flying around, but then it actually said, “The End.” That’s when I knew for sure: this game had nothing more to offer.

This is the game whose story was supposed to rival VII’s? I really saw a lot of people online saying VI was a serious competitor for the top plot of a FF game. But I just don’t see it. Goofy heroes, slapstick villain, forced character development, and on…

That said, I really enjoyed *some* of the characters’ arcs. The Figaro twins’ story was really captivating, Celes’ theme was really beautiful and…well, I guess maybe that’s all the character development I enjoyed. I know Locke had a whole story with Rachel…I could take it or leave it. I didn’t give a rip about Relm, Strago, Setzer, Shadow…even Terra wasn’t that interesting. Cyan was interesting as a character but overshadowed by the fact that he was CRAP.

All right, well, play VIII or IX again for the first time in 20 years or try a new FF? (Side note just because I’m excited about it: Can’t wait to go to my first GenCon in July, my wife and I are going as Cloud and Tifa.)

Celes Chere

Cyan Garamonde

Sabin and Edgar Figaro

Gau

Kefka Palazzo

Locke Cole

Relm Arrowny and Strago

Setzer Gabbiani

Shadow

Terra Branford—Human and Esper form

I had fun building these. Final Fantasy VI is perhaps my favorite Final Fantasy and RPG game (next to Chrono Trigger). In my opinion, FF6 is better than FF7.

I wanted to ground the characters but still pay homage to Amano's designs.