Before the titan of RPGs known as Final Fantasy 7, we had its predecessesor that laid the
groundworks for the depth and complexity that games could offer. Pushing the consoles and
gaming to their limits, Final Fantasy 6 is another one of those RPGs that truly stand
the test of time. Complete with large cast of memorable heroes and a villain that set
the bar incredibly high with atrocities so heinous that they may never be forgot. This
is the final fantasy 6 iceberg. PC/Mobile Sprites Upon the import to PC and
mobile, the character's sprites were updated throughout the entire game. They came out
to mixed review. Some think it's gotten to cutesy, others love the updated look.
River Poison The act that made Kefka the diabolical villain that he became known for. Kefka poisoned
a castle's water supply via a nearby river, killing off the entire population of Doma
Castle, including Cyan's wife and child. Largest Playable Cast Final Fantasy 6 has
the largest playable cast of characters of any final fantasy game. With 14 main characters
that can be permanently added to your party. 4 of them are optional and can be completely
missed. There are also an additional 15 guest charaters that you get to play as temporarily
through the game as the plot calls for them. You can also set the hero of your choice as
the representative and leader of the current party.
Ragnarok Choice The ragnarok is an esper that takes shape as a a metallica claymore with
golden guards and a dark gray and red grip. When the party returns it to the weapons shop
owner in Narshe, he says you can melt it down and reforge it into a sword blade or you can
keep it as is. If you choose the sword, it can serve as a decent weapon but it can eventually
be bet at the coliseum to obtain the strongest weapon in the game, the Lightbringer. If you
choose to keep the magicite as an esper, you can learn ultima, the most powerful spell
in the game as well as use it as a means to farm rare items which cannot be obtained in
any other way. Locke's Lover After Locke's father died, he
was forced to become a petty thief to survive, and people treated him as such. However one
woman actually treated him well and seemed to be understanding of his chosen path. Her
name, was rachel. Her father refused to let her daughter see Locke. In attempt to prove
himself worthy, Locke took her along a mission to find a great treasure. However an incident
occured on their journey. Rachel sacrificed herself to save Locke from falling down a
chasm. But Locke leapt down the chasm after her anyway. She lost her memory as a result
of the fall. Her father blamed Locke and Rachel just asked him to leave. Locke obliged this
request and moved out of their town to allow her to start a new life without him. However
only just after he left the town, it was attacked by the gestahlian empire. It was around a
year later that Locke had returned to the town only to discover that Rachel's memory
returned just before her death. Her last words were his name. Naturally, Locke was plagued
with guilt and he brings her back to life only shortly before merging with the phoenix
esper used to revive her. Celes Leaps At one point through the game,
Cid falls ill and Celes cares for him. Cid will either perish or recover. If he does
perish, Celes will become overrun with grief and sorrow. She will decide to give it all
up and she jumps off the Northern cliffs. She ends up washes up on the shore, awakened
by a seagull with a wing that's been bandaged by a bandana. This gives her hope that Locke
is still alive and motivates her to keep trying.
Evade Bug There is a bug within the early versions of the game that makes the evade
stat insignificant in the rate at which your character would dodge a physical attack. instead,
magic evasion determines the rate of evading both magical and physical attacks. Items and
statuses that affect your hit rating are impacted by the bug as well.
Blind status is broken Along with the evade bug comes a completely broken status affect
called Blind that would normally make your characters much less accurate with attacks.
However the only impact your characters will face will be Strago is unable to learn lores.
UnUsed Bosses There were several named creatures that never made it into the final game. One
was the colussus, another was this alternate Uumaru. And this was the czar dragon. This
was a superboss that was coded into the original FF6 but was never put into the final game
however It's still accessible through various means. In the mobile, PC, and game boy advance
versions of the game, a retooled version of the czar dragon was implemented as the game's
superboss. This monster serves as the master of the eight legendary dragons found in game's
the bonus dungeon, the dragon's den. Rescuing Shadow If you wait until the last
3 to 5 seconds before jumping to the airship from the floating continent, you can give
shadow enough time to catch up and join you for the final escape.
Chocobo Visual Glitch In the original game, if you walk in a particular manner on the
top section of the Chocobo's sprite, your character will appear through the chocobo.
Capture Glitch This happens when you use the mug command with Locke. Certain items in the
game have adverse consequences when using the command. For instance ultima weapon will
only deal normal damage, cannot ignore defense, and counts as a short sword. Another example
would be the hit rating from dice not functioning as it normally should with the roll of the
dice, making it near impossible to connect with an enemy. There are other issues within
the capture glitch too, like the relic master's scroll or any attempt to steal multiple items
within a single turn. After having Locke use Capture while wearing the master's scroll,
the first item stolen will always be stolen. But any items that WOULD be stolen afterward
will not be added to your inventory unless the monster is alone. This particularly devestating
in certain fights like the ultima weapon where you can completely miss out on your chance
to steal a ribbon. Odin & Raiden In the ancient castle, you witness
Odin becoming a magicite that you are able to acquire. Upon examination you will find
out that you will receive +1 speed after each level up which is great because its the only
esper that gives a speed bonus upon leveling up. However, if you choose, you can proceed
down the stairs to the right after acquiring the esper to speak to the stone queen and
'level up' your odin into raiden. PS1 Port Cinematics When Final Fantasy was
relased for the PS1 in 99, it included ports for Final Fantasy 5 and 6. Along with the
game came several additions including several CGI cutscenes throughout the game and a bonus
menu that included a cinematics theater, concept art, bestiary and more.
