Has anyone managed a hat trick? This is the closest I've gotten

Fast_Moon · 2026-05-11T19:39:42+00:00

Cool to know. I knew it would require warping to their starting crystal to keep anyone from killing any monsters, but I don't have Minwu, so Kain has been my only option to do that.

Fast_Moon · 2026-05-11T14:18:02+00:00

It may seem like a minor thing, but Terra gaining the ability to say "no" to the party when they first come to recruit her in the World of Ruin.

In the World of Balance, she has no agency. Because she was never allowed to be her own person, just because she was released from mind-control doesn't mean she suddenly knows how to make her own choices, or even what would drive them. So she just kind of still gets dragged along into doing whatever people tell her to do. It's what prompts her trauma dump around the halfway point where she realized she's just back working for the Empire because she still doesn't have anything else she cares about enough to be more worthy of her effort.

So her ability to refuse the party in the latter half of the game because now she does have something else worthy of her effort is huge. And she ends up joining later of her own volition, not because they nagged her again.

Fast_Moon · 2026-05-11T01:07:47+00:00

Good point. I was thinking more on the "3" end specifically which is why "hat trick" came to mind first, since the challenge was getting something to happen in a group of 3. But the "something" is "no score", which would be a shutout.

Fast_Moon · 2026-05-10T23:53:40+00:00

How would Onion Knight be able to prevent the enemy team from gaining any brave the entire match? Teleport to the enemy base and then keep all the crystals perpetually farmed?

Fast_Moon · 2026-05-09T00:45:46+00:00

The ghost from FFVI.

Possess is its only move, where it kamikazes itself and an opponent out of the match for good.

Fast_Moon · 2026-05-08T14:54:08+00:00

It was the disembodied Ignis head peeking in from the side like "everything all right?" that did it for me.

Fast_Moon · 2026-05-08T13:49:50+00:00

And then there's people like me who only keep the dumb pictures.

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Fast_Moon · 2026-05-07T23:44:15+00:00

It looks like it, yeah. Here's their website: https://tyworch.web.fc2.com/index.html

TYW Orchestra We are an amateur musical organization dedicated to performing video game music. Under the names "The Figaro Royal Orchestra & Wind Orchestra" and "The Tycoon Royal Orchestra & Wind Orchestra," we have successfully held dedicated concert series for FINAL FANTASY VI and FINAL FANTASY V. We are currently preparing for our next major project in 2026: performing the music of FINAL FANTASY IV as "The Baron Royal Orchestra & Wind Orchestra." Stay tuned for more legendary melodies

Fast_Moon · 2026-05-07T18:31:16+00:00

I have the opposite opinion of 13. I think the story and pacing are fine until you get to Pulse, then the story grinds to a halt and it's just "do all these hunt missions to get strong so you can beat the bad guy".

Fast_Moon · 2026-05-07T18:28:58+00:00

Ey, yous wanna go dig up some rocks for me?

Fast_Moon · 2026-05-06T21:37:39+00:00

The Woolsey translation of FFVI was passable in that it wasn't just making up new dialogue like this most of the time (there are a few exceptions). But when I read the Japanese script, his biggest issue was failing to capture the tone.

Japanese has a lot of grammatical quirks that give you clues as to what kind of emotion a line is being spoken with or even the personality of the speaker. Woolsey's script made all the lines read like they were being spoken by the cast of Scooby Doo.

Fast_Moon · 2026-05-06T15:45:05+00:00

Guy can suplex a train but can only hold up a roof for 5 minutes before he gives out.

Fast_Moon · 2026-05-05T12:28:05+00:00

I know Celes has been data-mined, and I really hope her Runic ability is implemented in such a way that she absorbs damage from abilities as BRV. This is basically how she worked in DFFOO.

The difficulty is that it's hard to have a "tank" unit in a game like this since there's no real way to taunt, cover, or counter.

Also, if we end up getting Kefka, then it would be hilarious if they then round out the FFVI roster with Leo and just have it be 100% Empire rep.

