This is it, the final push. The end of the game. Fly to the mountain of garbage, there's nothing left for us on this dying world.

Magic will vanish from the world.

Like I said. Anyway, you can go here with just Setzer, Edgar, and Celes. There's a Minerva somewhere, there are some reasonably powerful weapons here. However, you can't steal.

She'll lose her powers, probably. Maybe vanish into oblivion, or wherever it is that Espers go when they die.

You split into three parties and land, and the searchlight is sort of broken.

This is my first party. I kept the Thamasans together, along with some support from Sabin, the Strongest Man in the World. I had Shadow equipped with the thief knife, but I accomplished little, and replaced it with the stunner. I also regret putting Sabin on this time, and would have probably switched him with Edgar.

Don't be fooled, there are actually four Vectaurs (Vector bull? Vectasaur? They look like dinosaurs and they're weak to ice and also to water) layered on top of each other.

Evil Oscar isn't just grumpy and filled with the desire to be left alone with his collection of trash, he's evil. Since he wants you to scram immediately, he'll use Demon Kiss to kill you. Yep, Oscar kisses you. Huh? I wonder if Madam had this attack. Leave them by themselves, and they'll use sour mouth. They absorb everything but fire.

Brontaurs (shortened version of brontosaurus, which is not a real dinosaur, accidentally meaning something like thunder bull) are not as powerful as brachiosaurs, even if these guys are in the final dungeon and the brachiosaurs aren't. Wail does a lot of damage, so take these guys seriously. Being a dinosaur, even a nonexistent one, he's weak to ice. Like Evil Oscar, his other attacks are all over the place. Atomic ray? Lifeshaver? Hrmm. Take control of them to set fire to the Oscars. Scram this. Wait, that didn't make any sense, and it wasn't even the right enemy. Let me try again.

GtBehemoth is a reason to use the Control status. Even if they're not dinosaurs, they're weak to ice. They'll use Haymaker (4x the damage of a physical) as a counter, they'll meteor occasionally, and they'll use physicals.

This looks like the Magitek Factory. It makes sense, seeing how this is where Vector once stood. There's a coronet along the way here, which does less for you than the cat hood, but does increase the chance of a successful control, but I managed well enough without it. There are Fixed Dice here as well. Combined with the offering, they're horrifically powerful. Even without the offering, they're better on average.

These fellas are Dark Forces. They follow a lengthy but simple sequence and you can learn lores off of them if you have the patience to do it. I don't. There are reasons why. It goes like this: condemned/roulette/aqua rake - revenge/pearl wind/L.5 Doom - L.4 Flare/L.3 Muddle, Reflect??? - L? Pearl/Step Mine/Launcher - Dischord/Sour Mouth/Imp Song - Aero/Blow Fish/Exploder - Rippler/Stone/Quasar.

Firstly, Rippler. Fuck you, you're not taking my doggy. Not now, when I am so close to the end! Secondly, who the hell wants to sit through this thing using lores you already have and potentially killing you? Third, Reflect??? is a load of bollocks. It makes anything reflective darked, muted, and slowed. That would be useful in the Ancient Castle, but not here, fuck you very much. Quasar is barrier piercing, non-elemental, and generally just a visually impressive, less costly, and less powerful Grand Train.

Madam throws spells at you. Damage results in her curing or perhaps the dreaded meteor, reflective monsters lead to Cure 3 on you, but it's not worth the effort. Relm's a better healer anyway. Occasionally, she uses Sightless and wastes a turn blinding you.

Outsiders are the dangerous ones. They throw shurikens (fight) or ninja stars/tack stars (not fight) as a counter and they throw every turn. Imperial/Ashura - Kodachi/Kotetsu - Blossom/Forged - Hardened/Tempest - Striker/Murasame. After that, provided you're not dead, they'll kill themselves with Ruin. You can steal a Break Blade for some ungodly reason, but that's not worth it. Not even close. Now, you have control. What do you think you should do with the control spell? Make them use Ruin on each other before time's up, of course! Really, now. It increases your probability of survival.

We're glad to be past the outsiders. Iron Hitmans are midgets or robot midgets or something. I guess Kefka thought that midgets = funny, and the iron hitmans would kill you when you're rolling around on the floor in the fetal position because the idea of a midget attacking you is so funny. They're weak, lightning usually kills them, they have only 2000 HP and all they have going for them is dischord.

Fortis (bad Latin for strong) uses Fireball, Snowball, and Missile. You've seen all of those before except for snowball. Snowball is unblockable and shaves off a percentage of your health. Who manufactured these things? I didn't think the Empire was around any more, but here are some soldiers in Magitek Armor. Madam and friends I can understand, as they were probably brainwashed by the Krazy Kefka Kult and don't have anyone to love them anymore. But Imperial soldiers? I get it, they're also brainwashed, but didn't that guy say that he was the last Empire soldier? Perhaps Kefka trained some new Kultists.

Dueller uses L.5 Doom and L.4 Flare, Shrapnel as a counter, and chainsaw as a steal if for some very strange reason, you don't have one by now.

