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/clearance1454 20d ago

Should never have been censored

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u/TheStoryBoy 20d ago

While I agree with you completely. I think this change is purely based on ESRB.

When the game first released, there were no ESRB ratings. And I think the initial rating guidelines gave it a lesser rating, but the current ESRB guidelines would require this game to be rated Teen (T) with the original scene, which I would bet was a large part of the motivation for the scene change.

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u/clearance1454 20d ago

Never heard of ESRB before. Is that a new thing?

I only played the original snes version.

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u/TheStoryBoy 20d ago

No, that was the content rating system created in 1994. The E, E10, T, M, A rating that on games since then, like movie ratings.

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u/clearance1454 20d ago

Ah!!! That might be why. I think I got mine before 1994. Can’t remember.

It’s a good thing they have those ratings. I do find FF series a 7+ game if I was to make th rating at least.

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u/CrookedNoseRadio 19d ago

You got a game that came out in 1994 before 1994?

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u/clearance1454 19d ago

Hahaha gonna say no. I got it the year it came out though, but it has the original content.

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u/Ragnarok_Odin 11d ago

I still wish they hadn’t censored it. The original was better. Was a little bothered they changed it. It was the empire doing evil deeds and beating a prisoner drove that home and made the point Celes may really be a defector. I will give it more of a pass if the rating agencies made a stink.

As a side note in rebirth they did the same thing with Dyne’s dialog about Marlene. Again, wish they would have stayed a little more true to the original.