Awful Fantasy: An Interactive Adventure

[Snapple]

I did a search, and I noticed that nobody here has mentioned Awful Fantasy, which is too bad.

If you've never heard of it, one entrepeneuring person over at Somethingawful.com remade Final Fantasy 6 a little over a year ago. All of the dialogue has been changed. All the sprites have been swapped. All of the enemies are different. All the spells and equipment are different. The engine is still there. All the maps are the same. If you've played through FF6 before, you'll know exactly what to do. However, everything that could be cosmetically different about the game, is now different. And it's all been turned into completely off-the-wall, offensive, ridiculous humor.

No longer do you fight scorpions in the desert, but rather the head of Dr. Phil. "Espers" and "Magicite" have become "Cosplayers" and "Yiff Tokens." Summons now come in the form of guys like Vash the Stampede and Scorpion.

Gone is any coherent story. Instead, we're left with a strange plot about pirates and Xboxes.

Every single line in the game is a joke. Not all the lines are funny, but most of them are. It's the perfect reason, in my opinion, to play FF6 again. It's not for everyone though. As I said, the humor is low-brow.

If you're interested in checking it out, I suggest getting the "fixed" version, which is hosted here:
http://www.geocities.com/ninja_sasukesr/awfulfantasy.html

Mostly because Dispel was changed to TCC, a spell that purposely screws up the game and makes it practically unplayable. This got me nearly stuck in the final boss battle, because one of the enemies there casts TCC when it dies. The "fixed" version changes Dispel back to Dispel.

Information about the original release can be found here:
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1870


If you love FF6 and have a low-brow sense of humor (read: Keep the kiddies away from this one), you're bound to love Awful Fantasy. There are some "inside" jokes to fans of SA, but most of it is universal humor.

One thing I'll mention. In the Owzer's Basement, wear the "No encounter" relic to get through it. There's an enemy battle there that causes the game to glitch.

Don't "turn right" at the beginning of the game unless you've saved or have a death wish.... Actually, do it. Everyone should at least once.

[AB Positive]

This reminds me that there's a shojou-ai.com sponsored hack of Final Fantasy IV, that turns Cecil into VI's Ceres, Rosa into Terra, and Kain into a new female character, turning the love triangle from IV from two guys fighting over one girl into two women fighting over the woman. It's... unique but definitly adds an interesting twist.

Of course, it's from shoujo-ai.com (shoujo-ai = "girl's love") so this twist isn't unexpected.

I'll post the link if I can find it again.

-AG

[Jorpho]

How offensive does it get?

[DLord0]

Reminds me of an old hack of Chrono Trigger I saw a few years ago... by some group called Ballzysoft or something like that if I remember correctly. They released a sample of the hack and I remember thinking it was in quite bad taste.

That hack contained mainly dialogue changes and some of the things they changed were that when Marle met Chrono for the first time she dropped her "penis" instead of "pendant" and when she was asking for it back she said it had great "sexual value" instead of "sentimental value". Also, Lucca called Marle a whore or something like that when they first met. Ugh.

[Snapple]

How offensive does it get?

Well, it's only offensive if you let it be, really. It's not like there's anything racist in it, but there's a lot of cursing, porn jokes, and the like. 99% of the "offensive content" is just text. And even when it does get racy, it's still light-hearted. It pokes a lot of fun at the internet and some of the stranger people on it. But if you've been an avid internet searcher for a while, there won't be anything shocking. It's really not even trying to be shocking. It's just trying to be funny.

But still, as I said, don't let the children play it. I just wanted to say that as a disclaimer. A lot of dirty language, no violence or gore, and a little bit of nudity.

Maybe I'll post some screenshots later if people are afraid to try it, seeing as how nobody seems to have done so yet.

You can even check for other comments on Google. Probably a couple hundred thousand people have played the game in the last year, and most of them seem to love it. It's just pure randomness.

[Crush Crawfish]

This sounds freakin' awesome! I'm going to try it out later tonight...

[Jorpho]

The only such hack I've ever seen screenshots of was Super Monkey RPG, a text-only hack of Super Mario RPG. As I recall, the dialog was peppered with references to the homosexual tendencies of popular rappers. Bleah.

[Daria]

It's weird. I wouldn't think hacking the script of a game would be easy, but everytime one of these parodies are made I swear the "authors" can't be any older then 13. It would be a lot more impressive to see someone actually write their own adventure then make yet another RPG hack chock full of immature sexual humor. Not that mature sexual humour can't be entertaining, but jesus christ there's enough of these script hacks already.

[calthaer]

I'm pretty sure that the guys @ SomethingAwful are not 13 - they just pretend to be (as in the case of JEFFK).

Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka is probably around 27-30 at this point.