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>Square decided to shake things up and really focus on story instead,
The interesting thing about this angle, though, is that they chose a really non-traditional way to focus the story, and honestly I'm surprised that so many people still like FFVI in spite of this, because it's really the kind of thing that filters a lot of gamers; the story in FFVI is entirely de-centralized. The "main plot" is effectively even more sparse than FFV's is; 90% of the time, your only objective is "empire bad, must stop them". The real "meat and potatoes" of plot in FFVI relies again on you the player putting in some work--getting invested in characters at face value and being willing to go search out details about them.

For all that people talk about FFVI like it's a cinematic masterpiece, none of the best plot is rubbed in your face as it would be on a movie screen. With a handful of exceptions, most of the character in FFVI have plots that are completely missable. If you don't take Locke to Koholingen, you never learn why he's a treasure hunter. If you don't take Edgar AND Sabin to Figaro castle for a night, you miss both their backstories. If you don't talk to NPCs around the western part of the map where you find Gau, you completely miss his backstory. If you don't use Shadow in your party and get his random dream sequences at inns, you miss everything about his character entirely because he never shares it with anyone. This goes double for everyone in the world of ruin (a part of the game that famously filters people) because the onus is entirely on the player to follow through on every party member's quest--the only difference from the WoB is that now the faint narrative thread that had been dragging you across the world map is now severed entirely.

I think the only thing that keeps this game popular and from filtering people en masse as that it's pretty easy, combat-wise. Almost every character can do at least one thing that's like an instant win button.

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Which Final Fantasy game is your favorite? I prefer VI. I felt its characters, gameplay, and plot were above any of the others in the series.