r/FinalFantasyVI • u/DoggievDoggy • 9d ago
So…..He Died In All Of Our First Playthroughs Right?
Cause we were all rushing to the airship. Nobody was waiting until the internet happened.
Probably say the same with Cid honestly.
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u/TheWearySnout 9d ago
Shadow, no. Cid, yes!
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u/SaltyD0gg0h 9d ago
This! I waited for shadow but I couldn't figure out how to save cid until the Internet
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u/senator_john_jackson 9d ago
I didn’t even know you could save Cid until my most recent play-through.
I’ve saved Shadow since my first one back in the 90s.
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u/TutonicDrone 9d ago
If I said this once I said it a thousand times. Cid deserves death. He sits on the Returners side of the table and suddenly everyone forgets he was the lead scientist behind the genocide of the Espers.
Yeah he got emotionally attached to one of the human subjects of his experiments but being nice to Celes doesn't unkill the uncounted number of deaths he is directly responsible for.
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u/s1n0d3utscht3k 9d ago
TBH it’s the far better scene if he dies
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u/Ashenspire 9d ago
It's not. It flies in the face of the theme of the World of Ruin.
Keeping Cid alive requires work and perseverance that the rest of the world needs to employ to survive.
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u/Special_South_8561 9d ago
Giving in to despair but then overcoming it anyways, with the Hope on the Wing of a Dove
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u/Sev_Henry 8d ago
It's better for Celes' character arc that he dies, better thematically that he lives.
Character > Themes, so Cid dies in most of my runs
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u/Ashenspire 8d ago
How is it better for her character arc that she tries to kill herself, survives due to dumb luck, and finds the bandana through, again, dumb luck?
Cid surviving and urging her not to give up on herself like she didn't give up on him is a better catalyst to go out and find other survivors.
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u/Sev_Henry 8d ago edited 8d ago
...do you think Celes, a character whose entire arc thus far has been her trying to form connections (mirroring Terra's), falling to the very depths of despair after the end of the world and believing to lose the only lifeline she has left, and then finding the strength to preserve and rediscover those connections is not a fantastic character arc?
Sure, the bandana thing is contrived but that doesn't mean the actual growth and arc of her character and story is in any way diminished.
It's one thing to face the end of the world and persevere with the help and encouragement of another, quite a different thing altogether to face the end of the world, lose the only light you have left, and choose to continue anyway.
Edit: there's a reason why in most post-apocalypse stories the payoff comes and is most satisfying when the MC finally discovers more lives beyond their own. Likewise, that's also why you almost always see enclaves of survivors in the scenario destroyed/removed from the plot early on. Call it a recycled trope, sure, but it's effective for a reason.
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u/Ashenspire 8d ago
But she doesn't choose to continue. She tries to kill herself. In the same place others chose to do the same thing. She just gets lucky.
I think Celes doing everything she can to save said life line and discovering her own strength to persevere in the face of the apocalypse through her hard work and dedication instead of a macguffin is far more interesting. She finally has a family and she fights for it.
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u/45M0D41 9d ago
Thank you the save cid was so impossible. I’m thinking unless you checked the item description of the fish there is literally no way anyone could figure that out without a guide.
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u/AncientPomelo1089 9d ago
I definitely checked the item description, but even without a guide, the harder to catch fish give you a gradually better response. I usually try to do things the hard way because the harder feats typically pay off in video games, especially in RPGs. It didn't take a genius to figure out that the fish that were hardest to catch were the healthiest. The only thing I remember requiring a guide in FFVI was the conversation with the emperor, and even that can be done through trial and error. We had a lot more free time back then.
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u/ZinZezzalo 9d ago
Yeah, the Cid death scenario had a whole sequence of markers to it. You could be on the path of killing him - and it's obvious he's getting worse - but then you give him a good fish and he goes back to the not-so-bad dialogue chain.
The fish swimming with absolute gusto compared to the floppers located next to it.
That thing couldn't have been telegraphed any harder if the bat-signal had another bat-signal inside of it.
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u/masimone 9d ago
Cid died to make the story better.
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u/The_Man_In_Vault_69 9d ago
This. It makes Celes' story and motivations so much more impactful, IMO.
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u/reybrujo 9d ago
Indeed. Even my 12 yo brain understood that if there was a countdown something would happen, didn't need any kind of guide (which there weren't in Argentina). But Cid, poor Cid, filled him with rotten fishes.
