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# Video Game / Filly Fantasy VI

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Filly Fantasy VI is a Romhack of Final Fantasy VI that replaces the game's cast with the characters of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. It is created by DrakeyC, RydelFox, and has contributions from other designers and programmers. The game is a remake of Pony Fantasy VI, but features significantly different gameplay and story elements along with a different cast.

1000 years ago, the Two Sisters defeated King Sombra in a conflict called the Crystal War. In the aftermath, the Crystal Ponies, also known as "Espers," vanished from the world. Now Sombra has returned; he's taken control of the Crystal Empire, released Discord from his petrification in exchange for servitude, and has begun his march to conquer Equestria. The heroes of the land come together to fight back and discover what the Espers have to do with Sombra's return and rise to power, and what Twilight Sparkle's connection to the ancient beings is.

## This game provides examples of:

- Adaptational Badass:
  - The Espers, as played by the past generation ponies, are far more badass than their counterparts. It's even a plot point that they had a different type of magic that earth ponies and pegasi could all use.
  - The Founders - Commander Hurricane, Chancellor Puddinghead, and Princess Platinum - are filling in for the Warring Triad.
  - The Ursa Minor fills in for the Ultima Weapon as a being of nigh-unstoppable magical energy. Then comes the Ursa Major...
- Adaptational Villainy:
  - Gilda is working for King Sombra.
  - Being that Discord is cast as Kefka, he's far more vicious and bloodthirsty than in the canon.
  - Derpy, Button Mash, and Dinky Doo fill the roles of the Air Force and its attachments. Played for Laughs, though, as the encounter is a Big Lipped Alligator Moment meant to be random and unexpected.
- Alternate Universe: With some Alternate History for good measure; the story's branching point from the canon is Season 3, starting with King Sombra's return.
- Back from the Dead: In the backstory, Sombra's resurrection is the catalyst for the war.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: King Sombra and Discord, with Sombra as the stronger of the two. Though if you've played the original Final Fantasy VI, you know how this one goes.
- Bonus Boss: The Eight Wraths, counterparts of the Eight Dragons, are optional battles.
- Character Name Limits: The game only lets you input up to six letters in a name, while most of the characters have names that are longer. To get around this, most of them have nicknames, such as "Cadie" for Princess Cadance.
- Composite Character: All characters combine elements of the canon with the Final Fantasy VI cast. Some Final Fantasy VI characters are also combined.
  - Gilda combines the roles of Vargas, Dadaluma, and Number 128.
  - Trixie combines Siegfried, Lone Wolf, and Gogo.
  - Zecora fills in for both Banon and Duncan.
  - The Crystal Ponies fill in for the Espers, but are also a combination with the ancient pony tribes and the past generation ponies.
- Continuity Cameo: The Espers are ponies from past generations; in place of Maduin, Twilight's mother is the G1 Twilight.
- Crapsack World: Equestria is quickly going to Tartarus in a hoofbasket with Sombra and Discord brainwashing ponies to conscript them into their army and marching to conquer Equestria's cities one by one. Not to mention that many of the characters that die in VI die here, as well.
- Death by Adaptation: A rundown of canon MLP characters who are killed off: Shining Armor, Granny Smith, Big Mac, Gilda, the Wonderbolts, Fancy Pants, Derpy, Button Mash, Dinky Doo, Sunset Shimmer, Tirek, Discord, King Sombra, Queen Chrysalis, and Screwball. Not to mention all the past generation characters that fade from existence at the end of the game. Radiant Hope and Fluttershy can also die depending on the player's actions.
- The Dreaded: King Sombra, as in the canon, is universally feared by the Espers/Crystal Ponies. Considering what he's trying to do now that he's back, the rest of Equestria is starting to see him this way too.
- Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: A major part of the new gameplay balance is the increased prevalence of weapons and armor with elemental properties, both as resistances and weaknesses. Enemies also have access to more varied types of elemental attacks than before (particularly the Imperials), which makes paying attention to the elemental abilities of your equipment more important than in vanilla.
- The Empire: Now that King Sombra has taken control of it, the Crystal Empire lives up to the darker connotations attached to its title.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Given that Applejack has taken Cyan's role, there's a bar floozy who hits on her, and Luna as well.
  Applejack: Stop that! Mah barn door don't swing that way, and neither does hers!
- Fighter, Mage, Thief: The three pony types are sorted into the roles by base stats and equipment that boosts specific stats. The earth ponies are Fighters, with high Strength, Stamina, and Defense; the unicorns are Mages, specializing in Magic, Magic Defense, and MBlock; and the pegasi are Thieves, with good Speed and Evasion. The three alicorns in turn are each a Jack-of-All-Stats but lean towards one of the three types (Celestia for unicorns, Luna for earth ponies, and Cadance for pegasi).
- Fusion Fic: It's My Little Pony characters and lore wrapped around a Final Fantasy VI center.
- Hyperactive Metabolism: Healing items are replaced by apple-base foods, and MP recovery items with cider.
- Infinity+1 Sword: Everyone has a unique ultimate weapon, and there's also the weapons dropped by the Founders, the best weapon types for the three pony types.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
  - The Mane-iac seems rather aware she's in a video game.
  Flash: Why are you even here?
  Mane-iac: Well, I was the only villain who fights with tentacles! Now! Prepare for the fight scene!
  - Pinkie Pie, in grand tradition.
  Pinkie: I wanted to join at the start of the game, but the hacker didn't know how to do that!
- Magic A Is Magic A: It's played with as a plot point; alicorn magic is not the same as unicorn magic is not the same as Esper magic. Different characters tap into and combine these three types of magic in different ways, justifying how a cast half-full of unicorns and alicorns can have radically different abilities.
- My Country, Right or Wrong: Flash Sentry, in the "if wrong to be put right" flavor. He's still loyal to the Crystal Empire, but not to Sombra.
- Mythology Gag: Many.
  - Pinkie claims that the various foodstuffs stashed in crates and clocks around Equestria are hers, and she hid them there "in case of emergency."
  - Discord cackles "Arrivederci, King Sombrero!" as he kicks Sombra to his death.
  - Sunset Shimmer fills in as the Rachel to Flash Sentry's Locke, which makes even more sense when you remember which Magicite Locke used to revive Rachel.
  - The Pinkie Pie clones serve as the hack's Moogle substitutes, shouting "Fun!" instead of "Kupo!"
  - The soldiers of the Empire are the same design seen in "The Cutie Re-Mark" where Sombra tried to conquer Equestria in a Bad Future.
  - Griffonstone fills the role of Zozo.
  - Some of the various Infinity Plus One Swords; Twilight has the Twilicane, Pinkie has the Party Cannon, Rarity has the Scale Saber.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: The Mane-iac takes Siegfried's place as the champion of the Coliseum, and guards the most powerful items in the game. You've spent the game kicking her flank, now watch her Hyperdrive deal a One-Hit KO to you.
- Sequel Difficulty Spike: Made specifically to be harder than vanilla VI, with enemies having higher attacks and more aggressive AI scripts, and on the player party front, MP costs are higher, unique abilities were nerfed, and HP and MP growth is lower.
- Shout-Out:
  - The Mane-iac says "Prepare for the fight scene!" before attacking the party in the third encounter with her.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Unlike the VI characters they substitute for, Zecora and Fluttershy definitely don't die here.

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