The Curious Case of Final Fantasy VI Remake 

That will be a fantastic day.

@@lordquaz7154 I agree !

Just don’t let Tetsuya Nomura touch it. 😂

and in the end its just gonna be a raid series for FFXIV

…I don’t appreciate how you fully sniped the crap out of my entire soul with surgical precision like that

My thoughts exactly.

LMAO I was thinking the same thing. I would always suplex the train for the lols.

@@Davivd2same. I’ll give it at least one suplex then just toss a Phoenix down.

Obviously photoshopped. It's physically impossible for that to happen

I was just coming here to mention that or piggy back off this. I am waiting for the Suplex only to see Aurabolt and yell "Why didn't he Suplex the train?"

@@Daiyve Oh yeah man, FF7 was my first PS1 game and first RPG ever, I was only 13 and I only got to pick one. It was definitely the posters that did me in. I had a rough childhood and that game got me through so much. Without it I probably would have just been in pain with no escape. I'll always remember it, it's been 25 years since then and I still have the disc set perfectly preserved and ready to play.

Aren't trick presents like that the best? I remember my brothers one year for Christmas gave me a huge box that weighed nothing like what it looked to, and when I opened it it was full of those foam peanuts. Had to dive around in there to find a bunch of smaller, individually wrapped gifts that were a PlayStation (the OG), controllers, and a couple games. Another time when I was older one of them gave me a flat thing that was wrapped, which turned out to be the front of a box for a new office chair, which he wheeled into the room while I was busy unwrapping the thing. The gifts are cool in the moment, but the memory of opening things like that is what really lasts.

Same. Best Christmas gift ever.

that aura was the shrink wrap 🤣

@@MiserablePyre It was! Mixed with the Christmas Lights and Joy!

i would be, but if they do it right, with turn based atb ill play it at any age. Its already a game that i revisit once a year reliably for like 30 years

I'll be 80 complaining to my grandkids about Woolseyism and philatelism.

I'm 42 and hope to be alive if it ever happens 🥲

@@DWN-024ShadowMan if it were remade like the VII remake (an action game) no one who played the original would want to play it, so there's no need to take 20 years to release a real-time combat episodic action game. IMO they should... 1. An expanded HD-2D remake that expands the world and adds ideas they had to leave out due to cartridge space etc. 2. A prequel where we get to play in the world during the war of the magi. 3. Scenarios for each of the cast the cover what they were doing before the events of the game. or make another action game for 20 years and call it final fantasy vi remake 😑

@@andrew_stamps I'm pretty sure there are plenty of OG fans that would play it if it was remade like VII, myself included.

Just give me that 16 bit cackle

Call Mark Hamill

It's like a whooping laugh, I think it's doable with the right voice.

@@Tripman06 Definitely, I always imagined it similar to The Joker's laugh.

@@Tripman06Would have been great, but he retired his Joker voice. Especially after Konroy's passing.

ff7 is literally just a recontextualization of 6. It uses the same archetypes and the same plot, but puts it in a modern setting instead of a fantasy setting, and uses a bunch of pop anime tropes for the characters to make them more immediately engaging.

I can see the parallels but I honestly found 6 to be super weak for my personal experience. Out of all the FF's I've played (1,4,6,7,8,10) I would probably put it at the bottom. I just couldn't find myself caring about any of the characters except for Sabin, Edgar and Cyan. Everyone else was really boring and Kefka was way overhyped for me.

Here's a silly parallel, but before those days people obsessed with resurrecting Aerith, I fell for the hoaxes where I thought I could get General Leo back by fighting 4000 battles in the dinosaur forest. I eventually lost count of how many battles I fought, and by the time I could admit to myself that I've been had, I at least got a ton of experience for all the characters, lol

FF6 is in no way the most influential FF. Its just the most influential on FF7. The rest of the sequels have almost entirely different stories and characters than FF6

@@aroccoification Each numbered mainline FF is not a sequel, they are all stand alone games. FF6 started Magitek, which has become a staple of FF and is the core of the major theme surrounding human greed and technology vs nature and spiritualism. Espers are no longer just summons you use in battle, but complete characters and living beings that have their own culture, history and lore. The plot no longer just involves 4 heroes of light traveling to shrines to solve problems around 4 elemental crystals and defeat a dark lord. In depth character motivations, examination of psychological aspects, dark themes surround loss and mental health, complex world building, the list goes on and on, the extent of FF6 is undeniable, it has been seen as a landmark of story telling in gaming for 30 years.