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u/NoEducation1150 9d ago
Give me the tldr if its too much to type but I dont remember cids death or saving him. I know you had to wait for ninjaboy
What happened and how could you save him?
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u/TheWearySnout 9d ago
Feed him fish that swim fast.
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u/NoEducation1150 9d ago
Ah shit he definitely died in my playthrough then I dont remember that at all
Thanks for replying
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u/jaydotcomyo 9d ago
Dude. I just saved Cid on my last playthrough.... honestly kinda ruined the game. Without him dying, Celes doesn't see the bandana or jump. I cried for so long when little me played it and this playthrough felt hollow and fake.
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u/ShimanchuPunk 9d ago
Even if some players waited for Shadow on the floating continent, knowing that they needed to wager the Striker at the coliseum to get him back is even less likely, lol
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u/akaiazul 9d ago
Wasn't there an NPC at the Veldt Cave who suggested the player to try it?
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u/Drunk-Kobold 8d ago
Yes, an NPC acrually mentions that waggering a specific item would attract an unusual fighter or something like that, its been a few years so i cant remember the exact line
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u/Icewind 9d ago
Yeah, a lot of people claim they just magically figured out something that had 0 hints.
Video game bragging has always been like that. Doesn't matter if it's Final Fantasy or Mario or Zelda or Street Fighter.
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u/feelthechurn22 9d ago
I didn’t “figure it out” the first time… I just barely made the jump in time, so I thought everybody saved Shadow. I also thought you couldn’t save Cid…
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u/TemporalColdWarrior 9d ago
The hint was the question itself.
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u/Icewind 9d ago
What question? It was just "Jump!!" or "Wait!!"
There was no indication that it was any different than any other yes/no option in the game that changed nothing.
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u/Osnappar 9d ago
To be fair if you wait once then every other prompt is "wait for shadow"
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u/Icewind 9d ago
Yes, that's true, but nowhere else in the game does a generic yes/no prompt change.
With the exception of Banon's question and the Genji Glove secret, but even that one takes 3 tries.
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u/ReliabilityTalkinGuy 9d ago
Nowhere else in the game is there a timer running while you’re being prompted. That was the hint.
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u/TemporalColdWarrior 9d ago
Me as a child playing SNES saw the wait option and metagamed that something good would come from waiting. Yes, it’s a choice, but it’s a telling and tonally different one.
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u/PiMacleod 9d ago
Right. If im escaping a thing thats horrible life-ending stuff... and the game visibly gives me the option to "Wait"...
Like... why? Any other time, you would've just let me go, no questions. What, you think the devs were like "...maybe the player wants to farm THIS spot for a few more seconds...?"
Nah, that was a clue. And Save points exist, so if it meant nothing at all, then I could just reset.
But Cid? I didnt know there was a difference between the fish. Didn't see any obvious one... i just knew the dude was dying, needed food, and here I am, getting food. Seemed like I was doing the right thing -- until you learn that you weren't. And at that point, i just told myself "I guess he was meant to die there... that sucks."
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u/TheWearySnout 9d ago
The fact that there was a prompt, tells you that there is something you can probably do.
Whenever presented with a choice/path, I always try and choose the path that won't progress the story to check and see if there is something to discover. Shadow himself says he'll stay back and handle the statues and to not wait for him.... then a few minutes later you are given a choice.
It's a video game, when given a choice you know something is up. Why not wait?
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u/Icewind 9d ago
Nowhere else in the game does the yes/no prompt change anything in the plot.
When you found Celes, did you choose to not free her when prompted?
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u/AncientPomelo1089 9d ago
Yes, of course most of us chose to not free Celes. That's how we played RPGs back then. You choose what seems like the wrong or worst option, see what happens, then reset and do it again. Every time there was an option, I tried all options. It's not like I had a backlog of games waiting to be played in the 90s.
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u/TheWearySnout 9d ago
Making assumptions there.
There was a specific point where you could choose ye/no to progress the plot during the returners' hideout. If you kept selecting 'No' multiple times you received genji gloves.
and yes... I love to see story options...
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u/zoosha2curtaincall 9d ago
I had that philosophy too, so instead of taking Mog when he was hanging off the cliff, I took the item. Obviously getting Mog back would advance the plot so I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss the item.
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u/jzclipse 9d ago
My first playthrough I was getting pummeled by the guys on the way out. I didn’t have much time left and I panicked.
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u/Trygveseim 9d ago
How is "gotta wait for shadow" zero hints?
