Update: The January 22 patch for the game fixes the issue, and the cutscene now plays without freezing.
Summary version: Final Fantasy 6 for Android has a major glitch that renders the game unplayable a little less than halfway through. Don't buy it until Square Enix addresses it.
In the recently released Final Fantasy 6 for Android at the scene in Thamasa just under halfway through the game, I and numerous others have encountered an unavoidable hard freeze at the moment where (FF6 plot spoiler alert)
The game hard locks and the only way to get out of it is to return to the home screen and kill the process.
At present, I've found no way to get past the freeze, and I've encountered no reports on the internet of someone successfully getting past it. This section of the game is a major story sequence that can't be skipped, effectively rendering the game unplayable past this point.
It's been reported to occur across a wide range of devices, and seems to be an issue with the game itself, not an incompatibility issue with certain hardware.
On the flipside, this means that Final Fantasy 6 for Android is, technically speaking, the first ever version of the game where
So huzzah for that, I guess.
References:
Final Fantasy VI Android/iOS impressions thread
GameFAQs thread on the issue
Summary version: Final Fantasy 6 for Android has a major glitch that renders the game unplayable a little less than halfway through. Don't buy it until Square Enix addresses it.
In the recently released Final Fantasy 6 for Android at the scene in Thamasa just under halfway through the game, I and numerous others have encountered an unavoidable hard freeze at the moment where (FF6 plot spoiler alert)
Kefka tells General Leo that the image of Gestahl was an illusion.
At present, I've found no way to get past the freeze, and I've encountered no reports on the internet of someone successfully getting past it. This section of the game is a major story sequence that can't be skipped, effectively rendering the game unplayable past this point.
It's been reported to occur across a wide range of devices, and seems to be an issue with the game itself, not an incompatibility issue with certain hardware.
On the flipside, this means that Final Fantasy 6 for Android is, technically speaking, the first ever version of the game where
General Leo doesn't die.
So huzzah for that, I guess.
References:
Final Fantasy VI Android/iOS impressions thread
GameFAQs thread on the issue