There is no secret that FF VI is incredibly depressing - it's like a little girl losing her ice cream cone to the laws of gravity on a hot summer day and her big brother not doing the right thing and giving her his. You just want to beat the crap out of that guy for not sticking up for his little sister, but you can't because he's eight years old, and you already have two strikes for beating up those kids who "pimped" out their five year old Saturn sedans.
The villian this go 'round is Kefka, who is of course, evil. Kefka for some unknown reason moves the avatars that are the source of all magic out of alignment causing the world to break and prematurely decay. A post will follow of a fiction of what the hell is wrong with Kefka and why he hates puppies so much that will involve no less than three references to Dick Cheney.
For the uninitiated, basically, crossing the streams at the end of Ghostbusters happens due to Kefka, and Egon's worst nightmare comes to pass. Halfway through what seems like a quest against evil imperial forces, some lunatic takes over and turns the world to shit. Of all the villains that I have faced so far over five games, Kefka is easily the one I want personified so that I can kill him repeatedly.
He's like some sort of amalgam of Hitler and The Joker combined and I just want to hate him to death.
To cut to the chase - the world is great, and Kefka ruins it - like when you're having a great night drinking and you have too much and you end up pooping in your pants (not that it's happened to me).
REAL WORLD: Kefka is a general in an army that is at war with the kingdom of Doma. Finding the castle too hard to lay siege to, he poisons the water supply and kills everyone inside the castle. This genocide includes the family of the king's most loyal knight, Cyan - who upon losing his wife and daughter goes apeshit and kills most of Kefka's invading force with a sword (like ya do). He then has to watch in agony as he sees his wife and son board the train for the "next world" and he can't do anything about their horrific murder in front of his very eyes.
It's not that the quality of the game is bad or that characters are not of good quality, but Jesus H. Christ - the man poisons the water in an entire kingdom and kills everyone there. Even with the ponytail that he sports, one wants to BE Cyan and cast Life 3 (more on this unique spell later) on Kefka repeatedly just so that he can be killed again and again.
You'll never feel more sympathy for someone who sports a ponytail.
On the lighter side of FF VI... no, wait there IS NO LIGHTER side. You'd expect there to be some sort of cute puppy that survives an explosion or something - but the only dog there is to protect the clad - in - black deadly assassin who's kind of a jackass throughout the entire game.
I remember this theme resonating when I originally played this title. I was about at that age where it was certainly not "cool" to be happy or joyous. This game might be what eventually killed and raped my sense of joy and silliness and fun.
That, or my parents' divorce. Replaying this, and watching the tragedy of Doma, and seeing the state of the town of Mobliz in the World of Ruin (again more on this later), I really don't know which was more traumatic.
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