Star Wars Nod If you keep the soldier clothing on Locke when he rescues Celes, she will ask
this question that is a very clear reference to princess leia in the original star wars.
Invisibility Bug This is another bug within the game that cast death on enemies that are
immune to it normally. If enemies have the invisible status, and you cast any of the
one shot effects like X zone, doom, or Ragnarok on them, the game does not run a check on
whether or not they are immune to it like bosses. This essentially allows you to one
shot mobs that should be immune to it. Shadow's Past Through a series of dreams experienced
throughout the game, we learn that Shadow was originally known as Clyde. Clyde and his
partner, Baram, worked as a pair of train robbers over 10 years ago. They got exceedingly
good at their craft and eventually took on the name 'the shadow bandits.' On one job,
Baram was injured while in hot pursuit by the authorities. Baram begged shadow to end
his life so he isn't caught but shadow could not do it and fled, leaving Baram behind.
Shadow forged a life in Thamasa where he married a woman and fathered a child who we come to
find out is Relm. However before long, he feared the authorities would discover who
he was and he eventually fled from town and his family. He took the family dog with him
and the two become the mercenary pair known as Shadow and Interceptor that we encounter
throughout the game. River Leveling Trick By setting your cursor
to memory in settings during the river rafting section with banon, you can choose the path
that goes up after the save point. From here, have Edgar use his crossbow and banon heal.
There are no mana or resource costs for a full party heal and a full enemy attack. Players
would often set up various methods of automating the loop on the river for easy, free leveling.
Cursed Shield After getting Locke in the World of Ruin, you can take him to Narshe where
you can speak to the man hiding in his house. He gives you the cursed shield that, when
equipped, you will be struck with a variety of different status ailments every fight.
Many players, like myself, will have just taken it off and not thought much of it. But
if you complete 256 battles with the shield equipped, it transforms into the most powerful
shield in the game, the paladin shield. The Paladin shield is also great because its one
of the few methods of learning the ultima spell.
Banon on a Chocobo Glitch Banon's sprite was never programmed to be on a chocobo. If you
control him and ride one, it will display these weird graphics. One looks like a dark
golden terra morph. Censorship Not surprisingly, there were several
censorships that occurred during the import to the SNES from Japan. Some notable changes
include the spell holy being renamed Pearl, the summon Jihad renamed to crusader, Hell's
rider was changes to Rider. And many sprites were also censored. Many of the more revealing
sprites were censored, covering up skin and suggestive clothing.
Littering easter egg In the returner hideout, you can find a scrap piece of paper. You can
choose not to dispose of the paper to which banon will complain about littering before
the start of the meeting. Setzer's Bandana When Setzer initially joins
the party on the SNES, he is originally wearing the bandana upon his arrival. However because
it is said that he dislikes locke so he refuses to wear the same headgear. If you take off
his bandana, you're unable to equip the bandana due to this reason.
Airship Glitch This glitch occurs by saving on the overworld after leaving the floating
continent, and then continuing as normal without saving. The player must cross the floating
continent and return to the blackjack, fly around without landing, then return to the
floating continent and trigger a game over from there. When the player resumes the game,
they will return to the point they last saved except they will be onboard the airship. This
allows players access to to an airship much sooner than intended. Although as soon as
you land the airship, it's no longer accessible until you name Setzer.
Kutan Glitch This is also known as the bypass event glitch or the Moghan glitch. To perform
this glitch, the player should wait until this soldier here moves down toward Locke.
If you time your movement to open the menu window at the same time, you will appear on
the same block as the soldier, allowing you to bypass some parts of the game, forcing
Locke to go through the figaro cave solo. This has some side effects as well, most notably
replacing Cele with the Moghan moogle throughout the game.
Forgotten Path In South Figaro, you're expected to steal several soldier's outfits to get
to the next area, however there exists a path that seems to have been forgotten about as
it completely bypasses any need to steal the outfits.
Door Menu Glitch On the SNES Certain doors throughout the game have strange interactions
when you stand in their doorway and open the menu screen. Some of them even allow you to
temporarily walk through objects around the door.
