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>>4956250
They do it just to annoy you. Because triggering autists is funny.

>>4956250
>Can someone give me a quick rundown on why people insist that FFVI has a main character so aggressively?
Cite? Seems like a straw man to me. That said, the de facto protagonist trades at different points of the game. Terra is the first protagonist. Locke sort-of takes over for a little while, and then Celes is last before it goes full open-world.

>>4956250
Because Terra is the first one you play. But its obvious that the game has no main protagonist.Theyre all important.

>>4956250
Terra gets the most time in the spotlight and she gets instant "Chosen One" status by being the party's main link with the Espers.
Espers are a big part of the gameplay and the Warring Triad is the story's main MacGuffin for the first half. You could remove Gogo, Umaro, Mog, Gau, Relm and Cyan from the game and basically nothing would change.
The second half does ultimately leave everything up to you though.

>>4956250
Terra, Locke and Celes are the most important characters in the game, with Terra and Locke being THE most important by far.

That said, LOST also had a huge cast of characters, all with defined stories, but some of them were much more important than the others, like Jack, Locke, Sawyer and Kate.

>>4956250
Because Terra carries the main plot. That's a protagonist.

>>4956559
She doesn't carry anything, she's timid and takes a back seat at several points. Aerith and Yuna have more involvement in the stories their in. Terra's role in the story is closer to macguffin than a hero.

>>4956250
>Can someone give me a quick rundown on why people insist that FFVI has a main character so aggressively?

Is that something people insist? FF6 is one of the last FF games with a true ensemble cast instead of having any singular protagonist.

>>4956431
Terra and Locke don't even have to be in your party for the entire second act

>>4956315
I'm with this guy. OP seems to be strawmanning pretty hard.

>>4956585
>She's the chosen one but she's not the protagonist.

>>4956592
>>4956315
I'm with these guys. Who is insisting this so much that it's vexed the OP so?

>>4956624
where does the game ever bring up anything about a chosen one?

>>4956250
>Can someone give me a quick rundown on why people insist that FFVI has a main character so aggressively?
I've never heard a single person say that or read a single comment online saying that.

>>4956431
locke must be pretty cool to appear in two series

Locke is my favorite character, therefore he's the main character

>>4956250
It has 2 you, Terra in WoB and Celes in WoR.

1/10 made me reply

>>4956250
I've never seen anyone online say FFVI has a main character so aggressively. Maybe you saw a single person say it on neogaf but that doesn't really mean you need to necessitate an entire thread topic.

>>4956958
Don't tell me what I can't do!

>>4957025
No. The scenarios shift away from those as the story moves along. Seeing a character first doesn't make them the main character.

>>4957379
lol

The internet, where 'lol' is a cogent argument.

>>4957379
Terra is still central to the plot. Even if you don't recruit her in the WoR, she shows up after the final battle anyway because she's required for the ending. And certainly she's the most central protagonist for the WoB.

Yes, the game has multiple POV characters. In particular Locke, Sabin, and Celes all take turns at the helm (and then Setzer is your default airship pilot for the final segment). But Terra is undeniably the most important. She's the first one and the story in the part of the game that has an actual plot centers around her. When Terra is out of commission the story plot is still driven by finding her, reviving her, and discovering her true nature. When she returns, its her quest to visit the Espers and then again to try and make peace with them after they go berserk.

And then, despite the fact that the original plotline ends in a disaster and Terra sits out the non-linear phase of the story almost entirely, she's important enough that she has to be brought back for the ending because no other character has any conflict directly related to the main storyline about the espers and magic.

>>4957547
lol

>>4957547
The internet, where people will spew gibberish and then expect a sincere reply lol

>>4957628
except the game stops being about espers about halfway through after kefka fucking destroys their shit

>>4957768
The statues and magic still exist. The big question is what will happen to Terra when the statues are destroyed and magic disappears from the world No other character really has any stakes in the ending, besides the obvious "get rid of Kefka so we can rebuild the world."

>>4956250
>every character is the protagonist.
>Gau
>Mog
>Gogo
>Umaro
>Relm
>Strago
>Shadow
>Banon
>"Protagonists"
Either the game actually doesn't have this "every character is a protagonist" bullshit or they failed incredibly hard, or both.
Even Edgar, Sabin and Cyan lose what little importance or relevance they had by the time you get to the WoR.

>>4957794
Yeah OP has no idea what he's talking about and likely hasn't even played the game. It's an ensemble cast, but it deffinitely has major characters and minor characters.

Killing Kefka with Celes and Terra and watching the credits is the main plot and the characters' stories are less relevant?

>>4957812
>OP mostly cites the developers
>the developers don't know what they're talking about and likely haven't even played the game

>>4957894
Op didn't cite anything
>he greentexted

>>4957628
>Sabin
Not really. He's the sole character you start with in one of the segments, but that segment shifts its focus to Cyan incredibly fast.

>>4957930
What the fuck do you think greentext is, you retarded newfag?

>>4957894
>>the developers don't know what they're talking about and likely haven't even played the game
Seems to me like that might be the case, and not just for FFVI.

>>4956250
>>Consequently, Terra and Locke were conceived by Sakaguchi; Celes and Gau by Kitase; Shadow and Setzer by graphic director Tetsuya Nomura; and Edgar and Sabin by field graphic designer Kaori Tanaka.
>Shadow and Setzer by graphic director Tetsuya Nomura
>Nomura made Shadow
are you fucking kidding me

>>4957894
>"we're going to do thing"
>they don't
>"g-great job guys!"