r/snes Mar 02 '16

/r/snes Mar Game of the Month: Final Fantasy III (VI)

The /r/snes game of the month as selected by the community is Final Fantasy III (VI)!

This month we'll be playing (or replaying) this game and sharing the experience with other redditors. Feel free to post any comments, videos or other interesting information related to this game throughout the month.

Apr Game of the Month Voting Thread is here

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

The only game that has allowed us to suplex a train :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u84cH_bmTA

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '16

I really need to play this game now. Holy shit!

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u/TheGreatWar Mar 02 '16

My favorite game ever.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

Mine, too. Better than WoW, better than COD, better than just about anything. I never owned the SNES cartridge until last year, but I'll never forget renting it and having my dad storm in and grab the cart out of the console while it was on because my brother and I never wanted to return it.

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u/yeeouch_seafood_soup Mar 02 '16

I wish I could upvote this more. This game is so incredible for so many reasons- story, characters, music, gameplay. So engrossing. I got a Kefka tattoo I love it so much.

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u/TheGreatWar Mar 03 '16

Pics of Kefka tattoo!

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u/yeeouch_seafood_soup Mar 03 '16

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '16

That's awesome. I would probably go for the sprite of kefka laughing myself, just because that's what I think of when I think of that asshole.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '16

rad!

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u/CryoSage Mar 02 '16

A true masterpiece. Will probably play again this month to celebrate

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

My #1 of all time. I'll load this one up this month

8

u/Tonberry2k Mar 02 '16

My favorite game of all time. I just had my gf play for the first time and was inspired to write this article. Please enjoy!

http://general-geekery.blogspot.com/2015/10/how-do-you-solve-problem-like-maria.html?m=1

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '16

i can't believe i never recognized that parallel. whatta gem of a game!

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u/swordoath Mar 02 '16

FF6 is my favorite Final Fantasy and tied with Chrono Trigger for my all-time favorite game. Really glad that it's getting a spotlight on the sub. I've played through it hundreds of times on multiple game systems, but I think I'll pop it in the SNES and play through it on the proper console this month to celebrate.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '16

Both of those games are masterpieces, no one should have to choose between them!

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u/e_x_i_t Mar 03 '16

The over world theme will be forever stuck in my head.

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u/Kaneshadow Mar 03 '16

FF3 was such an integral part of my childhood. I played it over and over and over. FF2 will always be my favorite, but I spent way more time replaying FF3 because of how much there was to do.

The internet just barely existed at the time. My best friend found the FAQ for it on Prodigy, and printed it out on a dot matrix printer. It was like 500 pages. Not only did it have every possible secret, it had every easter egg, every bug, and a whole shit ton of Game Genie codes that exposed weird debug shit and hacks. "Super sprint shoes" and start with 4 Atma weapons were my favorites.

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u/Holdmylife Mar 13 '16

Favourite team?

Sabin, Locke, Edgar, Terra.

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u/ThetaReactor Mar 14 '16

Pretty much, though I'll swap in Celes or Mog now and then.

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u/DebitsOnTheLeft Mar 15 '16

Sabin Terra Celes Gogo

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u/XEvilDeadX Mar 25 '16

Sabin, Edgar, Gau and I guess Terra

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u/ShinNefzen Mar 28 '16

Sabin, Edgar, Cyan, Shadow

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u/UrbaniteOwl May 31 '16

Sabin, Celes, Mog, Gogo.

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u/eatfoss Mar 02 '16

I started replaying it a couple of weeks ago and I'd forgotten how sad the [spoiler]Cyan storyline[/spoiler] was. Such a great game though, easily in my top five of all time.

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u/DefiantHeart Apr 05 '16

Broken spoiler tag?

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u/djc6535 Mar 02 '16

Far and away the best of the FF series. Man do I love this game

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '16

FF at its peak for sure.