It’s crazy because I played the game just last year for the first time but quite a few of those moments were not memorable for me - but hearing you list them has made me realise how epic it could be to have it remade, HD-2D or 3D.

​@@DannyPotatosame. I played it for the first time on the SNES mini and it didn't age well, and the story didn't stick with me. Ocopath Traveller stuck more with me.

You didn't wait for Shadow or saved Cid?!

My first playthrough was like this

@@millsxi They poisoned Cid..?

Funny you say that I live in England and own both games.

Don't worry. Now us Europeans are nostalgic for the PS1 rereleases! I certainly am! Heck, I am nostalgic for the FF4 DS remake!

They kinda did at least in finland because during nes/snes era gaming shops just sold different region games, consoles and adaptors which made you able to play them without having the correct region console, they stopped doing that after the snes era though.

Germany got Terranigma only to let them be ok with their past by eventually turning into a fuckin bird. How romantic.

​@@RyuSaarvaThey did that in all European countries where games were in English. Next to the standard English language Europe games, those countries had US import games.

I kinda hope they don’t reveal too much about him. I like how he’s this chaotic force of evil.

yeah I hope they go into the origin story of relm's paintbrush and how seifer learned to play cards! i really hope they add 30 hours of patchworked disney star wars backstory stuff to one of the tightest and most well crafted jrpgs of all time so I can learn the origin of locke's bandana!

That would be awesome.

Or more on Shadow

Sometimes less is more

Most of the gba content is mid at best

@PierFlies I played and enjoyed it and it's fine for what it is but I have no nostalgia for it nor does it's exclusion bother me.

@@Daiyve It's not that easy to legitimately play the GBA version anymore. A lot of GBA cartridges are dead now. Most of my GBA cartridges died years ago. A lot of GBAs and original DSs are also in poor condition now. It can be expensive and difficult to find working copies of those older games and working systems to play them on. There is really no good reason or justification for not having the bonus content in the latest releases.

​@PierFlies pretty ignorant way of looking at it, to be honest.

​@@MarkHogan994 buddy emulation exists. GBA emulation is available on literally every modern device.

OMG yes!

Someone else sees the vision. The FF series badly needs to step away from photo realism for at least the remake of the earlier titles with Amanos character design

I'd still take a game that's basically the CGI cutscenes added to the PlayStation port. That was still somewhat in Amano's style. ...that opening cutscene on anthologies has screwed with me for years. Just do it Sqeenix

VI is the most "Amano" FF followed by IV.

@@franciscobutte Facts.

Sabin is currently facing lawsuit from the Realm of Espers DoT for suplexing trains all of the time, as it's costing millions of gil to get them all back on the tracks. This is why, for example, we didn't see Doomtrain again until FF8, and even then, seeing Zell was just too much for the conductor of Doomtrain, and they have yet to be replaced after resigning.

Why didn't Cyan tickle it with a Phoenix Down?

Cause they want us to comment about it

​@@sarahfay5280but he can just suplex them a second time to put them back.

Real, when I played 6, I went back to redo the train fight because it died before I could suplex it 😂😂😂

The way Uematsu treats every track of midi like a player in an orchestra is legendary

I agree, and that would leave it sideline project instead of having a great experience. In my opinion if SE is to do a remake would be FFVI, FFXI, Xenogears

파이날판타지6이 2D HD로 나오게 되면 실망하게 될것입니다 이 작품은 파이날판타지 씨리즈중에 가장 매력적이고 예술적이며 뛰어난 작품이기 때문에 AAA급 게임으로 반드시 출시해야합니다

Same, if they dont give the same treatment of FF7 it would be blasphemy. There so many wild places and environs like the Figaro Castle that would be amazing to see in ps5 + graphics.

