Final Fantasy VI

Final Fantasy VI
Box art of the original Super Famicom (Japanese) release
Developer(s)	Square
Publisher(s)	Square Super NES WW: Square PlayStation JP: Square NA: Square Electronic Arts EU: Sony Computer Entertainment Game Boy Advance JP: Square Enix NA: Nintendo EU: Nintendo Android, iOS, Windows WW: Square Enix
Director(s)	Yoshinori Kitase Hiroyuki Ito
Producer(s)	Hironobu Sakaguchi
Designer(s)	Hiroyuki Ito
Programmer(s)	Ken Narita
Artist(s)	Tetsuya Takahashi Kazuko Shibuya Yoshitaka Amano Hideo Minaba Tetsuya Nomura
Writer(s)	Yoshinori Kitase Hironobu Sakaguchi
Composer(s)	Nobuo Uematsu
Series	Final Fantasy
Platform(s)	Super Nintendo Entertainment System PlayStation Game Boy Advance Android iOS Windows Nintendo Switch PlayStation 4
Release	April 2, 1994 Super NES JP: April 2, 1994 NA: October 11, 1994 PlayStation JP: March 11, 1999 NA: October 5, 1999 PAL: March 1, 2002 Game Boy Advance JP: November 30, 2006 NA: February 5, 2007 EU: July 6, 2007 Android WW: January 15, 2014 iOS WW: February 6, 2014 Windows NA/EU: December 16, 2015 Pixel Remaster Android, iOS, Windows WW: February 23, 2022 Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 WW: April 19, 2023
Genre(s)	Role-playing
Mode(s)	Single-player

Final Fantasy VI,^[a] also known as Final Fantasy III from its initial North American release, is a 1994 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the sixth main entry in the Final Fantasy series, the final to feature 2D sprite based graphics, and the first to be directed by someone other than series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi; the role was instead filled by Yoshinori Kitase and Hiroyuki Ito. Long-time collaborator Yoshitaka Amano returned as character designer and concept artist, while composer Nobuo Uematsu returned to compose the game's score, which has been released on several soundtrack albums.

Set in a world with technology resembling the Second Industrial Revolution, the game's story follows an expanding cast that includes fourteen permanent playable characters. The narrative deals with the themes of a rebellion against an immoral military dictatorship, pursuit of a magical arms race, use of chemical weapons in warfare, depictions of violent and apocalyptic confrontations, several personal redemption arcs, teenage pregnancy, and the renewal of hope and life itself.

Final Fantasy VI received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for its graphics, soundtrack, story, characters, setting, and mature themes, and won numerous awards. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest video games of all time, and is often cited as a watershed title for the role-playing genre. The game was a commercial success, with the Super NES and PlayStation versions selling over 3.48 million copies worldwide by 2003, as well as over 750,000 copies as part of the Japanese Final Fantasy Collection and the North American Final Fantasy Anthology.

It was ported by Tose with minor differences to the PlayStation in 1999, and the Game Boy Advance in 2006. The Super NES version was rereleased for the Wii's Virtual Console in 2011, and by Nintendo as part of the company's Super NES Classic Edition in 2017.^[1] The game was known as Final Fantasy III when it was first released in North America, as the original Final Fantasy II, III, and V had not been released outside Japan at the time (leaving IV as the second title released outside Japan and VI as the third). However, all later versions of the game, other than re-releases of the original version, use the original title.

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