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I would pay good money to get this in a cart for my wife. EDIT: I'm serious
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I found some (very mild) examples of censorship mentioned elsewhere [1], but I also don't understand the hype here: >In the original North American SNES version the spell Holy was renamed "Pearl", the summon "Jihad" was renamed to "Crusader", and Hell's Rider to "Rider". Many sprites were also censored. Overly revealing sprites, such as Siren, Lakshmi (Starlet), Alluring Rider (Critic), Chadarnook (woman), Goddess, P…
Creepy Edgar.
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For whatever strange reason, people in this field call all sorts of minor changes in the text and images to better fit regional tastes and cultural norms 'censorship'. That's not to say some of these changes aren't ill-conceived or silly but the term makes it sound like something far more sinister than what it is. https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Censorship#Final_Fantas...
> changes aren't ill-conceived or silly but the term makes it sound like something far more sinister than what it is. I don't think any of it is sinister, but I remember finding out about changes that watered down the game and being sad about them. It's neat that people are trying to fuse together what most people consider the good translation with more of the original intent. Some bits of it are a bummer: Relm used…
If you play the fan translation of Mother 3, there's similar effort that goes into preserving Kumatora's crass vocabulary that I really appreciated. She swears somewhat infrequently and makes a number of offhand comments that don't necessarily feel unnatural, but certainly wouldn't get approved in a first-party North American release. It's a great little touch of flavor that helps contrast her character more from the more timid Lucas and duty-bound Duster, plus a generally enjoyable curveball for a game that's earlier hours are dominated with less personable, stoic villagers.
As long as I can sumo slam the ghost locomotive I’m good
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Gamers are obsessed with censorship and think that anything changed from the original region release is oppression, even if the original creators approved of it. Japan of course does censor some things too. This isn't enough to stop it from happening, because when you don't do it your entire release gets banned in other countries (UK and Australia are known for this.)
Everyone ought to be obsessed with censorship. Allow creators to express themselves as they see fit, and to quote the late great Paul Mooney, "It offends people, but good... they should be offended."
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 blocked entirely are censoring the original creators, but also the original creators are pedophiles, so that's their problem.)
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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…
I'm of the same generation, and though I agree that in some circles it's widely praised as the best Final Fantasy in the mainstream it's extremely overshadowed by VII. It makes sense, VII sold about six times more copies than VI in the US
I still listen to the VI OST to this day. What they were able to do with the SNES soundchip was quite the technical accomplishment.
You might enjoy Mathew Valente's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/tssf One of his recent projects is finding the original instrument samples that Nobuo Uematsu used before they were compressed into the game and using those to make high-def "restored" versions of the songs. It sounds easy but there's quite a lot of work behind it and the result is fantastic.
I've played a bunch of them, but never actually got to try FFVI... From what I hear it's quite a few people's favourite though, so I'm probably missing out. This looks like a nice ROM.
If you look at some of the other major FF franchises, its a combination of brooding angsty teen guy and an incoherent story that seems like a committee couldn’t figure out how to wrap up. Entertaining in their own right because usually something in their story has profound impact anyway, but FF6 stands out in this regard because its a well crafted and impactful story without the angst and strangeness.