Quote (Narratorway @ 22nd October 2019 08:41)
Y'know, it does surprise me how little coverage this game gets. It's often considered the best in of the 2D era, if not the entirety of the series and yet its talked about almost as little was II and III. You can't take a step on YouTube without landing on a video essay of VII, IV or even IX, but VI is practically a bunch of cricket chirps. This, to say nothing of Square's complete disinterest. I just don't get it.
On Square's end, Japanese companies can be kind of provincial and I get the impression in Japan Final Fantasy VI isn't quite considered the milestone that it is in the US. It was a popular smash hit, of course, but being the sixth in a series, the third on the SNES alone, and in the midst of a completely saturated genre, it doesn't stand out in Japan as much as it does in the US where it was only the third entry in a series that was probably the only RPG most people could even name at the time.
I've also heard some murmurings over the years that because of some of the bugs and the way you could customize your characters via Espers and such to really mess around with the balance that some Japanese fans consider FFVI to be more "sloppy" than previous entries.
Doing some googling, though, I do find quite a bit of 25th anniversary coverage on the usual game blogs, and it seems FFVI retrospectives have picked up on YouTube since this thread was made, especially after the PR releases.
Me, I feel like I'm in the midst of an early 30th anniversary celebration. Cheers!
