Robyn Plays Final Fantasy

Cid requests you talk to as many soldiers as possible. Some of them are open to the idea of peace, a few of them fight you.

We follow the espers on their way to wreak bloody vengeance on Vector

and we crash the ship

In a sequence I didn’t capture very well, espers fly from the (un)Sealed Gate, blowing Kefka away and bowling over our heroes. Rocks fall in front of the Gate, re-sealing it.

I kind of miss “human-loving, fast-talking, street-smart, SLAM-dancing moogle” which is maybe more characterization than her ever gets in the GBA version, but here we are.

So now we can recruit an optional party member, kupo.

The way to recruit him is kind of esoteric, kupo.

There are some hints in town about moogles and a Yeti, but you can’t get the Yeti yet (but you can see him, kupo!)

You have to go into a little warehouse and chase after Lone Wolf (the pickpocket), who also made an appearance in V, kupo. You chase him to where you fought Kefka before, and he threatens the moogle.

Mog escapes, kupo!

You can choose to take the Gold Hairpin from Lonewolf, but then Mog falls and you don’t get him in your party.

Who could be so heartless, kupo?!

...

Back in Narshe, we plan our next attack

You’re right! But it’s so... barely there in the script that the first time I played the game I’m pretty sure I didn’t even realize Maduin was an esper you now had in your inventory.

FFVI is so understated in its drama

A few musings:

1) Maduin stayed in Imperial captivity nearly 20 years before giving his life for the first people that came along who wanted to help, never realizing his magicite would end up in the hands of his daughter

2) How does Terra react when she realizes her father is one of the magicite they have now? There’s never a scene or anything.

3) Did Maduin know Terra was captured by the Empire? Did rumors of what she was and what they were doing to her ever reach his test tube?