Final Fantasy VI tells one of the bleakest stories in all of video games. Unfortunately its world is not so different from our own...

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:18 Chapter I - "Dread Destructive Force": Magic as hierarchy
00:26:13 Chapter II - Devil's Lab: The myth of "progress"
00:45:55 Chapter III - Dark World: How "ruin" is our future
00:52:07 Chapter IV - Dancing M.A.D.: Kefka is not The Joker
01:17:21 Chapter V - Searching For Friends: Embrace solidarity, not doomerism
01:26:15 Chapter VI - Balance Is Restored: The dawn of a new world

Special Thanks to these wonderful folks for lending their voices to this video:
- @ZyllasAthenaeum
- @YouCallYourselfAFilmCritic
- Samantha Duke (@SKALFXK)
- Ron Swarthout - [ Ссылка ] , @megaron.bsky.social
- oddnon - [ Ссылка ], [ Ссылка ], @oddnon.bsky.social

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All game footage captured by me on original hardware.
Concept art scans from "The Sky: The Art of Final Fantasy" by Yoshitaka Amano.
Stock footage and sound effects from Storyblocks (unless otherwise noted).

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