Lauren replays FFVI Pixel Remaster #10: Relm, Gogo, Phoenix Cave

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Published on May 9, 2022 5:27:45 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRsyXFLSHAE

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Final Fantasy VI (1994)

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Duration: 2:59:08

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I don't even know, I didn't intend to go to the Phoenix Cave this week but we did, and of COURSE I cried, I cry EVERY time, I am glad that I always cry!! So we've got, what, two weeks left of this game, maybe? Exciting! I can't wait to hear the remaining songs. (There were some good ones this week, not absolute 100% favorites but some good ones, and "The Fanatics" sure got an atmospheric glow-up!)

There's some more criticism of the storytelling in this game, but it's really mostly just "writing has gotten better with time and this is a good thing" rather than actual problems with FFVI. But it's nice to look at these things and point out the strengths and weaknesses, isn't it? It makes us better storytellers and more appreciative participants in these stories.

I hate the Phoenix Cave and I love the Phoenix Cave. It's so hard!!!! Super glad folks explained the moogle charm to me the last time I played it because that sure does help! But also it's so GOOD, the stuff with Rachel is powerful, and I think the translation is a little different and a little more powerful this time around, even if we have to rush pretty quickly to things being OK and moving on. I kind of want to write this scene with the characters as they are in the game, instead of the Darkness & Starlight version, but I feel like that might be the most pointlessly self-indulgent thing ever...

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0:00 Distracted by Searching For Friends and rambling!!
3:29 What are we doing next this stream?
8:00 Owzer's house in Jidoor
10:42 Actually going through the Owzer gallery dungeon
28:09 Finding Owzer and Relm
29:27 Boss fight with Chabadook
31:18 Victory
36:24 Coliseum
38:54 Shadow battle
48:57 MUSIC: "The Fanatics"
50:42 Lauren's reaction
53:51 Relm and Strago at the Fanatics' Tower
1:01:22 Narshe (for Tritoch)
1:07:23 MUSIC: "Umaro's Theme"
1:08:58 Reaction/thoughts
1:10:08 Fighting and recruiting Umaro I mean WOOOOO
1:17:00 MUSIC: "Gogo's Theme"
1:18:49 Let's talk about this song
1:25:56 Running through the Zone Eater
1:32:11 Talking about and recruiting Gogo
1:48:15 Phoenix Cave
2:14:44 Finding Locke in the Phoenix Cave
2:18:43 Rachel and the Phoenix esper
2:26:36 DISCUSSION: storytelling, pacing, and this scene
2:53:20 What do we do next? What's left?

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