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613: Episode 613 Preview: Final Fantasy VI (Live From Midwest Gaming Classic 2024)

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Technology, Leisure, Games, Video Games

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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You're listening to a free preview of Retronauts Episode 613: Final Fantasy VI (Live From Midwest Gaming Classic 2024). To hear the rest, and get two exclusive extra episodes every month, access to our previous Patreon-exclusive episodes, and early access to ad-free podcasts, please visit the official Retronauts Patreon at patreon.com/retronauts.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody what you're about to hear is a free preview of a podcast on our five dollar exclusive episodes

0:06.1

tier at patreon.com slash retronauts and if you want to hear the whole thing please go to

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patreon dot com slash retronauts and sign up at the five dollar

0:15.2

exclusive episodes tier once you do that you'll get access to all of our previous

0:18.7

exclusive episodes and our future ones as well as long as you remain a patron and our exclusive

0:23.3

episodes will launch every other Friday. Again that is the Retronauts

0:27.4

Patreon at patreon dot com slash retronauts and I'll let you get to this free preview of one of our exclusive episodes. So the creators of the game we have here in Obisakaguchi, he's the godfather of the series.

0:54.8

At this point, he was promoted to a vice president role at Square, so he had to be less hands-on.

1:02.4

And the other creators are Yoshinori Kitase,

1:04.5

who is the planner or director of the game,

1:07.0

the narrative director as well.

1:09.0

And also, Hirouki Ito, who is the guy behind the battle system just building off of what came before in the series so far.

1:17.0

And then a guy whose name is pretty known to most R.P.

1:20.0

Tizoyonomera, who at this point was drawing monsters, but also created the two

1:25.9

most emo of the heroes, which are Shadow and Cetser.

1:29.3

He would not step into a much bigger role until the next game obviously and define the book of

1:33.9

FF for a while after that. More people involved we have Kazu Kossibia. She made all

1:40.6

of the very cute battle sprites and SD characters on the Japanese packaging and if you play those remasters

1:45.9

She has basically recreated all the sprites to work better with non-CRT displays CRT displays. displays. I know there's a lot of controversy around the

1:54.0

the sprites, but those sprites, of course, were made during the day of days of CRT.

1:57.0

We expected a certain amount of smear.

1:59.0

And I understand people now are kind of like angry about preservation and whatnot, but looking at Tara's

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