Great news! I'm got out of of Zozo alive and was able to witness to one the most spectacular, beloved and popular scenes in Final Fantasy VI and the series in general: The famous opera scene with Celes in the opera "Maria and Draco". I don't know about you guys but I just found the entire thing fascinating. Sure I scewed it up a couple times but something about this scene encouraged me not to give up and keep trying till I go it right. It REALLY is something special.

Jiro, your comparison to the later installments of Final Fantasy feeling more like Science Fiction is spot on. I see nothing wrong with swaying from the formula but it's interesting to see the consistency of just the first six games, despite their differences, before VII comes a long.

How are you liking that? I say this because a lot of people regard FF6 as the point where FF games started getting much easier. I hope you are up to the challenge and start playing games even further back though! (Or FF7 which you haven't played yet. People are divided about how good it is, but I don't think there is any doubt that it is a very important game historically)
In my case, it's the lack organization, lack of items and lack of strategy that throws me off. More importantly, the enemies can hit you while performing a specific attack. This aint Final Fantasy X. IX and X-2 weren't as annoying in that regard either. I'm not exactly new to the franchise or RPG games in general but I've always been a average player. I do plan on playing the other entries as well. Final Fantasy VII, regardless of how people feel about it, is something eventually I will have to look in. Indeed, it's a very historically important game, and not just to Final Fantasy. I can't skip out of it if I'm going to continue seeking out the older games. I plan on playing IV after I complete VI simply because both IV and this are regarded as being the more "in-depth" Final Fantasy games of the old school variant.

Thanks for the responses.