Here's party number two. I gave Setzer the Fixed Dice but not the offering. The thing about the fixed dice/offering combo is the immediate ecstasy of finding out that all the monsters will fall before it, but that initial euphoria wears off and you're left with the hollow feeling that Setzer has become all too powerful.

Retainer is a samurai with a pizza plate on his head. Let him live four turns and get wind slashed. Even better, kill him and he'll use Tradeoff to kill you as well. Imp prevents that.

Hemophyte is another Gilgamesh wannabe, and he's not even an anagram of another one, like Orog and Ogor are. Cursed Gaze sets seizure, it's a counter, shock wave does very little worth mentioning, ChokeSmoke is as useful as ever.

In the laundry... I mean brig, you'll come upon a familiar face. He claims to be born in the brig.

I guess he was manufactured here.

Excuse me? Didn't someone say there were only two Atma weapons? And one of them is now a lightsaber.

Ah, well, maybe Kefka created some new ones after he declared himself God and has the power of the statues. One year is hardly an eternity, though. That's the same logic Galaxy of Prawns uses.

He stops there. Someone asks "and?" I guess the idea is that he's engineered as a weapon, his purpose is to fight, and fight is what you're going to do.

By the way, I hate to tell you, but he absorbs pearl, earth, wind, poison, and water.

He has a new attack called CleanSweep. Had Strago been in this battle, he could learn it here. He's not that impressive otherwise, though. Meteor, quake, N. Cross, S. Cross, Flare Star. Take him down in 12 hits or else he'll flash yellow and use Ultima, but we know how to deal with that issue. Your reward is hollowing out his corpse and using it as a save point and nothing else.

Steroidite has a lot of HP, no defense, uses Cold Dust, Blizzard, Giga Volt, and N. Cross. They offer a thunder shield for stealing.

Movers were supposed to have really high evade and really high magic defense, so that very few things would hurt them. This doesn't work due to the evade bug and our stock of barrier-piercing spells and drills. They use physical attacks and silencer when not alone, blow fish and big guard when alone. Boring.

Junk tends to exploder or pep up himself. There were three, and two of them suicided immediately. They might Parallout themselves to make themselves invisible. They don't get the chance. 2000 HP, after all.

Vectagoyle uses one attack for each head. Blizzard, Blaze, Aqua Rake, Giga Volt. Oh, there's that creatively named Counter that he uses when you attack him.

Gold Dragon thinks he's intimidating because he looks like a palette swap of a Brachiosaur. I'll tell him something: He's not. He's just trying to get away with looking intimidating so that nobody will mess with him and reveal his deepest, darkest secret: he's so pathetic that Rydia could beat him as a child. He uses fight and bolt, bolt 2, giga volt, and bolt 3, and they're all easily nullified. You win a crystal orb, which could safely be sent back to Final Fantasy IV where they can find more use for it. Potentially, you could steal one from Atma or Magi Master, but that's not easy.

Veteran, correctly Ahriman, a Persian personification of evil)... hmm, he's not a palette swap of anything, is he? Good thing, because after seeing what they did to the poor guy in Final Fantasy VI in order to reveal the inherent color blindness of Cererians, IĠd rather not see this guy with a shitty palette swap from Hell.

Didalos is a mistranslation of Daedalus, a boss in Final Fantasy XII and a character in Greek mythology. Didalos uses L.5 Doom, Bio, Virite, Demi, Reflect??? when a character is reflecting. He counters fight with Fire Wall. Since they're undead, Life spells kill them.

Fun fact: Ragnarok (the summon) can transmogrify either of them into a cursed ring. The only way to obtain the cursed ring without him is to bet the cursed shield at the colosseum, and that's about as intelligent as a game of Subway Frogger during rush hour. The cursed ring condemns you, but also teaches X-Zone at 5x. You're giving up Ultima for it. Don't do it.

This looks like the room where the espers were kept. Alas, nothing here. The room is filled with

Sky Base and his iron hitman friends. Sky Base starts off with L.5 Doom, and then Mind Slap (stops) and Doom. They counter anything except for fight with four Blasters. Blaster tends to kill, and the rest of the blasters are random. Gurk. So only use fight and instant death.

Prometheus is the longest time we've gone between an enemy and his palette swap. No rage for you, provided you give enough of a shit to head back to the Veldt and get it. I already explained the name, and I'm not going to do it again.

Here's S. Cross (a counter in this case, and fire based in case you mistook it for Antarctica or thought blue meant cold) in action. It also uses drill, but drill is not as cool as your drill. Don't have a debilitator? Steal it!

Innoc is short for innocent. In case you were wondering, he's paired with a Fortis. BrainBlast confuses you, plasma, cold dust, L? pearl do stuff. Strago could abuse it with your GP at 1mod10 (that means it has a remainder of 1 when divided by 10, if you didn't know), but so can Innoc. Alternatively, you could go in with your GP equal to a multiple of 10 and avoid all L? Pearls, being unable to L? Pearl anything yourself.