Interestingly, while Final Fantasy VI is my favorite entry in the series, I think Final Fantasy IV is the better game. The smaller cast provides a more focused story, with more interesting events and locations, and characters and combat are more balanced, with several battles actually benefiting from more than a super basic strategy. The final area, I feel, is far superior as well. Those crystalline lower floors in the Lunar Sub-terrain = ; the core components of Vector hidden under all the trash in VI were more . . . oh, look at that.