History VideoGame / FinalFantasyVI

* ChallengeRun: The Switch and [=PS4=] versions of ''Pixel Remaster'' allow you to customize how much experience and AP is earned, including halving or disabling it entirely for increased difficulty.

* AnAesop:
** Your life doesn't have to have some grand impact on the world to be worth something, just having love and friendship and the will to continue living and looking for them makes it special and worth protecting.
** Empires are built on conquest and human misery. They gather the soldiers and raw materials needed to maintain themselves by taking those resources from others.
** Just because WeAllDieSomeday doesn't mean our lives don't have meaning and worth.

-->-- '''{{Opening narration}}''', UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance version

''Final Fantasy VI'', the sixth game in the [[RunningGag bomb-droppingly popular]] ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series, is the third and final [[UsefulNotes/The16bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames 16-bit]] entry, released in 1994 for the Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem. The game was originally marketed outside Japan as ''Final Fantasy III'' because only two other games in the franchise (''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'') had been given international releases at the time.

Square Enix re-released the SNES version on the UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole in Japan, Europe and North America, and the [=PlayStation=] port on the [=PlayStation=] Store. A divisive version of the game was released for mobile devices and Platform/{{Steam}}, but was delisted in 2021. The original version is also one of the twenty-one games included in the SNES Classic Edition, alongside other Square-developed games ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG''. A remastered version in the ''Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster'' series was released on PC and mobile devices in February 2022. This version was brought to the Platform/NintendoSwitch and Platform/PlayStation4 in April 2023, with extra quality of life additions and boosters, and an optional remastered soundtrack.

** Exclusive to the UsefulNotes/PlayStation version of ''Final Fantasy VI'', which only checks if Celes and Locke are the first two members in the party. Right before you go to the Opera in the World of Balance, you need Celes and Locke in the party. Only put those two in the party. Move them to the third and fourth party members, then make a team without them. Congratulations, you can't complete the game because there's no sprites for them in Narshe. Later versions prevent this from happening.

** Magicite Shard is a consumable item that summons a random esper for free (except Odin/Raiden and the GBA exclusives). Awesome when it summons a high-powered esper like Bahamut, Alexander, Valigarmanda or Midgardsormr (or when it summons Quetzalli for a free full-party Jump attack that doesn't even waste anyone's turn when they land). Not so awesome when it summons chumps like Catoblepas or Ragnarok against bosses, early-game espers or [[TotalPartyKill Crusader]].

** Sabin's Soul Spiral Blitz is a full party HP/MP/status recovery (including from things like Doom), but it not just kills Sabin, but drains his MP to 0 and removes him from combat outright, so you cannot bring him back for the rest of the fight. And he just [[ArtificialStupidity loooves]] to use it in the Colliseum.

** Reraise[=/=]Life 3 is neat in theory but doesn’t see much practical use outside of the Magic Master fight; by the time you learn it your characters are already probably walking death merchants and functionally invincible, and instant death attacks aren’t common enough to justify keeping it on.

* AWorldHalfFull: [[spoiler:The state of the planet by the end of the game. Without Kefka, there's no more tyrant at the helm, so everything can start getting back on its feet, with the world becoming lush and green again. However, it's going to be done without the Espers and magic, since all of that fades.]]

* FunnyOctopus: The [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain antagonistic but incompetent]] Ultros/[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Orthros]] is a large purple octopus prone to {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}s and pathetically easy {{Boss Battle}}s.

* TenMinuteRetirement: One Year Retirement: Almost all of the party after the WorldSundering. Some were more actively trying to strengthen themselves or get the group back together, others were more passive.

** In the discontinued iOS/Steam version, the [[MonsterCompendium bestiary]] will give the picture of each normal monster in it a frame and medal for [[MassMonsterSlaughterSidequest every ten of them you slay, up to gold at 30]]. Bosses get a gold frame automatically. There are also a vanishing few monsters that get a gold frame after three are slain, but that number doesn't include most monsters from PreexistingEncounters, which can otherwise only be fought on the Veldt. There's no other reward for slaying so many monsters. The frames and medals appear on the monsters' actual pages, only on the monster list itself.

* CosmeticAward: In the GBA version, The Master's Crown, "a ceremonial crown awarded for overcoming the challenges of the Soul Shrine". It doesn't do anything but prove you beat it.

** There are even some earlier during the climactic parts of the World of Balance (specifically the [[StormingTheCastle Magitek Research Facility]] and [[DiscOneFinalDungeon Floating Continent]]). During your first visit to Vector, you fight Ifrit/Shiva, Number 024, Number 128 (with two limbs), and the Imperial Palace Cranes nearly back-to-back. During the Floating Continent, you fight five tough waves of Imperial Air soldiers, then [[DualBoss Ultron and Typhon]], then the Imperial Air Base. After that you deal with the Ultima Weapon, who's the DiscOneFinalBoss of the game.

* BossBonanza: In Kefka's Tower. There’s Ultima Buster, Inferno, two of the Eight Dragons, Guardian, the Warring Triad, then the Final Boss (which itself is an amalgamation of '''even more''' bosses!).

* LethalLavaLand: The Sealed Cave and the Phoenix Cave. Except the lava isn't lethal.

** [[invoked]]The Ultima spell can easily hit the damage cap of 9999, but costs 80 MP, which is 8% of the maximum MP a character can have. There are items that reduce the cost of spells[[note]]The Economizer, in particular, which reduces all spell costs to 1 MP[[/note]], but generally, there are more efficient ways to deal lots of damage. On the other hand, absorbing magic from enemies is so easy (the Rasp and Osmose spells in this game verge on being a GameBreaker) that some players may not care.