FF6 O_o - Page 9

OK. I think I could have made a group of 4 instead of 3 here. I remembered why I didn't get a full group now. The game said to make a group, then keep everyone else for the defense of Narshe. I was a little bit scared of leaving only two characters at Narshe because of my traumatic experience in:
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If you know what I mean. Anyways let's proceed.

Back at the Rich Man's house at Jidoor, the Impresario mistook Celes for Maria.



As mentioned before, Celes resembled Maria, a songstress. Anyways, apparently the Impresario was in some sort of trouble and he was in a rush, so he left and dropped something on the ground - a letter, to be precise.



Who is this gambler, I wondered. Luckily the game immediately introduced this new character.




Setzer. Another character whose name is 6 letters. Apparently he owned the world's only airship.



At the time I thought this was a mis-translation and this character should have been Cid (of course this was incorrect as I would find out soon enough). Setzer.... Cid.... kind of sound the same to me :D

Anyways, it seemed that Setzer wanted to kidnap Maria. The group decided to go to the Opera House to stop him.




OK. So I should stop him at Scene 1! To be safe, Celes was used as a decoy.



While everything sounded great, someone else was scheming something sinister.



O noes. Not HIM again! No time to think now! The opera was starting!



At this time I was in control of Locke as Celes went to dress up and prepare. Locke was worried and decided to check on Celes, only to be shocked by her stunning appearance (the shock turned Locke into an Asian?).



Celes asked Locke why he wanted to protect her so much, Locke told Celes that he could not protect someone else in the past.



He was obviously referring to Rachel - he wanted some sort of redemption.

Now, the next part was really, really annoying.

To proceed, first Celes got on stage to sing. Previous to that, I was given the opportunity to look at the script. This turned out to be very important as during her soliloquy she would forget the next line and I had to choose it. If I chose wrong, I had to restart EVERYTHING.




I can't really say much about the lyrics. It was basically about her (the character in the opera) longing for her lover. After her solo appearance, a knight appeared and danced around her. After that, he turned into a bouquet. She threw the bouquet away (in a nice way).

After some more singing, another character came in and told her that a prince wanted to dance with her.



After that, the stage switched.



Meanwhile, Locke got a letter from Ultros.



O noes! Ultros wanted to take revenge on the heroes by pushing a 4 tons iron block onto Celes.



But for some strange reasons, it would take him exactly 5 minutes to do it.



The rest is pretty "straight-forward". I had to go save Celes in 5 minutes - with only two characters, Locke and Edgar. Let's do it!



After fighting some minions, Ultros was in sight with a bit less than a minute to spare.



After talking to him there was a brawl. Then both the group and Ultros fell onto the stage.



Way to ruin the show, Locke.



Then Locke went ahead and ruined it even more.




Way to boast yourself, Locke. Anyways, after this hilarious comment by Locke, there was a boss fight - that's right, with Ultros.



Alright. I admit, I had to play this part.... 3 times. It made me rage twice, since there were no savepoints at all in the opera. The problem was that I had only Edgar and Locke (bad), Ultros could use Imp (horrible), and IIRC Confuse (disastrous). On the first try I simply got owned. On the second try I spent too much time casting defensive spells but still got owned. On the third try I decided to be offensive (how much HP could he have, anyways?!) and won... the whole process took probably hours to complete. Sigh. When the battle was over, Ultros just fled.



Amongst the chaos, however, Setzer showed up and kidnapped Celes.



Locke and Edgar followed Setzer to the airship to save Celes.



Setzer showed up; the group decided to talk to him because Setzer's airship could prove invaluable to go to the Empire, which was surrounded by the sea. Setzer agreed to help on the condition that...



O noes. Could this be a precursor of....
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Celes, however, was not as emo as the female character mentioned in the spoiler above. She convinced Setzer to decide on issue with a coin toss (Setzer was an avid gambler, remember that).



Setzer agreed - to a game he could never win.



Oh Celes you are such a smart cookie >.<

Next stop: the Empire.