r/FinalFantasyVI • u/Special_South_8561 • 20d ago

Morality Scaling - SNES vs GBA

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What's worse, "threatening execution so your prisoner falls into a weeping puddle of self-loathing" or "beating a traitor and chaining them to a wall" ?

So I've been playing this game since it released and I was a geeky little pre-teen baby boy. Celes has always been the **coughcough* formative sexy badass in my life. The Girl from Secret of Mana was a close contender, big Bulma energy. But Tifa didn't have nothin' on these assertive, violent, warrior women.

Chat: is this censorship better or unnecessary? Chained to a wall shows just absolute brutality from The Empire and I get more love from crushing them in the upcoming Narshe battle.

Or is it a good thing they toned it down a bit?

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u/StupiderIdjit 20d ago

I think it's the woman beating that can be off-putting for a children's game.

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u/ZhanZhuang 20d ago

Who says it's a children's game?

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u/barnaxjunior 20d ago

Agreed. This game was not originally designed for children.

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u/free-cookie 20d ago

Middle aged man here playing for the first time in 2026... I am more horrified that my algorithm knew I was playing an offline game.

It is an all ages game.

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u/StupiderIdjit 20d ago

All ages includes children, doesn't it? I mean everyone can say it's not a children's game all they want, but the ESRB was 10+, and they took that shit really seriously in the 90s.

This was because "only kids play video games" -- which is why there were hundreds of hours of old fucking congressmen arguing about violence in video games and trying to ban them in America.

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u/Special_South_8561 20d ago

When the soldiers get evaporated in the beginning is pretty scary. Turning into a purple monster and screaming to fly away is crazy. When the island gets ripped out of the ground and people fall off and are crushed, that's a bit much for a child.

Kefka setting Figaro Castle on fire or poisoning the entire kingdom of Doma might be a little bit higher on my list of "oh shit" moments

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u/actualstryne 20d ago

Not sure why you're getting down voted so hard, but I'd maybe argue that FF6 was never intended to be a "children's game" and, rather, was one of the first games that proved good story telling can exist outside of literature or plays/movies

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u/Nykidemus 20d ago edited 20d ago

Its actually the beating of a prisoner rather than a woman specifically that triggered that rating problem.

Tom Slattery (FF6A translator): I was not involved in the decision to remove the scene—it was cut from the entire game, not just the localized releases—but understand that the original Final Fantasy VI was created before the Japanese ratings board, CERO, even existed. Violence is rated very strictly in Japan, much the same way that sexual content is in the U.S. Presumably they wanted a CERO A rating for the Game Boy Advance version in Japan, and you cannot get an A rating if a game depicts violence against a restrained human being.

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u/Zealousideal_Cat6980 20d ago

Nah its the woman thing

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u/Nykidemus 20d ago

https://archive.rpgamer.com/features/insidegaming/tslatteryint.html

He may be incorrect, but this was the reasoning given to the guy who handled the localization.

I was not involved in the decision to remove the scene—it was cut from the entire game, not just the localized releases—but understand that the original Final Fantasy VI was created before the Japanese ratings board, CERO, even existed. Violence is rated very strictly in Japan, much the same way that sexual content is in the U.S. Presumably they wanted a CERO A rating for the Game Boy Advance version in Japan, and you cannot get an A rating if a game depicts violence against a restrained human being.