That was nicely detailed. I can hear, see, and otherwise sense your vivid setup☆

Not umaro, gogo, or mog, or realm. a remake could allow for it though

@@andrew_stamps Relm was obviously Shadow's daughter. His backstory is her backstory. But other than that, yeah.

​@NeilHaskins True, there is even the briefest frame of Relm in Shadow's memory flash in the FFVI (Anthology) CG cutscene.

@@andrew_stamps I've brought this up when I've gotten into rants about FF6, but the lamest character is a yeti that you tame who can chuck your own party members at enemies to defeat them. And that's the lamest, least-fleshed out character! The ensemble cast is FANTASTIC!

Chrono Trigger is the best Final Fantasy game.

​@@promethiac2641 the amount of my time I put into that game when I was younger 😂😂😂. Top 5 for me

​@@promethiac2641but nothing is better than turning on the old nes and putting in the OG FF and hearing that 8 bit song that starts the game.

@@jeffdaigle5487 My family went the Sega route and I never got a SNES until many years later but my friends had it with all of the Squaresoft golden era games. I would always stay up until the wee hours of the morning trying to beat it in one sitting.

@@NoctLightCloudNot sure how you think your comment makes any sense

Yes, the year it was released I asked for it and my mom vehemently searched and could not find it. She got me Mystic Quest that year instead, which I was actually thankful for in the end. It was a really cute game.

Travesty!

Philippines here, when it sold here. There were only 2 copies in the store.

I was a kid and the local Blockbuster started with a few copies and that went to 0 very fast.

@@helloidharbl6753 I was a part of the guilty party. Our grocery store rented out games and movies back in the 90s. We were lucky enough for FFVI to be available. We rented and kept it so long they charged our parents for it outright. I feel bad that others may have missed out on such a wonderful gem, but feel so fortunate it wasn't me^^

I know, it feels so out of touch especially since no one asked for that for 7 either 😅 AND the reason why 7 remake took so long is because of terrible time management on top of deciding to change the game into a 3 parter years after they had already announced it.

Like we could have had a full 7 remake by now if it wasn't so unnecessarily bloated with side content and new cutscenes that hurt the already existing story.

@@crowquet56 If 7 was a straight up remake, it would be a terrible one. The saving grace is that it's a sequel

Absolutely agree! They could use their HD-2D engine and make a more faithful remake of FFVI with the GBA content added and with some minor modern tweaks but maintaining the original turn based style gameplay. These games were made with party based, turn based style gameplay in mind and that is even more important when it comes to FFVI as it ties to its plot themes and its huge playable character roster. Making it more action oriented would be a disservice in representing the original game.

@@fallenknight5298 The gameplay and overall aesthetics of Octopath Traveller would work perfectly for a FF6 remake, it seems like the obvious choice to use as a baseline

And it's not just Celes either. If you leave out the non-human characters like Mog and those whose hair we never see like Gogo, much of the main cast is some shade of blonde or gray/silver like Setzer which is kinda blonde adjacent. So yeah, Terra needs her green hair.

I'd go and propose a mix of both. Blonde at first, and get her green taint after reacting to Tritoch post Battle of Narshe, showing the release of her inner magic and hinting to her overworldly origins

#MakeTerrasHairGreenAgain

Terra was blonde in Amano's illustrations. Though the exact shade seemed to vary from image to image. She's been portrayed with yellow blonde, whitish-yellow, whitish-pink, white/grey, light brown, yellow with a hint of green, ...

@@BainesMkII And the game that we actually played rightfully made a change to that original concept art. It made terra more other worldly like she's supposed to be as well as differentiate her from other characters. The game is the actual canon not the concept art.

