FINAL FANTASY VI

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Final Fantasy VI first debuted in 1994 as the sixth installment in the iconic Final Fantasy series. Innovations included the ability to play all the main characters as the game's protagonist, and to this day, its epic story intertwining each of their fates is still highly rated and wildly popular.
With plenty of abilities available and the magicite system for controlling spells/summoning, players can develop their characters any way they want. This was also the first Final Fantasy game to include the Ultima Weapon, the most powerful sword of all and a recurring item in subsequent titles within the series.

The War of Magi left little but ashes and misery in its wake. Even magic itself had vanished from the world. Now, a thousand years later, humankind has remade the world through the power of iron, gunpowder, steam engines, and other machines and technologies.

But there is one who possesses the lost power of magic--a young girl name Terra whom the evil Empire has kept enslaved in an effort to harness her power as weapon. This leads to a fateful meeting between Terra and a young man named Locke. Their harrowing escape from the Empire's clutches sets in motion a series of events that touches countless lives and leads to one inevitable conclusion.

Release Date

Apr 02, 1994

Metacritic Score

92

Rating

Achievements Count

54

DLCs

1

Play Time

35 hours

Games in Series

27

ESRB

Teen: Mild Fantasy Violence, Partial Nudity

System Requirements

  • CPU: Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
  • RAM: 2 GB
  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 510
  • HDD: 950 MB

Interesting Facts

  • It was the final title in the series to feature two-dimensional graphics, and the second story after Final Fantasy II that did not revolve around crystals.
  • Final Fantasy VI focuses on a conflict between the Gestahlian Empire conquering the world and a rebel faction opposed to them known as the Returners, taking place in a fantasy steampunk-style world.
  • Set in a world with technology resembling the Second Industrial Revolution, the game’s story follows an expanding cast that includes fourteen permanent playable characters.
  • Final Fantasy VI received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for its graphics, soundtrack, story, characters, setting, and mature themes, and won numerous awards.
  • The gameplay is similar to that of Final Fantasy V, utilizing the Active Time Battle system.
  • Final Fantasy VI consists of four basic modes of gameplay: an overworld map, town and dungeon field maps, a battle screen, and a menu screen.
  • The setting and plot of the game revolve heavily around Espers and their remains when deceased, which are referred to as “magicite”.
  • The development of the game took just one year to complete.

Mod Support

Yes

Cheats support

Yes

Family/Child Friendly

Yes

Number of maps

2

Platforms

Android Game Boy Advance iOS Nintendo Switch PC PlayStation PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4 PS Vita PSP SNES Wii Wii U

Genres

RPG

Game Engine

SixEngine

Protagonist sex

Female

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