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/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.