Figaro no Kekkon: Tales from Desert This was a collection of short stories that explore
the backstory of Sabin and Edgar as well as a more expansive look at the life within Figaro
Castle. Though the creator has mentioned that it should not be considered canon, the stories
explore the reasoning for edgar's flirtacious nature, sabin's training in martial arts and
the general history of the figaro Kingdom. A World Reborn & Project Atmaweapon These
are popular mods for the game that allow you to replace the mobile UI, the sprites, battle
backgrounds, fonts, soundtrack, and much more. See and play the game how you want to play
it. Sabin the Wrestler There's a professional
wrestler that goes by the name of Chris Sabin. It turns out he was an avid gamer growing
up and his stage name was a direct reference to the FF6 character. He even has a signature
move called the bum rush.
Kefka's Laugh in Other Square Games The iconic original laugh... was reused in final fantasy
7... and in Chrono Trigger... Speaking of Chrono Trigger, if you haven't seen my videon
that yet, be sure to check it out after this video, link in the description.
Duncan's Workout Glitch If you visit duncan without Sabin and before learning bum rush,
you can take advantage of a unique glitch. While duncan is jumping around, you can open
your menu window to reset the sprite's workout routine. If timed correctly, it can even cause
the sprite to jump out of his house. Nintendo 64 Tech Demo Final Fnatasy 7 was
originally planned to be released on the nintendo 64. Before it was shifted over to playstation,
Square produced a short demostration product with the nintendo 64 using characters and
settings from FF6. It was titled the Final Fantasy 6 interactive CG Game. In the video
we see a scantily clad Terra, shadow, and a whip wielding Locke defeat a golem of some
kind. General Leo's Map When you first meet general
leo, he's standing by a tent that can't be seen inside by normal means. However, when
you remove the roof element, you can see a map on a table that's not found anywhere else
in the area. 90s Myths & Rumors There was a plethora of
misinformation and myths that ran rampant in the 90s. There was rumored set of lasers
for the airship that allow you to destroy the cult of kefka tower. There was a myth
that said you could buy the Imp, Chocobo, and miniature airship at the auction house.
There was a myth that you could get the esper Yura from the well in thamasa after the events
in the floating continent. There was a myth that you could catch the Zeigfried imposter
on the phantom Train and get a relic out of it. There were rumors that you could revive
Cid, Elaine, and Owain through various means. And perhaps the biggest rumor of them all
were the dozens of different secret methods of unlocking Leo or banon as a playable character.
Either way, Square paid homage to some of the rumors through the gameboy advance version.
Secret of Evermore Cameo This other squaresoft game featured an gladiator scene at a colusseum.
When looking closely in the crowd, you can see several ff6 party members: Locke, Mog,
Relm, Strago, Terra, and Umaro. Terra's Early Design Terra, otherwise known
as Tina in the japanese version, was originally planned to be a male character in his early
20s. But they felt it was a better option to make the character an 18 year old girl.
Also, at the end of the game, she was supposed to disappear with the espers but they opted
against it, saying that it would be going to far and instead stripped away her magic.
Dinosaur Forest There is a forest north of the velt in the world of ruin where you can
encounter two dinosaurs, the Brachiosaurs and the Tyrannosaurs. These nasty, unique
creatures can be devestating for underdeveloped parties. However both of the dinosaurs give
you a boat load of experience. If you have the growth egg, you will reach high levels
in just a few hours. On top of that, they give 5 to 10 AP which makes leveling spells
fairly quick as well. The Cactuars These elusive creatures are found
in the desert south of meranda. They're unique in that they only have 3 HP but they're INCREDIBLY
difficult to hit. If you equip a character with a sniper sight, it will help to make
quick work of these creatures. You will get AP and 10,000 GP for defeating these creatures.
The gigantuar esper can be found here as well and if you're unprepared, your party can wipe
very quickly. Who is Gogo? There is not much known about
Gogo's true identity. Some have argued that it's actually Emperor Gestahl or Banon. Others
think that Gogo is actually Daryl, Setzer's friend and love interest. Daryl was said to
have perished after her airship crashed . However, one of the game directors had this in response
to it: "That's probably not true. If that's true, then because Daryl had that beautiful
ending, if she ended up being Gogo, that would just destroy all that." Another theory for
Gogo's identity is that upon Kefka had the "good and light" side of him expelled out
of him from the empire's experiments. Gogo would essentially become the good half of
kefka. Some supporting evidence might be that kefka is a clown and gogo is a mime, kefka
is a nihilist while gogo could be read as an anti nihilist.
Drowning Characters This takes place near the solitary island house in the world of
Ruin on the beach. If you set Umaro or Cyan as the party leader, their sprites will appear
underwater as opposed to the other characters who are above water. This only happens with
these two characters. Sonic.exe theme is WoR Theme Remix This is
a theory that the sonic.exe them is simply a sampling and remixing of the World of ruin
to inhumane experience that would crack his mind. He would go on to become Kefka. Shadow
could recognize him and knew he needed to stay behind at Kefka's tower at the end of
the game. That's why he said I'm going to stop running. I'm going to begin all over
again. I promised Setzer I would could beat his time
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