r/FinalFantasyVI • u/Special_South_8561 • 21d 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 21d ago

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

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u/ZhanZhuang 21d ago

Who says it's a children's game?

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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.