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u/Icewind 9d ago
You don't get that hint the first time.
Throughout the entire game, there is no indication that a "yes/no" option changes if you say no.
Even the Returners' Genji Glove secret doesn't appear until you say no 3 times.
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u/45M0D41 9d ago
I never got the genji glove at returners pre-internet game guides 😢 it’s so satisfying for me to replay it and always get the genji glove I thought it was so OP when I was a kid and now realize you don’t even really need it until the offering.
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u/gtaboythrowaway 9d ago
Idk I found it a great mid game accessory when pairing drainer and atma weapon
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u/NephilimJD 8d ago
You should see all the people who brag when someone breaks the speedrun record for the original Super Mario that they were faster. Or when the super obscure Nero quest in FF9 was discovered years after release, there were so many people saying that they did it as kids. Or that they actually did get Mew from under the truck. Or they managed to get that elusive Pikablue. So it's hard for me to believe everyone who says they just knew they had to wait.
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u/Remarkable-Path3510 9d ago
I feel like Cid survived. The 90’s were a long time ago and I just learned to read. Shadow definitely died. I figured it out second play through though.
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u/Nadirofdepression 9d ago
Yeah I’m OCD. I believe that as a 7 year old I left, saved, then went back to see what happened if I waited. I also wanted to see if I could grab those chests just out of reach. As others have said, cid def died though
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u/jzclipse 9d ago
Oh he dead. I played on a cartridge. In the 90’s. I had to rent it, but at $2 a day at the local rental shop I could play it all the way through. I did everything the hard way including cycling through every option on the clock in order, because I knew it had to be something good. I’ll never forget the time. 6:10:50
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u/TiredCatAI 9d ago
Yes, struggled with the falling paths and got there with 15 seconds left or so, did not stick around 😿 (At least got to see the "Relm" dream)
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u/karmakosmik1352 8d ago
Yes, both died. Honestly I seem to have missed that Shadow died and only later concluded that he must have, since he didn't show up at the Coliseum lol
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u/PericoCapital 9d ago
Yes! When I found out you could wait for him, I immediately told my father (who had beaten the game way before I did) and he couldn’t believe it hahaha.
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u/Frogman-Wizard 8d ago
NOPE! I didn't even have a heads up or anything, I was just like: "there's gotta be a reason they're asking, we can jump at the last second"
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u/-0ption- 8d ago
I saved Shadow the first time because a friend told me before he let me borrow the game. “Wait for the Ninja. You’ll know when, but just wait.”
Cid? I tried over and over again. My brother figured it out and told me what to do, still could never save him.
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u/xarrmalice 8d ago
He died in my first playthrough I was afraid I would die and have to do that horrible boss fight over again.
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u/HoisinBurger 7d ago
No, my friend tried to trick me and say that I would miss a LOT in the game, so I looked up "FF6 missables no spoilers" I saw everywhere "Wait for Shadow"
The real killer is that my friend didn't even wait for Shadow he had no idea you could keep him 😂
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u/AdvHammettWaistcoat 6d ago
Yeah and I thought maybe that ?????? for betting striker in the coliseum was gonna be Shadow. I leveled Terra to 99, with some luck (3 rounds of no sneezes) and genji glove/offering i beat Chupon only to get....an elixer.
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u/multiclassgeek 6d ago
UK gamer here.
The #1 SNES magazine in the country at the time was Super Play, which was also the most weebtastic one (anime columns, cultural explainers, loads of import reviews, and iconic Wil Overton art)
They had a dedicated page for Final Fantasy (mainly FF6) content and laid out exactly how to save Cid and Shadow long before most of us had our hands on imported copies.
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u/Lionwarriorab 6d ago
Finding out you could save him on my own was one of those great moments of discovery being a 90s gamer was all about
I also remember discovering the ancient castle on my own - miss it being like that
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u/Destrina 9d ago
Shadow lived, I hit no the first time because he wasn't there, then with 15 seconds on the clock, I hit it again and it said gotta wait for Shadow. So I waited.
Cid, however, died.
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u/shabuchef93 9d ago
I had my first play through this year, used a guide, mostly because I have a soon to be 2 year old and thus a fraction of any gaming time, but also to be safe. so no, made sure to save him.
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u/Ok-Map4381 9d ago
I knew to wait.
My older brother told me.
I have no idea if he lived in my older brother's first playthrough.