Good picks☆

Should it reach more people though? Especially within the modern "gaming" community?

production head has tunnel vision and thinks everything has to be ff7 remake and kingdom hearts levels of polish. not that ff6 is imo the best game.. i feel it's highly overrated. and so is 7. with 4 and 9 being the best in the series

@@Spekor 4 and 9 are 2 of the most mid FF games . 6 is overrated a bit tho

Yes. Like seriously another FFX is what they are thinking to be move on to.

​@@Spekor9 is easily the most overrated. It's aggressively average and yet it has an overly vocal fanbase who champion it as the best despite that.

Sidelined? It was given a pixel remaster. Even in the Dissidia main games is one of the few games that has 3 representatives.

Rumors are there for FF9R. Devs of FF8 have commented in liking the idea of a remake but expecting the next generation of Japanese devs to do it as they complete FF7R and take a much deserved rest. Finally both FF6 and Chrono Trigger seem to not be in the planning yet sadly. With only CT getting a comment from an old dev asking people what they think of how they should approach it. Again 2DHD still seems like the most likely option. But nothing seems in the work. This should leave us to believe that only 7 and 9 will enjoy AAA standards remakes. And the remake treatment in general. With 9 probably just being one game and 7 a trilogy. Its enough for me to be happy with once 9 is announced and FF7R Part 3 is revealed and lives up to Rebirth. But sadly also the bare minimum. I fear for the chance SE will ever have the ability and interest to go the Capcom route with Resident Evil and just remaking it all in arbitrary order. Its a bigger challenge than RE and SE while seemingly having regained its aptitude for quality releases. Sadly has one of the most toxic whiny fanbases out there. And also lack new blood that would expand their audience. I dunno maybe Part 3 and FF9R break the sales ceiling atlast. But if not then its going to get tricky..

You as well

Thanks, and to everyone else who reads this comment 🎉

I think I feel the same way

Yeah. I would rather see 9 remade. Though I wouldn't be mad if it didn't happen. That game holds up IMO. The cut scenes still look great 25 years later.

I’ve always thought a braska, auron, jecht prequel would be amazing

That's how I see the remake.

It would have been neat to see Chrono Trigger done in 3D in a similar art style as the more recent Dragon Quests.

Chrono Trigger in the Dragon Quest style would be awesome since Toriyama had his hands all over those projects but I don't think games in the pixel style look good when they move to 3D. Too much of the style and vision are compromised and would end up looking weird

I am the darkness, you're the starlight.

Their doing a dragon quest remake like that so its pretty likely

We wanted that, and then SE gave us pixel remaster instead 🙃

@@whydatduck662 and I am excited!

I would love a 2D HD remake of FF6.

HELL NO

@@eddy5097hell yes.

@@DNotzz make FF9 2DHD it wants to be 2D based on its character models FF6 had tech demos CGI released later like 7 ppl want it to be MODERN

Only FF9 fans want FF6 done 2D We the OG FF6 fans want it modern it was between 6 and 7 and to a lesser extent 8 for a modern remake 7 got it...6 is next GUARANTEED

What it _deserves_ is to not have a remake at all. The shitty remasters are bad enough. It stands on its own. It's so weird how we (rightly) consider games to be art, but then find remasters and remakes acceptable. If someone took the Mona Lisa and sharpened all the details in her face and the background to hyper-detailed 8K photorealism, and then had the gall to exhibit as "The _Definitive_ Mona Lisa" we'd consider it a borderline fuckin crime. And it would be even worse if everybody went to look at that because the original was "too aged" (read: not shiny enough for the smoothbrains). But that's exactly what's happening in gaming.

@@Just.Kidding Games _are_ art, but different artistic mediums are not comparable. Not only are games collaborative pieces, but they're also heavily limited by the technology and resources available at the time. Sometimes, those limitations help to create something that could never have been as extraordinary without them. Sometimes, they hold back the piece from what it could truly be. Oh, and paintings, digital paintings, and photographs are all different mediums. And also Da Vinci is dead and not working on that project, so there's that.

