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Final Fantasy VI (1994)

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Unfortunately all these improvements (you can only skip the opening cutscene and magitek walking in snow returned the credits) are not on the mobile/steam versions (at least those have bugfixes now). I doubt it'll ever change as people overhyped everything so much and Square Enix is accident prone to put it politely.

‎@ardith has a nice rage guide for Gau (Stray Cat and Rafflesia are wild, and Templar has fira when Terra only has fire) though it would have been nice to sort favorites but you can press up to go to the bottom and it remembers the last one used) https://youtu.be/lpzRFKrj3j4

I am gonna try to go with half experience until I get espers (I’ll need more auction house money which this helps too) to minmax character growth. Boost helps for underdeveloped characters, especially in floating continent and nonlinear world of ruin where it gets tougher and run through the end game faster (and turn off encounters if enemies cheese like magic/fanatic's tower which is way better with encounters off, though boss needs quezallito finish or reraise for ultima finale).

Siren from zozo at 10% hp boost upon level is amazing, though Cyan is slow, cannot equip swords (katanas only) and then charge bushido, and Sabin is mediocre despite looking cool with blitzes (you target a random enemy with street fighter inputs and the train suplex meme will miss if you meteor strike flying enemies). Locke with a thief's bracer to steal rares at a good chance and magic is better than Terra and Celes before world of ruin, though he will get power crept fast.

Learning skills much faster (maybe differentiate as blue mage and experiment with relics rather than the most busted stuff) helps with minmaxing as well as you want to rotate out of the espers with minimal stat gains ASAP unless you're aiming for a challenge build (which yeah don't use Edgar nor Gau).

Strago is late in world of balance (and world of ruin as you get stronger stuff), but doesn't need to die ff5 style to learn level 5 death or whatever); he just needs to passively observe, including Gau's OP rages, to learn blue magic lore. He is slow and needs Relm to recruit in world of ruin, so there's possibly a lot to miss out if you're not playing for lore.

South Figaro has Hermes' Sandals for haste which works wonders early game with Edgar's autocrossbow in the back row (surprisingly he gets higher defense without an attack penalty for "close range" drill/chainsaw tools, and the buffed chainsaw won't miss in this version with the instant death jason hockey mask animation that bypasses undead reassembling unlike other death attacks).

I recommend just buying digital (read up if switch has framerate probs as people say) for whatever you didn't buy (physical is an ordeal to get especially on ps4 that play-asia doesn't have) and think of what to minmax for the other games (ff1 unequipped high level monk, ff2 no encounters early holy mysidia or magic/weapon fast mastery, ff3 onion knight level 95 buffs and ff5 faster dualcast). FF4 is easier and lacks customization. Do note with high money, budget ff1 monk and expensive ff3 ninja shurikens are undermined.

For the opera house songs, there is no cutscene viewer but someone was nice enough to upload in all languages. https://youtu.be/yRR5mLdNmJU

The art can be funny too like white Terra thumbnail or not in vid, Mog's butt.

There is also a gogo guide, who is a weaker mime character than ff5 boss (and no answer on male/female so ahead of today’s pronoun game) https://www.cavesofnarshe.com/ff6/gogo.php

I do admit it is interesting to try to speed run world of ruin (boost makes a minimalist Celes, Setzer, and Edgar party possible, though easy to get Sabin, Gau and Gogo, with Locke and Phoenix for backup). I don't think dualcast can be used with 1 esper cast as it is once for battle and it locked me out. I also read that relm has good magic and speed, so kefka' tower can have her, Terra, and celes lead 3 teams while easily swapping the gem of thamasa for dualcast to spam ultima for the 3 bosses (less complicated than gau rages or slow Strago Lores/Cyan Bushido, especially in world of ruin when you can traverse a lot more faster by skipping these).

Ultima Weapon and regen is a crazy strategy to sustain high damage (though easier to have gogo mimic double ultima or use fixed dice with growth egg doubling Setzer's experience), and rapidfire is just cruel lol but needed to compete with ultima (fixed dice also has a level but not HP formula but for Setzer, as well as gil toss). Sabin gets better in world of Ruin too, and Golem stops the cheap tentacle grab.

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