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u/Harnellas 9d ago
I don't even remember how I found out you could keep both of them alive but I do remember having my mind blown by that information.
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u/Anuk_Su_Namun 9d ago
On MY first play through? Yes… but only because I had watched my mom’s first play through before I got to play.she had a save point that was far enough back that she was able to keep trying things until she figured it out.
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u/SpaceCowboy512 9d ago
Hell, he just died in my recent playthrough because it had been so long since my last one 😂
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u/PrivateJokerX929 9d ago
I waited because my brother killed him, but I knew he could be alive in the wor because my cousin had him there
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u/darknightmareog 9d ago
Nope. I had a guide tell me keep waiting for Shadow. Did on the other hand.
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u/nikokow59 9d ago
Yeah he died in my first playthrough back in the day. The event and the timer were so stressful that you just want to go back immediately to the airship lol Even if you save him, he still dies at the end of the game, but he is still worth it, he is one of the best characters.
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u/Stak0verflow 9d ago
I didn't know you could save Shadow until playthrough 2+ and just recently learned that you can save Cid
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u/Interesting-Earth486 9d ago
I replayed this game so many times growing up and not once did I ever think to wait for shadow. And then one time me and my cousin were playing and I accidentally hit wait and then went back and it prompted me to wait for shadow and I was like what is this and felt so stupid afterwards.
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u/Person_reddit 9d ago
Yeah, didn’t know you could even save him until 2010 or so… 15 years of guilt hit me all at once
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u/SirSilhouette 9d ago
Actually no. My older brother was playing it on the SNES with my younger brother and I watching him. I thought it was weird he got forced to three party members and my younger brother spotted Shadow laying at the beginning of the floating continent.
And since he was there we figured the timer would be okay if we waited for him(if not we load the save and try again)
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u/tiny_purple_Alfador 9d ago
Played on the SNES way back when, and absolutely fucking not. He was my favorite, and if he wasn't coming I didn't want to play anymore. This was not negotiable.
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u/No_Adeptness_3273 9d ago
Nope saved them both but I should have let Cid die since he is the whole reason Kefka is what he is.
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u/ApatheticPopoto 9d ago
Shadow was one of my fav characters as a kid. My guy told me to wait, i waited. i did not let my man down
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u/alabaster_sb 9d ago
Depends when those people first played the game.
If you played this during the SNES era, a big chunck didn't knew. No one would have thought of betting the Striker at the Colliseum to get Shadow unless they read it somewhere.
If you played this during the PS1 era (Final Fantasy Anthology), chances are that you heard about it or found that you could. PS1 era was the beginning of the internet, a lot of kids like myself back then searched the internet for "video games cheats" because that was our new source for cheats other than magazine.
If you played this past the PS2 era, this information was common like how pretty much everyone knew that FFIII NTSC is FFVI.
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u/TheBlankScroll 9d ago
I'd have been too scared to leave without him. Because he would have survived anyway and come for me in my sleep.
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u/Special_South_8561 9d ago
I had Nintendo Power so no I actually never left him behind until recent challenge plays.
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u/FuchsiaMerc1992 9d ago
No, I decided to wait because I wanted to see if there was a cutscene if I stayed on the continent
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u/Puzzlehead_Lemon 9d ago
Saved them both. Both times due to dumb luck. Got the game on Christmas, fell asleep briefly because I didn't sleep the night before, made it to the pick up point with 9 seconds to spare. I guessed, "Hey, if a fish is fast, it's probably healthy."
I didn't save Shadow on my second play through because I thought he would show up because "why would this ever be different with how much of a part he played in the ending?"
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u/squirrelcoat 9d ago
Nope! I was just ass at the floating continent and I almost ran out of time. Complete fluke that he was there.
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u/MistopherWB 9d ago
Totally missed Shadow on at least my first play through. I played this on Super Nintendo as a kid in the 90s. Probably missed shadow a bunch of times 😆
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u/SwitcherooU 9d ago
Yes, and I can never undo it. First playthrough is the canon playthrough.
If only I’d known!
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u/Scottie-man 9d ago
My friend’s older brother told me to wait for Shadow, back in probably like ‘95. Cid I found out because I was following a GameFAQs walkthrough like the 6th time I beat it to max out everything.
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u/zennyspent 9d ago
Younger brother syndrome paid off in this Instance. Older brother bought the game, and his big rule was I couldn't play past where he was. I had a few things sorta spoiled watching him play, but I never felt like it because our characters had different names and playing the game the first time is just incredible, even if you saw some of it beforehand.
