

Final Fantasy VI has won numerous awards since its release.Super Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, Super NES Classic Edition, iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switchįinal Fantasy VI is the sixth main installment in the Final Fantasy series, developed and published by Squaresoft. Its Super Nintendo and PlayStation versions have sold over 3.48 million copies worldwide to date as a stand-alone game, as well as over 750,000 copies as part of the Japanese Final Fantasy Collection and the North American Final Fantasy Anthology. Released to critical acclaim, Final Fantasy VI was a landmark title for the role-playing genre and is often considered one of the greatest video games of all time. Yoshitaka Amano, a long-time contributor to the Final Fantasy series, returned as the image and character designer, while regular composer Nobuo Uematsu wrote the game's score, which has been released on several soundtrack albums. Final Fantasy VI was the first game in the series to be directed by someone other than producer and series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi the role was filled instead by Yoshinori Kitase and Hiroyuki Ito.

However, most later localizations used the original title. The game was known as Final Fantasy III when it was first released in North America, as the original Final Fantasy III had not been released outside of Japan at the time. It was ported by Tose with minor differences to Sony's PlayStation in 1999 and Nintendo's Game Boy Advance in 2006, and it was released for the Wii's Virtual Console in Japan in March 15, 2011, followed by the PAL region on Maand North America on June 30, 2011.

The game features fourteen permanent playable characters, the most of any game in the main series.

Set in a fantasy world with a technology level equivalent to that of the Second Industrial Revolution, the game's story focuses on a group of rebels as they seek to overthrow an imperial dictatorship. Final Fantasy VI (ファイナルファンタジーVI Fainaru Fantajī Shikkusu?) is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix), released in 1994 for the SNES as a part of the Final Fantasy series.
