Free Time! - My Opinions on FF6

Free posts are sweet. It gives me chance to just talk, and ramble, and be as absolutely wordy as I want to be.

Lately, I've been playing a lot of Final Fantasy 12 as part of my "Senioritis Regimine." The newest incarnation of the rather ironically named series is slowly becoming one of my favorites. It's also lead me to wonder, which one is my favorite? Not counting Tactics and 11, which I have never played, there are aspect of each that I appreciate. But, on a whole, I would have to say 6 is my favorite.

Over the summer, in between work, differential equations, storm chasin, watching wrestling, and being as lazy I could possibly be, I played a lot of 6. What's great about the game is that there really isn't 1 main character. There are in actuality 14 playable characters, all of which have their own fleshed out story. Some stories are more interesting than others. Some of the characters involved are a king, a ninja, a kung fu artisit, a feral child abonded at birth, a half-human half-esper woman, a yeti, a mime, and a Moogle, a character native to the series. Each character has a story that is really interesting and adds to the total end of the story.

But, what really makes the game is the main villian of the game. In short, using the source of all magic in the world, destroys it. He is the only villian in the series history to do such. While he doesn't physically destroy the planet, he does end up rearranging continents, killing most of the denizens of the planet at the same time. Of course, the 14 main characters don't die (but one will if you don't save him), because that would ruin the game. But, as one character one year after the armageddon, you round up all of your friends (while riding an airship with the coolest overworld music of the series plays in the background) and defeat the villian, who has ascended to god-status.

Recently it has been re-released, but was first released on the SNES years ago. While its graphics aren't as good as they are now, the game plays better than most out today. The music is amazing, the gameplay is great, and the story is terrific. You owe it to yourself to play.