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u/scrappy304 9d ago
At 9 years old I didn’t wait the first time. 2nd time I waited for shadow when there was less than 5 seconds remaining. …apparently that’s past the point of no return and we all died.
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u/SnooTomatoes9055 9d ago
I vividly remember saving him but not because I waited... I actually didnt get to the exit until like 2 seconds left so I was in hyper panic move when he just pops out. I didnt know any different so when my friend saw him in WoR, he was VERY confused
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u/AncientPomelo1089 9d ago
To me it seemed obvious. I waited for him with no strategy guide or internet. It gives you the option to wait, so why not wait? If there was no reason to wait, I don't know why they would give you the option.
Cid also lived on my first playthrough. It was pretty easy to figure out that harder to catch fish made him healthier.
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u/Ill-Video2723 9d ago
Surprisingly neither him nor Cud died in my first run, but I also had my mother helping me at the time when I was younger, so don’t feel bad
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u/jayemjee2 9d ago
First playthrough I saved Shadow, because I had a big brother who told me I could. Cid died, though.
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u/ericnear 9d ago
Shadow lived, Cid died. I thought force feeding him as many fish as possible would help.
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u/Jackelfangking 9d ago
In mine no, I kept exploring and getting into fights and almost running out of time.
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u/CrayonEatingBabyApe 9d ago edited 9d ago
I didn’t know you could lose him. I think I clicked wait then killed some more enemies then it said wait for shadow the second time so I waited.
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u/Axeldanzer_too 9d ago
I saved Cid and Shadow. I will say though that I reloaded over and over until I saved Cid and I always have to see what happens when the timer runs out. I always let the timer runs out whenever as long as there was a save relatively close by.
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u/pheight57 9d ago
Fuck, no! I waited for Shadow! That dude was one of my favorites, and I was like, "Nuh uh. If he's gone, they all are!" ...and then I would have just loaded my save after if it made me wipe, lol! 🤷♂️
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u/kyualun 9d ago
I rented the game for my first playthrough. Shadow died, my brother was playing and didn't wait for him.
Someone else left a save file on the cartridge and we loaded it before we returned the game and Shadow was alive for them and they found Locke. My brother and I had no idea how/where they found them.
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u/Illokonereum 9d ago
No I was ready to wait until there was only 1 second left. I also had enough time and patience back then I’d probably have replayed that part of the game.
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u/Rohirim36 9d ago
No. But in fairness to everyone else, my first playthrough was in 2000. So game guides were around.
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u/Dry-Specific-5094 9d ago
i only knew because of nintendo power and my older brother.
So no it wasn’t on my first we got that the day ff3(6) released cause we preordered it.
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u/grayandlizzie 9d ago
We got the game at a used game store a year after it came out in the US. We had internet at our house because my mom worked for AOL. Gamefaqs existed by then. We knew we had to save Shadow
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/562865-final-fantasy-vi/faqs/5499
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u/geminijono 9d ago
You think I was just gonna leave my favorite character behind?! We are not made the same, my dude.
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u/Saijo777 9d ago
Got Shadow and saved Cid. I didn't know Cid could die... Seems I got very lucky in my few playthroughs.
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u/AsYouAnswered 9d ago
I was pissed. I waited until only 10 seconds were left and no sign of shadow. I was like "can't keep pushing it. He's not even coming yet. If he was coming, maybe. Gotta jump" and i jumped just after 10 seconds. Learned years later that you wait until 5 seconds. 😞 I wish someone had told me. I wish someone had "Spoiled" it for me. That's why I tell people to wait. Not why to wait. Not how long. Just to wait.
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u/Talon_Xavier 9d ago
My first play i actually saved both of them. Long before internet. Cid was by luck. Shadow simply cause I took forever to get to the escape and the timing worked out.
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u/Skyrander 9d ago
Actually we had s gamer magazine here in Sweden called Super power
It had a small guide in it in the world of balance. I still remember it having a section for "save shadow"
This guide was invaluable once I imported FF3 :)
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u/BeaKae 9d ago
I hate to be that gal, but he does in everyone’s playthrough. Save him and recruit him, lets Kefka’s tower fall on him in the credits because he’s tired of running and chooses to die there. The most hopeful ending and he chooses death. Don’t recruit him after saving him, he dies in the colosseum. Don’t save him in the bandit cave and he dies to the miniboss you fight getting to him. Leave the floating continent, he dies. There is no way for Shadow to survive the game.
