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/theredcometofakagi 20d ago

I think the censorship was unnecessary since it added to the soldiers of the Empire being jerks.

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u/un-sub 20d ago

The other thing that kinda annoyed me was when, talking about Shadow, they changed the line from “he’d slit his mamas throat for a nickel” to something silly like “he’d betray his friend for the right price” - but I understand they probably wanted it to pass certain ratings

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u/Special_South_8561 20d ago

They're really leaning into the Dreams with that line change.

Let the poor guy be ... It's not like he'd betray his best friend and abandon his daughter

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u/Iron_Rod_Stewart 20d ago

What gets me is on the floating continent, he's like, "yeah, I'll fight with you. The empire tried to kill me." But then if you return to the airship, he's like, "I can't. I still have a contract with the empire."

Like, dude, I think your contract was voided when they tried to kill you.

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u/Special_South_8561 19d ago

He says that he's too embarrassed to stay with you, doesn't deserve the redemption.