Return of Let's Play FF6: The Bride of Let's Play FF6

[Amake]

Considering you're power-leveled so it doesn't really matter who knows what spells (or who gets which of those three useless level up bonuses), and you get at least 6 more Espers pretty soon, I guess we can just do something funny. Siren for Eunuch, obviously. Can't think of any other interesting combinations. >_>

[Lord Setheris]

Give Kirin to Cocke. That way he can steal and then do some quick healing.
Give Cait Sith to Eunuch since its as useless as his genitals.
Give Ramuh to Celes to make her magical options more potent.
Give AHNULD siren just so he can show how useless summoning is in this game.

Seriously. FF6 was the first FF i played. I thought summoning was awesome... but then I played FF4 and 5 and I realized, "holy shit. 6 got SCREWED on summoning."

UPDATE::
BTW!!!!!
KERENSKY!
This is still the greatest thing going on in my life right now (my life is boring)
Even if nobody else posts know that I love what you are doing!!!!

[Kerensky287]

Okay, sorry everyone about the recent lack of updates but stuff has been CRAZY recently. I may update tonight (I'll try) but... I'm also really, really tired from an 8 hour shift at work in which I did the work of about 3 other people and on a day when I was only supposed to get a 4 hour shift. Also, I had to bike home in a thunderstorm. Yeah.

So... IT'S NOT DEAD. New chapter tonight or tomorrow night. Most likely tonight because I always say "Or later" and it ends up being later. I want to break that habit. But holy crap I'm tired...

[Lord Setheris]

Originally Posted by Kerensky287

Okay, sorry everyone about the recent lack of updates but stuff has been CRAZY recently. I may update tonight (I'll try) but... I'm also really, really tired from an 8 hour shift at work in which I did the work of about 3 other people and on a day when I was only supposed to get a 4 hour shift. Also, I had to bike home in a thunderstorm. Yeah.

So... IT'S NOT DEAD. New chapter tonight or tomorrow night. Most likely tonight because I always say "Or later" and it ends up being later. I want to break that habit. But holy crap I'm tired...

-pokes in the belly with various excalibur swords to see which one really only has the attack value of 1-

[Kerensky287]

I've also been updating the first page, in case anybody cares. We've got all the character themes so far and a table of contents up. Go ahead and take a look, if you want.



Meanwhile, elsewhere...



A squadron of airships flies into the horizon.



A mysterious figure in black armour stands on the deck of the one in front.





The enigmatic Captain Cecil!





What, you didn't do any stealing, did you? Because that would be wrong.



...Oh.



Yellow means flashback.



And Cecil steals their precious jewel.



"I'm a doctor, not a killer!"



Huh?



"Otac- er, Store! I had that dream again...."

That thing in the distance is the Imperial capital. We want to go there.



But we can't land too close. May as well stop in town for supplies anyway.



...Uh... The holes add a lot to the decor of the town... I guess.



I see.



You're not gonna get anywhere with that attitude.



Screw these people. They make me feel unhappy.

Let's check out the local relic shop.



Silver spectacles prevent the Darkness status effect. There is no more useless item in the game, bar none.



...Wait, what's that noise?



Hey! It's Hefner's group!



So the Empire drugged them and forced them to dance? The bastards!



You're sitting in front of an empty table. You are not busy.



"You're a little short for a stormtrooper."

As she says this, she slips a note into Eunuch's hand and pushes him away, mock-angrily.

The note says:

Please meet me outside. The empire is holding us captive.

Two birds with one stone.

We go out and meet with the woman.

"I'm sorry to make you do this, but these are very tense times. My friends and I used to be part of, umm, an acting troupe. Right. You wouldn't happen to know a man named Hefner, would you?"

"Yes!" we happily respond. We can smell the experience already.

"He was the, umm, manager. So you see, we need your help to get back to him. Most of us are here, but some were taken to the Magitek Research Facility in the capital."



"If you can help them, I can promise you that you'll be greatly rewarded... *wink*"

It's like Mass Effect all over again.

I'm pretty sure we were going to the Research Facility anyway, too.

Let's go tell Hef!



"Geez, remind me not to do anything nice for you anymore. As it is, I'm only staying in for the promise of booty."

Speaking of which.



I kinda just mixed up the first two posts I saw in the thread, so apologies if it was nowhere near popular opinion. I am FUCKING TIRED.









So each character will now start learning spells!



In addition, espers can be summoned during combat for various effects.



Kirin casts Regen on the party.



Regen kinda heals people at random. It's pretty good, normally. Summons still aren't all that great in this game though.



Vector ho!



"WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?!"

Time to kick reason to the curb and do the impossible!



It also helps that the old man hiding in the corner is a spy on our side.





Godspeed!





SPY'S SAPPIN' THEIR SENTRIES!





Gotta love a good spy.



Now to capture the intelligence!

...Or, uh, free people? Free espers? I forget the mission.



Wait! That laugh!



Why so serious?







Who are the Warring Triad? That's a story for another time, children.





And then he throws them in the trash. Foolish clown, Espers are recyclable!



When in Rome...



Wow, lots of skeletons. Wonder where they came from? Because I'm pretty sure Espers become magicite when they die.



...Ifrit is not quite dead.



Nothing a good Raging Fist can't handle!





Aww, feck. I was not expecting that.



Fine, time for Plan B!



BANZAI!!!



"Are you axe-crazy too?"









...No, REALLY?

"No, John! You ARE the demons!"









So... these ARE dead Espers? Why is this not a magicite goldmine?







Oh well. I guess I'll have to suffer for using their dead bodies for fun and profit.



We has some new Espers. Woohoo!

Next stop: wherever the hell the other Espers are!



Oh, you know it, Cecil.

[Lord Setheris]

YAY!!!!
It's back and its alive! We love you Kerensky!

[Kerensky287]

Sorry about all the delays. Updates should be... somewhat more frequent now because my rush of work shifts are over. And then, uh, there'll be another delay in a week or so again, due to an unrelated issue.

But I'll try to get like 3 or 4 updates up before I go, so hopefully it'll somewhat make up for it.

EDIT: So... I've got a question of opinion for you guys. How would you prefer to read this Let's Play?

It kinda started off as "I'll play the game and make funny jokes about it. You name the characters." It worked well for a while. But... well, near everybody knows the story of FF6, so it gets kind of boring after a while. To read and to make.

So what I've been doing recently... or trying to do... is to throw in some of my own creativity. Rather than just changing personalities a little bit, I could throw in some entirely new story elements. Like, that Hefner's Talent thing? Entirely fabricated (in case you didn't realize).

...I just wanted to ask for the opinions of the readers, however few there may be (I assume based on the lack of posts), because I have no idea how this has been received so far. I haven't done MUCH different, but I could do more, especially because everybody seems to be enjoying DFM's Let's Play so much, myself included. I think we can all agree that good writing is better than scattered jokes... but I could be wrong.

Whaddya say?

[Amake]

I like it, though as you say, maybe it gets boring in the long run. I read the last update days ago and have yet to come up with anything to say about it. It's amusing and that's pretty much it. :x

Speaking as an artist however, I don't think you should worry about pleasing everyone; just write what you'd like to read. Everything else usually follows on that.

[01d55]

I don't know the story of FF6. Never played it.

[BitVyper]

Just have fun with it. I mean, the worst that can happen is that we all hate it, so we get together, put you on trial, then swiftly convict and execute you. And I mean, that only has like, a 40... 45% chance of happening tops.

Seriously though; just have fun. Do whatever you think is cool.