Line #14 VideoGame/PonyFantasyVI


1	''[[http://rydelfox.deviantart.com/journal/Pony-Fantasy-VI-sprites-452506801 Pony Fantasy VI]]'' is a [[GameMod Romhack]] of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' that replaces the game's cast and [=NPCs=] with the characters of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. It was created by [=QuickFix=] (aka [=BossManJohn1=]). Several LetsPlay series of the game can be found on Website/YouTube. The main website was taken offline after [=QuickFix=] stopped working on it, but the final version is available at the Deviant Art page linked above.
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3	An UpdatedRerelease, titled ''VideoGame/FillyFantasyVI'', was created. Tropes specific to the remake should go on its page.
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6	!!This game provides examples of:
7	* AlternateUniverse: Although the world of ''FFVI'' is very different from Equestria, the characters of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' maintain their personalities for some rather interesting reactions to the game's events.
8	* BewareTheSillyOnes: Is it any surprise that Discord was cast for the role of [[MonsterClown Kefka]]?
9	* BoisterousBruiser: Luna, retaining her '''[[NoIndoorVoice ROYAL CANTERLOT SPEAKING VOICE]]''' from "Luna Eclipsed" fits into this, having replaced [[LightningBruiser Sabin]]. Applejack also indulges this in the defense of Sweet Apple Castle.
10	* BreakTheHaughty: Being a stand-in for Celes, The World of Ruin does this for Trixie [[spoiler:if she lets Sethisto die]].
11	* BroughtDownToNormal: Thanks to the War of Chaos, unicorns lost practically all of their magical abilities.
12	* TheCameo: Gogo the Mimic, one of the secret characters, is replaced by [[spoiler:Lauren Faust as an alicorn]]. Many other cameos show up as well, such as Sethisto as Cid, Daniel Ingram as the Impresario, Snips and Snails as Biggs and Wedge, and Daring Do as Siegfried.
13	* CarryingTheAntidote: Discord drops a Harmony Band after your first battle with him, an item which blocks two of the statuses he frequently inflicted during the battle. That would have been really useful beforehand... then again, this kind of behavior makes perfect sense coming from [[JustToyingWithThem Discord]].
14	* CharacterNameLimits: The game only lets you input up to six letters in a name, while most of the characters have names that are longer. To get around this, most of them have nicknames, such as Twilight = Twi, Applebloom = Bloom, Celestia = Tia and so on. Their full names still appear in certain cutscenes. Early versions included a tag to 'Please keep the name'; later revisions simply ask you to 'Enter Pony Nickname'.
15	* CompositeCharacter: Arguably everyone, but special attention should go to [[spoiler:Commander Derpy "Hurricane" Hooves]].
16	* ConfusionFu: Essentially Pinkie's shtick.
17	* CrapsackWorld: It may be with ponies, but everyone who dies in ''FFVI'' ''will'' die here, and those who can die depending on your choices ([[spoiler:Fluttershy if you leave the Floating Continent too early, Sethisto if you don't catch enough yummy fish]]) aren't exempt either.
18	* DiscOneNuke: Pinkie Pie. Some of the Random abilities she can pick up right after you find her (assuming you've encountered the right enemies) are really powerful, including level 2 spells when your unicorns have only level 1, and the dreaded "Cat Scratch", which can do four-digit damage when your heavy-hitters do three. Even better, she ignores Gau's original flaw of becoming uncontrollable after you've used the ability, so she's flexible too.
19	* TheDreaded: ''Fluttershy'', thanks to rumors about The Stare.
20	* EarlyBirdCameo: Overlapping with ATasteOfPower in a weird way. You don't get properly introduced to Espers and how they work until [[DungeonTown Las Pegasus]], but unlike in the original game, you actually get your first Esper earlier, just after getting Celestia. (Presumably because she stands in for Edgar, whose Tools were given to Applebloom, so they had to find some other gimmick to have her show us. They also needed to explain that, unlike in the original, only Unicorn characters can equip Espers in this game.) This has another strange side effect: the game doesn't start telling you you're getting Magic Points from battles (or explain what they are) until you're 'supposed' to, but if you've been using Unicorn you'll have been already getting them for most of the game.
21	** Leads to a bit of a PlotHole when you get to the Magitek Facility and see Unicorn imprisoned there despite already having it.
22	* EasyLevelsHardBosses: '''BIG TIME.''' WordOfGod says this is intentional. Most regular enemies give little trouble, and the way skills are redistributed leads to a few {{Disk One Nuke}}s. The bosses on the other hand, are another story, especially seeing as Espers no longer give stat boosts. Even ''tutorial'' bosses can and will kill you if you're unprepared.
