Ah, and so that is where we drastically differ: I was in the market for non-cute-rollercoaster-of-t3h-drama at the time and FFVI filled that in for me very well.

And sadly, I never got to play the game. ;(

I got around to playing Seiken Densetsu 3 though! It was fun! (Didn't dissect the game though, just ran through it once with an all boys team with Kevin in the lead (Kevin's plot is so WTF) and just forgot to replay it.)

I wish there was an english release of Mother 3. :(