Final Fantasy VI – Ted Woolsey Uncensored Edition

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Re: Final Fantasy VI – Ted Woolsey Uncensored Edition

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Post by thoms_a » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 1:14 AM UTC

wk_end wrote: post #25

smoldesu wrote: post #15

I don't really have much to say here besides "play FFVI", so I'll just sing it's praises: it's one of the most underrated JRPGs ever made, even though it's still pretty well-known. Despite being overshadowed by it's successor, FFVI has always sat in my heart as having one of the most fascinating stories, best music and greatest characters of any SNES RPG, or SNES game in general. I hold it in higher regards than I do…

I don't know if this is a generational thing (I'm nearing my mid-30s) or what, but to hear FFVI described as "underrated" or just "pretty well-known" is so weird to me. In my circles it's always been considered the best Final Fantasy and the best 16-bit JPRG (or maybe second-best behind Chrono Trigger), maybe the best JPRG ever. Even though it's definitely exceptional, if I'm being honest I've always thought of it as…

The story and characters are phenomenal, but random battles are cancer. That's where Chrono Trigger wins IMO. Sticking with random battles was an absurd decision which I never understood, and the momentum lasted way, way too long at square.

There is nothing wrong with turn based combat, but structured encounters with meaning always beat infuriating RNG encounters that are there just to run out the clock so they can claim a "40h experience".

Did I mention I hate random battles?

Re: Final Fantasy VI – Ted Woolsey Uncensored Edition

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Post by astrange » Sun, Feb 06, 2022, 4:09 AM UTC

autoexec wrote: post #82

astrange wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you rewrite a joke because it's not funny in a different language, and the original writers approve, that's not actually censorship but they complain anyway. More to the point, when you rewrite a romance game for women because what Japanese people think is sexy reads like being molested to Americans it does serve the creators' desires, which is for people to actually buy their products. (The games getting blocke…

> When you rewrite a joke because it's not funny in a different language, and the original writers approve, that's not actually censorship but they complain anyway. humor can be legitimately difficult to translate. I don't complain about them and I don't expect them left as literal translations + editor's notes to explain them in games (although that's a great option for other mediums). The goal should always be to s…

A romance novel isn't pure self-expression, it has mechanical parts that have to work - like porn (actually, it is a kind of porn.) If it's not romantic, it's not a romance novel, and it doesn't matter what the author meant.

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