23	** You know those eight elemental dragons that were easy to counter with the right equipment? Well, their magic isn't blocked by such barriers anymore. That's also not to mention the fact that they deal tons of damage for each physical attack as well. Oh, and did we mention they revive with full health after you'e killed it once?
24	** The Demon Train. With two party members that can preform a suplex on it, you'll be tempted to do so. It now counter attacks when hit with with that specific attack.
25	* EpicFail: Invoked; the 'Miss' graphic for when someone doesn't hit a target now reads 'Fail'.
26	* [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Even The Mares Want Her]]: Given that Applejack has taken Cyan's role, there's a bar floozy who hits on her, much to AJ's consternation.
27	-->'''Applejack''': Now see here, missy, mah barn door don't swing that way!
28	* FurryConfusion: A Unicorn [[SummonMagic Esper]] being summoned by Unicorn player characters, anyone? Made stranger by the fact that only Unicorns (and Alicorns like Celestia) can equip Espers.
29	** There's also the oddity of seeing bipedal ponies riding chocobos.
30	* FusionFic
31	* GameplayAndStorySegregation: You see Rarity using several Ice spells while attempting to put out a house fire in a cutscene. When she joins your party a few minutes later... she doesn't know any. (She ''does'' know a Water/Wind based Blue Magic attack, but it would have been a bit weird to hear her yell out "Aqua Rake" in said scene)
32	* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Applebloom's Autocrossbow and ''{{Chainsaw\|Good}}'', anyone?
33	* HyperactiveMetabolism: Healing items are replaced by strains of apples, and MP recovery items with flavors of soda-pop.
34	* JackOfAllStats: Celestia, at least early on. Decent physical attack, can use some Magic (but not as well as Twilight) while NOT being a SquishyWizard. Which makes sense, seeing as she has the power of all three pony races. Once stronger physical fighters like Luna and Applejack join though, she's better used as a pure mage. (Still less squishy than Twi and Trixie though)
35	* KonamiCode: Used as the input code for Luna's Reiki skill.
36	* LeastRhymableWord: Zecora's last words set up something to rhyme with "orange." Naturally, Discord kills her before she would have finished the verse.
37	** [[VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland Doorhinge]]?
38	* MagicKnight: It's possible to make Luna one if you teach her magic from Espers. Celestia is one to begin with.
39	* [[TheMagicGoesAway The Magic Went Away]]: Due to the War of Chaos, magic was almost completely lost 1,000 years ago. This led to unicorns falling into obscurity, as the ability to cast spells became a rarity. Even Celestia and Luna were affected, though they didn't lose their immortality.
40	* MoodDissonance: Emperor Gilda talks in a TotallyRadical fashion while making what should be ominous proclamations. This is likely an intentional case of NarmCharm.
41	** Pinkie Pie and Rarity's death sprites are fairly amusing. When killed, Rarity is passed out on her divan, and Pinkie lays flat on her back holding a flower.
42	* MoralityPet: Applebloom towards Trixie.
43	* MythologyGag: Despite being set in an AlternateUniverse from the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic series]], more than a few references are sprinkled in.
44	** [[BraggartBoss Ultros]] will sometimes say [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 "What's soaking wet and clueless? YOUR FACE!!"]] when attacking.
45	** Two soldiers talking about Discord mention they wouldn't trust him to pour them a glass of chocolate milk.
46	** While examining the frozen Esper in Neigshe. Luna [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon muses on how terrible it must be]] [[TakeThat to be frozen and imprisoned for a thousand years.]] Celestia can only give a [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten "..."]]
47	** After kidnapping Trixie and finding out she's not Maria, Rainbow Dash tersely asks [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony if she's a spy]].
48	** A few of Discord's lines from the show are quoted verbatim in somewhat similar circumstances. Most notably his cry of "[[GratuitousItalian Arreviderci!]]" [[spoiler:when he kicks a mortally wounded Emperor Gilda off of the Floating Continent]].
49	** During the escape from Discord's Tower, Rainbow Dash remarks that she's becoming more and more like [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials Firefly]] every day. As [[WebVideo/FamiliarFaces CR]] once noted, Rainbow Dash is an {{Expy}} of Firefly.
50	** The Impresario is (usually) renamed "Ingram" after Daniel Ingram, the series' song writer.
51	** In Canterlot, when Applebloom and Twilight are talking after Discord has spoken to Celestia, Twilight asks how can she be of any use by saying [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp "But how do I fit in, with my magic? What does everypony do?"]]
52	* {{Nerf}}: Done to some attacks and gear starting with version .96, combined with strengthening certain bosses.
53	** A common combination in the original game was to equip Setzer with the Fixed Dice weapon and the Master's Scroll accessory, as it would cause several instances of repeated ridiculously-high damage against enemies. Now, however, the Fixed Dice are only able to be equipped on Pinkie Pie, who cannot equip the Offering.