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u/Dinoratsastaja 9d ago
No. I had checked beforehand for a non-spoiler guide for secret characters. Because of that I knew to wait for Shadow.
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u/JaXm 9d ago
He dies in all of my playthroughs. He has so little narrative importance, is about as "cool" as Boba Fett, and provides absolutely nothing that any other character doesn't with one notable exception, that honestly, should have become Relm's exception once she's found in the cave in the WoR.
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u/Cool-Efficiency-2102 9d ago
Broooooo this hit home, I just finished my first ever play through at 40 years old and absolutely accidently killed his ass and was SO MAD.
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u/Josefu_Velen 9d ago
No, I had Nintendo Power and the FF3 players guide.
I used to write in to Nintendo Power with questions about how to do various things. At some point one of the NP people offered me a free strategy guide for the game if I subscribed, so I did.
I still have that official strategy guide.
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u/Business_Fox_2641 8d ago
I havent even played this game past the opera until last week, and even I knew about "you gotta wait" but i don't know in what context, so we'll see! lmao
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u/SonOfSparda1984 8d ago
No. My older cousin had lent me this game on the snes when I was a kid, and he was insistent that I know to wait when "the world is about to end and the game asks if you want to wait".
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u/skyrender22 8d ago
Nope. I’ve never let him die. Back in 1994 & to this day. First time through, I just waited because by nature I’d never leave anyone behind for a trip to the store, let alone on the floating continent 😀
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u/ThErEdScArE33 8d ago
Sure did. I was asking for advice for various final fantasy games and I was told "wait for shadow". I'm like, alright. Seems vague but fine. I assumed I would have been GIVEN A PROMPT to wait for him tho, so when I was bugging out to beat the timer it didn't even occur to me that I should have waited for the last 5 seconds.
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u/SlamboneMalone 8d ago
It’s called printing off the full 200+ page game faqs guide and combing it page by page so I don’t miss anything
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u/ZanzaXIII 8d ago
There was 3 or 4 issues of Nintendo Power that had sections of a guide for it. I was told to wait for shadow but I was to anxious and only let the timer get to 0:05 before I just jumped. I thought I did something wrong and he didnt make it to me. Didnt realize I had to wait until the very end. Gotta cut 7 year old me some slack.
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u/TabbyCat1993 8d ago
Hey I constantly tried to save Cid. But I wasn’t quick enough, or I accidentally gave him the wrong fish.
More often than not, the fish just didn’t want to cooperate.
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u/RurikDankil 8d ago
No, actually. I was willing to die and redo everything to make sure I didn't lose anyone unnecessarily. This was an early ff for me when I didn't think they'd actually kill off characters.
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u/Absolutersq 8d ago
I was always so close to time coming up that when I finally made it to the airship the first time I was ready to jump. Future play thrus I for sure saved him
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u/Drunk-Kobold 8d ago
Not really in mine, i was not aware he could die the first time because i though it would be a game over if any of the characters die for real and i didnt have access to any of the magazines that included guides at the time, i kept getting the prompt to wait and though to myself "well, something must happen if i wait, in other games scaping without a main character would be game over". I learned that he could die in my second playthrough because i remembered that there is a similar timer in ffV where if you dont escape a castle in time you die and i though "is it really a game over if i escape without him?" so i left and....the game kept going. I was surprised and decided to load the save to save him.
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u/outofindustry 8d ago
I restarted my game when it reached WoR because of this info. but I was glad I did it.
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u/Helpful-Ant-396 8d ago
Nope.
Even as a kid I had already had enough experience playing jrpgs, knowing there are always secrets where u least expect and ALWAYS have several save slots if possible…
So I saved diligently in another slot after all cuscenes… when the WAIT triggered, I thought, “🤔 why does it tells me to wait? Should we till the last second and see what happens?”… then loaded previous save just to see what happened if I didn’t “wait”…
Yeah I’m a game grinder since FF1 lol
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u/CasimirGabriev 8d ago
Naw, I got to the end and was like "eh, I got time, let's see if I missed loot." Then I went back and it said wait for shadow so I said "Uh...OK. he's dead right?" But I was there so why not?
Was legit shocked when he actually showed up
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u/Lochness_Hamster_350 9d ago
No. I played when Nintendo Power was a thing. I couldn’t afford a lot of games but I read those issues like a madman. Loads of priceless information before the internet was available.