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This is my favorite game and I've been playing it since 1995. I know nearly every secret and exploit so the original game is extremely easy now. This hack revitalized the game so I could enjoy the story and battles again without being bored or going on "RPG autopilot".

VETERANS

This hack made the enemies quite challenging at many points. You'll often need to look at all your abilities and figure out how to push on. This will test a veteran's FF6 knowledge (in a very fun way). With my playthrough, I ended up trying many party and equipment combinations I didn't before and learned to appreciate more of the original game. For the first time I was learning to enjoy and utilize Umaro and Relm in difficult battles, as an example. You also have to start utilizing many more relics and items than in the original. This is one of the hacks strongest points: it makes me appreciate many facets of the game which I overlooked before due to FF6's low difficulty. The hack also made the story (which is unchanged) feel earned again and of course its always enjoyable to experience.

NEW PLAYERS

New players looking for a new and fun SNES RPG will be able to enjoy this as well since the gameplay should be fairly challenging to a newbie as you aren't familiar with the exploits which veterans are. You'll have to look through all your abilities to come up with winning strats. And of course, this game has one of the best stories of all time. The story and dialogue thankfully hasn't been altered in any way I can remember.

DIFFICULTY

This hack is very difficult in the start, then varies in difficulty throughout until the end where it gets fairly difficult again. However it's never again as difficult as it was in the start (my only disappointment). But more importantly, throughout the entire game all the battles are consistently interesting and engrossing enough to make it feel like a fresh playthrough and will keep your interest. I was never "bored because it's too easy" and I get bored VERY easily these days!

BALANCE CHANGES

There are some balance changes to characters and equipment which feel natural. Nothing is hacked to the point where it feels like it doesn't belong, as in other hacks. Veteran players will be able to enjoy the games many abilities again with new twists and pleasant surprises! When you first played FF6, you learned to exploit many abilities, I'm sure, to overcome harder battles. It was a satisfying experience. You'll have that experience again with this hack since so much is re-tuned in an intelligent way!

KEFKAS TOWER HELP

If you need help on Kefka's Tower, my final teams were: Terra/Strago/Shadow/Relm, Edgar/Sabin/Umaro/Mog, Gogo/Cyan/Locke/Celes. I gave everyone Marvel Shoes as well.

THANK YOU

Thank you for this amazing hack! I really enjoyed it :D

This is a great difficulty hack, that leaves the original game mostly intact but makes it challenging again so that it's worth playing. I was feeling the urge to play FF3 again, and I was deciding between playing this hack or doing some other challenge game, such as a natural magic game or low level game. I'm glad I went with this hack.

The author did a great job of making it so that extra level building isn't really needed - so often what happens with these difficulty hacks is that the player just needs to grind levels to advance, but this isn't the case here. I finished the game with my main party of 4 around level 45, and my other members in the low to mid 30's. I didn't run from many battles, but I didn't hang around level building either.

Most of the challenge in this hack occurs in the World of Balance and the earlier bits of the World of Ruin. Once you start amassing the best spells and equipment (especially if you use the Colosseum), the game isn't very difficult anymore, aside from a few particularly troublesome battles. I played with a MBlock fix patch, and it still felt like few enemies could scratch me at the very end of the game. It's no harder to get lots of block and magic block in this than it was in the original game. It's also still possible to get 255 defense to become immune to physicals. While I sort of wish the author had toned down some of the blocking equipment to keep this from happening, the hack was still enjoyable anyways.

It's a pretty solid hack. It doesn't really attempt to show it's a great hack since no true romhacking is being done (the use of the FF3 editor is pretty self-evident). Some attacks were added to simply increase the number of status attacks possible, which is good yet unimaginative.

The CzarDragon: The monster was designed pretty well, though after fighting it often enough, it's not as hard as it looks once you plan properly. When fought frequently, you can potentially become overpowered to the point that the difficulty drops tremendously. I find it ironic that it is one of the few things that the author says to deter you from fighting in the particular location it is found in.

A lot of the equipment changes were thoughtful, so the guy does deliver what was said for the most part.