I don't consider FF6 to be the best.

I consider the best to be Final Fantasy 7, with Final Fantasy 4 the runner up.

Final Fantasy 6 is good, but it isn't that good. I prefer the materia system over the esper system. It provides for much more customization. I don't care if my characters are nearly identical, that just makes choosing my favorites more of a suitable option instead of choosing characters I may not like simply because my favorite characters suck.

I think the special abilities each of the characters have in FF6 are very unbalanced. Some characters are just TOO useful. Really, who is going to take a team other than Edgar, Shadow, Cyan and Sabin? You can but you'd be gimping yourself. Who in their right mind is going to use Relm? Celes? Great character but crappy runic.

That leads to another problem I have with Final Fantasy 6. It's too easy. FF7 is easy, but FF6 is too easy. You can win any fight for a good portion of the game just with Sabin's fire dance. Before you get that just use the autocrossbow. Hell, once you get the drill you can wave bye bye to Edgar's attack command. Ultima is easy to get, and even if you miss it they still give you a second chance to get it with the paladin shield. The battles are too easy. I believe the hardest fights in the game are that one with the giant in the box on the floating island and the one with Ziekfried in the coliseum. I'm not even going to get started on the last fight (despite how cool it is.)

I have no problems with the story. It isn't bad. It isn't superior. It isn't average. It is an above average storyline. It doesn't have the depth that some of the later games have, but that is understandable since it was for the SNES. I'm not going to say Dragon Warrior 3 and 4's stories weren't as good simply because they weren't as complex as maybe Dragon Warrior 7's. That is an unfair comparison. I can however, compare FF6's story to Chrono Trigger's. Chrono Trigger is an exceptional story and represents one of the pinnacle games of SNES storytelling.

As for the villain...

I thought the villain was great. Kefka is my third favorite Final Fantasy villian (Seymour and Kuja being the first and second.) He was a great break in the mold. It was about time we had a chaotic, maniacal madman instead of a more collective and cool villian. Besides, everytime I think of Kefka, I think of Piedmon from Digimon. And he's one kickass villain, so Kefka gets points there.

The music I would consider to be some of the best in the Final Fantasy series. I liked the Veldt, the World of Balance overworld, and of course, Dancing Mad. I do, however feel that both FFIX and FFVII had superior music. I liked You are Not Alone, Dark Messenger, Last Battle, Birth of a God, One Winged Angel, Aeris' Theme, and J-E-N-O-V-A more overall.

As a whole I'd give FF6 an 8.6/10. I'd give FF9 a 8.9/10, FF4 a 9.1/10 and FF7 a 10/10.