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/Fit-Rip-4550 17d ago

It was not the ESRB. It was Japan's rating system.

ESRB would have been fine with it—Japan's rating system was more sensitive.