Well, It's a little late, but I might as well respond to UncleBigHands' playthrough.


Ah, My Little Pony. How I love your adorableness, your charm, and your uplifting and Care Free Nature.

Ah Final Fantasy VI, how I love your dark tones, your grim setting, and your land of constant struggle.

Why, these are two things that fit perfectly together, Right?

….Right?
Strangley I never found FFVI too dark to not be uplifting, and I never found it too unlikely for FIM to have an FF style setting. In fact I was reminded of FF when I watched the pilot (though now I think more of classic MLP)



Poor Twilight wakes up in a strange pony's home, and we get our first Character Description!

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And now we see our first glimpses into Twilights past, and we get to view Discord being his comedically messed up self, and totally not a cruel and demented ass who is in the service of Gilda!

(SPOILER)




I really need to stop expecting things to accurately reflect the show.
As silly as this may seem, I'm actually quite pleased with it. Realistically Gilda playing Geshtalhl doesn't work for a number of reasons, but given what happens to the character, I'm happy with it (I am not a Gilda fan, at all.)

And while we are at it, why is the bumbling child who has no currently known talents being trusted to save the mass murder machine that is Twilight Sparkle?
(SPOILER) Lol. I dunno, but I found it cute. Is it any better than getting some random theif to do it? Yeah, I know he's part of the Returners, but it makes no sense the first time. So neither does this? I dunno.





You know, there is so much wrong with this, and I am going to go into great detail as to why. For starters AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH WTF SCOOTALOO IS EVERY WHERE! RUN FOR YOUR SMURFING LIVES!
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[/quote] When I said that I wanted more Scootaloo I didn't mean it to be this litteral! I get what they were doing here, but it just looked weird and made no sense. I get that Scootaloo is playing Mog, but they could have chosen random ponies to be her army instead of a bunch of clones since we're not going to be using them again. Even if they had all just been Scoot-recolorers it would have been better.




[spoiler=Real Thoughts]
I'll start with some things I find really cool about this. Firstly, some of the small things like Twilight casting a spell animation you see her reading from a book.
It gets better, I like the attention to detail. It is obvious that this was made by a fan of the MLP franchise.


What I don't like is some very odd casting choices. Ghestal, for example, being replaced by Gilda Griffon. Or The Figaro Brothers replaced by Celestia and Luna. They don't really feel fitting for those roles.
Same goes with AppleBloom. Her position as Locke Boggles me, and since they even acknowledge her having no special talents in game, it's even stranger that she's the go to between Canterlot and the Rebels.
I think they chose Luna and Celestia because they are royal sisters, Edga and Sabin are royal brothers. I think it's that simple. They're not supposed to completly play the characters they play, it's (for better or worst) the ponies in the FFVI storyline. I think it's basically Apple Bloom's (not Applebloom) compassion and and adventurous personallity that places her in Locke's role. The go-between stuff is a little contrived I grant you.

What really makes the casting funny to is that there are actually some comparrisons that have been avoided. Both Luna and Cyan have the same dialect but Luna doesn't play Cyan, and (SPOILER)both Trixie and Relm speak in third person, but Trixie isn't playing Relm

Like I say it's more the ponies themselves (or the programer's version of them) in FFVI rather than the ponies playing the actual characters, but they take some of the FF character to fit in. To be honest, I always found FFVI to be the easiest FF to replace the cast with for some reason. I still love it, but I just always found it the best for this type of thing.