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Myzery posted...

i will never understand its popularity.
grinds the game to a halt and i dont like the song one bit.

For me personally, FF6 was the first video game that showed me at the tender age of 11 that video games could be art. The music, the graphics at the time...even the way the game was subtlety treated like a stage play, with moogles appearing on a black screen to explain the next step, or an imp walking out to jaunty ragtime music to describe how Gau's Rage worked. Little touches that really helped sell me on the game, and genre as a whole (because at the time I really did not like turned-based RPGs, especially when they cut to a different screen for battles).

But anyway, the Opera performance was pretty much mind-blowing at the time. The music, the choreography, the way the sprites' mouths synced up to the lyrics. And they made it just interactive enough to not feel like a cutscene without turning into a prototype-QTE.