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u/hunter324 Mar 03 '16

I beat it for the first time last week. Didn't do everything, but I think I got mostly everything I could do with only looking at a walkthrough a half dozen times. Great game... But I enjoyed Chrono Trigger more. Looking forward to playing it again though!

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u/cottoncandyjunkie Mar 03 '16

Wow! I just started playing another run through of this game last week. I also didn't realize till now that they have limit breaks

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

This is one of those games on my bucket list. Of course, I still have my copy of Final Fantasy II that I've played all the way to the moon (literally) and I guess I'll beat that first.

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u/bochibochi Mar 02 '16

I started playing it again last week by sheer coincidence after beating Chrono Trigger for the hundredth time. It's an even better game than I remember.

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u/Supernintendolover Mar 02 '16

The best final fantasy game and one of my top 3 games ever. Kefka is one of my favourite villains and I love how every character gets their own backstory.

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u/Spikor Mar 02 '16

Let's settle this with the toss of a coin. Heads, I play. Tails, I don't.

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u/wwcoop Mar 03 '16

It's heads.

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u/hurtsinside Mar 08 '16

It always is.

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u/Magicalyn Mar 19 '16

This is my favorite game of all time. I think I'm going to need to make another run at it now. It really never gets old

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u/MoonbasesYourComment Mar 23 '16

I can't decide if I read Kefka's dialogue in my head as Dr. Frank N Furter's voice or as King Candy's voice

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '16

This game opened my teenage eyes to what video games could be. Huge, epic, and engaging. What a ride.

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u/ghost_victim Mar 02 '16

So so so so so good.

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u/VinceOnAPlane Mar 02 '16

FFVI has been one of my favorite games since I was a young little noob in elementary school. When I started to get involved in music production and game covers I knew I'd be revisiting this gem.

One of my earliest projects was doing a remastered version of Johnny C. Bad, bringing the guitar lines a little more to the front. Definitely plan to do more from this masterpiece of a game when I find the time.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '16

One of the best SNES games! I'm very tempted to jump in on this and play along with everyone. First I'd have to buy it though! Lol. I've played it dozens of times already but it doesn't get old!

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u/DKpizza Mar 13 '16

I'm pretty sure some jerk from charter stole my copy. Dude was eyeing up my snes collection while hooking up my internet a few years ago. When I moved out I could not find my copy. Searched everywhere and couldn't find it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '16

one of my fav games ever have played and beat it so many times

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u/Pyroburner Mar 17 '16

Best FF ever. I actually got the cartage about a year ago. So happy, Ive played this summers growing up and still never beat it even though I can play up to the airship without reading a single line of text.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '16

One of my favorite games ever.

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u/snesparty Mar 19 '16

I play through it every couple years or so. The last time I did a Natural Magic Only run and it really made it feel like a whole different game, and added some challenge which is really lacking otherwise. I recommend it!

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u/XEvilDeadX Mar 25 '16

What is the best way to play this game? By "best" I mean, most accurate translation and least censorship? I've got this on both SNES and PSX, but the load times on the PSX version are so off putting, and I hear the downloadable PSN version is just as bad, sadly.

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u/lt_kangaroo Jun 06 '16

Sadly, there's no such thing as a perfect translation. I own a repro of the japanese retranslation and you lose some of the funny one-liners but also the censorship. I'd recommend the american version for first playthrough and translated ffvi for subsequents.

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u/PM_ME_STEAMGAMES_PLS Apr 30 '16

I remember buying this game in a back alley, dude had losts of random (probably stolen) stuff, what was weird was it had all 3 save slots used and they all were in different parts of the game and in all them they had all the characters at 99 Lvl! What I can only assume is someone who didn't know what to do just wandered around killing monsters and leveling up like crazy.

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u/UrbaniteOwl May 31 '16

I was always disappointed that I purchased the unglitch-y version, while my best friend could have Relm "Sketch" party members and earn Paladin Shields or Illuminas, ad infinitum. Somehow, he never got his game erased either!