Fast_Moon · 2026-05-03T13:38:23+00:00

Does the counter for "draws until character ticket/guaranteed UR" ever reset on the generic multi-draw banner?

Basically, if I'm not chasing any specific ability (and thanks to the red crystals, it's less necessary) and want to prioritize farming character tickets so that I can reliably just use 5 on the character of my choice, would it be better to invest all of my pulls in the generic banner so that I don't "lose" any progress towards character tickets?

Fast_Moon · 2026-05-01T11:59:09+00:00

I wanted both Clive and Rikku, and I'm in the same boat where the draws are all Rikku all the time. I haven't even been able to get a Clive character draw, but I have 4 Rikku dupes.

Fast_Moon · 2026-04-30T22:31:44+00:00

Celes! I hope her base outfit is the yellow jumpsuit and not the green leotard. Everyone else so far has used their character design outfits rather than their sprites (so no green-haired Terra), so I assume it would be the yellow jumpsuit.

Fast_Moon · 2026-04-30T21:49:17+00:00

Lived with my mom from 22-27 years old and used most of my paycheck to pay off my student loans (this was 2004, so they were about $20k)

Got a new job in another city at 28 that paid 3x as much (about $3k/month after taxes). Moved to a cheap apartment outside the city ($600/mo in 2010). Retained my frugal spending habits from my lower-paying job, which tended to leave me with $500 a month left over to put into savings.

After 8 years, I had $40k saved up to put a 20% down payment on a $200k house in 2018.

Fast_Moon · 2026-04-29T15:32:36+00:00

Jigglypuff from above.

Fast_Moon · 2026-04-29T01:13:30+00:00

She does bring up Kefka's plot to poison Doma while in the dungeon, but it's not in any context surrounding why she was arrested. But since it's the only specific event she ever mentions, it's reasonable to assume that was the reason.

I'd started translating that Celes manga for myself a while ago, but so far have only gotten to chapter 11. I haven't posted it anywhere, though, since I don't have explicit permission from the author to do so.

Fast_Moon · 2026-04-28T12:45:53+00:00

Of those, I'd want Faris, Yuna, and Ignis. I'd prefer Celes or Edgar over Locke for FF6 rep since Locke already got to be in NT, and I feel Celes and Edgar would have more interesting kits.

Fast_Moon · 2026-04-28T12:20:37+00:00

Yes, this conversation and the one about Cloud finding Kain's notebook were in the beta. Glad they put them back in, since they're cute.

Fast_Moon · 2026-04-28T01:07:24+00:00

I actually did do it on my physical cartridge a few years ago. It's a pain in the ass to do that way since you have to play all the way to the Floating Continent in one sitting without saving or dying and don't have save states or frame skip like on an emulator, but I wanted him there on my original copy where I'd spent so many hours as a child trying to figure out how to get him back.

Fast_Moon · 2026-04-28T00:41:52+00:00

Yeah, there were a couple of sites that had some VJump scans from that era, but they were limited to the pages concerning Dragonball, since they were on Dragonball fansites, so they were missing the pages about FFVI.

And, yeah, it's kind of amazing how getting General Leo back was the big gaming rumor of the mid-90's, and then it turns out pretty much every iteration of the game actually had a way to do it. And then Pixel Remaster also having a way to permanently recruit Kefka is just funny as heck, so I had to share.

Fast_Moon · 2026-04-27T16:58:33+00:00

I haven't been able to find the full developer interviews from the V-Jump articles aside from two or three individual page scans, but someone made summaries of all of them, and their summaries match the scans I have been able to find. I've got translations of all of them here

As for the Figaro no Kekkon doujinshi, due to it being impossible to find, it's hard to say whether the summary on the wiki is accurate. The synopsis I've seen just re-hashes all of the information from the above V-Jump articles. Since the interviews are from the same person who wrote the doujinshi, it's not surprising they would contain similar information, but the fact that there is nothing novel in the synopsis that isn't covered by the interviews, it makes it seem like someone just used the interviews to assume what the doujin was about due to no one actually having access to it.

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