I don't think so, because FF7 is much more popular and it got the remake first, and it stands out for being the first triple A remake in the series. It would be the hypest thing ever for you... That part is clear enough. And that's ok.

nah

@@GooseGumlizzard Yea!

Among the best music, but not the best. Among the best FFs, but definitely, not the best.

6 was easily the best FF. Others weren't even close.

@@BakusanDayo nope

I think it was Cecil from ff 4 or 2 depending. Always heard rumors about it with cyan and the ancient castle, but you had to glitch the game

If I remember the sites discussing how to break the game correctly, the final slot was a data stand-in for special characters or sprites. Like one of the moogles existed there. And I believe those times that Kefka was an in battle sprite instead of his monster sprite he occupied the data in that slot.

No they don't, I don't want the turn based battle system removed. Sorry but I don't want my beloved classics perverted and ruined by devil may cry.

⁠@@wadedewelli miss the old turn based fights

HD 2D would be nice. FFVI Pixel Remaster hinted at it in the opera scene and it worked beautifully.

No action please, just make it turn based

You cant remake perfection im afraid

Ah yes the ffx demo in 1994

​@@deltawolf😅

@deltawolf No, FF VI came out in 2002. In Europe We did get terranigma on the SNES though, so swings and roundabouts.

Rumor is 10 is next

rumor said IX

I mostly agree with you, but I think that also CT remake would be an huge game to make on par with 7 and 6, just for the amount of explorable timelines. Apart from the number of characters, a remake of 6 would be a titanic undertaking also for the world of balance/ruin situation, kind of like putting Zelda Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom together.

A man of culture, I see. Those are my two favorites as well 😂.

@@kolebowyer3837 Haha there are others! Good things come in sixes apparently! 😅

I've been thinking that for years. :D I'm glad that I'm not the only one who thinks this would make a great film trilogy.

They'd fuck it up. They'd pick 1-2 characters to follow.

Here's how I see where each film would end in the trilogy: first movie ends when Terra transforms into her Esper form for the first time. Second movie ends at the world being torn apart due to Kefka absorbing the magic of the Warring Triad. Last film ends at the end of the game of course.

If you want all the characters to be included and done justice while also fitting in at least 80% of what happens in the game without it being ludicrously rushed, I think a tv-series would be more realistic. Also, I'm not sure how I'd even feel about that - imagining it in live action just seems weird no matter how I picture it. I think its aesthetic would be better suited to either an anime or an anime-inspired western animated series similar to Castlevania.

No. It’s literally 95% the same. You guys are just stuck in the past. Sucking on your last bits of nostalgia.

@@DNotzz FF7R? It's an entirely different game than the original FF7. That's not a bad thing, but if they're saying they can't do that for FF6 because it would take too long, then they'd probably be better off going for doing a more traditional and faithful 3D remake of the game

If Capcom can do it with RE games. We can have it with other franchises.

@@shoopuffluvin i'm talking about those too

Nah FF7 would still be my favorite. FF6 is great tho, absolutely.

nah 7 is way better

Lots of 2d games are better than 3d ones, the fact that people think that 7 is better than 6 doesn't have anything to do with that

nope

Not everything does but Final Fantasy 6 most certainly deserves one. It’s the greatest entry in the series but so many younger people never experienced it.

Yeah no shit lmao, which is why this video is about ffvi and never suggests every ff game should get a remake

Exactly. I hate the action combat. I love tur based battle system and to have it removed turns it into a totally different game. Final fantasy is turn based. So effing sick of having everything I love and enjoy ruined because of the new age asshats

@@wadedewell Agreed. When they announced the FF7 remake, my first thought was they were going to change the combat, and if they did it would ruin it for me. As we all know, it is action combat, not OG turnbased, so FF7 remake was ruined for me. Really disappointing. I wish they would go back to turn based

Give 6 a chance. It is genuinely top tier final fantasy. I hate the graphics in 7 but it’s a fantastic game. I’m sure you’ll feel the same about 6.

Thank you so much for the kind words Zachary ~Darryl