54	* NotHisSled: Fluttershy, filling in for Shadow, shoos Angel Bunny away and opts to stay behind as [[CollapsingLair Discord's Tower comes down around her ears]] in the game's ending as [[DrivenToSuicide atonement for her failings]]. [[spoiler:[=Rainbow Dash=] [[BigDamnHeroes takes exception]] and drags her to safety]].
55	-->'''[=RainbowDash=]''': [[spoiler:I'm NOT leaving you here Fluttershy...We all have regrets...and I'm not gonna let this be one of mine!]]
56	** You don't find Faust or Derpy in the places where you'd normally find Gogo or Umaro this time around. Derpy is found up on the cliff Trixie tried to throw herself from (if that's the Sethisto ending you got), and you find the Fausticorn by revisiting Zecora's grave, to find her standing before it. You also receive the Holy Avenger from the site as well (complete with a custom fanfare redone from ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV V]]'').
57	* TheNotLoveInterest: Applebloom towards Trixie. Since they stand in for [[OfficialCouple Locke and Celes]], their relationship had to be changed presumably to avoid {{Lolicon\|AndShotacon}} implications. Applebloom is instead Trixie's MoralityPet and a good friend.
58	* PunnyName: Quite a few towns have been renamed with horse-themed puns as per tradition. Narshe is now Neigshe, Zozo is now Las Pegasus, Maranda is now Mareanda, etc. Others, however, were renamed to be towns from the show (which were already punny in their own right), such as Fillydelphia, Manehattan, Canterlot, etc.
59	* Really700YearsOld: Commander Hurricane was granted a centuries-long lifespan by King Nebula as reward for her services.
60	* SheIsTheKing:
61	** The leader of the Empire is ''Emperor'' Gilda.
62	** Zecora (who takes the role of Leo) is referred to as "sir" by her subordinates.
63	* ShoutOut:
64	** If you talk to Pinkie Pie while watching the opera, she talks about watching a theater production called [[Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate Manos: The Hooves of Fate]] which she describes as "Soooooooo boring and creepy" but that the boredom was alleviated by [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 some guys sitting in the front row making fun of the movie]].
65	** There is also an NPC in Stalliongrad who asks "Who is funnier? Mike or Joel?" [[spoiler:Picking "Joel" summons guards to fight.]]
66	** There are also at least two [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]] references. Naturally at least ONE GUARD will talk of being retired due to an arrow in the knee, and the "Snort" attack in the original game, which blows an ally from the fight, has been renamed Fus-Ro-Dah.
67	** Both Luna and Applejack have had moves renamed from the original FFVI moveset to refer to other games. Sabin's Aura Bolt is now [[Franchise/StreetFighter Hadouken]], while Cyan's Tiger/Slash is now [[VideoGame/MegaManX4 Ryuenjin]].
68	** When arriving in the Esper World in a flashback, Emperor Gilda gives this command.
69	--> '''Gilda''': "Get going you losers! We [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} gotta catch 'em all!]]"
70	** When Applebloom gives a vague answer to Trixie's question about why she saved her in South Canterlot, Trixie remarks that Applebloom must have some "Fanfic/PastSins" to atone for.
71	** Some of the sprites were made by [[http://masterrottweiler.deviantart.com MasterRottweiler]] which were based on characters from Diablo 2.
72	** Commander Hurricane [[spoiler:(Derpy to her friends)]] mentions that even after all that has happened, Equestria will prevail. Her portrait was drawn by [[http://equestria-prevails.deviantart.com/ Equestria-Prevails]].
73	** On the Phantom Train, when Daring Do shows up to keep you from taking the treasure near the front of the train, Luna tells her [[UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria "We are not amused!"]]
74	* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Despite playing the part of Shadow, Fluttershy's attempted suicide is interrupted by Rainbow Dash in the ending. She's still nowhere to be seen on the deck of the airship though]] (though neither are Hurricane or Fausticorn, as their analogues Gogo and Umaro also didn't appear on the airship's deck either. However, it's nearly universally accepted that they were both below the deck, which means this is probably where Fluttershy was).
75	* SquishyWizard: Twilight, naturally.
76	* {{Tsundere}}: Trixie is a rare non-romantic example of Type A, towards [[MoralityPet Applebloom]]. [[ShrugOfGod Though it's worth pointing out, the FAQ page doesn't clear up whether or not they're legitimately shipping the two.]]
77	* UnknownRival: Trixie to Twilight. Well, it's not so much 'unknown', Twilight just doesn't care.
78	* VerbalTic: Scootaloo's "Ba-kak!" to replace the Mog's "Kupo!"
79	* WhatTheHellHero: Applebloom receives one in a {{Flashback}} when [[spoiler:an amnesiac Vinyl Scratch]] calls her out for putting her InHarmsWay.

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